Knife pet Peeves.

Knife OWNER Pet peeve:
Reading about, or hearing someone say that a certain knife will’ last a lifetime’. Or you can pass it on to your kid when he grows up. Or, it will be the ‘last knife you ever have to buy’.

The implication is that you will always carry this knife because it is so well made.

What a crock.

Besides sentimental reasons, does anyone carry their Grandpas Case because it’s such a great knife? Heck no! The quality is there, but the knife is out-dated. Sure it lasted 70 years, but does that mean you want to keep using the same knife your Granddad used?
I don’t. In fact, I don’t even have any of the knives I owned from back in the 1980’s, and I had some good ones. But I moved on to better, newer knife designs and steels.


Blade steel advances rapidly. What was cutting edge 10 years ago has been improved. What is cutting edge now will be ho-hum in coming years.

S30V and INFI have been equaled or surpassed. This will happen to all steel eventually.

Slipjoints, though still useful, got passed by years ago. The modern locking mechanisms of today will go away, or at least be much less desireable, in the future.

Even the present owners of ‘lifetime’ knives move on to bigger and better things. When was the last time you heard a Busse owner brag about his D2 piece? Any Pacific Cutlery owners showing off their who-knows-what kind of stainless steel folders from the 80’s?

These knives, fine as they may be, will probably function very well into the next generation. In that respect, they will ‘last a lifetime’. But does anybody really want them by then?
 
GronK said:
I hate it when fan boys shorten the name of their favorite company's knives
to something a five year old girl would use like: Sebbie, Barkie, Spydie, etc. The sad thing is that it becomes the standard after a bit on the forums. :p

Equally distasteful are the other end of the spectrum where only the strong need apply, walking around in cammies with a military looking knife in one hand and their junk in the other.
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Cammies?

Hey there Fanboy!:D
 
Expensive mint knives kept in locked in drawers because the "investment" value might be damaged. Sell it and prove it.

ANY "Collector" knife. It's just a $10 premium on the same old junk.

Knives with photos or illustrations on them anywhere. You got Dale Earnhart on the side of your Dewalt drill driver? Yet?

Any knife advertised with the phrase "issued to SEALS." I sure haven't seen too many Buckmasters lately. Those were the high point of SEAL team design, I've heard.

"and I also will need it for self defense." A phrase typed by urban minors with no martial arts training in their future ever.

"hey man all I have to do is flick it out" does not have the value "hey man all I have to do is pump the shotgun." It's gratuitous bs - you don't know what you're talking about.
 
Had the same thing happen. Girlfriend's mother owned a $2-3 million house in Palos Verdes Estates. I helped with a lot of maintenance and she insisted on buying me a knife. You guessed it....:rolleyes:

DancesWithKnives
 
- chisel grinds. Still keeps me from using my Commander. (won it, didn't buy it)
- knives that don't come sharpened. Why don't they just say "We sell dull knives"?
- half-stops
- sheeple laws
- for some reason, I don't like blades that are narrow top to bottom.
 
This is getting good; please don't stop. I'm in on a few, chisel grind and my pet peeve, serrations. We were discussing this just the other day. First let me say I have a couple of combos. However, what frosts my pumpkin is when I see a knife that kinda gets me breathing hard, and, you guessed it, it only comes with a combo blade.

Which brings up our discussion starter. If a good number of folks on the knife sites are not serration fans, why do some many companies make them? Apparently, they are selling a bunch of them; otherwise, they would not be making them. So, it seems we, the knifeknuts are a minority in the biz, and a lot of people see or perceive serrations as desireable. Well, so much for preaching to the masses. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Greg
 
Serrated blades have their place. I rather like them when I am on the job because they work great slicing through cardboard and nylon banding. I have even in extreme cases (Laziness on my part) rippped through metal banding. The maintenance guys that have worked for me like the serrations for slicing wire ties or stripping wire. The average person that would use a knife on a day to day basis thinks they have the best of both worlds with a combo edge. That is why so many manufacturers make em. Look at the guthook. I never see them for sale here in the Exchange. But every sporting goods store sells tons of them because the fella that wants one knife to do many things is convinced it's a great idea. That's my take on serrations. I have stated several times before that my favorite knife is a full serrated Spyderco Miliatary. That knife does it all!:)
 
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the pet's that i keep as peeves:

*folding knives that are the size of battle axes--folders are supposed to be compact and convenient. it's absolutely absurd to carry around half a pound of steel in your pocket.

