I thought these were overbuilt? Direware lock fail (brand new knife)

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Quiet said:
"Not one person"

Because this is Bladeforums, here we're pretty well versed on knives, which is why no one buys Direware. It took someone who thought they knew better having to find out for themselves, and now look where we are.

You learned the hard way, because folks with hard heads usually have to. (shrug)
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lol yea its so hard to just go to the store and return a knife lol ok.
You are chalk full of assumptions and inferences that theyre oozing out of your pale fat ass. i never said i knew better, but i was willing i find out. And many ppl here do own higher end customs. So again you are wrong.
 
Blues Bender said:
I'm can't imagine how shitty our walls would look if my drywall hangers were making their cuts with a folder:rolleyes:
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It is clear that the OP has zero interest in actual experience. I imagine the current BF members clock up thousands of years of it between us. It’s no coincidence that many members here work in jobs like construction, jobs that require using knives. Some ignorant users might assume that one of those members would only use cheaper practical users at work, God forbid a really high end knife, like a Rockstead. I happen to know better. ;)
 
CCC1522 said:
lol yea its so hard to just go to the store and return a knife lol ok.
You are chalk full of assumptions and inferences that theyre oozing out of your pale fat ass. i never said i knew better, but i was willing i find out. And many ppl here do own higher end customs. So again you are wrong.
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I am one of those people who own custom knives. I have multiple knives that cost me over a thousand dollars that are better at...well, everything than your returned Buyer(be)Ware but that's neither here nor there. I also know how to use the right tool for the job, a trait you're sadly lacking (along with intellect and common sense, but that goes without saying). Anyway, good luck with your construction job and using a folder to do all that heavy bushstructionvival work.
 
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Anyway, I am going to bow out of this thread. The OP clearly knows better than all of us, even though he bought the objectively worst knife for the job he could have possibly done, and did so despite being warned to the contrary. You can only lead the horse to water, after all. Sometimes instead of drinking, they run sideways and break their neck running headlong into a wall because they had their eyes and ears closed. Ah well. Another one for the history books!
 
I just watched the video finally, and noticed two things.
  1. That blade appears to be ground ridiculously, comically thick behind the edge. Just an observation, but wow. I've seen knives that are thinner overall than this blade is behind the edge.
  2. The angle of the grind on the blade tang is way too obtuse. A vector oriented normal to the lock engagement surface on the blade tang should point roughly to the point where the locking leaf is bent. The way this is set up, there isn't enough friction in the interface to lock the knife open when a load is applied to your blade. The blade geometry needs to change.
These are things that actual knifemakers get correct, and instagram makers do not. It's a good thing you returned it, because I don't think the maker will fix these things.
 
Quiet said:
I am one of those people who own custom knives. I have multiple knives that cost me over a thousand dollars that are better at...well, everything than your returned Buyer(be)Ware but that's neither here nor there. I also know how to use the right tool for the job, a trait you're sadly lacking (along with intellect and common sense, but that goes without saying). Anyway, good luck with your construction job and using a folder to do all that heavy bushstructionvival work. LOL Fool.
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Fucking hell dude. You are literally blind. I clearly said so many F***ing times that the knife was going to be a edc folder and not for a specific task. I said I would like for it to be able to withstand occasoinal hard use. When asked what "occasional" meant I said once or twice a year. When asked what kind of hard use i said aggressive use such as bushcraft. I likened the use to bushcraft to convey the level of hard use and i specifcally stated that that was not its intended purpose but in terms of its construction could it withstand it. and again you infer what you want, you really are just the dumbest fuck ive ever come across on the internet.
 
CCC1522 said:
Dude im arguing because no one here at all is addressing what ive said.

All conversations go like this.


Its just shilling. very few people addressed my questions head on and none were able to talk from experience.

So your suggestion is useless to me when im listening to answers, advice, and condescending remarks that have not only misconstrue what i have said but are in no way related to what I asked, or what im looking for.

I dont need sage advice. I was looking specifically on the abilities of the direware. idc about demko, or pyderco or what price is what or where the value is. No one was able to answer based of of experience. Not one person. So please man keep your "advice" about listening to yourself. Especially when you have guys like Quiet and shinyedges just polluting the thread with condescending remarks and BS that doesnt pertain and infer their own ideas form what Ive said.
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I'm a tiny bit dyslexic so my reading comprehension may not be the best...But even I can read between lines here.

question
"is the direware a good knife?"
answer
"Spyderco makes a good knife for half the money and I carry one that i use for work all the time!"
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To me people are trying to say you overpaid in a nice way.

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"could the direware perform and withstand aggressive hard use tasks such as bushcrafting"

answer
"fixed blades are what you need for bushcrafting, the benchmade bushcrafter is just so much better"
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That's saying a huge NO. it's not the right type of knife for bushcrafting. (Again in a nice way)

question
"will the direware locking mechanism fail in hard use tasks?"

answer
"its a folder but The Demko has the best lock on the market! i would get that!"
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Well yours failed with a love tap with your hand. People may not know about the direwire, but they know Demko so obviously they are going to suggest it because no one wants to give you advice that may end up hurting yourself or your wallet

Just my opinion, and I could be way off.
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Mo2 said:
I can count the amount of times knife buyers spine whack there knives on one hand.
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2 or 3 times "at the store counter" is all it takes for me. If I'm spending more than a $200 on it I have to see it in person. If I can't fondle it in person and have to buy it off the interweb then I ask these guys about it. If they say it sucks than it probably sucks whether it be lock failure, crappy fit and finish, or wrong application.
 
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