Ever run into a knife you drop a lot.....

I have a Piranha auto, I think it is the DNA model. Slick aluminum scales and a crazy spring combine perfectly to make it jump out of your hand. There even seems to have been some thought put in to making it worse - the recessed button encourages you to hold it in kind of a finger-thumb pinch so you have even less of a grip when it fires.
 
Bob Denman said:
I think we went to different High Schools together: that description fits every day of my life!
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My right hand is a bastard. I can never carry anything for more than a few minutes, or it just randomly "lets go."
 
Delta-v said:
I know exactly what you mean about the removed clip. It's amazing how you get so so used to anchoring your fingers against the clip when opening a knife that when the clip is removed you just fumble with it.
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Precisely. It's something you do without realizing it until you stop and analyze your grip. I think that's partly my issue with the Crooked River as well. The clip placement in comparison to other knives just doesn't leave alot of room for you fingers to get in there and grab ahold.

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Only knife I’ve dropped was a cheap balisong I tried tossing into the air to catch as part of a trick. I’d done it before and hadn’t dropped it, but that one time I mistimed things and it felt too sketchy to catch so I let it drop.
 
AntDog said:
I have dropped every single Buck knife I have ever owned, tip down, onto concrete. I don’t know what the hell it is but it never fails.

None of the tips ever snapped off but they needed sharpening.
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the phenolic handles? those are slippery when not completely dry.
 
The handles on my Sebenza are very slick and the pocket clip very tight. This combo has resulted in me dropping it a few times when I've tried to get it out from my pocket.
 
I had issues with my Spyderco Kapara and only dropped it once. The good news is was sitting down so it was not much of a fall but still not good. I fixed that with aftermarket scales. I also agree with the OP that I have fumbled my Shaman. Never dropped but slipped once in my hand when I was closing the knife and managed to clip my little finger that forced me to wear a damn bandage for a few days.
 
ToddM said:
Have you ever found a knife that just seems to escape your hands?
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Sliverax. And compression locks in general seem to really want to do that.
 
The knife I was prone to dropping was the Zaan. I’ve owned Carrie’s I think 4 over the years and dropped everyone.
Crap thing is about dropping a Zaan is mine tended to land on the thumbstuds and always knocked them over to one side.
Sent the first two back to the mothership, sold the third and by the 4th I just gave up and gave it to my son.
Only knives I can remember dropping. I use my Mnandi every day for a year and a half and have never dropped it….
 
Almost, just the other day, yet as I got two hands on it in midair. I decided it was best to push it away from my body instead of towards me.

May have avoided stabbing myself, felt half smart after that.
 
Never dropped a knife. Or scissors. Or a gun. With knives that have smooth/slippery handles or scales I tend to pay more attention than usual.
I've dropped a million other things though....lol
 
I have the reflexes of a cat, which means I also sometimes like to casually knock things off the edge of counters and tables. I have to force myself not to grab or juggle sharp and pointy things I drop, like knives, which at least slows their impact with the floor/ground if I don't manage to grab it. If I don't catch a knife after a couple of touches I pull back and let it go where it goes and get out of the way.

I was on a first date, when the lady I was with dropped her spoon and like a ninja I caught it before it hit the floor. It's the kind of thing you always imagine doing some day. It would have been a lot more impressive if my dialed up reflexes hadn't also knocked her full cup of coffee all over her on the way to grabbing her spoon. Handing her back her spoon was kind of an undesirable consolation prize at that point.
 
Can't remember the last time I dropped a knife. But I can remember dropping my wife of 44 years 3-16 last Thursday. It was at a bar off the front porch in 1979. Yep I was wild back then and had her by the legs holding her upside down from the porch at about five feet. I told her to quit wiggling around. 😁 She forgave me as we both had too much to drink that night. We haven't drank since we had kids in the early 80's. it was fun times for sure. Well sorry for the long story but this thread got me to thinking and laughing about the young wild and good old days of our youth. 😁
 
Once dropped a bayonet when trying to put it on a rifle. I was barefoot. Good thing I missed. It immediately made me thankful I was never in the army.
 
I just bought an Olamic 247 Bowie recently and that thing is crazy slippery (duh, marble CF and a satin lockside, WTF did I expect lol), but the handle ergos are so good on that knife I doubt it makes much difference, especially when it’s sitting in my safe 😆 and it’s friggin beautiful too so…
 
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