Most disappointing knife purchase?

For sure without a thought it has to be the spyderco PM2. where do i start this knife is ALL wrong. I mean cmon... Just kidding i love all my blades and you get what you paid for not included a few hidden gems here and there. If there was a single knife that didnt feel right with me it would be the xl manix 2. I know sooo many people love this knife and i heard so many great things but really held off buying one for the longest time. When i did i was pretty dissapointed, FOR ME it left a lot to be desired and just didn't seem to mesh well with me. I still have it because i hoard blades but poor thing hasnt seen much sun in a long time. I should really find it a good home but its the only manix 2 i have so whatever
 
every ZT folder except the 770cf. Chunky thick blades just aren't my style for folders. And the zt0450 just didn't feel quite right in hand. Pretty much every time I buy a ZT I'm compromising the fact that I'm a left but the 770 has been the only one to stick around despite that. It's a great knife and it was a gift so ill never let it go anyways.
Oh and the boker subcom titanium....i thought it was funny enough to be Cool...But that titanium handle bit too much at the edges for my liking. Ever since I bought that and subsequently read a bunch of negative stuff here I've never given boker another chance, even though I like the looks of some of their stuff.
 
Spyderco Southard - nothing about it did it for me....
CRK Sebenza 25 - The fit and finish was perfect....knife was incredibly boring. It was like spending $400 dollars on a perfect ice cube.
All Benchmades - I don't know why, but they do nothing for me. Yet I keep buying them now and again to see if I am missing something.
 
Spyderco Ulize, and boy I really wanted to love this knife.
Way too light for the intended use as a farm work knife to replace my older Police. I am not feeling safe at all with this knife, despite the great design and nice blade shape.
 
Most of my Benchmades and most of the Cold Steel knives I've purchased. Very underwhelming on the Cold Steel and poor QC on the Benchmades.
 
I'm sorry to say but my Golden Spydies have been disappointing. A few years back my buddy and I decided to buy a Military and PM2. We ordered from different well respected knife dealers. Both of our Militaries and my PM2 were horrible. His Military's blade was rubbing the side so bad you could hardly open it. My two knives were nearly as bad. Fit and finish were nothing to brag about either. I returned both of mine and he kept his PM2 which I would have returned but he seemed to be okay with it. My brother bought 3 PM2's before he was satisfied. My wife and I bought Manix 2 LW's for camping chores and I wasn't really impressed with them either. Love the design and they are good slicers so we kept them. I've never had a problem with any Seki or Tai Chung Spydies. I've always chalked it up to a lot of bad luck but that's a lot of underwhelming knives from the same place.
 
Seneca18 said:
Most of my Benchmades and most of the Cold Steel knives I've purchased. Very underwhelming on the Cold Steel and poor QC on the Benchmades.
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Don't even get me started on Benchmade, I'm done with them for awhile, although I must commend them on their customer service.
 
Gil Hibben throwing knives. What a waste of space. I can now throw knives now, but wasted hours with Gil Hibben when I didn't know better.
Cold Steel has some good throwers but their recent light weight range are poor.

Bad throwing knives are bad for the sport and a rip off.


I'm disappointed when a knife breaks when it shouldn't. Thats quite a few over the years. All the main houses have at times got it badly wrong. Cost is no guarantee which is why I believe every knife has some luck built in. Get a good one with some built in luck and it will lasts years and years and years.
 
Mine was the medford tff1. I loved the 187 series and thought the tff1 would be the next level again. The thin handles felt flimsy and uncomfortable and the shallow hollow grind wasn't a great cutter while still having a very thin tip. However, fit and finish was exceptional. I carried and used it a lot but just couldn't warm up to it. I think it would be improved by adding the thicker scales of the 187 series and a ffg blade.
 
Scrap yard war dog. The full convex blade is ridiculously thick, it's like trying to cut with a piece of rebar.

A couple rough riders. I've got one that is a nail breaker and another with the biggest scale gap I've ever seen. I know you get what you pay for but after all the praise they received for being such high quality I was pretty disappointed to find out you have a 50/50 chance of getting a piece of junk.
 
Pretty much every benchmade I've purchased. Out of the dozen, I have the mini grip left, which is technically carried by my girlfriend. It's off centered, but super smooth. She doesn't mind.

Probably the 484-1 more than other. Likely because I didn't realize how small it'd be, but ontop of that, it was uncentered, had blade play, and just didn't feel great in the hand.
 
Not all of the Emersons I've purchased have been disappointing, but the majority of them were. Sorry, but I can't buy into the superiority of the chisel grind, especially when it's too thick to actually cut anything. In the end, I found there were much better values out there.

