Outdoor knife you wish you would have never bought?

Neither my Fallkniven F1, A1 or A2 fits wery well into #my# personal reality. All of them is nice knives, but wasted on me. They are, in real world use, replaced by Mora or Helle knives, big Same knives(Leuku) with a fraction of the weight and cost, and a small axe.
timann
 
the new buck 119, i loved the loved old one but the sheath was crap the handle was too thick the grind was uneven and the heat treat was bad:mad:
 
Big Mike said:
Recently I got to handle a Bravo-1 with natural hardwood scales (Lignum Vitae) that Marcelo had,

…I can’t explain it, but this one felt great in my hand.


Long story short, it’s now mine and has become one of my favorite knives. :rolleyes:







Big Mike
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My all-time favorite (smaller) fixed blade. :thumbup: I have the exact same knife, and it's AMAZING. The lignum vitae on mine looks much darker though.

I don't regret any of my knives- much. I do wish I had discovered Blade Forums a few years earlier. I have a pretty sizeable collection of Cold Steel and CRKT that I could probably do without. ;)
 
Dannyboy Leather said:
As a LONGTIME collector (some collections are not "users") of cutlery, and a lifelong avid outdoors person, I don't regret a single knife purchase. In each knife purchase, a lesson was to be learned. A lesson 'well-learned' in my book is a lesson 'earned' and not soon forgotten. My future knife purchases only became more wise and discriminating to better serve my needs. You must have a way to evaluate the method of your madness (tool choices) or you will ever be searching without direction. :)
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That pretty much says it all right there. :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup:





Big Mike
 
I've had a few dissapointments over the years, most of them before I started reading internet forums and hanging out with local knife collectors, but I managed to get rid of all of them. Some I sold, some went to people who actually found them useful, some broke and I threw them out.
 
Theres lots of love here for Bark River Knives and i love the way they look and i'm am sure they are good quality but the price of most of them puts them slightly out of range for me.
So one day i saw a Micro-Canadian for a good price in the for sale forum, so i bought it.
After a while with the Micro i realized that for me there is such thing as a "too-small" knife.
Also contrary to the majority opinion here i realized i just don't like convex.....at all.
Flat grind, scandi grind for me thank you, (i even like hollow grind better than convex).
At least i got off relatively cheap with the Micro, i was going to buy a large Fallkniven or a large BRKT before the Micro came along.

Bought an Izula later on, much happier with that than the Micro-Canadian.
Will probably end up selling/trading the BRKT.
 
Doc some custom slabs on that BK-2 might make you warm up to it.
I love my two modded/customized Camillus BK-2's, cocobolo and amboyna burl.
I stripped the black off, patinaed them, and made them more of a flat grind.
Lately for me the BK-2 is as big a knife as i want to carry (on my belt), any bigger and it likely would end up strapped to or put in my backpack.
Even though i have 2 the BK-2 is one of the few designs i would buy even more of, or trade even more for.
lol.
 
tholiver said:
Doc some custom slabs on that BK-2 might make you warm up to it.
I love my two modded/customized Camillus BK-2's, cocobolo and amboyna burl.
I stripped the black off, patinaed them, and made them more of a flat grind.
Lately for me the BK-2 is as big a knife as i want to carry (on my belt), any bigger and it likely would end up strapped to or put in my backpack.
Even though i have 2 the BK-2 is one of the few designs i would buy even more of, or trade even more for.
lol.
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That might help, th, but it's still a hammer. :D

Doc
 
Cold Steel Gunsite Tanto (too big and tanto balde... what was I thinking?!?), MOD Scorpion neck knife, TOPS Max mini axe, Gerber Profile, Buck Solitaire, and so on....
 
tholiver said:
Doc some custom slabs on that BK-2 might make you warm up to it.
I love my two modded/customized Camillus BK-2's, cocobolo and amboyna burl.
I stripped the black off, patinaed them, and made them more of a flat grind.
Lately for me the BK-2 is as big a knife as i want to carry (on my belt), any bigger and it likely would end up strapped to or put in my backpack.
Even though i have 2 the BK-2 is one of the few designs i would buy even more of, or trade even more for.
lol.
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I would love to see a pic of your BK-2's, they sound sweet :thumbup:
 
I regret buying a Wenger swiss army knife, don't know the model name but it was one of the middle sized ones. I bought it when I was younger and didn't know anything about knives.

