Just going to leave this here...

But I part ways with him when he tells me or anyone else that we are wrong or dumb or ridiculous for wanting what we want. As long as I'm paying for it, it's my business and only my business.

No disrespect meant to anyone who has a differing opinion, just expressing mine.
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I agree with that. Heck, if someone wants to buy a cold steel rajah 2 to peel apples or a benchmade adamas to get dirt out o their fingernails, that's their choice.
 
Thanks for posting that. I only watched a few minutes, but it seems some of the things that bug him, bug me as well.
 
The bottom line is we can all love our overly built pocket tanks, that are ready to withstand the apocalypse and STILL live in reality-ville. We can own the fact that our excessively built kives are more knife than 99% of knife uses will ever need.
 
we are all entitled to our opinions, as is he. I dont like how when he talks to himself on camera it still comes off as condescending. I happen to like both sides of the spectrum, and own spydercos and striders and sometimes carry one of each when i go out. he wonders why he has such an unpopular streak
 
I'm always happy to see jdavis lording his perceived intelligence over the interwebs. I would be confused, otherwise.

I even agree with him on some points, but I don't agree with his not-so-subtle condescension towards anyone who may disagree with his infallible rant.


Buy whatever knife makes you happy.
Be constructive.
 
I'd like to point out in one of his collection videos that he had 3 Striders a ZT and an Unnumzaan, he must be a conflicted individual... Furthermore, from what I have seen; this guy is a collector, so what does anybody give a damn about his feelings when this is clearly an expensive hobby for him? None of those knives even look worn!
 
I watched it, he comes off arrogant, condescending and petty. Whats worse is all the while he is flicking open a nice knife, there is a whole crew around here that are really out on the flicking saying it can and does damage a knife. There is also a large contingent of members here who have spoken out about the flicking thing and make mention of the fact that knives are not worry stones are stress balls, but rather tools which should be used for their intended purpose. Which is kind of the whole tenant for his position speaking as to his opinion of not really needing a knife of which he has a whole work pad of in front of him while he videos. What I found really annoying though was he acts like this all started since he showed up on the knife scene some 2 whole years ago. What???? This hard use, lock strength thing has been going on for a whole lot longer than that, just do a search of the forum.

The whole thing just seemed kind of narcissistic but that is my impression of most (not all) things on youtube, sorry.
 
I am also flabbergasted as to why he owns a knives with axis locks, lockbacks, framelocks, and a digi-camo compression lock when the Sage 1 liner lock is all he needs and most of the knives are the same S30V. Plus he owns Striders, what kind of idiot buys so many knives when apparently all you need is the liner lock (with carbon fiber because that's important)
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It's really not to hard to figure out. He probably got into knives, got intrigued and interest by all the different knives and tried them out. After a couple years of collecting and being on the forums, came to his conclusion. While his conclusions are not true for everyone, I'd guess they are true for 98% of people who buy pocket knives.

Also, you can still realize that pretty much all you need is a liner lock and STILL LIKE other types of knives just because you like them. I would like to have a ZT one day, but I do realize that for my needs it's not going to give me anything more than a cheap Buck knife can give me (it's not going to enable me to perform my cuttings task any better). Like I said, someone can like knives and all the different offerings and still live in reality-ville.
 
More of the same debate, and I cannot really understand why people care so much about this topic.

I buy and make knives because I like them, and I think they're cool. I like to have a knife that will perform well for me. Do I really NEED it most of the time? Probably not. I could get by without one if I had to. But I have always loved blades, and everybody collects something. For me it's knives, and I don't feel I need more of a justification to buy a knife than just saying that I want that particular blade. It's my money, and it's not anybody else's business. And I don't think companies need more of a justification to design a knife in a particular way than that people will buy it. For instance, I buy AXIS locks because they're fun to use, and because the lock represents innovation. Are we seriously going to complain about a knife company innovating?

Frankly, if he doesn't like certain types of knives, nobody's forcing him to buy them. And whining about the fact that they exist and that other people DO buy them is just childish. His time would, in my opinion, be better spent doing some research and finding a knife that he does like. Or selling off all of the knives that he owns but probably shouldn't, if his rant is to be believed. With the amount of money he's dropped, he could easily afford to get a CUSTOM that would fit exactly what he wants.

Isn't it enough to just say, "I like this knife, and will therefore buy it," or "I do not like this knife, and will not buy it." What more is there to say than that?
 
Flectric said:
Regarding your last paragraph, I agree with the point of how many pounds will it hold is dumb. But like I said, one point cannot discredit heavy use knives, and the whole video did off of the locking mechanism theory.