*decorative jimping (you hear that benchmade? sharpen that sh*t up!!!)

*knives w/ writing all over the place...i mean WTF? it's not like any of us can READ

* "tactical" knives--yeah, maybe you COULD use it in combat but honestly, if it's black and plastic and weird looking, it most likely means that you're just a D-bag
 
1. Partially serrated blades. Either make it plain edge or fully serrated.
2. Tanto points. I'm sure they have their merits, but do you have to put one on every model just to have more knives in your catalog?
3. Chisel grinds. Except as a woodworking tool, I don't see the point.
4. Non-full tang survival knives. If it's going to be batoned, hammered, and so on, make the tang full thickness and full length.
5. Non-adjustable folders. Maybe I want to take my knife apart to clean or lube it, perhaps do some filing to fine-tune it. But I can't because you wanted it permanently pinned together.
6. Camouflage. Somebody already mentioned it, but I hate camouflage on knives. Plain OD green or tan is fine, but to stick woodland camouflage on a knife or digital on its sheath? Come on.
7. Over-priced knives. $120 for a piece of 1095 (TOPS)? $100 for some AUS-8 (Al Mar)? $300 for average-laminated steel (Cold Steel)? Not happening with my wallet.
8. Huge folders. About 4" is the longest I want a folder's blade to be. After that, I might as well carry a fixed blade.
 
When I knife has a tip up only clip. It shouldn't be too hard to at least give the end user the option for tip up or tip down.
 
I don't have to many

Claiming your knife is a rough use knife when it's not.....
Out of the box dull knives especially expensive ones.....
Bad Customer Service......
 
1) Off center blades that CANNOT be centered, no matter how hard you try.
2) Weak locks that make you think twice before using the knife hard.
3) Cheesy designs and patterns on the scales.
4) Cheap and poorly done damascus.
5) Knife dealers that put the price stickers on the blades (they leave marks).
6) Knives that take a long time to get sharp and a short time to get dull.
7) Gimmicky combo knives - let a knife be a knife!
8) Knives that come in satin lined collectors boxes or tins - I use all my stuff!!!
 
Foilist said:
How about guys who go on about how they will tolerate nothing less than their tough and indestructable, high-dollar uber-knife, and then do nothing with it besides push-cutting post-it's and shaving arm hair because they dont' want to scratch it or get it dirty.
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Exactly!
 
coated blades
"super tough rambo ninja killer" written on the blade
uneven grinds
people who would do/say anything to promote their knives
 
People who complain about a design without trying them out (how many of you have broken a properly made hidden/stick tang- none of my puukkos have ever broken in cutting use, nor has my nepalese kukri). Nothing worse than hearing a design is useless by somebody who has never given it the trials to see how effective it is at what it was designed for, and likewise saying that it is useless as a result of using it for tasks it was not designed for.

Companies that will not respond to email concerns about their product (CASE!!!) it is 2009, if you have email addresses on your site you better read what you get and respond to the individual who has dropped hundreds of dollars on your product.

Mystery steel, even if I have not heard of the particular type of steel I can look it up. If I cannot determine what is in it, I won't use it.

Stainless is crap/ carbon is crap arguments. There are WAY too many steels out there to generalize like this. 316 stainless IS crap for knives, as is Home Depot flat stock, but for knife quality steel each has its own applications.

If you don't like it, don't buy it- but if somebody asks for an opinion please tell them why you have formed your opinion, and accept that others may have a different opinion, and that is their right!
 
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