Reason for your favorite and most hated knife feature?

Part of why I started carrying a fixed blade is being a lefty. Most kydex sheaths are easy to make lefty.
Would it cost so much more to put a nail nick on both sides or add 3 position carry?
At least with fixies its a simple twirl to get in the correct position even if the sheath doesnt work.
 
Most hated:
Pocket clips that don't carry low,cuz it would be so easy to make them .
Tip down carry only, cuz that's not how I like it.

Favorite:
Flippers cuz they're so fun to flick.
Different types of lock cuz it keeps things interesting.
 
Love the Spydie Hole & Lockbacks ~~ don't care for the Flippers and the Auto's as I really don't need a Knife for speed and fast action.* Have other fast Toys for that.!***
 
Favorite: Compression lock of Spyderco PM2.
Worst: the rotation blade-lock (as "fixed" blade) of Lion Steel. I'm NOT fond of this feature as all, although some like it.
 
Favorite? .... guess?

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...because of this, my least favorite is a low ride pocket clip.
 
brets-ftw said:
If you want to see restrictions on the knife community, try being a lefty.
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THIS! My #1 pet peeve regarding knives. I have found one frame lock that works for me (ZT0801), and that is it. I have found a couple others that flip nicely only to find out that there is no lefty carry option. I won't even look at a knife if I can't carry it in my left pocket.

That would explain why all my knives are either balisongs or Axis lock knives.
 
Sonnydaze said:
Not a big deal. Buy the knife and send it to a custom guy. Yes, you'll lose the warranty, but then I've NEVER needed warranty repair for any CRK anyway. Would be very shocked if one broke somehow...
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I'm fully capable of making the scales myself. My issue is with CRK. If you're going to charge $400 for a production gents folder you should at least entertain the idea of custom orders. I'm not going to spend that sort of money on a knife that'll never do more than cut envelopes or steak unless it's exactly what I want. Especially when the market's festooned with custom makers who'd be glad to make a knife exactly to my specs.

Please save us the CRK price defense speech too. The Sebenza's price I'm ok with. It's a beast and beautifully made. Those same qualities don't excuse the price on the Mnandi though. It's meant to be pretty and do light tasks. It's a gents folder. It may be built like a tank, albeit a pretty one. I don't want a pretty tank that looks just like everyone elses pretty tank. I want a pretty tool capable of its implied tasks that's unique to me. I think if you clear the $200 mark it should either be an absolute beast, like a Strider or Sebenza, or exceptionally unique and beautiful, like a Ken Erickson or Jay Fisher. Doing something as simple as tossing a different material in whatever mills out the scales could do that for the Mnandi.
 
brets-ftw said:
If you want to see restrictions on the knife community, try being a lefty.
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Agreed, sometimes. Right only pocket clips, grrrr. I HATE uneven thumb studs! However I think the RIL as set up for righthand is actually better lefty, as you torque on the knife to say cut a notch in wood, you pull the lock bar tighter. Right handed you can actually release the bar and while it shouldn't cause an issue in use if it doesn't re-engage for some reason and you don't notice...
 
Favorite- flippers, love them. Its fun to just sit and flip.
Favorite- Exotic/Tool steel

Hated- The Cutlery Corner on Cable TV. I'd rather piss needles than own one of those knives.
Hated- Anything not Exotic/Tool steel


I could think of more, but those are the biggest.
 
Any leftie that's never handled a spyderco lock back do yourself a favor and go play with one. I have a Native 5 and adore it. The finger choil and pivot make it super easy to close one handed and the 4 way clip and thumb hole make carrying and deploying a breeze.
 
ATwistedStaple said:
Any leftie that's never handled a spyderco lock back do yourself a favor and go play with one. I have a Native 5 and adore it. The finger choil and pivot make it super easy to close one handed and the 4 way clip and thumb hole make carrying and deploying a breeze.
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As a lefty I love my Manix2 with ball bearing lock, 100% ambi. I have a Lava, which is a lock back so fully ambi too however I'm not sure that it's as good as a Native as far as closing since the blade is small and light. Don't get me wrong it closes easily just doesn't amaze me,(as a lefty finding a truly ambidextrous knife) like the Manix2. I considered getting a Native but went for a Techno instead, (love the thick blade stock).
 