As far as your " thousands of years the world without "

Thats a dumb statement, our world has advanced, am I'm damn happy it did. We have easier tools that makes life easier for us.
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I think the main problem people have with the "hard use" crowd (or at least, the problem I have) is that they seem to think they need these knives to do hard use, when they are in fact worse at just about everything barring some rare exceptions. And often they are people who sit at desks all day and don't cut much of anything. Give me a thin blade slipjoint and I could cut that cactus, those branches, and that heavy strapping just fine. And when it comes to slicing, it will perform much better than whatever pocket tank is on you. People who are used to hard use labeled blades often have VERY unrealistic ideas of the fragility of more slicey blades.... To the point where it's quite humorous.

If it gives you peace of mind to have a borderline unusable sharpened prybar, cool, no hair off my back. But when I see people (not you in this case) who talk about being scared to carve tent pegs with their Spyderco Military because of its fragile tip I will most likely laugh my ass off and then respond to it.
 
hardheart said:
What you aren't acknowledging is that the point of this video is to change the collective mind of the knife culture to stop buying these 'other' knives with heavy duty locks so he can find more knives that cut.
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I'll agree with that. But it seems like he's trying to address the trend of knife companies to "one up" the rest on their durability, lock strength etc. Like, "so and so company makes a lock with 200 lbs lock strength, so we need to make one with 600 lbs lock strength". It seems like he's asking the question, "when did this become of focus of much in the knife industry". Someone in another thread mentioned how they noticed that knife blades in general seem to be getting thicker at the expense of knife makers paying attention the to importance of "knife geometry".
 
goodeyesniper said:
I think the main problem people have with the "hard use" crowd (or at least, the problem I have) is that they seem to think they need these knives to do hard use, when they are in fact worse at just about everything barring some rare exceptions. And often they are people who sit at desks all day and don't cut much of anything. Give me a thin blade slipjoint and I could cut that cactus, those branches, and that heavy strapping just fine. And when it comes to slicing, it will perform much better than whatever pocket tank is on you. People who are used to hard use labeled blades often have VERY unrealistic ideas of the fragility of more slicey blades.... To the point where it's quite humorous.

If it gives you peace of mind to have a borderline unusable sharpened prybar, cool, no hair off my back. But when I see people (not you in this case) who talk about being scared to carve tent pegs with their Spyderco Military because of its fragile tip I will most likely laugh my ass off and then respond to it.
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Great post.
 
newknife said:
Someone in another thread mentioned how they noticed that knife blades in general seem to be getting thicker at the expense of knife makers paying attention the to importance of "knife geometry".
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Folders in general seem to stick to 0.100 - 0.125 for the majority, and they've been there a long time in knives like the K55, Douk Douk, 110, many slipjoints, etc. Heck, Victorinox blades got thinner when they changed the stamps not that long ago.
 
hardheart said:
Folders in general seem to stick to 0.100 - 0.125 for the majority, and they've been there a long time in knives like the K55, Douk Douk, 110, many slipjoints, etc. Heck, Victorinox blades got thinner when they changed the stamps not that long ago.
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yea, you know what...i may have been wrong on that. I think he was talking about super steels, and how knife makers seem to focus on that instead of blade geometry. The point was that the blade geometry had more impact on the cutting ability that the blade steel. I would say that's true when addressing over built pocket tanks as well.
 
I wonder why it is that people who like knives on both ends of the spectrum are less vocal about it. Those who are against the hard use spectrum though...
 
I watched a few of his vids and although I agree with some of what he says them I got a good laugh when after seeing he owns multiple CRK's, Strider's, Spyderco's, Benchmade's, and etc he asks for $2 or $3 buck donations from everyone to help pay for the test rope! Now that's too funny! Lol
 
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goodeyesniper said:
I think the main problem people have with the "hard use" crowd (or at least, the problem I have) is that they seem to think they need these knives to do hard use, when they are in fact worse at just about everything barring some rare exceptions. And often they are people who sit at desks all day and don't cut much of anything. Give me a thin blade slipjoint and I could cut that cactus, those branches, and that heavy strapping just fine. And when it comes to slicing, it will perform much better than whatever pocket tank is on you. People who are used to hard use labeled blades often have VERY unrealistic ideas of the fragility of more slicey blades.... To the point where it's quite humorous.

If it gives you peace of mind to have a borderline unusable sharpened prybar, cool, no hair off my back. But when I see people (not you in this case) who talk about being scared to carve tent pegs with their Spyderco Military because of its fragile tip I will most likely laugh my ass off and then respond to it.
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Thats a nice post, devils advocate huh?
The part when he says ( you dont need a hard use knife ) is all that bothers me, he doesn't know dirt about how every knife buyer out there uses their knives. Yet he's preaching his own thoughts like we all do slicing tests and use knives for nothing else. I for one carry a hard use and a good slicer or sometimes even more than just 2 knives.

I did break a Military tip off stabbing a 2x4. I love the Spydie Military but understand it's limits the blade is fragile at the tip. However I regularly use the Mil to break thick ty-wraps which would ruin a crap metals blade fast. So the S30V does hold its own to a degree for heavier but not hard use.
 
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