Most disappointing knife purchase?

Brusiedmeat said:
Hahahaha lol.
For me it was spyderco rubicon. For 300ish knife, it just looked pretty. Real pretty.. Carbon fiber wrapped around Ti..Wanted to love it soo much, but came up short. The inner lock, sigh... I usually do not mind the inter lock systems.. Really bad lock stick and the inner lock release was to flush with the frame. This would literally tear my thumb up trying to close this knife. The ball bearing system was far from smooth. This was a chore to close and the action left you wondering about the price of the knife. Perhaps the knife could have used a good break in stage, but I still had my doubts.
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Same knife! Different experience.
I was all caught up in the Rubicon hype and finally after telling myself… "Yup. Getting this one" I had the chance to be in a brick and mortar store and handle one…
Much smaller then I thought. Just didn't fit my hand and the gorgeous contoured CF was way too slippery feeling for me. After trying it in pocket I noticed how high it carried and with that sharp pointed orange backspacer poking out I could only imagine how many times I would tear up my hand along it... Nope. Not for me.
 
Busse Satin Jack. The original, straight-handled one. Massive, massive choil, horrendous ergonomics, and an edge bevel so wide you could use it as a pillow. Too small to do big work and too thick to do anything small.

For the record, I've owned plenty of Busse knives I liked. This just wasn't one of them.
 
For me, without a doubt, it was the Benchmade Dark Star. Bought it brand new, had it about a week, and when I went to open it one day, the stop pin popped out! No big deal right? BM has a warranty! So I sent it back to them, they had it for every bit of two months, and when I got it back the stop pin was back in place with a big ugly glob of glue holding it there! Literally 5 mins out of the package, I flick it open again and guess wat? THE PIN POPPED OUT AGAIN! I sent it BACK to BM, and when I got it back a second time, the pin was held in place with an even BIGGER glob of glue! I promptly sent the knife back to them and told them to keep it, and so began my vendetta against Benchmade LOL! I will NEVER buy a BM again!
 
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Kabar Acheron. It's absolute trash, and the worst knife I've ever purchased. Uncomfortable, small metal handle. Blade duller than my ex and just as incapable of sharpening up, it seems.
 
Brusiedmeat said:
Hahahaha lol.
For me it was spyderco rubicon. For 300ish knife, it just looked pretty. Real pretty.. Carbon fiber wrapped around Ti..Wanted to love it soo much, but came up short. The inner lock, sigh... I usually do not mind the inter lock systems.. Really bad lock stick and the inner lock release was to flush with the frame. This would literally tear my thumb up trying to close this knife. The ball bearing system was far from smooth. This was a chore to close and the action left you wondering about the price of the knife. Perhaps the knife could have used a good break in stage, but I still had my doubts.
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The Rubicon baffles me. I can't get my head around it. $300 for a bearing flipper with CF, I can understand, if it were a mid-tech. But with the very odd blade shape, small size, and S30V? Come on. The upcoming Positron gives you everything the Rubicon has (sans Ti liners and g10 back spacer), with a better blade shape, for half the price.
 
Kwon Kwang said:
Kabar Acheron. It's absolute trash, and the worst knife I've ever purchased. Uncomfortable, small metal handle. Blade duller than my ex and just as incapable of sharpening up, it seems.
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Did you not see it/research before the purchase or something? While I agree with what you're saying, it's pretty easy to discern that design may have some negatives. I got one for free with one of the ZK choppers a couple years ago and gave it to my kid brother. Terrible handle ergos on those ZK's, Potbellys, and Acheron, IMO.
 
Mine has to be the Boker Impetus...

I have always loved big chunky folders, and always liked the look of Burchtree Designed knives. Finally! An affordable alternative! I am not really all that picky....but the incredibly sticky lock never ever went away, and the cheap looking bolsters and g10 really turned me off on the whole thing after a couple months of trying to get over it...
My new rule is not to buy a knife with features or qualities that I have to convince myself I will "get used to over time"!
 
My first disappointments were Cold Steel with their original "Ultra-Lock" which was a POS regardless of what Lynn may have claimed! I got rid of those only to follow another disappointment in one Emerson purchase after another. After reading all the hype I expected so much more! But the good side of that is that they were so bad and the locks so unreliable in my opinion that I rebuilt them making them into frame locks and got into that for a time. Many of the first ones I did and sold were ones I originally bought for myself but couldn't unload to someone in good conscience so I fixed them first and then sold them.

