Features You Don't Care For

and this is for you corkscrew haters : 🤣🤣🤣 A pretty useful knife if you ask me ! ( There is a steel toothpick on the bare head end ) Can't say I have tried it.☺️
In the old days bottles and jugs as well as medicine bottles were corked. You would change your mind, if you lived a few generations ago. 🤔

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I’m pretty picky on shape. I cannot name all the patterns I dislike. But there so many to choose from it’s ok!

I dislike the look of Match strike nicks, similar to many others.

I like 1095, I really don’t like some stainless steels. I don’t need anything fancy, I like the stainless on victorinox, opinel, mora and higher end stainless too like S30V. I dislike truesharp, all Chinese stainless I have tried, and any others that are gummy and hard for me to sharpen (probably mostly my fault, I’m sure).
 
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I don't have a problem with double nail pulls. It is not a modern gimmick. Take this hundred year old Whittler for example. I never open it with the long pull, always the nail nick. I love the file blade. It keeps my right thumb nail repaired after opening too many knives.

I really like the look of the large coke bottle knives with two pulls.

I don't care for Micarta at all and prefer wood or bone scales. Don't much like gimmick or non-traditional shields either. Different strokes for different folks ! ☺️

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Well, I think that looks great.
I love long pulls, but I see how the leverage gained by the position of that nail nick would be more functional. Best of both worlds!
 
Primble said:
and this is for you corkscrew haters : 🤣🤣🤣 A pretty useful knife if you ask me ! ( There is a steel toothpick on the bare head end ) Can't say I have tried it.☺️
In the old days bottles and jugs as well as medicine bottles were corked. You would change your mind, if you lived a few generations ago. 🤔

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Nice jigging on the handles!
Where was beauty made Rob?
Side note: We have child tamperproof lids on medicine now...you got a knife with Vise Grips laying around? 😄
 
Laser sharp tangs on blades. Always had to knock them out (I’m looking at you GEC). I just prefer nice comfy handle that doesn’t tear my hands or pockets.

Half stops with insane spring tensions. They are just too jumpy for me. Stabbed myself slightly with them.

Anything made in China or other tyrant countries.
 
Primble said:
and this is for you corkscrew haters : 🤣🤣🤣 A pretty useful knife if you ask me ! ( There is a steel toothpick on the bare head end ) Can't say I have tried it.☺️
In the old days bottles and jugs as well as medicine bottles were corked. You would change your mind, if you lived a few generations ago. 🤔

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And a few generations ago you could get a 'multitool' as beautiful as this- if you were lucky or wealthy enough:cool: Beautiful example, especially the colour.
 
Primble said:
and this is for you corkscrew haters : 🤣🤣🤣 A pretty useful knife if you ask me ! ( There is a steel toothpick on the bare head end ) Can't say I have tried it.☺️
In the old days bottles and jugs as well as medicine bottles were corked. You would change your mind, if you lived a few generations ago. 🤔

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Lots of beautiful old knives like this of course had corkscrews.
I just have no need for a corkscrew and do not care for backside opening implements on my knives.
I had a Victirinox tinker but didn't like the awl or phillips driver, I generally only like a T handle on my hex keys or when I'm putting the sliding T on my spinner handle and spinning out case cover screws on the lawn mower.
 
I don't care for lanyard holes in fixed blade knives and I think most shields on folding knives are ugly. I think both features often detract from the simple elegance of a really nice knife.
 
Not a fan of:

jimping
mosaic pins
recurves
blades with an overly pronounced continuous curve
sharpening choils
blades that have a downward crook off the handle (opinels get a pass)
overbuilt impractical folders
overly colorful combination hande combos and integrated bolsters (they'll age like cars from the late 80s did) classic is king
 
Features I don't care for:

Deal breakers
- "Tactical" design, i.e. black or camo, angular shape, funny finger groves, holes everywhere, paracord.
- Plastic / aluminum / titanium covers (exception: Swiss Army Knives).
- Nuts and bolts instead of rivets.
- Clip point blades.
- Some shields (e.g. "badge", "crest", "federal", "diamond", "oval", "bar").
- Bad fit and finish, i.e. blade play, gaps, backspring not flush.
- Uneven filework.
- Stag covers not matched.

Acceptable, if everything else is to my taste
- Blade smaller than 3" or larger than 3.5".
- More than 1 blade (exception: Swiss Army Knife).
- Filework
- Some shields (e.g. "bullet", "oak leaf", "keyhole", "spades")
- Bolsters on both ends.

Tempting
- Backlock
- Ebony
- Stag
- White natural bone
- Drop point blade

This doesn't leave too much choice. Seems the collection is destined to remain small.
The ideal knife for me is similar to this:
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Though I don't dislike how it looks, and I even own knives with this feature, functionally I'm not a fan of ricassos that are aligned with -- or worse, proud over -- the cutting edge (I don't know the technical term for this). For example:
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Not only can it make a pain in the neck to sharpen the knife, but it will inevitably lead to a recurve being formed faster than with other designs. And the same can be said of course about the integral bolsters typical of German kitchen knives:
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Ha - I completely forgot that I chimed in on this thread back in March. But my thoughts at the time still stand. ;)

And I know this discussion is largely focused on traditional folder features, but if we expand it to include all traditional knives in general, I really hate cheesy, over-embellished Bowies that look nothing like the original.
 
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