got 13 knives today! step inside for some reviews!

Originally posted by Gollnick
Basically, it's gonna rust in any envirnment where you or I might live. For all practical terrestrial applications, it's rust-free.
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:confused: Typo somewhere? "Basically, it's NOT gonna rust ..."
 
Cool info Gollnick. Reading that it dawns on me why some of the paint tubes I had during art class was called Titanium White. I'm wondering now what the association is between cobalt and those paint tubes marked Cobalt Blue.

I had no idea that aluminum is that hard. I always thought it was a soft metal because I can tear the foil and crush the soda can. Please tell more about this hardness and how it differs from our daily experience/use of aluminum.
 
ok, once again i am sorry i opened such a can of worms!
i wonder why i keep apoligizing? i said like 5 times now all the information i gave pertained to me and me only! sorry for thinking out loud. i am glad the issue of titainium was cleared up. i admit i was wrong! i just repeated misinformation i read somewhere else.

so to that effect, how is the boker orion 2065? it is quite expensive.
someone said in an old post here that it is "just" a gentalmans knife for opening letters etc. made out of titainium with a carbon fiber handle i would think from what you guys just said it would be super strong? before you all flame me again use the search button please! it is not i that said this! also, the bm-770 is my favorite little knife. again in an earlier post here someone stated it is NOT a utility knife. just an expensive dress up knife. well if i could actually keep all those knives there are a lot of nice ones.

furthermore, i don't think i insulted any knife besides crkt. i only insulted crkt because a lot of other people around here have(search button). other than that i thought i stated the strengths and weaknesses of all of them. no knife is perfect for everything, imho.





thank you,
holdanedge.
 
This thread is a great example of the main reason I prefer to buy on the internet from reliable dealers. There's much less chance that I'll get a "used" knife some anal shopper took home to play with. You know the retailer stuck them right back in stock.
 
i did not USE any of them. unless you consider opening and closing them a few times used.
internet retailers take returns too. what do you think they do with them?




holdanedge.
 
is that you can't take them too seriously.
Yeah, we beat you up a little bit, but you deserved a little beating up.

Just chill out and go with the flow. No one hates you, and I would certaily hope that you wouldn't care if they did. Just sit back and learn about knives. Play with a few of them. Get a few good ones and beat the hell out of them. Get a few mediocre ones and beat the hell out of those, do it with a few cheapies too and share. Ask a question or two and watch the experts come out of the woodwork. In time, you'll be answering questions and intimidating newbies too.
 
alright, well said.
can we please put this thread to rest now? it seems to have nothing to do about knives at this point.
i forgot it is so vogue to trash the new guy. i am a moderator on several boards(not knife related) and pretty much anytime someone joins they get trashed. so, i accept the hazing ritual. it is only proper :)



thank you(i don't know why i keep thanking y'all for flaming me.....)
holdanedge.
 
Hi there holdanedge, and welcome. Pay no attention to the those that would flame faster than they would listen to reason. It is, unfortunately, a nasty habit in these fora. We are not all like that. It was rather interesting to see your views on these knives. It seems to me that if someone is new and they are voicing an opinion about knives that differ from the esteemed exalted ones, then the word "troll" gets fired faster than you can blink.

I have two CRKT products, viz.: A Ryan 7 folder and a Polkowski-Kasper Companion fixed blade. Both have AUS6 blades and let me tell you that there is nothing wrong with the metal. It holds an edge reasonably well and sharpens reasonably easily. It is also strong enough. CRKT products are also the best bang for your buck IMHO. I will not easily part with the amount of money required to purchase some of the other brands.

And yes, I agree, no need to apologise.:D
 
holdanedge,

I picked up an 941 several months ago and it has become one of my favorite EDCs. The aluminum handle has held up quite well to keys and other junk in my pockets, just some minor surface scratches.
 
I don't post here often but a few earlier posts piqued my interest. First, pay no attention to those who would flame you for sharing your honest experiences. Thanks for the reviews. Second, you might want to look at the Spyderco Dragonfly for a small knife with a finger rest on the choil (I think that's the right word).

Third, titanium rust (titanium dioxide) is also used in sunscreen. Says so right here on the bottle: "active ingredient(s): Titanium Dioxide". Also, the comments about titanium oxides being used for paint is spot on. In fact, many if not most of the oil paint tints in wide use today use metal oxides for coloring. Among the more interesting metals used are cobalt, cadmium, mercury, etc.

..Ramble mode on.. It's interesting that oil pigment technology experienced a boom in the early-mid 19th century, when chemistry experience a golden age of breakthroughs, adding cheap bright colors to the artists' palette, colors Rembrant and da Vinci would have killed for (in particular ultramarine blue was a VERY expensive color as it was made by grinding lapis lazuli :eek: ). This in turn helped create the Impressionists' revolution. This chemical revolution was also the beginning of the metallurgical revolution which continues into today, and the fruits of which we enjoy today in blades that our ancestors would have killed for (and did). ..Ramble mode off..

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Regarding the Boker Orion (if you're still reading after all that), it's a pretty knife. I think that's its strongest point. I owned one for fifteen minutes once. The crystalline coating on the blade was very pretty, but on the one I bought the bluish tint had worn away from the center third of the knife. I don't know if it was a display model, or if it was greasy or something in that area, but the color that replaced the blue was a rather drab grey. The pattern stayed put, though. The reason I returned it was the liner - it locked up in the middle of the blade tang at first, but pressure against the edge or pulling on the back of the blade caused it to slide all the way to the right of the tang, leaving no room for wear. Pressure on the blade spine caused it to slip toward failure. Again, that might have been the result of it being flicked open a few thousand times by prospective buyers, but the thing that finally caused me to return it and never look back was the lack of a ball detent to hold the blade closed. There was no ball bearing set into the liner, and there was no detent drilled into the blade. I remember reading somewhere that Boker deemed it unnecessary on that particular knife. That, coupled with the fact that when clipped to a pocket the knife rides really high, indicated to me that I might have bad luck either by having the knife fall out of a pocket or get hung up on something, or by having the blade flop open unexpectedly. A final downside to that knife: the titanium, while incredibly corrosion-resistant, is not tempered sufficiently to hold an edge well at all. For food, I guess it would be OK, but cutting cardboard, whittling, and other knifey activities would dull it in a hurry. The general consensus as I have seen it is that it is a great Sunday-go-to-meeting knife, but not a daily carry piece. I returned mine, and walked out happily with a William Henry carbon fiber Lancet.
 
kwg, i am glad you said that. someone else said a long time ago that the only good thing about that knife was it's looks.
it is $220! that's steep.

anyways, i think we have all learned from this thread that there are very few really lousy knives. it just depends on what YOU like. in this thread and the few others i have posted here asking if "brand x model x knife is good" the first person would say they love it. the next hated it, and so on. with every single knife i mentioned. the only reason i was so critcle of those 13 is because of what other people have said! i heard a lot of people trash crkt. then i was trashed for trashing crkt! actually i kind of like some crkt's!
honestly, i would have kept all 13 if i had the money. but, now i have an even bigger problem!

please see my new post "how important is it that a knife fits your hand?"





thank you,
holdanedge.
 
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