knife pet hates

Daniel Dorn said:
Any knife which allows the blade to contact the backspacer/backspring and dull the edge, even if it's caused by putting pressure on the blade when closed. Most lockbacks are awful at this.
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It's impossible to prevent forced blade dulling if you squeeze it on purpose (or sit on it wrong I guess) if a lockback has the release at the back end of the handle. A lot of Spyderco models won't do it because the little stop bump contacts the lock bar on the far side of the rocker pin, which is easily done because the release area is in the middle of the handle, so the rocker pin is a lot closer to the tang. It usually means the blade can't be squeezed, or at least requires a lot more pressure to do so.
 
Even worse is when you have a knife that's tough as hell to chip on. Like when the G10 is really rough, and the clip is tight (delta Z Osprey) And then the Spyderco with the rubber insert on the clip was damn near impossible to clip on.
 
Autos that smack the edge into the handle/backspacer a la BM AFO
CRKT's M16s in COMBO EDGE ONLY
Huge text/logos
Clips that ride too high
 
I will second the "Special ED" screw's and add Knives that have either strong locks with thin blades (Benchmade) and ones with thick blades and wimpy liner locks (Buck Strider and Emerson) come on think frame locks Guys.
 
TORX SCREWS!!!! :barf:
Assisted Openers (sometimes)
FRN handles w/o steel liners
Lanyard holes that are too small for paracord (unless the core is taken out)
"Tactical" knives
Wimpy (thin) liner locks
High prices (sometimes)
etc..........
 
POCKET CLIPS!!!!!!!

Steel handles, large blade markings and a blade that sits unevenly between the handle slabes when closed.
 
Clips that you can't even clip on, thin liners, crappy serations, uneven grinds, cheap handle materials are just afew things i dislike
 
Definitely big a$$ logos on blades (hello, Al Mar are you listening?). Really awful combinations of expensive materials that don't flow on custom knives (i.e., just putting damascus, MOP, filework, and other do-dads on the knife sometimes just produces a really ugly expensive knife)

- Mark
 
I don't like thick "knives" that don't cut well. What's the point (no pun intended)?
Oh, and sharp edges on the handles.
 
Crappy packaging. I'm not going to think that a knife company cares about their knives if they don't care to package them well. Kudos to BM for their foam lined boxes and fabric pouches.

Short warranties. If you claim that you make a good knife (and everybody does) back it up with a lifetime warranty.
 
Easyrider said:
POCKET CLIPS!!!!!!!

Steel handles, large blade markings and a blade that sits unevenly between the handle slabes when closed.
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I don't like steel handles either. Are you not happy with the option of just removing the pocket clips on knives?
 
outlaw918692000 said:
thick blades and wimpy liner locks (Buck Strider and Emerson)
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I love the Emerson WAVE but they have the worst (and scariest) liner locks in the business. :eek:
 
I hate fixed blades with animal leg section still with hair as the handle.

hate it, hate it, hate it!!!!!
 
Part the Second...
  • Damascus. No, really. I think it's waaaay overdone these days. Especially when the blade is made of one gaudy, bright-color-etched damascus, and the bolsters (or, increasingly, the whole damn handle) is made of another gaudy, brightly-color-etched damascus, making the whole thing look like a pile of technicolor puke. Oh, and then charging $1000+++ for the mess. :barf:
  • Folders built so heavy that you can't carry them in your pocket, in an effort to convince the buyer that they're as tough as a crowbar, despite that fact that any knife with a usably sharp tip can, and will, break if used that way. You know, like that Strider AR we had in a passaround, that lost 1/4" off the tip in a pine board... :rolleyes:
  • While I'm at it, folders with thick handles and beefy blades, but have locking liners that look like chrome-plated typing paper. (Buck and Emerson, anyone?)
  • Tactical, tactical, TACTICAL. Camo finishes, military marketing, threatening product names... Geez, guys, if you keep marketing these tools to the Rambo wannabes, opportunistic polititians are gonna start doing to our "assault knives" what they did to "assault rifles", and we're ALL gonna suffer. Tone down the rhetoric and sell on quality and functionality, fer cryin' out loud, or we'll end up like the UK, with no locking blades or anything bigger than a nail cleaner. (Dark Ops, may you rot in HELL.) :rolleyes:
  • Gotta concur on the big, obnoxious branding on the blade. A little 2000-grit wet 'n' dry usually takes care of that, though.
>phew< Wow, who p*ssed in my Cap'n Crunch this morning?? ;)
 
Autos where the blade contacts the inside of the handles.

Black coated pocket clips. Pockets clips scratch enough without needing the contrast of of black/silver to emphisize them.

One-hand openers without ambidextrous thumb studs.

Cheap, low-level anodized aluminum (like my Leatherman Squirt).

Small knives with bad ergonomics. My BM705 and my Calypso Jr are the same size, so why does the 705 feel so dinky whilst the Calypso Jr. is so comfortable?
 
fulloflead said:
Bone. :p It's gross.
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+1

I also agree about the gun logos. I'm not going to buy a gun with a knife logo, after all.

("Now available: Colt Combat Commander: Benchmade Edition." No way.)
 
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