It had camoflauge handle scales which I thought looked cool (the main reason why I picked that one) and a locking fully serrated blade, that was back before I realised I hate serrations on my knives, so I never really ended up using it.

It wouldn't have been such a big deal if I had of bought it at the fairly low prices that swiss army knives usually sell for, but I got ripped off and didn't know it because that was the first knife I ever bought. I bought it as a replacement for a Victorinox SAK that I had gotten for christmas when I was 8 or 9 but had lost. I later found the same knife I had lost at Canadian Tire for about $20 so I bought it, that's when I realised I got ripped off, but I'm not too upset about it anymore because I gave it away and at least it might get some use now.

Oh and these were outdoor knives because that's what I used in the woods at the time, before my first fixed blade.
 
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To be honest I do not regret for buying any one of them (not many)
but I hoped them to perform a little better than my first real knife, Higonokami.
It has plain carbon steel edge with scandi-grind and san-mai construction.
Although it has suffered some major chipping
in weak kid's hand but it is really sharp, easy to sharpen, and holds edge so long.
Compared to Higonokami, my SS-knives had lock mechanism, pretty handle scales
and comfortable design, and most noticeably they cost about twenty times more
than Higo, yet their edge never performed better.
 
I have a long list, but some to pop to mind right away...

Ontario Spec Plus marine combat knife. My first name brand fixed blade purchase. I thought it was so cool at the time. Sucked for the woods though. Too big to have finesse, too small to chop, horribly thick edge, sharpened swedge chewed up batons, top guard needed cut off etc.

Spyderco Forester. Great knife, I just bought it for a chopper and I found it too light overall and too thick at the edge to chop as well as I wanted.

RAT7. Didn't care for them, tried more than one out. Too handle heavy, not beefy enough to chop, handle felt funny.

Swamp Rat Howling Rat. Easily one of my favorite fixed blades of all time, except that HUGE choil. I hate that choil. Ruins an otherwise amazing knife for me.

Victorinox Locksmith. Traded into it thinking it would be a OHT with a PE blade, better ergonomics (No opening hole to grip around when sawing etc.) and I could use the file to maintain my knife edges. I never use the file, too much of a sharpness snob to do that, I stick with a DMT EF sharpener or Spyderco UF ceramic. OHT with extra weight to me now. Not a bad knife, just not what I needed.

Scrapyard Mudpuppy. My go to fixed blade for a long time. Loved the knife, hated the choil and no matter what I did I could not get the 154CM blade as sharp as my other knives. Kind of ruined my view of 154CM. If I could get this knife in SR101 and no choil, I'd buy two then quit buying fixed blades in that size.
 
baldtaco-II said:
Mah pleasure amigo. Here's mine next to a #2

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Yep, Bought it, handled it for about 10 seconds and chucked it in a crate.....
 
i have the small version kabar usmc that i do not like. cant get it very sharp, doesnt hold that crappy edge,cheap sheath,thick edge,bad coating,i dont like anything about it. i also have a custom that i was very dissapointed by(no worries, no makers from here). fit and finish,symetry were horrible for any price knife(let alone one in the 300's),handle heavy and the sheath was very generic and made wrong from what i ordered! it wasn't even the size it was supposed to be and since it was made to be a hunting/skinning knife it has a hollow grind but it is WAY to thin, and uneven.
 
I would have said my Ka-Bar short tanto, but i breathed new life into it by grinding off the top guard. Useful work position are possible now! At my current stage of the learning process i think tanto blades are a little silly, but it's no longer a major disappointment.
 
BRKT mountain man.The blade is too thin to be practical to me.It looks nice but it really doesn't click with me.
 
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