ATwistedStaple said:
I'm fully capable of making the scales myself. My issue is with CRK. If you're going to charge $400 for a production gents folder you should at least entertain the idea of custom orders. I'm not going to spend that sort of money on a knife that'll never do more than cut envelopes or steak unless it's exactly what I want. Especially when the market's festooned with custom makers who'd be glad to make a knife exactly to my specs.

Please save us the CRK price defense speech too. The Sebenza's price I'm ok with. It's a beast and beautifully made. Those same qualities don't excuse the price on the Mnandi though. It's meant to be pretty and do light tasks. It's a gents folder. It may be built like a tank, albeit a pretty one. I don't want a pretty tank that looks just like everyone elses pretty tank. I want a pretty tool capable of its implied tasks that's unique to me. I think if you clear the $200 mark it should either be an absolute beast, like a Strider or Sebenza, or exceptionally unique and beautiful, like a Ken Erickson or Jay Fisher. Doing something as simple as tossing a different material in whatever mills out the scales could do that for the Mnandi.
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I mean, CRK is pretty much a production knife making business. They make whatever options they have available and "on the menu", and they (like every other production company) wouldn't order special/exotic materials for only one knife ordered, unless a lot of people start to request it. You should check out some Lochsa or Estrella knives, they sound just like what you want in a knife. If you want a unique knife with your say in how it's made, go for a custom maker.
 
Least favorite features
1. Combo edges, dobt need them and cant shapen them. Saw enough looking for microtechs to make me wanna throw up
2. Sharpened pry bars. When gave we stopoed using knive to cut and niw jusf sit back and look at them and as long as it cuts phonebook paper or the tape on the bix of your next knife a suoer thuck efge is ok. Say what you will about Tony Marfiobe and Microrech and im there with you on some things but at least the guy gives you a knife with a great geometry that cuts fantastic.
3. Funky blade shapes lik carambits, hawkbills and some recurves. Makes it harder to sharpen a knife plus not useful for edc tasks but makes a good defensive tool.
4. Certain steels like 3cr, 5cr, aus6 and sometimes 8cr, aus 8 and some other in that category. Dont getme wrong, im not a steel snob(well maybe I am) but I jhst dontvlike hiw certain steels act. Zdp 189 is one of them, I just don't like that steel and in its orice there are a lot better ones.


Things I like
1. Spydie hole. Sal us a genius, its a great opening mechanism, doesn't get in the way when sharpening and you can open it in so many way.
2. Flippers. Yes ima sucker fir a good flipper, but who isn't? I love my domino since it has bith a flippercand a spydie hole and I counted over 30 different ways to open that knife.
3. Carbon fiber. I love and I mean LOVE me sone carbon fiber especially marble and the 2 by 4 pattern. Half myvknives have carbon fiber and I still want more. Same goes for titanium.
4. A thin grind in a good steel.
 
Most favorite: properly heat-treated blades with thin "plain" edges. Because they cut well.

Least favorite: wacky handle designs that may look "cool" to some but are about as comfortable as a handful of thumbtacks. Because they hurt.

If the blade cuts well and keeps cutting well for a reasonable amount of work, and the handle is comfortable and secure... everything else is icing on the cake :)
 
james terrio said:
Least favorite: wacky handle designs that may look "cool" to some but are about as comfortable as a handful of thumbtacks. Because they hurt.
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That's my biggest pet peeve.... I don't like over designed knives..... :thumbup:

Simple, clean and comfortable.... :)
 
One of my favorite things is the thumb (Spydie) hole, because it makes non assisted blades open so nicely. I hate serrations! I hate folding knives that I can't take apart! I just don't buy them no matter how much I like them.
 
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