Junk knives you can't stop loving (and using).

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Chapp

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Many people seem to have a favourite knife that people would call junk. Knife guilty-pleasure.

To me, it's always been the Sog mini-aegis. Yes, there's blade-play in all models I tested, yes the handle is cheap plastic and the action can sometime fly the knife out of the hand, but damn I love this knife. I recently bought a Sog Flash II and I feel the same about it.

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My greatest threat is the loss of an expensive knife so I bought a cheap "imported" liner lock $7 IIRC. Truly junk, it's the Navy K 507. I've lost it twice but it always seems to come back. Blade centering is poor, it's 440 steel....maybe and the clip is not deep and point down only. It's perfect in size and weight however and, though it looses its edge if you look at it wrong, it is a pleasure to sharpen.

I occasionally carry other knives but this POC is my go to around the farm ...... and it seems to stick around.
 
Chapp said:
Many people seem to have a favourite knife that people would call junk. Knife guilty-pleasure.

To me, it's always been the Sog mini-aegis. Yes, there's blade-play in all models I tested, yes the handle is cheap plastic and the action can sometime fly the knife out of the hand, but damn I love this knife. I recently bought a Sog Flash II and I feel the same about it.

What's yours ?
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Not really junk by any means but not as flashy as your ZTs and CRKs—the Spyderco Resilience. I just like the blade shape and how well the scales fit to my hand. Also cuts extremely well.

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Onies said:
Far from a "junk" knife, but the Kabar Dozier Folding Hunter gets all the tough jobs I don't want to subject my Benchmade 940 or Para 2 to. It is one tough little knife that always seems to come back for more.
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can you believe the d2 version of the dozier folder is only $32?
it might be the best value you can find with d2 today - which is saying a lot with competition like ontario's rat

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SOG twitch XL
It’s got a strange drop point blade profile that’s just useful
Not much on assisted but it was a gift
 
Kershaw Kuro. It was a gift that I didn't particularly care for but I thought I would use as a beater until it broke and toss it. I have abused it and 8 years later it won't die.

The tanto point is good for scraping burnt junk off the glass cook top and the serration is well enough done that its useful.
 
SOG blades in general have always been a "guilty pleasure"
I have much nicer knives like my CRKs ,but most SOG fixed blades and quite a few of their folders
get me every time. I've been carrying a Trident Folder lately.
I think the Trident's lock fails at around 40lbs of pressure vs. an axis lock that'll hold something like 200# per inch of blade.
Thing is, I rarely apply pressure to the blade in the closing-direction and if I do it's nowhere to close to 40#s on the lock.
 
not really junk but really cheap
I grab the Vickies more than those not cheap knives

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btw them fixed blades on the ends were just there for fun
I don't really keep them there
 
I'm not posting these because I consider them to be junk, but because when other people hear or speak of the brands they often think "junk".

The top is a United brand boot knife (the blade anyways. I replaced the original smaller handle with a larger one from a broken SOG Desert Dagger).

I've described a few times before on this forum how I tried to break this knife, and failed. The blade is 4-3/4" long, 3/16ths" thick, unknown steel, and not very hard. It's one of my favorite knives.

The other knife is from Master Cutlery. It's called "Alpha Team", 5-1/4" long blade, 3/16ths" thick, full tang, unknown "stainless steel", micarta handles (coated with Plastidip). This knife has been modified.

I bought this knife as a potential replacement for a much more expensive (and rare) knife that I wanted to retire from use on construction sites. It turned out to be a good choice. I used this knife hard, including hard prying, and it did everything I asked of it without any complaint from me. I paid $8. for it new.

I came very close to giving it away to one of my crew when I retired, but in the end I couldn't bring myself to do it.

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Inexpensive but not junk , old non-stainless , wood handle kitchen knife .

I got better ones , but keep reaching for this one . Guess I'm just used to it .

 
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