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

This - "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."

Not thinking for yourself and jumping on the bandwagon can be a big mistake. Only mistake I ever regret is using a cheap lockback to jimmy a window of a house I was locked out of. It folded on me and cut the hell out of my pinky finger. Lessons learned, I was 16.
 
I went through a year, my first real enthusiast year wasting lots of money on cheap, overly tacticool knives never over $50 and often under $20. What a waste. Some I couldn't even sell for a song and just plain discarded them.

I'm so much happier now because I'm settled into a groove finally and I'm certainly happier about maturing past that hideous first year trying to find myself and learning more.
 
same here, biggest mistake was buying a bunch of knives with coated and partially serrated blades. I would take a partially serrated blade over a coating.
I'm also starting to get tired of bead blasted blades.
 
COLD STEEL. I put a lot of thought into what i buy, and the only knives i regret buying are all my cold steel, and my becker necker. I just didn't like the necker, and all the cold steel knives seemed pointless, because i have much better alternatives. That being said, if you want an inexpensive knife, and you don't plan on buying more, cold steel is good.
 
gerber evo with tanto blade. reason i hated it was because it was so fun to flip open, but since the aluminum scales were slightly larger than the liners, and the thumbstuds hit the scales and were supposed to keep the blade from moving, well, every time i flipped it open it would wear the scales down. so after a week of opening it, the blade would wiggle so much! that and it closed on my thumb when i was digging in soft dirt with it! Plus, tho i had owned many cheapo knives before that one, this was my first "sexy" knife, which sparked my desire to buy and collect! ditched it for a CRKT M16 (of which i have very fond memories) and the rest is history!
 
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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Hehe! i feal ur pain bradda, but i still blame Gerber for my downfall! in high school, gerber knives were the shizz! so glad i grew up!
 
I actually don't regret buying cheap crappy knives when I first started out, it got me into the hobby, I could learn what a knife can and can't do, and I got to toss everything and buy new knives later on :D

I do regret basing a few purchases off advice gathered here. When I first joined, I got excited and followed the heard into wasting a few hundred dollars some mediocre knives that never lived up to the claims. Live and learn. :(
 
What I think is funny, is how so many people climb on to the anti-serration bandwagon. The truth is that serrations add a lot of cutting power to small blades. Distaining serrations on a folder is like carrying a .32 and then loading it with the lowest power ammunition you can find.
 
another regret of mine is losing my first knife, a no name (at least i think so) lockback gentlemans folder, clip point blade with "pearl" scales. My dad gave it to me when i was about 10. And as kids do, i lost it! Now i actually kinda want a small gentlemans folder... for nostalgias sake i guess... but also i need one for when i have to wear a suit.
 
I bought an Ontario Rugged Gear knife, 9" overall and I figured it would be good to have a knife in that size. It was only $15 so not much money wasted, but I don't find it comfortable to hold so I haven't used it. I've sharpened it and put it in a drawer and that is about it. It is also a generic 'stainless steel' and made in China. Luckily that mistake was only $15 so I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Pretty much all my other knife purchases have been good ones, so I'm happy enough as far as knife purchases go.
 
Larry Turko said:
What I think is funny, is how so many people climb on to the anti-serration bandwagon. The truth is that serrations add a lot of cutting power to small blades. Distaining serrations on a folder is like carrying a .32 and then loading it with the lowest power ammunition you can find.
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I think it more boils down to your uses. I have a benchmade 2500 mini reflex which is one of my favorite knives but the serrations always seem to be in the way for my uses. So I personally don't care for them, but many folks like them for their use.
 
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