One deciding factor that can kill a knife purchase for you

Black coating on blades and no left hand tip up carry kills the deal for me


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Wire Clips!!!! Nothing ruins a great design like having a paper clip mounted to a titanium handle. This and the price ruined the Spyderco Slysz Bowie for me.

Olive green G10. I like Emersons but his olive G10 is downright fugly.

Made in China by an American company. Too often these companies rest on the brand's image from the past while misleading poorly informed consumers into thinking they got a deal after buying a garbage knife that cost $.10 to make overseas for $30 at Wallymart.

Obvious knockoffs, aka "Clones", which can usually be avoided by not buying anything from China.

Pakistan. Anything. Yuck.
 
Choils, sharpening notches, or any blade where the edge has a possible snag point at the heel of the blade. Unfortunatly, this prevents me from buying a lot of nice knives.
 
General turnoffs (meaning I may have purchased knives that have these features at some point in the past):

- Tip down only carry
- Tanto blades (done well, they get the nod from me)
- Traditionals (though I own plenty of 'em, I just don't carry them)
- Knives from companies with douchelord frontmen (Cold Steel gets a pass because I like their knives enough to override this)
- Serrations (I don't have any issues cutting 550 cord with a well maintained plain edge, so why do I need serrations?

Firm "No thanks, pass." from me:

- Made in China. Period. I own a few Kershaws made there, but that's about it.
- No stolen valor scumbag-made knives, so Striders are out.
- Knives from makers where 80% of the knife's cost is due to the guy's name
- $500+ mocuti nightmare grind abominations from Instagram nu-celeb nobodies that nobody has ever heard of, yet somehow suddenly sails in outta nowhere with asking prices like they've been doing it for 20 years and were on the cover of Blade Magazine a bunch of times. What? No.


Anything else, I go primarily on want. It has to have an innate appeal to me and/or fulfill a tool-role need for me. These days as other expensive hobbies start to pull my funds away from knives, I have to really love everything about a knife before I put down the moolah.
 
22-rimfire said:
The problem with Pakistan blades is you often don't know where they come from other than they are "imported". I also would stay away from blades made there. Yes, pretty much a deal breaker. So I might spend a little more money, but once spend it usually is quickly forgotten but the blade remains to remind me in terms of quality.
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I've got one Pak made blade that I keep as a reminder...to never buy one. Luckily, very little money was spent on it since it came to me in a box of knives I picked up at a garage sale for cheap.
 
`br4dz- said:
There are a ton for me. Things I've noticed as I've acquired a lot of blades over the past 2 years, mostly being:

1) No tip up carry
2) non-stainless steels (on folders at least)
3) teflon washers (spyderco ouroboros, I'm looking at you)
4) Too thick at the edge, usually happens on oddly ground blades, I like a very deep hollow grind or full flat grind
5) Too long
6) Too heavy
7) Crappy blade steel
8) Lockbars that slide over with ease (ALL ZT's framelocks)
9) Bead blasted blades
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I agree with all that you say except that "ALL ZT's framelocks" have "Lockbars that slide over with ease". Simply not true unless you've tried every single ZT frame lock. Perhaps you can tell us which ones you've had experience with and whether you sent it in for a fix.
 
Pocket clips make or break it for me. An otherwise great knife goes to the drawer if the pocket clip isn't to my liking. It doesn't have to look a certain way, but it has to work. And it needs to resist bending, but it needs to be field adjustable if it does get bent.
 
It is made by a a knife industry "ICON".
 
So are you. Thanks for feeling compelled to post about me. I think that is also questionable when it comes to the rules, isn't it?
Discuss the topic, not the poster (if I recall correctly).

Pardon my rebuttal resulting in a breach as well.
 
My personal weird hangup is any folder where thumbstud placement or, worse, an overly stylized, angular pivot end of the handle juts out over the cutting edge. Complicates sharpening and use in ways that bother me too much to fully enjoy the knife. ZT 0460 is the latest example of one that I liked the look of until I noticed the pivot end . . . just can't do it.
 
Thick blade stock / too thick behind the edge, plastic handles, free spinning pivot that you can't secure from one side, lose bearings, teflon washers (nothing against them, I just prefer PB), red loctite, lockbacks, tantos.
 
Leftytwogunz said:
LOL.

Made in China, for me.
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I got a Kemerson 8K inbound, I hope to intercept it before the wife does.

I know, not exactly made by the man's shop, but I want to have a look at left handed chisel grinds before I drink the Kool-aid. To be honest, your man's last video, the part 2 one, where he claims honourary SEALship, is making me feel uneasy.

Cognitive dissonance.
 
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