Most regretted knife purchase?

Close a Benchmade 750. Nothing wrong with it, I just have no use for larger knives! I overpaid for it too! I was sucked into the whole this is the best thing on earth because the internet said so phenomenon...lmao... Fact I have to stop myself everytime I see some cool knife on the forum. Damn forum makes me think I need one of everything!
 
My most regretted purchase was one I made at the Knife Makers Guild Show several years ago. I went in wanting a nice forged knife and found one from 5160 and some very nice bone handles and right at the top of my price range. I got it home and admired it for a couple days before I put it to work. I went to breaking down some deer meat and after about 15 cuts on a bamboo board it was dragging. I sharpened it and got the same results. I contacted the maker, he reheat treated it and I had the same results again. This knife now sits in a drawer as a showpiece as it is a very beautiful knife, but that is all it is good for is to look at cause it will surely not cut. This was the knife that pushed me to make knives, and is why I love the high end steels for their supreme cutting performance.
As was stated before, I did learn a lesson with this knife and it was to always use known steels, and to be very strict and routine with my heat treats, and to test-test-test.
 
Most regretted knife purchase...Benchmade 32. Don't get me wrong, it was a great knife and I loved it... I just cut myself way too many times.
 
ALLHSS said:
I sincerely regret buying my GEC Tidioute Sheepfoot Barlow. I bought it because I was getting into traditionals, I like smooth ivory bone, and I like barlows. I have never liked 1095 (sorry EVERYONE on this forum), but I thought "hey, it'll patina and be cool". Well, it came. It is a very aesthetically pleasing knife, but I don't buy knives purely for looks (I want use). It had literally no edge. So I tried to put one on it with ceramic rods. Took forever so I took it to a professional sharpener, he said he didn't wanna do it and I should send it in. Well I called and they said to send it in but since I tried to sharpen it I would probably have to pay (for their mistake). I literally haven't had time to get to a post office yet. Basically I have a knife with outdated materials and no edge that I could have used the money ($82 before sending it in to sharpen) from to buy an EXTREMELY high quality modern folder (think g10 and s30v) or fixed blade or like 10 high value traditionals (which I wouldn't be afraid to use and sharpen). But it sure is pretty! hopefully I can sell it for a reasonable price.
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yep, every gec i've bought and queen for that matter came with butterknife edges. i want to clarify. you could cut better with an actual butterknife than the gec and queens i own as they came from the factory. i'm not exaggerating either. how they left the sharpening guy as sharpened amazes me. case i've been luckier with, but usually always have to rebevel and put a good edge on them, but at least they sometimes come sharp.

i almost think these makers don't like to sharpen their knives because most who buy are collectors not users. i could be wrong, but i haven't seen a gec and queen with a good working edge or better yet that wasn't done by the owner, not the factory. i'm sure someone will come along with a huge collection and all his came sharp, but i haven't been so lucky.

that said i'll keep buying 'em and sharpening 'em myself, cause i like 'em. just be aware gec and queen mean dull....and you will have to sharpen them to use them.......at least to me
 
Regretted?...can't really say that I've regretted any of them, if something wasn't right for me I'd just sell it/gift it and move on.

I did into a thing for a while where I was buying far too many tomahawks but I'm was trying to find just the right one for me that I'd use on camping trips...which I did in up finding (with several hawks left over that I'll never use :D)

I'm in the process of moving and in doing so we've had to pack up our entire house which has be looking over ALL the knives I've bought over the years and man there's a lot of them. The fun part is seeing the knives you first started with like the CRKT M16-14's w/Aluminum scales (not Zytel) and I found one that's old enough that it was made before they used the "LAWKS" and I've been carrying that knife for the past week...I love it...far and away the least expensive knife I've carried in years but still fun to use and works like a charm (it's a keeper). I never tried any of their Zytel models.

I see some of the knives that I bought at my very first Gun and Knife show and I have to laugh but I don't regret any of them as they led me to where I'm at in this hobby/passion today.
 
Thursday45 said:
I regret not picking up a Buck Strider while they were being produced and around $50.... Or several of them.
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I puchsaed one in the early 2000's at a retail store. IMHO, you're not missing much. For design and high profit resale, it's A+. blade had a problem locking and would collapse under normal use. Sold it a few years ago and didnt think twice about it.
 
cosmophonic12 said:
I puchsaed one in the early 2000's at a retail store. IMHO, you're not missing much. For design and high profit resale, it's A+. blade had a problem locking and would collapse under normal use. Sold it a few years ago and didnt think twice about it.
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Thank you and good to know. Should prevent me from dropping current prices on one. A lot of great knives out there for that price.
 
