Knife you're embarrased to own or admit purchasing?

microbe said:
Let me start by saying I did not buy this knife, instead it was gifted to me as I am "into knives" by a friend when a renter left it in his place when they moved out.
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I have it in a bucket with garden tools, and have used it to pry plants out of pots. I am surprised it has not broken yet as I have stood on it to pry up a few large rootbound plants, expecting it to break. It has no edge and I never even attempted to put one on.
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Mild steel is pretty tough.....
 
Many years ago, in preparation for a week-long river rafting adventure, I went to a local knife store in search of a knife that would suit me for my trip down San Juan river. I walked out with a Spyderco Lum Chinese Folder in Nishijin glass fiber. Don't get be wrong, the knife was excellent, it was just not the kind of knife you bring on a river rafting trip. My friends looked at it sideways the whole time.

Also many years ago, when the "big three" (Strider, Hinderer, and CRK) was a "big thing," I decided I would buy clones of each of them (XM-18, SnG, and Sebenza) to get a feel for them, to see whether it would induce me to purchase the real thing. The CRK clone never showed up, but I was very embarrassed by Strider and Hinderer clones. Ended up giving them away. But to my credit, within less than six months, I had purchased a real XM-18, SnG and Sebenza! The purchase of the XM-18 carried some additional embarrassment some years later on account of the price I had paid for it (close to double what they go for now--my purchase was at a time where if you weren't a firefighter, it was super hard to get them).
 
I'm embarrassed that I bought more than one CRKT - actually I bought a bunch of them over the course of two or three years. (This was probably 15 or 20 years ago.) It was a cheap way to get non-cloned knives by interesting designers, but the quality is generally pretty terrible. I enjoy super-steel knives (20CV/M390, S30V, whatever), but my current EDC is actually 1095 - so I don't have a super-high expectation for a pocket knife staying sharp for long, but my experience of CRKT is the knife going dull in the middle of the first few cuts. I've also had a few of them just sort of fall apart. I'm not embarrassed that I bought one - I'm embarrassed that I kept doing it.

I eventually 'upgraded' to a Gerber Paraframe (the small one), and then back to real knives (CRKT was a weird detour for me, and I didn't realize how far Gerber had fallen by then). The Gerber was half or one-third the price of the CRKTs, and was unquestionably junky, but it would hold an edge significantly longer. I honestly wonder if the people who like CRKTs actually use them to cut things, or are they just fun pocket jewelry? (Or maybe they've gotten better in the last decade, but I'll never know, because I will never buy another one.)

-Tyson
 
Okay. So I bought this at a gun show. 12.00 it's a Ganzo F759m it's in 440c. Bought it as a little user. It's a copy of a Byrd. Here is the deal though. It actually has better steel than the knife it copied, (8cr) I'm kind of embarrassed but man It's a great knife. I've used it a ton. Cut all kinds of cardboard, rope, misc stuff. It's not junk. It's a great little user. It still locks up tight. Its solid. Well worth double what i paid for it.
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colubrid said:
A Chinese copy of the Benchmade 940 for $30.

Which turns out works better and I prefer the steel more than the real thing.

Not easy to tell them apar.t. Even with side by side comparisons I sometimes think the Chinese copy is the better quality,. Beware of anyone selling a green 940 unless they have receipt from reputable Benchmade dealer. On the 940 they refind the copy that well. Too bad they just can't do something on their own because doing a copy seems like more work.
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You don't seem embarrassed.
 
Vis07 said:
Okay. So I bought this at a gun show. 12.00 it's a Ganzo F759m it's in 440c. Bought it as a little user. It's a copy of a Byrd. Here is the deal though. It actually has better steel than the knife it copied, (8cr) I'm kind of embarrassed but man It's a great knife. I've used it a ton. Cut all kinds of cardboard, rope, misc stuff. It's not junk. It's a great little user. It still locks up tight. Its solid. Well worth double what i paid for it.
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I ended up with the same knife. I eventually gave it to my mom. She actually loves it. Bet she'd love a Delica more.
 
brancron said:
...The purchase of the XM-18 carried some additional embarrassment some years later on account of the price I had paid for it (close to double what they go for now--my purchase was at a time where if you weren't a firefighter, it was super hard to get them).
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Are you comparing a Hinderer hand made knife vs the production knives he sells now? I associate the firefighter thing with his custom / small time operation era, maybe I'm misremembering.
 
I have random stuff sent to me that I include in pictures. Often its just nice people off the internet. I think several of the knives I've been sent are clones / knock offs. They all function nicely, but at some point I'm sure someone is going to point out that I have a fake blade in a pic.
 
I’m ashamed to admit that i bought a CRKT Field Strip Knife a couple of years ago. Does it count in my favor that I got it BNIB for half price?

I didn’t think so. 😟
 
OrangeJoe said:
Are you comparing a Hinderer hand made knife vs the production knives he sells now? I associate the firefighter thing with his custom / small time operation era, maybe I'm misremembering.
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Back in the late 2000s/early 2010s it was still very hard to get even a production Hinderer, and you could only order direct from them if you were in firefighting/law enforcement or what have you, if memory serves me right.
 
Probably.
David Mary said:
I ended up with the same knife. I eventually gave it to my mom. She actually loves it. Bet she'd love a Delica more.
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Yeah. I have an Endela in K390, Endura in ZDP, Pm2 tanto in M4, and a para 3 in 20cv. She would really love one of those. Lol
 
Hola, folks... relative newbie to knives, so besides the usual bunch of 'collectable' knives, will also sheepishly admit to recently purchasing this little gem (a 'Hunting & Tactical' knife, for only $14.99... w/ free shipping)! This after seeing Nick Shabazz have a hoot over it on his YouTube channel. Hey, so what's wrong with an 'affordable' all-stainless assisted flipper, apparently in 440C... featuring The Little Mermaid?! ; )
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