Have You Ever Had a Knife FAIL On You?

I had a Gerber Evo fold on me n cut my pinky finger to the bone, not that that's very deep but it was enough to make me never buy another Gerber.
 
xXiZER0iXx said:
I had a Gerber Evo fold on me n cut my pinky finger to the bone, not that that's very deep but it was enough to make me never buy another Gerber.
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ouch!

im no knifemaker but i wonder why dont they make the lockup bar thicker than the blade?
 
I also had the tip of a buck folder break on me in the 80's. 5 years ago the spring in the lock mechanism of my Cold Steel Recon 1 wore out and it started opening in my pocket. I broke a Gil Hibben throwing knife in half after a few throws.
 
I've had a knife FALL on me.

I was playing with my Yojimbo 2 and it slipped out of my hand while opened up and it fell right on my crotch. Luckily it landed flat and not tip down.
 
haha...that's exactly why if I mess with my knives it's off to the side or on a table/desk; definitely trying to make a concerted effort to keep it out of harm's way.

The Logical One said:
I've had a knife FALL on me.

I was playing with my Yojimbo 2 and it slipped out of my hand while opened up and it fell right on my crotch. Luckily it landed flat and not tip down.
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But, ya, no FALL or fail on me yet. Well, actually, the para 2 did bite me while closing- oh, compression locks.
 
I've had a few. Back as a kid a 110 clone folded up on my hand due to a worn lock. I've also had a couple of liner locks fail. The worst was from a company named delta z who isn't around anymore. That lock was bad from day one.
 
I've only had one experience with a knife failing on me when it wasn't my fault. Buck Crosslock. The single bladed one. It is a liner lock. I bought it right when they first came out. Had only used it a couple weeks maybe when it folded up on my fingers. Luckily it was a minor cut. Never would trust that knife again and relegated it to the toolbox as beater status. (scraping gaskets mainly.)

At other times I have learned the hard way that knives make poor screwdrivers and prybars.

Grizz
 
Becker patrol machete failed under very light use. They replaced it and the new one I've had for years, and it's great. Several cold steel LTC machetes. (2 were mine 1 my friends, he warped his).
 
Long ago I chipped a large semi circle out of an Old Hickory blade, I wish I had the idea to mod the blade at that point, but I was just a young kid. Could have cut it down to something else I'm sure.

Bent a few blades over the yrs as well.

Then most recent this...
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Was not trying to bust it, but was in a spot where I had to baton and all I had was a ~1/2" x 8-10" threaded bar...and I was cutting metal straps. Stupid, Yes.

Blade had zero issues, it was the stop pin that sheared and broke...
 
I have had 2 knives fail in the 30 years i have been using knives. One was a gerber mutlitool, i was cutting a rubber- nylon reinforced sand blast hose 2" with the blade in it literally broke it two. exactly half the length of the blade. At the middle of slot for opening the blade, . I would assume a bad heat treat or flaw in steel. Was almost new when i cut hose. Have cut those hoses maybe a hundred times before and since with knives and never had a problem.
And the second was a schrade u.s.a sharpfinger. I just handed it to my brother in law to start to gut a deer and he was running up the ribcage cutting cartilage and the blade snapped the first 1-1/2" off. I was shocked. I had used it for squirrel many times but first time on deer. I assume bad spot in blade or heat treat. The sharpfinger no longer being made In U.S.A. is what got me started into knifemaking. Wanted to see if i could make one.
 
Also, had a Benchmade Rukus blade snap into where the serrations were. Sent it in and it was under warranty because I wasn't prying with it. However I believe it broke from a combination of metal fatigue at a stress riser. Had many liner locks fail with just minimal pressure. I had two Microtech Socom knives that would fail a spine whack in the palm of my hand, also a few older Benchmade liner locks like the spike and original stryker.
 
I had my Kabar fail while batoning some extremely hard knotty wood.

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This is the piece that did it.
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Let's face it, Gerber's best days are behind it. Several years ago they began using substandard steel and decided to run out its future on its past reputation. S&W now makes better knives than Gerber in my view. I had a Paraframe that I tried to use to open one of those plastic blister packs. I tried piercing it with the Paraframe and the tip just skipped off the plastic. I picked up another knife (a S&W Hawkbill with a 440C blade). It immediately pierced the blister pack and cut the item free. I later tried to cut the plastic with the Paraframe and it just would not cut it! The plastic was just too tough.

If you go to Gerber's site, you can no longer see the steel blades are made from. You get the same old "surgical stainless" garbage or, worse, 400-stainless, which means it could be 416 or 420. It most likely will never mean 420HC. The company pretty much provides trash for cash in my view. Use it if you want, but find out what steel it is. If you can't find it on their site, call them.

I have several of its AR300s, which have 440A blades and a fairly decent reputation. But when 440A is the company's premier steel, it makes me wonder. Gerber has three knives that sport S30V blades, you can't find any steel information. That puts the company in my "no buy" category.


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The Gerber AR300 and the knock-off knife (top) you can buy at Home Depot. The
Gerber knife is okay, but the knock-off is garbage. Makes me wonder why you can't
get a decent knife at hardware stores like Home Depot.


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The AR300 has a nice coating to it and an "okay" edge retention; but it's still
a pretty average knife. It makes a good gift.
 
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