knife mistakes I've made......

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kickplate69

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Years ago it seemed that all I bought were nice benchmades with combo edges on them. I look at that era of knives and want to powerpuke. All that money on combo edges. I want to shed a tear...
The other mistake that thankfully I only made once is a Buck Vanguard hunting knife with a guthook and a partially serrated edge. This is the knife for people like me who didn't know what the hell they wanted! Now I know a lot more about knives and what I look for in a knife tends to be a lot more focused.
These knives aren't useless, and I will still use and carry them, but I guess we all evolve, and in reality, where we are now is a product of where we've been.
You should see all the holsters and other gun gear that resides in drawers that make me laugh/cry also, but that's another story........
Any one else out there with regrets? ( Well, specifically "Knife" regrets? )
Thx,
Kickplate
 
I regret the pseudo-karabits with serrated edges, the skeletonized handle tantos and the "survival knives" I bought back in the day. I thought they were cool then, I certainly don't now.
 
joining this website. I seem to have a knife-buying virus that has overtaken what little financial capabilities I possessed.
 
Black coated blades. It sucks when I start using them, the coating wears out faster than the edge. Yet, I still get them every now and then cause I can't help myself.
 
I think I just made a mistake lol. I just bought a "Fury" folder with a tanto blade and a little section of serrated blade. I can't even find it anywhere on the internet. It only cost me $6.99+ 7% state tax but its still kind of dissatisfying that I cannot find any info on the particular knife. It almost seems like this knife has been discontinued--- either discontinued or an unimportant "hey-let's-make-cheap-knives-and-sell-them-for-profit" effort.

**Eh, even if its a piece of crap, it still came in a pretty handy case. If anyone wants to help me out, its item number is 29768 and its branded with the name "Fury" on the blade. the handle is pure black and at the pinky-end of the handle is a hole (my best guess is that its purpose is to have a chain put through it to make it wearable around the neck or something.) Since I have no ruler handy, I'll just say that the blade is about the size of a "short" pack of cigarettes (if you measure from the tip of the handle to the point where it starts forming the tip. from that point, its taller than the pack of cigarettes.) It has a thumb stud on the side opposite the belt clip.
 
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I've been pretty happy with the knives I've gotten so far. But the first knife I got was a combo edge, and I wish I had gotten plain edge now. But it's a cheap knife that I don't use anymore, so it doesn't matter.
 
The biggest mistake I have made is buying a very expensive and heavily touted (on this forum) knife. Just because a LOT of people on a forum say a knife is great, does not necessarily mean you are going to love it...at least not in this case.

It is exactly like everyone said it would be...except that it functions no better than the knives I have costing less than a third of the price. I Learned to buy what I like...no one else cares what I carry.
 
I've bought, sold and traded a lot of knives. Other than the junk I bought in bulk when I was younger, I wish I would have kept a lot of the well made knives that I sold and traded off.
 
charlOOsi said:
Black coated blades. It sucks when I start using them, the coating wears out faster than the edge. Yet, I still get them every now and then cause I can't help myself.
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Guilty.

I thought they looked cooler, but not once that coating starts to wear off.
 
unit said:
The biggest mistake I have made is buying a very expensive and heavily touted (on this forum) knife. Just because a LOT of people on a forum say a knife is great, does not necessarily mean you are going to love it...at least not in this case.

It is exactly like everyone said it would be...except that it functions no better than the knives I have costing less than a third of the price. I Learned to buy what I like...no one else cares what I carry.
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The plus side of this is, that's probably a good indicator that they'll sell fast when you put them back on the market. As long as you buy at a good price which is easily determined by looking at older sales, you get to try out a lot of popular knife models without too much risk. I look at a lot of my older purchases as rentals. A good number of them I even made money on.
 
There are some mistakes I made. Some are the knives I bought. But the biggest mistake I made was the "Smith & Wesson Search and Rescue". It´s not very good to sharpen, not keeping the edge (420A steel).

Kind regards...
 
kickplate69 said:
but I guess we all evolve, and in reality, where we are now is a product of where we've been.
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This is very true. But I don't know how possible it would be to do all of your research before you started buying knives. This is a hobby of progression, trial and error, and searching. I can't tell you how many knives I've purchased without having had the luxury of handling first, and then sold them for one reason or another. I've also been through the whole serrated/non-serrated issue before I decided I did'nt care for them. Sure, in the end it has been more costly than had I known originally what my preference would be, but sometimes you just can't know ahead of time.
 
I regret not reading the instructions better before trying to close my kudu. Following the er visit, my wife refers to it as my three hundred dollar -eight dollar knife.
 
Geez that's an easy one. I regret dumping my microtech APM and hawkbill halo in the late nineties, just astronomical- if you can find- now. Also 3 Vallotton vipers. Real expensive lack in judgement.:grumpy:

On the edges, plain blades only for the collection, serrated is ok for EDC. Still need to purge a CFOII and HALO I serrated.
 
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Buying a Gerber Guardian in Tech school cause I thought the camo handle was cool and I needed a "survival" knife. It is a double edge butter knife that refuses to keep an edge. I wont get rid of it, just had the damn thing for so long now I can't. That, and buying things based solely off of internet boards without actually holding it. That has screwed me outta a lot of money, time and heartache.
 
Kru03 said:
joining this website. I seem to have a knife-buying virus that has overtaken what little financial capabilities I possessed.
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man, i just ejected coca cola thru the nose on that one!!! Stings..... right on bro, you got that right.:thumbup:
sorry for the double up, read that after posting up above.
 
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