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Knives you think are cool/neat but don't buy?

GEC or anything of that sort of marketing/production ilk. I love the lines and walk and talk of a good traditional folder. I was able to snag a Beer Scout second several years ago, and it remains one of my favorite knives to just toss in my pocket for the weekend.

That said, I'm not going to go out of my way to hunt down a folder like a Beanie Baby in the 1990s🙄 I'm not at a point in my life where the thrill of tracking down a piece of basic carbon steel in a cardboard tube is a worthy use of my time. However, if they wanted to raise the price $50-75 so that I could just buy the damn thing...100% I'm all over it.

As it is, cool but not getting my money because I don't want to have to work that hard to give it a company.
 
Flippers.. my youngest son loves them and fidgets them easily. He also doesn't spend over $50 on one. He uses 'em, dulls 'em and brings the knives and grand kids over and leaves the knives for me to clean, lube and sharpen .
That said , the flippers just don't do it for me. I like the old school/older ways of opening. Nail nicks, pinch the blade, studs, Spydie hole.
 
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Quiet said:
I have gotten to fondle/examine a few of these and I just don't see the asking price for them, to say nothing about the extreme secondary money. They just aren't...politely, I just don't see it.
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I scratch my head every time I see the asking price. Not just with Oz knives, other brands are in the same orbit. Somethings don't make sense to me and they don't have to. They seem to have a found their market.
 
The Dead Reckon Ridgeback looks neat and has some unique design elements for the pivot and lock mechanism, but I won't buy one because they appear to be very poor cutters.

Come to think of it, there are a lot of knives out there that I would be interested in but won't buy for the same reason.
 
Chris Reeves knives. I know they are OK and their prices though not cheap are not unreasonable, but based on experience in various forums through the years I feel that owning one is like joining a club where you need to sing their praises constantly and suggest it to all as the perfect knife irrespective of their needs and knife budget.

This has now to a large extent stopped, but the "save some money and get a Sebenza" used to be the usual answer to anybody asking for advice or opinion on any knife, even people saying that their budget was under $50.

I may still get one one day, if I feel up to it.
 
calm said:
Chris Reeves knives. I know they are OK and their prices though not cheap are not unreasonable, but based on experience in various forums through the years I feel that owning one is like joining a club where you need to sing their praises constantly and suggest it to all as the perfect knife irrespective of their needs and knife budget.

This has now to a large extent stopped, but the "save some money and get a Sebenza" used to be the usual answer to anybody asking for advice or opinion on any knife, even people saying that their budget was under $50.

I may still get one one day, if I feel up to it.
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But are you open to a Smatchet?
 
I have too many Fairbairn Sykes style knives already although this is probably way better in quality than all of them. Pretty broke now so I'm staying away from buying knives in general. But, if I had the money for this I think I still wouldn't get it.
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Just about anything Busse. Love the designs, love the idea of a big indestructible tank of a fixed blade that could easily be considered a machete or short sword...and I have absolutely no practical use for it. I have an ESEE 6 that sees camp duty a couple times a year, and even that feels like I'm making excuses to use it sometimes.
 
There are tons of cool knives I don't buy, I can apricate the arts, and the skills in the craft. I love checking out custom mechanisms and shapes intricate forgings and engraving but, for me, ymmv, if I can't use the knife for hard everyday work, I don't need it, and would rather put the money towards a different tool.
 
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