My son has brought shame upon our house!

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Is it commee-cool or cami-cool? Don’t be too upset, his frontal lobe is stil mush…. At least he fancies knives. It could be worse!
 
SkinnyElectrician said:
Hey, you never know, it might be okay. Sharpen her up and see how she does. Sometimes a cheap knife can work fine.
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That's what I was thinking. I saw some guy on YT recently (Outdoors55?) who bought a $1 knife at the dollar store and sharpened it to almost a razor.

I suspect the steel used in some $1 knives today is better than the steel used in $$$$$ knives 30 or 50 years ago.

Not every knife needs to be made of Unobtainium steel forged in microgravity and stress relieved in liquid hydrogen. Half of what we're paying for half the time amounts to a badge.

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jlauffer said:
My son is in college and works part time at WalMart. He's on winter break and before he left for work this morning he showed me this. Guess he saw a bunch of people buying them yesterday so bought one for himself. Apparently it was only $2.50. I'm so ashamed😞

It's amazing how dull it is. Told him I'd at least try to put an edge on it for him, but damn, just damn. Thought I raised him better than that.

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You spared the rod...
 
jlauffer said:
My son is in college and works part time at WalMart. He's on winter break and before he left for work this morning he showed me this. Guess he saw a bunch of people buying them yesterday so bought one for himself. Apparently it was only $2.50. I'm so ashamed😞

It's amazing how dull it is. Told him I'd at least try to put an edge on it for him, but damn, just damn. Thought I raised him better than that.

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Consider it his gateway drug.
"So you like that one huh?"
"Well, check this out and how much better it cuts. Save up your money for something like this."
 
MolokaiRider said:
Eldest daughter gifted me a imitation SAK with "Dad" burned in the loosely attached scales.

I hugged her, thanked her, then threw it in a bin.

I was actually a bit surprised too, as she knows my knife nut status....

The thoughtfulness was appreciated though.
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This must be how a sommelier feels when someone buys them some bagged wine in a box. A heartfelt gift is always a heartfelt gift though. On the other hand if someone who knows anything about knives gave me a Gerber, it could spark a tacti-cool gift giving war. It was bad enough when someone who professed to know a lot of about Scotch bought me a small bottle of Glenlivet "Founder Reserve" (no age whiskey). I honestly felt a bit insulted.
 
Before I got into knives as a hobby and learned what a knife could be, I spent years buying Paki Buck clones, sharpening them with a file (often), and using them. It showed me that a knife was handy at work.

Sharpen that up. A file may bite into it fine, in which case sharpening will go quickly. Give it back. And find him a better, budget, knife. Put a wicked edge on that while you let him use the Ozark for a while. Then gift him the better knife telling him that 30$ or so will buy him a good tool that will keep an edge. Give him a quick lecture on steel quality in all tools.

That knife could be training wheels.
 
Well, if he's in college and doesn't know how to choose - and sharpen - knives then I guess you're right to feel ashamed since he's young enough that that's still on you.

On the other hand, if he just saw a cheap knife that he liked the look of and wants to practice sharpening and cutting cardboard, good for him. Hell, for $2.50 I'll buy one (no I won't, but I would have at that age).

Also that ones has fasteners, meaning he can disassemble it and look at the workings. Worth 10x $2.50 right there.

I own a few leathermans, a Gerber MP400, and a few others. My favorite multi-tool was the WalMart model I bought for $11.00. It fell apart of course after a few years of daily use, and after several repairs (which was possible because it had normal fasteners and not proprietary ones!), and I cried a little. It wasn't "good" but I just ended up really liking it.
 
I have been gifted a couple tins of Ozark trail knives. One set was two liner locks with wood scales and the other was two liner locks and a small fixed blade with fake stag.

They are ok beaters. Keep them tossed around in various places. Tool boxes. Junk drawer. One was last year's salt bag knife and it's beyond repair from the corrosion.

No complaints. They are not knife people knives, but they cut stuff.
 
First, after 5 whiskeys, hold up that knife and yell "LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID!!!"

Then, reintroduce him to Hot Wheels track.

Once his sobbing slows down to where he can breathe again, give the lad a proper knife.,
 
tyr_shadowblade said:
First, after 5 whiskeys, hold up that knife and yell "LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID!!!"

Then, reintroduce him to Hot Wheels track.

Once his sobbing slows down to where he can breathe again, give the lad a proper knife.,
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Or make him go cut his own switch with a proper knife!
 
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