Knife pet peeves....

Walking Man

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What are something that you REALLY hate in a knife?
here's a few of mine:
1) No protection. any knife that makes slicing your index finger easy.
2) LAWKS........ Annoying.
3) "fancy" little bits of metal hanging from the bottom of a Bowie knife. Okay, I know they're mostly repros, but they totally mess up the flow for me.
So what are your peeves?
Oh, one more.
BM 690........
1) the wannabe false edge..... it doesn't even go to the tip
2) the scales don't go far enough.
I was SO excited for the knife to come out a few years ago, and then it was a big... HUGE... let down.
 
Liner or frame locks with any sort of bladeplay.

Doesn't happen too often but when I get one that does it really niggles at me.
 
Knives that could be ambidextrous, but aren't.

Nice designs, crappy materials.

Obvious imitations.

Combo blades.
 
clips that ride too high.
blades that are too thick for what they do. (strider pt is a tad thick for sucha litto folder)
Huge billboards on the knife, ala the spyker and the centofante iii and the bm720
 
non-centered blades
ineffective or just plain painful thumbstuds
and the big one for me is clips that seem like a total afterthought that are unintegrated into the design of the knife (like J.W. Smith's beautiful knives w/ Spydercoish clips.)

Nitin
 
Sticky detent balls that make closing or opening hard or frustrating.

Wire edges that won't go away.

Pocket lint getting into everything.

Getting food or blood into the pivot making it all a royal mess.

Teflon or nylon washers that tear.

Locks that defeat.

Sheaths for fixed blades that even when snapped allow you to pull the knife right out.

hand picking the most perfect knife of the bunch at a dealer only to show it off and have the first person that sees it point out a flaw I totally missed.

Oh hell! I could do this all night man.
 
Poorly designed fixed blade sheaths.

Liner locks with blade play (My Buck Strider annoyed me so much that I dropped it in the bin—retrieved it later and dropped it in the junk draw).

Handle designs that have nothing to do with the human hand.
 
Before i bought a sebenza, i used to collect all sorts of knives and some of my pet peeves were, blades that werent centered, metal shardes caught down in the pivot or liner lock, and parts on the knives that looked like they were cut by a 3rd grader on an old band saw, which left them rather toothy. BUT i cured all that, and now i only own a few sebenzas and all my problems are in the past. I dont know if anyone around here ever mentioned it, but the sebenza has perfect fit and finish. :D
 
Blades that are'nt centered.
Gaps between bolsters and scales.
Gaps between liners and scales.
Backsprings that are so tight that you break your thumbnail trying to open the blades.
Nail-nicks that are too shallow.
nail-nicks that are unaccessible when the knife is closed.
Words or logos on the blade or handle.
Ball-detents that hardly keep the knife closed.
Extremely wide blades.
Extremely thick blades.
Knives that weight over 5 oz.

Just to name a few,
Allen.
 
traditional slipjoints with stainless steel blades. what the hell?
embargo on sambar stag - when is it going to end, anyway?
good designs on production knives with crappy materials as someone else already mentioned
rubber handles, I just don't like the feel of them or the look
coated blades, I guess I'm just old but to me coated blade = cheaper than proper finishing and so I'm getting ripped off.
 
hmmm...

Fixed baldes that don't have ambidextrous sheathes. I'm right handed, but feel bad for lefties who want to wear a Ka-Bar in the dress sheath.

Fixed blades that are unbalanced for their intended use (ie. a machete that is too heavy in the handle area).

Blade play of any sort, especially in a lockback.

The Spyderco hole.

Frame locks that are tip down only carry (again for the lefties, it's hard enough to disengage a right handed frame lock left handed without the pocket clip being in the way).

Decorative blades. Not really the cheap fantasy blades, people who buy those get what they deserve. But commeratives that are over done... like some of the commerative Ka-Bars.

Dark-Ops (just joking... someone was gonna say it eventually).

I guess that's all. One thing I really hate, but it's not so much a pet-peeve I don't guess, are knives with a blade of less than three and a quarter inches that have a simillarly sized handle. I don't mind a small blade, but I hate small handles, I feel like the knife is going to get away from me or I'll slip forward and cut myself. I refuse to EDC a knife with a blade less than 3.25 inches solely because of handles. I like a knife that I can actually hold. I'll carry a knife with a three inch blade, as long as it's got a handle that fits my hand well.
 
Psychopomp,
I'm with you 100% on the handles.
I hate a knife without a large handle.
I have dicovered the Spyderco Native III and it is nearly perfect:
A smaller blade but with a full-sized handle and grip.
If only it were G-10.

Allen.
 
Detents that don't.

Knives (often plunge lock autos) where the closed blade hits the insides of the handles (backspacers, handles, or standoffs).

Non-standard, proprietary screws.

Knives where if you sharpen just a bit away from the tip, the tip sticks out of the scales and can poke or cut you.

Beadblasted blades.

No choil for easy sharpening.

Rattling.
 
Double Action OTF's that lock up without failure (Meaning they lock open and stay that way :grumpy: )
Poor Warranty/Customer Service
Companies that trash knives then produce one.. I.E. The Karambit
KNIVES THAT RUB!!!
 
Slipjoints <> Lazy or broken backsprings & stainless steel blades.

Battle Bowies <> Single guards / small guards & handle heavy or unbalanced.
 
In no particular order: logos/writing on the blade, blade play of any kind, too small handles, blade too small for the handle (out of proportion), crappy sheaths, right-handed-only folders.
 
Off center blades
Blade play
Good design, poor materials
Poor fit/finish
420 J2 blades
Sharp corners on handles
Finger grooves
Pocket clips
Combo edges
Chisel grinds
Recurved blades
Tantos
Serrated primary blades
Sharpened pry bars
Lazy backsprings
Blade coatings
....Just to name a few... :D

Paul
 
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