I owned some Buck Strider disappointments also and unloaded those and rebuilt only one of the Buck/Striders into a frame lock which was basically an SnG with a Buck blade. Fortunately for me I was able to get out of most of my disappointments. I've been mostly disappointed with liner locks and had better buying experiences with the lock backs and frame locks.
 
Half Cut Skele said:
Did you not see it/research before the purchase or something? While I agree with what you're saying, it's pretty easy to discern that design may have some negatives. I got one for free with one of the ZK choppers a couple years ago and gave it to my kid brother. Terrible handle ergos on those ZK's, Potbellys, and Acheron, IMO.
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It's true that I didn't expect much. It was just so much worse than what I had expected, especially from Kabar.
 
Ontario Knife company 8305 spec plus airforce. After unboxing it had a lifetime of 5 minutes before a disposal into the trashbin. soft rubber grip just peeled of the half full tang during the very first test of torqeu resistance. Clamp the blade on a workbench vise and twist the handle with both hands..Snapp!.Bummer
 
New spyderco starmate,left out all the best parts aesthetically speaking,imho
 
Three knives come to mind. Many will disagree with me but it's just one mans opinion.*
1. Mini grip, I owned one and have handled many. They all seem like cheap plasticky 7/11 knives.
2. Kershaw landslide. I bought one because I heard good things about it. It just doesn't do anything at all for me. I still own it, figured if I ever *dress up and need a very slim knife I could use it. Both the landslide and mini grip seem pricey for what you get.
3.*Mcusta Tsuchi. Not terrible but I was a little dissapointed, not as heavy duty as I had hoped. Will probably sell it off as I've never carried it.

Mike
 
Cold Steel Triple Action - High price tag for a knife that just wasn't up to snuff. It's the only CS knife that has ever let me down and I've been buying and carrying their knives since 1997.

Mini SOG TAC Auto - So much blade play that it rattled.

Spyderco Centofante 3 - I didn't realize how thin the blade would be and it just felt awkward in hand.
 
Strider SNG CC that developed lock rock in about 2 days. I contacted the dealer, who told me to send it to strider. Spent $50 on shipping to and from, insured fedex, per strider instuctions. Asked strider not to cap the blade stop (i read on a forum you could request they fix it another way). They capped it anyway. I was not shocked thats how they fixed it, but seems like a cheap fix for a $500 knife. I get it now, striders are hard use knives and if you care about stupid things like solid lock up, they aren't for you.
 
Spyderco positron.

Liner lock is quite hard to disengage unless you have nails, handles are a tad thick, as smooth as it is, it only flips via light switch method. Wire clip was a great idea but causes a hot spot when griping it.
 
Schatt & Morgan Keystone XX series Medium Coke Bottle #061 222 in mahogany Sambor stag. Horrible fit & finish, bent blade that rubbed against the liners, blurry/sloppy tang stamp, and a poorly set shield. 1 of 400 made. I was very sad. :(

-Brett
 
jtho8774 said:
Strider SNG CC that developed lock rock in about 2 days. I contacted the dealer, who told me to send it to strider. Spent $50 on shipping to and from, insured fedex, per strider instuctions. Asked strider not to cap the blade stop (i read on a forum you could request they fix it another way). They capped it anyway. I was not shocked thats how they fixed it, but seems like a cheap fix for a $500 knife. I get it now, striders are hard use knives and if you care about stupid things like solid lock up, they aren't for you.
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They didn't cap it they put a slightly bigger thumbstud/stop pin in it. :-)
 
Chaves 228.

I lusted after the Redencion so hard that I pre-ordered a 228 when he first opened his books. Don't get me wrong, I still love the looks, but the lockup is SUPER late making it a pain to close. Plus there is no lock bar stabilizer so I'm paranoid I'm going to bend the framelock struggling to close the knife.

I also have a Boker/Vox F3 that I absolutely love. Same size, same materials, has a steel lock-face insert and only cost me less than half of what the Chavez did. Guess which one I usually carry?
 
No lockbar stabilizer isn't a problem I assure you. I've had a lot of Ti frame locks without it and I've never over extended the lockbar on them. It just needs to go over far enough for the blade to drop.
 
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