Have "you" experienced a knife failure?

djjonny said:
My old Balisong/butterfly opened in my pocket and sliced my small finger open.
Still have the scar
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Happened to me too but it was my thumb that got sliced. Good thing, I was only a middling fair sharpener then, still it was a nasty wound.
 
Had the hinge on my Cold Steel Triple Action sheer and the locking arm flew off as I was opening it. Pretty Disappointed. I was pretty inexperienced at the time (still in high school or just out. Can't remember) but I wouldn't really call that an excuse.
 
It was a Frost knife. You disengage the lock by pressing a button on the side of the handle.

I had used it for a little over one week. Not hard, just cutting zip ties, carboard, etc.
One day, I opened the knife, and the lock button just fell out.

I stared at the knife in my hand for a couple seconds. Then, I threw it out.
 
Sunog said:
It was a Frost knife. You disengage the lock by pressing a button on the side of the handle.

I had used it for a little over one week. Not hard, just cutting zip ties, carboard, etc.
One day, I opened the knife, and the lock button just fell out.

I stared at the knife in my hand for a couple seconds. Then, I threw it out.
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I think that's all that you needed to say. :rolleyes:
 
I bought a fully serrated Spyderco Police with ATS-55 that was advertized as "lightly carried and carefully used. Locks open straight and tight." (seriously, that's a direct quote) 5 minutes after I got it the thing closed on my finger while I was checking for play. I sent it back and had to pay for shipping...:grumpy:
 
Remember those little keychain knives that SOG sent out a few years ago for filling out that survey? Mine failed. I should note, though, that it came to me in an obviously defective state. On one side, the handle wasn't properly flush with the blade up near the pivot due to a screw that had apparently been forced in irregardless of what the threads said. Foolishly, I carried it anyway. Since I could never quite get that thing sharp and always had another knife on me, it never saw any real use. One day, just for grins, I decided to use it to do a bit of carving on a stick, just to see what it would do. Well, what it wouldn't do is pop out a not-quite-cut-through bit of wood. Upon applying a little twist to attempt it, the loose side of the handle popped right off and the blade dropped to the ground.

Knife: SOG Micron Tanto
Activity: Whittling
Experience level: With keychain knives? Minimal.
Comments: I clearly should not have been using it solely due to the obviously screwy screw. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, I did.
 
The lock failed on my DPX HEST, luckily it didn't cut me just churned up the webbing between my thumb and first finger
 
I have only ever had one knife fail on me and it was my fault, it was a Ka-bar campkife and the blade snapped clean off the handle while i was batoning logs, i took my hand off the hilt for a 2 handed swing with the batoning stick and it broke the knife on the first hit. that is the only knife i've had break on me must have been 6 years ago now i think, i have been playing around in the woods since before boyscouts should've know better then to let go of the handle while batoning but you live and you learn.
 
Emerson Raven. After about a month of carrying it, I noticed I could close it like a slip-joint. It went back to Emerson. A week or two after getting it back, same thing. Tossed it overboard some where on Buzzards Bay. Too bad because I loved the design of that knife.
 
jstrykr74 said:
Emerson Raven. After about a month of carrying it, I noticed I could close it like a slip-joint. It went back to Emerson. A week or two after getting it back, same thing.
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Heh, my Emerson Combat Karambit does the same thing.
But I don't call it a failure; rather, I call it an innovation...the Emerson Combat Slip-joint.:D
 
I had a Gerber Paraframe's lock fail on me, cutting my finger pretty deep.
I was removing old caulking from around a window, I plunged into the caulking with the edge facing down, and tried to rip down, and the blade closed on me. Not so sure if that is improper use, but I do not think so.
 
I had a CRKT M16-10KZ break apart while I was using the teeth to saw into a picture frame. Didn't think I was doing anything overly strenuous on the knife or pushing with too much downward force, but it broke apart in my hand at the pivot. I'm no knife expert, but I have a decent collection, use knives all the time and help friends in the buying process (narrowing down by what they are looking to use a knife for), so I'd consider myself pretty knowledgeable with them. My comments on the situation would be to not use the saw teeth on a $20 folder for anything beyond a zip tie.
 
deth1313 said:
I had a CRKT M16-10KZ break apart while I was using the teeth to saw into a picture frame. Didn't think I was doing anything overly strenuous on the knife or pushing with too much downward force, but it broke apart in my hand at the pivot. I'm no knife expert, but I have a decent collection, use knives all the time and help friends in the buying process (narrowing down by what they are looking to use a knife for), so I'd consider myself pretty knowledgeable with them. My comments on the situation would be to not use the saw teeth on a $20 folder for anything beyond a zip tie.
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Geeez I hope you didn't get cut up bad or anything. Did you send it to Gerber for a replacement?
 
I counted one failure to lock up after deploying my Microtech Makora II, an OTF auto. However I could not repeat it, and that's a good thing that it's not a recurring problem. I'd rather not deal with the hell that is MT customer service.


stabman said:
Heh, my Emerson Combat Karambit does the same thing.
But I don't call it a failure; rather, I call it an innovation...the Emerson Combat Slip-joint.:D
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Emerson tactical utility combat self-opening carpet slipjoint with index finger retention.
 
do practice thrusts count? we tried to plunge tantos in the reverse grip on stuff like stuffed jute sacks, old punching bags, and the bottom of drums. those with deep, round or angular choils get stuck and we can't pull them off (imagine a knife fight wherein you can't pull your knife off.)
 
Had an Emerson CQC-10 that developed a nasty tendency to disengage the lock during use. I took it apart, cleaned it all up, and after re-assembly and lot of tweaking, I got it to where it hasn't failed in a year-&-half of pretty tough use.

Several Frost brand knives: I tried them in a local ACE hardware store here, and I could make each of them - five in all - fail in one way or another. No surprise there.

~Chris
 
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hank_rearden said:
do practice thrusts count? we tried to plunge tantos in the reverse grip on stuff like stuffed jute sacks, old punching bags, and the bottom of drums. those with deep, round or angular choils get stuck and we can't pull them off (imagine a knife fight wherein you can't pull your knife off.)
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There's a lesson there brother. Make your stab/cut count and be a fight stopper. Don't strike areas of low priority. BTW, you make a great argument for choosing a knife w/o a choil as a dedicated self defense blade.
 
A couple of user failures and a CRKT KISS folder that fell out of my pocket onto hard tiles and broke the frame
 
I had a cheap $10 Chinese made no-name AO knife bought at a gun show fail. The knife just started developing play at the pivot. When I tightened it to the point where the lateral play was gone, I couldn't even close the knife. I threw it away and vowed never to waste my money on those things again.
 
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