FFK Knife

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Treecat1957

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I recently watched a youtube video about the strongest knife...called the FFk..anyone familiar with this knife...or where I might purchase one?
 
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It's fictitious, just a prototype of some sort that ended up purportedly costing $12K.
 
Treecat1957 said:
Anyone familiar with this knife? I am interested in buying one..I need more infomation
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Yes. Basically a cockamamie gizmo that the inventor claimed was a strong as a fixed blade. A Rube Goldberg-esque contraption full of join points that can fail.
 
What exactly is the use case for a folder that's slow to deploy and weighs more than an equally-capable (and much cheaper) fixed blade?
 
His angle was, for when you can only carry a folder due to space or legality. "Just incase you are dropped into the wilderness, what would you prefer to have"...

I will carry my ZT/CRK and my pocket fixed blade, like I normally do, and I will be just fine. At least I will be in as good if not better shape than if I carried in his paperweight...
 
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okto said:
What exactly is the use case for a folder that's slow to deploy and weighs more than an equally-capable (and much cheaper) fixed blade?
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None. But there will always be folks thinking they have invented better wheels, perpetual motion machines, and folders that are as strong where they fold as a fixed blade.
 
NJBillK said:
His angle was, for when you can only carry a folder due to space or legality. "Just incase you are dropped into the wilderness, what would you prefer to have"...
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And there was absolutely no evidence that it was any stronger than any other folder.
 
But we were Told it was. That is good enough, right?

:rolleyes:

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Unfortunately, this is what the uneducated masses turn to when they look for The Worlds Strongest <insert item> awhen they think that this is what they Need.
Get an Adamas, 810, PM2, or a Triad and a vast majority of the people out there will be fine...

If a folder won't be good enough and That strong of a knife is needed regularly, you likely also carry a toolbox, or at least have access to one. Get a fixed blade and toss it in the box when you don't need it. Leave them both in the trunk...
 
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Ah yes! The infamous FFK... An alleged answer to a question nobody ever asked.

I seem to recall the designer starting several threads full of baseless, unproven claims about his creation, but then falling off the map after several failed promised of further videos, testing, prototypes, etc...

It struck me very odd how finished his "prototype" was to begin with, what with anodized handles, coated blades, and several other details and finishing touches extraneous to the relatively simple concept he wanted to market and prove.

I'd love to hear where the FFK currently stands, and if the designer has taken it any further; though I've always suspected that the design may have failed very early into his testing that he promised to show us, and he was too ashamed to admit it. Hopefully not.

At any rate, several experienced makers and designers offered lots of help and good advice to take him forward, but it seems that the majority of it went ignored, until most or all of the FFK threads devolved into a pretty gruesome train wreck.
 
knife to a gunfight said:
Ah yes! The infamous FFK... An alleged answer to a question nobody ever asked.

I seem to recall the designer starting several threads full of baseless, unproven claims about his creation, but then falling off the map after several failed promised of further videos, testing, prototypes, etc...

It struck me very odd how finished his "prototype" was to begin with, what with anodized handles, coated blades, and several other details and finishing touches extraneous to the relatively simple concept he wanted to market and prove.

I'd love to hear where the FFK currently stands, and if the designer has taken it any further; though I've always suspected that the design may have failed very early into his testing that he promised to show us, and he was too ashamed to admit it. Hopefully not.

At any rate, several experienced makers and designers offered lots of help and good advice to take him forward, but it seems that the majority of it went ignored, until most or all of the FFK threads devolved into a pretty gruesome train wreck.
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The prototype was "finished" because he had a company make it based on his cad drawings. I thought it was sort of an interesting concept. Over complicated- maybe, but still interesting. No doubt he started off on the wrong foot, but after a while (after he stopped doing the all caps thing) he seemed nice enough. Unfortunately, several members continued to attack everything he said, even when he didn't say anything worth attacking. Anyway, it seems like the idea and the dude who came up with it are both long gone.
 
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