Most Regrettable Knife Purchase

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Last year I bought a Gerber Remix. I thought it was a pretty cool design because of the finger hole, and my husband really liked it (he's not a 'knife nut' like me), but after having it for a bit, I realized I really didn't like it that much. Yeah, it still looks cool, but the quality is terrible. The 'stainless steel' handle and lock feel more like plastic, and I definitely wouldn't trust my fingers to that lock. I'm pretty disappointed in that one. No more Gerbers for me, I think. What's your most regrettable knife purchase?
 
So far, my Emerson Horseman. It's one of the more expensive knives I've owned and the worst in terms of finish. The blade itself is very nice, but the hinge and liner lock really suck on it. Given it's a folding knife, those items are kind of important :)

It's out for service and we'll see how it comes back to me. I want to like it for its wave feature, but the rough operation really sour the experience.
 
I've got a 2 way tie for that. My Spyderco persistence and tenacious. I have giving both of these knives glowing reviews when asked about them, until the past couple of weeks. I don't care if it's a $300 knive or a $30 knive, but screws should not be stripped from the factory. I had my persistance over a year before I noticed, and one I saw that 2 out of three pocket clip screws were stripped, I checked the screws on the handles. Two screws were stripped on one side, and the other had one stripped screw. Same thing when I checked the Tenacious. Both sides had stripped screws straight from the factory. I got a POS Gerber Profile that I bought to beat the hell out of that I don't regret as much as my 2 Spydercos.
 
hondahirny said:
So far, my Emerson Horseman. It's one of the more expensive knives I've owned and the worst in terms of finish. The blade itself is very nice, but the hinge and liner lock really suck on it. Given it's a folding knife, those items are kind of important :)

It's out for service and we'll see how it comes back to me. I want to like it for its wave feature, but the rough operation really sour the experience.
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That sucks. Thought about getting a Horseman too. I just picked up my first Emerson a couple weeks ago, and the only thing that I could complain about on mine is that it could have shown up out of the box a little sharper. Not that it wasn't sharp, but my Sanrenmu 710 was sharper when I got it.
 
Orion K2 Backpacker. The only knife I ever bought that every part of the knife was flawed.

Besides the rounded tip and dull but high polished edge, the paracord handle wrap was clearly done by someone without fingers and the sheath couldn't be described as 'flat' without also including words like "almost" and "maybe".
 
hondahirny said:
So far, my Emerson Horseman. It's one of the more expensive knives I've owned and the worst in terms of finish. The blade itself is very nice, but the hinge and liner lock really suck on it. Given it's a folding knife, those items are kind of important :)

It's out for service and we'll see how it comes back to me. I want to like it for its wave feature, but the rough operation really sour the experience.
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I bet it'll come back the same way as when you sent it - when you get it back, take it apart and wash it all with soap and water making sure to clean off all the gunk Emerson calls lube....

use some decent lubricant(I prefer Blue Lube), and the roughness will be mostly gone. it'll take a bit more time before it's silky smooth.

If your lock is sticking, rub some pencil on the blade tang. Eventually you won't have to keep reapplying it.
 
For me it was the Cold Steel Two-Handed Katana Machete. Got one just to play around with and test and it fell WAY short of what it could (and should) have. Handle was too long, blade was too short, blade was too light, and the point of balance made it extremely inefficient either as a sword OR as a machete. The only way you could generate any significant chopping force from it was by holding the very end of the handle and then because of the poor location of the balance and center of percussion you would get tremendous shock transference. I wasn't expecting much, but it fell short even of that. Very very poor design in my opinion. I turned it into a "two-handed longsword machete" and sold it.
 
So far, my Bradley Alias 2.

A week or two after I received it, I had to send it back to benchmade because it had tons of blade play every which way. I got it back and the problem continued...if anything, it got worse. If I put pressure on the spine of the blade when the knife is open, the titanium lockbar will slide out of place. With enough pressure (not spine whacking, just applying pressure to the spine with the palm of my hand), the lockbar will slip right out of the way and the lock will disengage. After calling up Bradley Cutlery, the company I bought it from, and Benchmade's warranty department, I found out the best anyone would do for me was for Benchmade to try the same fix again. This was a while ago...I ended up just chucking it in a drawer and forgetting about it because I have better things to do than waste time and money on Benchmade's defective products. :barf:

tl;dr: It's a total piece of junk, and at around 200$, it's the single most expensive piece of junk I've ever owned. :thumbdn:

The runner up would be the second most expensive knife I've ever bought, the Benchmade 520 presidio. When I first got that knife in my hands, it felt bloody amazing - fit my hand like a glove. It was built with some of my favourite materials, to boot - aluminium handles and a flat-ground, non-recurve 154cm blade. It had quite a bit of blade play (up-down as well as side-to-side), but it didn't seem to affect the functionality of the lock. I sent it back to the dealer to see if they had one that didn't have so much play, but they couldn't find any. After a few weeks of use, one of the omega springs gave out, so I had to send it back to Benchmade. I got it back a while later, used it for about a week, and the other Omega spring gave out. Back to Benchmade for a repair, and then I got rid of it. I probably spent 60-70$ on shipping charges for that stupid thing (I live in Ottawa, so shipping to Benchmade's factory in Oregon can cost around 20$ one-way for an insured international parcel).

tl;dr: I spent about 350$ total on both of these knives and ended up sinking well over 100$ more into them through shipping charges alone. Go ahead, Ask me how impressed I am with the Benchmade company. :barf: :thumbdn:

Okay, rant over. :p

Brad "the butcher";10699497 said:
pakistani / "craftsmen"
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In my experience, these two words never belong together in a sentence. :p
 
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