Most useless knife you own ?

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For me it has to be the MOD ladyhawk
Small, blade design is useless for anything except self defense. :barf:
 
Mine would have to be my CRKT KFF that thing has the weakest lock I have ever seen. The lawks mechanism helps, but i dont want to have to rember to activate every time I use the knife. My mind is on more important stuff, like Food Beer and ?????
 
The most usless knife I have ever owned was a Schrade Cliphanger:barf: I bought when they first came out. Not very reliable. Need I say more? :D
 
REKAT Sifu just for its sheer size as a folder. Kinda defeats the purpose of a folder.

I wouldn't call it "useless" though. Just impractical for EDC.

It is, however, one of the coolest knives...

Upon viewing it a friend jokingly quipped, "This is the kind of knife that makes you want to go out and look for trouble!"
 
It would have to be my Cold Steel Para-Edge. It's too small for my large hand, and I have MANY knives that'll do a better job of cutting stuff...But it's sooooo cute.:).
 
Got a factory version of Mike Franklin's HAWG really cheap. It is an attractive/interesting knife for display or as a conversation piece, but you'd want to buy the real thing if you were going to rely on it.
 
The most useless knife I own is a Gerber Chameleon. It takes both hands to open because it's so stiff, and no amount of lube or opening and closing loosened it up. It would probably make a good fixed blade design, it seems mine whats to stay that way..

I also got a Shrade Old Timer in the style of the Buck 110 that was the same way. And when I finally got the knife open, it was almost impossible to close it because the locking bar felt sharper than the edge. Nothing against these two companies, I guess everyone makes a lemon every now and then..


Chris
 
lol El Cid :)
I also had a cliphanger. it was a piece of junk, blade play like you wouldn't believe. Not what you want on a liner lock.
 
The most useless knife I own is the one that I leave on the dresser when I walk out the door.

As far as the knife that gets the least amount of use...that would have to be.....you guessed it, a Cliphanger. What a POS.:barf: Bought it, looked at it, tried it out, put it in drawer. I almost forgot I owned one until I read this thread!!!
 
United Cutlery... Scorpion 2

bought it last winter before I got into these forums(had been at spyderco.com for a little over 3 months). $30...
 
Slicer, would ya believe the the MASTER'S OF DEFENSE, hence MOD, Ladyhawk was designed for defense only? Graciella Casillas is on record as saying so. It fits its intention nicely.

Useless? Nice, very nice A2 wakizashi, what the frick am I gonna do with an undersized sword? I have other useless POS stuff but I can always GIVE that away, no one wants to BUY the waki and I cannot afford to give it away.

We also have a "frozen food knife", with the cheap-ass serrations and the forky thing for a tip, somewhere hiding in a drawer, it is too ugly to throw away and may stab the garbagemen.
 
A while back when we were arguing in the Reviews & Testing forum about how difficult a test it is to pierce and cut coins with a knife, I bought some cheap knives to prove any knife can do it. Turned out I was wrong -- the bait knife I bought at Walmart for 99 cents suffered severe edge damage while cutting a US five-cent piece. So I guess that's the most useless knife I own -- the only one that can't be hammered through a nickel without being damaged.
 
The first that come to mind are several POS knockoffs I bought when my paranoia first asserted itself, but before I found some serious knives. Actually, one of those is a fairly decent knife, but no clip, so has to be carried in a sheath. Probably more like the Chinook than any other real knife I can think of.

I guess I'd have to list my Gigand Shockwave (??). I bought it because it had a cryoed AUS8 wharncliffe blade, and G-10 handles. Well, the thing came without the weird wrench they're supposed to have, that fits into 2 little indentations across from each other on an almost 1/2" pivot. The pivot will not stay tight, without rendering the blade too tight to move. I know the answer is locktite, at a reasonable tightness of the pivot. But, just as I never got around to getting the wrench, I don't do that either. One of the 3 clip screws has left of its own accord, and another is loose. They only batten down to the G-10, not the liner. It has great, thick liners, but with a split that leaves the thinnest liner lock I've seen, and wouldn't trust at all in a torqueing situation. The blade is great, the rest of the knife sucks. So it just sits in a basket.
 
An old electricians knife (locking screw driver?) that looks like he!! and barely opens.

It belonged to my great grandfather. :)
 
Originally posted by KC Slim
Mine would have to be my CRKT KFF that thing has the weakest lock I have ever seen. The lawks mechanism helps,
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I'm little bit suprised about news like this.
I've got KFF and am pleased with it.
Well, maybe it is a little bit big and heavy, but that's all.
Maybe it's hit and miss what kind of KFF you get and I've been lucky...
Tuhkis
 
Original Jimmy Lile "Sly II"
Even the Lile Shop can't put a usable edge on it.
Absolutely useless knife.
 
Ken,

If you dislike hte Sly II that much you can always give it to me. :D

Regards,

Ed
 
It would have to be one of my "Carry seldom, use never" customs...

Wait, I use all my knives, and then again, Randall's aren't "customs" are they...lol
 
That would be the Opinel knife. I know it's an archaic design and as such a part of knife history, but it's useless anyway: you need two hands (not wet, sweaty or slippery) and strong, long fingernails to get the blade out, and when the blade is locked with the locking ring, you have, essentially, a knife with all the weaknesses of both a folder and of a fixed blade. Zero usability.
 
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