'Fess Up: Goofy novelty knives you've bought...

[Daniel Dorn]

I once bought the Terminator II fixed blade knife that makes a brief appearance in the 1st scene (at the bar, on the biker guy he takes the jacket from?). It was a double-edged beast with a ring on the guard that was freakishly huge, and really served no discernable purpose.

I got it for $20 off the 'Bay, so no loss, and I later sold it for a profit. It just sat in a drawer, so no use.

I more recently bought a Buck Sirus with the "Skulls" motif. Very goofy, in a "wanna-be biker" sort of way. It's a great knife, and well put together, but I feel embarassed to carry it, so rarely do.

 

[Nal0n]

I got a Böker Plus Rampage on impulse. It is not crappy in any way, looks real cool too, but I cannot find anything to use it for with that strange blade shape (except for stabbing and slicing people obviously, but that is nothing I want to get into at this point of my life ).

And anytime I watch The Walking Dead I am very close to buy something off Zombietools (well you never know...). I expecially like "The Tainto" and "The Vakra".

 

[Yalius]

I'll have this thing forever. Nobody else wants it. Arrgg...The one knife solution, the 4 screwdriver solution...the one sucker solution. good lock up though.

really it's leatherman's fault for not having a more badass knife attached to anything.

You're kidding, right? That knife has been my EDC for couple years now and I wouldn't stop carrying it for love or money. The screwdrivers are used probably 10x as much as the blade is, but even the blade is decent. Left side Select Fire, right side Charge TTi.

 

[heresthedeal]

Here's another one I picked up just for kicks: a friction folder with an interesting blade shape and a little samurai man on the handle. It's actually a pretty cool folder and can take a screamin' scary edge. For the low, low cost, why not try a Higonokami? :thumbup:

Maruyoshi Japanese Carpenter's Knife in layered carbon steel

-Brett

Other than the Samurai on the handle I don't think that is at all goofy.

Simple design, sheeps foot blade. Hell if that thing had a clip on it so I wouldn't lose it in my pocket I'd carry that in a heart beat.

OOPS, looked up the knife, the Samurai on the handle is Miyamoto Musashi, far from goofy.

 

[Quiet]

Gasp! A United Cutlery "Phoenix" knife at a flea market in 2003. Here's a pic:

YES!!! The "Not a Klingon knife, we promise, please don't sue us" knife!

 

[neffarious]

From 1992 when i was in High School:

Some a$$h@t stole it from my glove box and got busted with it by his grandma. She turned it into the police where i was able to retrieve it! WIN! At some point in time it vanished again but I stopped caring by then LOL

 

[timberweasel]

Other than the Samurai on the handle I don't think that is at all goofy.

Simple design, sheeps foot blade. Hell if that thing had a clip on it so I wouldn't lose it in my pocket I'd carry that in a heart beat.

OOPS, looked up the knife, the Samurai on the handle is Miyamoto Musashi, far from goofy.

I agree with you on all points, but I bought this as more of a novelty than anything. The Book of Five Rings? Yeah, I've read it...

-Brett

 

[Comeuppance]

Well before I knew anything about knives, I was a young kid who thought anything with a blade was cool. My parents frequented garage and yard sales, and I liked to tag along. I got all kinds of ridiculous things - a pen with a massage tip (with which I managed to make a girl pee herself by unexpectedly placing it on the back of her neck in class), and also a bunch of really terrible knives. However, I did get a knife that I thought was cool just because of the pun - it was a somewhat tan-colored balisong that had "manila folder" written on the blade.

Years later, I find out that it was worth something like 80 bucks in the condition it was in. I think I gave it to some guy I barely knew when I was moving out.

 

[jazub]

I snagged one of these bad boys for a cool $8, just to make a point about saw teeth...

Guess what? They don't work worth a hoot...

No way. How is the knife? I may be purchasing something to add to this thread...

 

[lonls]

This... I love it, but why did I buy it...

A CRKT First Strike, no idea what I thought I would use it for. Shown with the fixed blade I actually use the most.

 

[JTmisterknifeguy]

Stand back!!!! I got a lot of them!
The crown jewel of my "useless" collection is my CS hand and a half (actually used it to cut my wedding cake, now it's propped by my corner of the bed), an Indian War Club (because I love "weaponish" stuff, not just bucks and SAKs), a Hawaiian Leiomano (my mother in law rocks!), several metal "belt buckle" knuckle protectors, a Zytel version of the monster ti-lite, 3 XL voyagers (1 old clip and 1 new clip, and 1 new tanto), a steel tiger (I bought Tarani's Kerambit book years back as a teen and thought afterwards, I should have a kerambit to go with it), a CS boken and Afro walking stick, a custom "LOTR" styled leaf bladed custom dagger/Lakoinia short sword made by a friend out of a tool steel (practically useless, unless I'm being swarmed by orcs, the thing cuts like a Khukri, and it can shave steel filings off of nails!), a CS triple action DE, a crummy manrikigusari, several nunchakus...
That's some of my collection, but I'm getting tired of typing...

Though none of this stuff is what I'd call "goofy" it does lie in the happy realm of novelty.
As someone said, after a good folder and a good fixed blade, everything is novelty... I couldn't agree more.

 

[james terrio]

No way. How is the knife? I may be purchasing something to add to this thread...

Worth about $8.

 

[blame it on god]

Cold steel Raja 2, cold steel moro barong, cold steel boar spear. Notice a trend there? Lol.

Edit: I forgot probably the best one. The cold steel axe gang hatchet.

 

[ninjarabbi]

Well I've got quite a few cheapie knives that I've gotten as a kid from tourist traps so they have a lot of sentemental value even if you're mostly frost cutlery quality. Haha my little blue frost cutlery knife was my go-to self defense knife when I was like $10. I think I paid maybe $4 for it. I've got a huge fixed blade I got a few years ago off one of those sites where you do surveys for points. Its basically a knockoff of a CS GI Tanto but the thing doesn't want to take an edge worth a shit. I have used it as a trowel though haha. More recently I've picked up a few assisted stiletto's just because they look cool. Some take an edge better than others but even real Italian switchblades don't use great steel so its not a big deal. Plus I paid like $4 for most of them anyway so who cares. They're fun to play with and I can still do some cutting with them even with crappy steel.

 

[jazub]

Worth about $8.

Hah. I checked one out at HF today and left it on the shelf. Looks wicked but what the heck am I going to do with it
Maybe next time.

 

[sha]

SOG Salute, gave it away the very next day