Thursday45 said:
Thank you and good to know. Should prevent me from dropping current prices on one. A lot of great knives out there for that price.
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The prices I've seen on some of the old Buck/Strider's are a bit crazy (to me) and far too often I see "some" guys listing (not here) their Buck/Strider as the "top of the line model" when what they're selling wasn't the top of the line model at that time.

You can easily tell if it was the top model by checking to see if its held together with Torx screws...if it uses any rivet construction (for lack of a better term) then its NOT the top Buck/Strider.

I can't recall what the most expensive model was named (it wasn't the Police) but it did have all Torx screws...I'll include some pics so you'll know what to look for if you do end up searching for one.

If nothing else, the Buck/Strider made me want to buy a true Strider as a user...which I did. I never had any lock issues BUT my son had the cheapest version and the lockbar went WAY over across the baled tang and almost ran off the back of the blade...you could see where it could be a big problem.

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KLJTech said:
The prices I've seen on some of the old Buck/Strider's are a bit crazy (to me) and far too often I see "some" guys listing (not here) their Buck/Strider as the "top of the line model" when what they're selling wasn't the top of the line model at that time.

You can easily tell if it was the top model by checking to see if its held together with Torx screws...if it uses any rivet construction (for lack of a better term) then its NOT the top Buck/Strider.

I can't recall what the most expensive model was named (it wasn't the Police) but it did have all Torx screws...I'll include some pics so you'll know what to look for if you do end up searching for one.

If nothing else, the Buck/Strider made me want to buy a true Strider as a user...which I did. I never had any lock issues BUT my son had the cheapest version and the lockbar went WAY over across the baled tang and almost ran off the back of the blade...you could see where it could be a big problem.

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It's a shame buck don't revisit it though. Their quality has improved a lot since then.
 
16 years ago i was on a holiday in Florida and bought 3 knives witch at that time i thought where interesting, when i got back we moved to another country and 2 more times in the following years, and the knives where lost. this year i searched through our home and in the last box in the attick i found 2 knives back!
pulled the first one out of the sheath and i could see "surgical steel" oh no! and frost cutlery, again oh no! it is sharp all around, the jimping cuts in your thumb the handle in the shape of a bird eats his way into your hand and every time you put it back in the leather sheath it cuts right through it .
My son walks in , hey, you got a new knife? puls it out , and back in the sheath and cuts himself.
after 16 years i recognise crap, and have learned something about good steel.
 
My hogue ex02, its a great knife, very solid lockup. Just the black blade is hideous and there is some blade play when closed.
 
SOG Flash 1. Having assisted opening on a teeny, weeny knife with horrible ergos is a recipe for something that flies out of your hand!
 
Final Option said:
Welcome Navyblu I have purchased many knives over the years, some I like better than others, glade to say I have never regretetted a purchase. More often than not I have regretted selling a knife.
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I am in this same realm; I don't get buyers remorse, I get sellers anxiety.

I really have only had one or two knives that I wish I had not bought, and those were due to things that I learned about the maker rather than anything to do with the actual knife.

In one case I wound up giving the knife to a friend here on the forum.

To add a twist, my deepest regrets are for the knives I DIDN'T buy when I had the chance. ;^)

Welcome to the forums.

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Pocket Bushman and Condor Rodan. Just don't like them. Tried but just could't like either one.
 
Bear Ops NRA "don't tread on me" knife. Back then I thought $200.00 was a lot of money for a knife and was disappointed out of the box.
 
A microtech UTX-170. Fired it three times and the spring broke. I wasso excited aboutit too! I've got an Ultratech that I've had for years and still works great, so I was blow away that the UTX last for 5 seconds
 
Ka-bar ZK Acheron. It's just terrible. Came out of the box seemingly without an edge at all, and the damn thing just wouldn't sharpen. On top of that, its handle is woefully uncomfortable.
 
A mini griptilian with Wilkins scales bought unused off this forum from an Individual. Nothing wrong with the Wilkins scales, it was just the fact the blade was firmly resting against the scale (closed) and grinded the coated M4 blade every time I opened it. I had to dremel the inside of the Wilkins scale down to the steel liner to free up the blade. I just wish the seller mentioned the Benchmade quality control issue, this isn't eeBAY!
 
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