I've had a few disappointing Spyderco's as well. One was a forum Manix with Moonglow scales. It's just way to big for me to want to carry in my pockets, and I never liked that the lanyard hole was being used to help keep the knife together at the back end. Mine actually had a tiny bit of movement back there. Another one was a black bladed Endura in combo edge. That one's mainly my fault, because I should have known that the regular Endura blade was thicker, meaning the grind would be a little obtuse. I never liked how the plain edge portion was almost chisel ground.

Pretty much most of my Bucks have been a disappointment. I will never buy another 501 unless they figure out how to machine their lockbars so they don't sink below that back of the knife when it's closed. I also had problems with the scales coming loose on 2 out of 3 of the examples I owned. Same with a 55 I bought. The scales were moving around within a month. The 300 series has been a disappointment as well, with their weak springs, and obtuse blade grinds. I really, really, want to like them, but I just can't trust them in use.
 
Seneca18 said:
Most of my Benchmades and most of the Cold Steel knives I've purchased. Very underwhelming on the Cold Steel and poor QC on the Benchmades.
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I have to agree with you there.

Cold Steel is always close, but they somehow always have one thing wrong with them, usually thick edge geometry or design related, not quality. I would say Benchmade is worse.

One good Cold Steel was the Pro-Lite folder, definitely first class and not expensive. One of the few knives I actually wore out...

I have had a few bad customs as well, but customs are a case by case matter, and I'd rather not go into that right now...

Gaston
 
Every single person here will have an example of an un-centered, blade play ridden knife that is 100% perfect on someone elses purchase of the exact same knife. For example all the posts about poor QC on Benchmades, every single Benchmade i've bought has been 100% perfect, even better than some of my Hinderers and other high end knives. My latest Crooked River I personally think is a better knife than any of my Hinderers. It's all luck of the draw unless you handle a knife before purchase or you legit hate a knife because of it's design. Lemons are everywhere. My worst purchase was a Spyderco Vallotton, love the look and build of it, but it had the worst lock slip and play vertically. Now someone else im sure has a perfect one, it happens i guess.
 
Spyderco Mantra 2

Not a bad knife, just a bad knife for me. In hind sight I would have returned it before slicing open my finger.

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M16......biggest piece of stinking crap I ever handled. Blade centered, won't flip. Get it close and flip it and blade will move so far it rubs the liner. No way to sharpen.....period. Worst lock design ever. Just garbage.
Kershaw Launch 1 & 3. Unless you hold the knife with spine facing up the blade will 'bounce' off stop pin and not lock up. Both brand new and both do the same thing. The spring on the Launch 1 broke the first week. The 2 lasted almost a full month. They were'tt even used all that much because I wouldn't carry them. Just playing with them in the house trying to figure out how Kershaw put these on the shelves.
The spring is not engaged for the full length of travel......there is tension for about half of it. Really???? On an auto??
Big time disappointed.
Joe
 
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palonej said:
M16......biggest piece of stinking crap I ever handled. Blade centered, won't flip. Get it close and flip it and blade will move so far it rubs the liner. No way to sharpen.....period. Worst lock design ever. Just garbage.
Kershaw Launch 1 & 3. Unless you hold the knife with spine facing up the blade will 'bounce' off stop pin and not lock up. Both brand new and both do the same thing. The spring on the Launch 1 broke the first week. The 2 lasted almost a full month. They were'tt even used all that much because I wouldn't carry them. Just playing with them in the house trying to figure out how Kershaw put these on the shelves.
The spring is not engaged for the full length of travel......there is tension for about half of it. Really???? On an auto??
Big time disappointed.
Joe
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"CRKT Kit Carson M16. Little to no use, and one of the scales just started falling off. I realized one of the screws was stripped when disassembling, and I just gave up after that. Impossible to get / keep sharp. I liked the jimped flipper and pocket clip, but the quality control was just awful. "

Really funny, but I just typed this out and hadn't realized you mentioned the M16 as well. Totally agree with you on that.
 
I was SOO HOT for Desert Eagle, so off I go to my local gun store & ask to see one. The man put the gun on the counter & 3 seconds later I experienced one of the worst moments of my life. I picked it up & put it down knowing that I would NEVER be able to fire it accurately as it felt like a 2x4 in my hand, My buddy who was with me who can pick up a basketball with one hand LOVED it, I cannot. I wanted to cry, I felt like a six year old who had just had his favorite toy taken away. You see sometimes size REALLY does matter. Doesn't make the Desert Eagle a bad gun just not the right size for me.
Gaston444 said:
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Love Al Mars, but not this one... I'll give you a hint what is hopelessly wrong with it: The blade is practically a 7 incher... Now look at the overall handle proportions... The handle is equally absurd in girth, if not more...: This is the most awful handle design in the history of knives, bar none: I think even Andre the Giant would find it doesn't fit, and everything in its shapes has been done to make the effect worse...

However bad you can imagine this handle being, the reality is far beyond...

Gaston
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