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Knives you hated at first but ended up lovin’

Regular-thickness knives. There was a time when 1/4" was the minimum blade spine thickness for me.

Then I figured out they don't cut things. Leastwise, not without a convex grind.

Slipjoints: all modern, locking knives for this proud knuckle-dragger!

Then I got tired of spending more money on knives, and decided to try some non-lockers at the low end. I learned what a lot of people already know: they do just fine.
 
Tantos.
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Also the handle on my CRK Inyoni. Didn't understand it at first. But after using it I've come to realize how nimble it is and how simply it achieves grip, control, and flexibility of hold. Shockingly comfortable.
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Rutabagas. Never realized how essential they are until I went to a lutefisk dinner that didn’t have them.






And then the elephant in the room, of course.
 
JokersFaceLifter said:
OP, i kindly suggest you change "Stuff" to "knives" in your thread before a mod reroutes it to misc discussion --- now to answer, if you actually mean stuff as in knives, ill have to say the entirety of benchmade, the very first benchmade knife i bought was from a local camping store, i believe it was a mini grip, cost 90 dollars back then, the thing literally fell apart in my pocket, i felt something poking me, i pulled out a knife blank, washers, scales.. i stayed away from anything benchmade for about 6 years, now, i have a turret, presidio, afo2, aileron and a few others :eek:
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Lmao good point. Some of the off-topic responses are hilarious though.

Never tried Benchmades before. The Presidio and Freek appeal to me. Maybe the Adamas if it came in S35VN rather than D2, haha.
 
SAKs are pretty awesome too. And you have more than just a blade on your person at all times. Although I find it easier to control a slightly larger knife like an Izula.
 
Shorttime said:
Regular-thickness knives. There was a time when 1/4" was the minimum blade spine thickness for me.

Then I figured out they don't cut things. Leastwise, not without a convex grind.

Slipjoints: all modern, locking knives for this proud knuckle-dragger!

Then I got tired of spending more money on knives, and decided to try some non-lockers at the low end. I learned what a lot of people already know: they do just fine.
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Surely you must own a Becker BK2 then? :D
 
DangerZone98 said:
Lmao good point. Some of the off-topic responses are hilarious though.

Never tried Benchmades before. The Presidio and Freek appeal to me. Maybe the Adamas if it came in S35VN rather than D2, haha.
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of course, i find myself saying " the knife is perfect but they made it in the wrong steel" about 5 times a day :confused:

i would love to see a folding adamas with cf-elite handles and an s30v blade, that's worth 200 to me
 
Believe it or not, I thought I would hate the Sere 2K. Before I got one I thought it looked like a dorky little Peter Pan looking knife with too much handle and not enough blade.

I traded for one on a whim thinking I’d hate it but wanting to see what the fuss was about, and it kicked everything else outta my pocket for 20 years. Go figure. :cool:
 
Spyderco. Got my first shortly after joining BF, a GB1. I own 6 currently:

Yojimbo 2
PM2
Para 3 Spy27 lightweight
Manix 2 CTS-XHP Sprint
GB1
Domino

I've tried/sold/traded many others. Wish I'd kept the Southard, and replaced the Dfly ZDP-189.

At first I was very disappointed in the Heretic Manticore E. However, after much fiddling, it finally smoothed out. I like it a lot, despite being so stiff my cousin struggles with it, as well as my mom.
 
Recently, I have always found the Cold Steel Voyager XL to be a gawdy and ridiculous knife. The massive and silly 5.5" folding blade, the overly long cheap plastic handle, the insistent Tri-Ad zealots that would spine whack the bejeezus out of perfectly good knives in order to tout the overbought locking mechanism, etc.

I had a couple bucks burning a hole in my pocket yesterday and my local knife shop had a PE clip point Voyager XL marked down. What the hell...I bought it.

OK, I'm going to eat crow. Not as refined as my edc CRK, but I can see the reason for the love. $70 folding pocket tank. Easy to sharpen, tough to break, and certainly has a cool factor.

Ill be testing out over the next couple of weekends.
 
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