Outdoor knife you wish you would have never bought?

[theedge13]

Broke in half... I was 10yrs old.

had a number of those...a few broke too. I did manage to get one that had a metal handle...but..i think i used it for a spear...and now it sits in the bottom of my farm pond for eternity. You are welcome Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy

 

[Katdaddy]

Broke in half... I was 10yrs old.

I have a camo version of that. A friend saw it in a magazine and bought 2, 1 for himself and 1 for me. I spent countless hours trying to get an edge on that thing, with no success. I found it the other day in a box with a bunch of other junk that I, for some reason have never thrown away.

 

[Brad "the butcher"]

Kershaw d2 outcast.
Thought it would make a great camp knife/chopper BUT whoever designed that blister producing abortion of a handle had no conception of the term ergonomics or visualized someone using the knife for any extended period of time.

 

[akthor]

I don't think I have gotten any knife that was the way I wanted it right off the bat. So I make them what I want

I love the BK2 but I hated the coated blade (hate them all) and I didn't like the plastic handles or the kydex sheath. I got the blade beadblasted, had black linen micarta handles made and installed with stainless pins and am having a custom leather sheath made for it.

I got a smoking good deal on the Tracker and the Hedgehog sheath (sheath is amazing) I can see why many would hate on it. It's got the edge of a hatchet. But..... I am have it reground to a more knifelike edge and I think we are going to try and take the the funky bump out of the blade and beadblast the crud off of it. I think with a more hollow ground knife edge it will be much more useable.

Like other never a knife I hated either my needs or tastes change or I change the knife.

 

[theamazingdrew]

ooops misread the title

 

[Macclint]

Buckmaster, (Buck 184) which I bought back in 83 (I think?) Took it in the mountains exactly once. When the bruises on my hip healed, I put it in a box.

Just sold it last year for almost twice what I paid, (if you don't count inflation)

I do however have affection for my 185 Buckmaster LT....

 

[tholiver]

I would love to see a pic of your BK-2's, they sound sweet :thumbup:

Thanks!
Here you go, not perfect but i'm happy with them,lol!
They have been used some since this pic, have patinaed the cocobolo one since this pic, might polish it up again though.

 

[tholiver]

That might help, th, but it's still a hammer.

Doc

Well if you can't warm up to it i know a guy who'd probably swap/trade you something for it...lol.
If you have access to a belt sander i would change the grind, also with one of mine i changed the handle shape quite a bit as well.
Once you commit to abandoning the standard grips and going custom theres no reason not to recontour/reshape the tang shape as well.
I bought mine as "blanks" so i wasn't worried about collector/resale value.

I heard a rumor that the new BK-2 will be substantially lighter (lightening holes in the handle-tang). I don't know how much lighter specifically.
I guess with a drill press you could bore out some lightening holes yourself.
Oh yeah Doc i finished my Izula mod (and one Cold Steel mod is almost done), i'll post pics soon!

 

[akthor]

Some more modified BK2 lovin:

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Well if you can't warm up to it i know a guy who'd probably swap/trade you something for it...lol.

I'm listening - you have my email address, I believe

Doc

 

[Ron Athay]

I have a number of knives that I do not REALLY dislike, I will just never use them. Therefore I feel like I wasted by money (I have a mental disorder that prevents me from selling or disposing of anything (per my wife's opinion)).
Ranger TFX Prototype, CS Outdoorsman, Spyderco Woodlander, Knives of Alaska D2 orange folder, several OHT (hate serrated blades), BK2, RTAKII, and a few others.
I have a bunch of Busses (and other knives) that I will never use but for an entirely different reason.

 

[re-bof]

Gerber Paraframe (don't beat me).

 

[resinguy]

The tacti-cool knives that I bought 20 - 25 years ago.

Time to dig them out of the attic and get some money back.

 

[Col. Cornelius]

Broke in half... I was 10yrs old.

My brother had that same knife!

Last summer, he showed it to me on a camping trip. He was concerned because it was loose. The handle is held to the blade by a small screw. He was wondering if he could reinforce it with epoxy. I told him not to bother, it wasn't worth his time. Just get a decent knife to start with.

I really had to bite my tongue to not laugh at the poor quality and he actually paid money for it.

