Knife Manufacturers You Avoid

Hoodcanal5 said:
Don't forget pro-tect knives. They use samurai heat treats remember.
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Pro-Tect? or Pro-Tech?

I really can't stand Cold Steel (the marketing mall ninja thing), CRKT (just don't care for the designs), and Buck

I like Keshaw/ZT, Mcusta, CRK and many more.
 
I don't avoid any of the products by any of the knife companies. They aren't trying to sell their nives as hi-dollar tools. There are over-priced hi-dollar knives as well as over-priced low-dollar knives. Most of the companies that are shunned here make many products that are well worth the asking price.

To truley find out, I like to try their products before I condemn them.
 
I generally avoid Gerber nowadays, and have always avoided their folders like the plague.

CRKT - what few designs of their I like have now been converted to that garbage alphabet-soup steel.

SOG - I've never met a SOG folder I liked; overpriced plastic-handled blade-wiggle factories.

Boker - not on principle, they just don't have any designs that appeal to me, and what designs they have that do appeal to me are ridiculously expensive.

Mantis, Dork Ops, Szaboinc, Strider, TOPS, Taylor Brands - Ridiculous mall ninjery.

Chris Reeve, Rick Hinderer, 90% of custom makers - Love their designs, but don't have the cash.
 
Schrade--Who doesn't detest that the "Imperial" in the company's formal name came to denote the Middle Kingdom's commie empire?


As opposed to "Imperial" referring to US imperialism running amok in the world and installing or supporting every rightwing murderous dictator they can find?
Well it looks like one of the US Imperialist's longtime bumboys just bit the dust in Egypt. Oh well thers's a lot more scumbags where he came from.
 
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American Puukko said:
S&W--Think playing footsie with the gun grabbing Clinton Administration was their first sell-out? Think again.
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You mean Taylor Brands or S&W? Because for firearms manufacturers, Ruger is probably the worst offender here.

For me:

Gerber: Not high quality enough and uses mystery steel.

SOG: Overpriced and the designs aren't interesting.

Cold Steel: Taiwanese made (and not the good Taiwanese stuff like the Taichung factory makes) folders with bottom of the barrel steel that should cost considerably less than what they do. And horrible customer service.
 
Larry Turko said:
Schrade--Who doesn't detest that the "Imperial" in the company's formal name came to denote the Middle Kingdom's commie empire?


As opposed to "Imperial" referring to US imperialism running amok in the world and installing or supporting every rightwing murderous dictator they can find?
Well it looks like one of the US Imperialist's longtime bumboys just bit the dust in Egypt. Oh well thers's a lot more scumbags where he came from.
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Way to take a joke and turn it into yet another humorless left wing rant.:rolleyes:

For your edification, the "Imperial" in "Imperial Schrade" was the end result of a merger that happened prior to WW2. The Imperial Knife Company of Providence Rhode Island was established in 1916 by Italian immigrants who were eventually bought out by the company that evolved into "Imperial Schrade" in 1983.

Taylor Brands just poorly reanimates a name built by generations of Americans as a Chinese zombie.
 
Larry Turko said:
Schrade--Who doesn't detest that the "Imperial" in the company's formal name came to denote the Middle Kingdom's commie empire?


As opposed to "Imperial" referring to US imperialism running amok in the world and installing or supporting every rightwing murderous dictator they can find?
Well it looks like one of the US Imperialist's longtime bumboys just bit the dust in Egypt. Oh well thers's a lot more scumbags where he came from.
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Lets keep the political commentary out of it and foucus on knives.

FYI.. the "Imperial" in imperial schrade is there because IKAC (imperial knives associated companies) bought schrade in 1946 and changed the name to imperial schrade in 1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Schrade
 
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marcinek said:
This should go well. What could possibly go wrong?

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I brought some popcorn too.
 
Cold Steel - Overpriced and marketing strategies are odd.

CRKT - Awesome flippers, but overpriced for the quality.
 
crkt, cold steel, crk, sog, ka-bar (except the zombie knives of course), gerber, boker, anything made in china.

Edit: I would say the majority of the knives made by the people listed above are not interesting to me, but some of them do have a few decent models in their lineup that I still avoid for price or material reasons.
 
A co-worker had a Gerber that he carried for about a year. One day I saw it on the dash of his truck and picked it up. It had totally fallen a part and the lock failed 100%. I gave him a nice frame lock knife.

I haven't bought a Gerber since the early 80's and never owned one that didn't say Portland, OR on it.
 
Any knife you see at sporting goods stores in Australia are destined to be dodgy and overpriced (with the exception of Leatherman and Victorinox).

CRKT - designs look awful.

Someone already mentioned knives made by gun manufacturers, add to that any knife made by a car manufacturer. Like Humvee :barf:
 
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