 

[timann]

In fact I sharpened one of those survival knives for a colleague this winter. I had promised to sharpen his knives, and finally he brought them. It was two rusty Moras and a Helle, all of which I did an decent job on, I think.
And then it was the good old classic survival knife. Bent tip, compass gone, "survival packet" stuck in the handle with a mess of disintegrated plastic bag, the works, really.
But I was able to get at least an hair shaving/scraping edge on it with an diamond hone and gave it back to him with a strong admonition that he should never let that relic leave his home again.
timann

 

[MustardMan]

Busse Killa Zilla.

I love kukris, but the grind on the zilla was too fat to make it perform the way I wanted it to, and I was unwilling to put an $800 knife on the sander to thin it out to where I wanted it. The worst part was, the zilla was part of the "test team", and I agreed to not sell it for six months, so I was stuck with an $800 knife that I didn't want and couldn't get rid of.



NEVER AGAIN will I enter such an agreement. I dig Busse knives a lot, but am becoming less and less impressed by the cult mentality and way certain aspects of the company are run. Amazing steel in great knives with an unbeatable warranty, but I'm not letting myself get sucked into a "you can't sell this blade until we say it's OK" trap again, just to be able to feel like part of some special, elite club. No thank you.

 

[Liam Ryan]

Right, it must be a conspiracy. If these people are so hard to please then why not list every knife they own?

Your post made me want to puke.

I can't understand Doc's ambivalence about the BK-2, either. He really hasn't said anything at all, just that he was ambivalent.

I can’t imagine anyone not loving a BK-2, but that’s just me... which is a good thing, because if everybody was me, my apartment would be super crowded, and everyone would be named Bob: it would be really confusing. But we’d all have BK-2’s, which would be pretty neat.

Since not everyone is me, there are some people who — for reasons beyond my comprehension — do complain about the BK-2. Unbelievable, I know, but there it is. Just no accounting for taste, I guess.

Incredibly, there are people who don’t like what I think are the most comfortable grips on any production knife that I’ve ever handled. Some think the grips are too big, others too small, some don’t like the shape or the material. I guess people have their own reasons for liking or not liking the grips. To me, grips are the most personal things on a knife, and as far as the grips on the BK-2, I love them, and what’s more, every single Bob here loves them; who could possibly argue with that?

I’ve heard that there are people who think the BK-2 is too thick, or too heavy, but I find that almost impossible to believe. This knife is just right: the right length, the right thickness, the right weight, and it handles like a dream. All that beautifully crafted from what I think is probably the best 1095 CroVan steel on the entire planet: can’t ask for more than that.

Still, some people — they know who they are — complain about this knife. These are some of the same people who would complain if they were hung with a diamond studded velvet rope. Now that has to tell you something, doesn’t it: some people just can’t be pleased.

Others of us though, just love the BK-2. It’s all the general purpose, take it to the apocalypse dance knife you could ever want.

So now you’ve heard both sides of the issue, as presented by me. The only way to actually tell, though, is to try one. You’ll love it, or my name isn’t...

What I'm trying to say, is get the BK-2. It's like a Mora on steroids.

 

[stanley_white]

BRIT Gameskeeper II -- great blade but the hadle is waaay too small.

-Stan

 

[dawsonbob]

Right, it must be a conspiracy. If these people are so hard to please then why not list every knife they own?

Your post made me want to puke.

Excuse me????? WTF are you going on about? Do you understand humor?

 

[hikeeba]

This thread is funny! and this is worth quoting one more time:

Broke in half... I was 10yrs old.

So few words, yet it paints such a vivid picture in my mind of the event. Awesome!

Buckmaster, (Buck 184) which I bought back in 83 (I think?) Took it in the mountains exactly once. When the bruises on my hip healed, I put it in a box.

That had me cracking up!




My regrets? Probably the $90 Rambo III I bought in 1989 before I really knew anything about knives. I bought it in Gatlinburg, TN when I was on vacation. After getting it home, I felt like a total chump.

10 years or so later, I made another poor purchase decision in the SOG Pentagon Elite - the first version with the liner lock only. What a crapwaffle of a knife. I still have it, because I figure no one would/should want it. ( just for the record, I do have SOG fixed baldes that I love dearly).


I have a lot of other knives that I don't really use, but that doesn't mean I don't like them or regret buying them, They may have been used and enjoyed on a maiden outing, but have since gone idle due to favoritism towards other pieces. I promise them they'll all see use again someday.