Seriously, when is the tacticool thing gonna play itself out?

The only thing that separates these knives from any other knives that everyone is totally fine with are the jagged teeth on the spine. The makers are well-regarded, they have many other knives in their line that are lauded and purchased by enthusiasts and amateurs alike, and the quality of the knives are top-notch. So who cares that these makers decided to make a knife to appeal to folks who like jagged-edged spines? I certainly think there's some hypocrisy when someone can praise an overpriced folding knife from one maker and shun an overpriced fixed blade from the same maker simply because it's got teeth on the spine. Making fun of the 'poor souls' who bought this knife is akin to non-knife people making fun of those who spent $400 on a ZT, CRK, or Hinderer that looks similar enough to any of the $20 Mtechs they see everywhere. If one is wrong, the other should be wrong as well.
 
KingMC said:
The only thing that separates these knives from any other knives that everyone is totally fine with are the jagged teeth on the spine. The makers are well-regarded, they have many other knives in their line that are lauded and purchased by enthusiasts and amateurs alike, and the quality of the knives are top-notch. So who cares that these makers decided to make a knife to appeal to folks who like jagged-edged spines? I certainly think there's some hypocrisy when someone can praise an overpriced folding knife from one maker and shun an overpriced fixed blade from the same maker simply because it's got teeth on the spine. Making fun of the 'poor souls' who bought this knife is akin to non-knife people making fun of those who spent $400 on a ZT, CRK, or Hinderer that looks similar enough to any of the $20 Mtechs they see everywhere. If one is wrong, the other should be wrong as well.
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Agreed.

But, as Marcinek once said ..... "It wouldn't be any fun"

Unfortunately, common sense is not human nature.
 
Young folks like purchase stuff like this that have fantasies of killing zombies. Rambo might have liked it. Tacticool stuff is for the young. I bought some junk when I was just getting interested in knives, mostly because it was fun and I had the money. But it normally didn't have a $300 price tag. On the other hand, I have purchased Randall knifes at about this price range which never cut anything. So, it's about having fun.

Some people might like to carry such things along a trail on a weekend visit to the national or state park. There is nothing wrong with that, but I suspect the biggest use is tossing them at trees and so forth.

I think the tacticool knives are here to stay for a long time. People still like Rambo knives. That was 33 years ago.
 
Most of my friends don't carry a knife at all. Those of us who do carry a knife make our decisions on what appeals to us. Is there some sort of absolute rule as to what is the right or wrong knife to carry, or an absolute rule to determine whether it is right or wrong to carry a knife or not? Sorry, but I fail to see what the argument is all about.
 
I just bought this and paid $399 for it. Ill need it when the zombies attack from mars.
 
Gadt said:
I just bought this and paid $399 for it. Ill need it when the zombies attack from mars.
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And a lot of people think you should not be able to carry ANY kind of knife, whether it is designed to repel zombies or not.
 
That design is useless To ME, but other folks might love it. There's room for all of us...
If that one is YOUR design, and it sells, good for you.
 
Dissing Roadhouse... thems fightin' words. I should rip out your throat with my boot mounted M-tech 304 stainless steel glass breaker/skullcrusher combo-edge karambit.
 
Honestly I can't see spend that much on any production knife. A one off custom, yea maybe for the artistic value.

But then again, people spend more on comic books and I just can't see it... To each, their own.
 
JR88FAN said:
Agreed.

But, as Marcinek once said ..... "It wouldn't be any fun"

Unfortunately, common sense is not human nature.
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I did? I just be a pretty clever guy!

I hate that kinda tacti-silly stuff, and I think the designer of that knife is s cheesy as it gets.

That said, it isn't going to play out, and if you study knife history, at least back to the sandbar fight.... that stuff has always been around. Pushing 200 years of tacticool knives selling like hotcakes.

It ain't going nowhere.
 
KingMC said:
I've seen it posted elsewhere in this community, in the for sale section as well as others, so I think this community has members who have purchased this knife, either in the past or currently owning it. What you just said is that buying this knife means you forfeit any protection from shaming by the knife people who wouldn't buy this, which is directly shaming them by saying they should be shamed. Who cares if someone buys this knife? You, apparently. How does purchasing this knife affect you in any way? If people want it, companies will make it, and there's really nothing you can say that will change that part of the economy. The company that made this specializes in making overpriced knives that sell based on the brand, purchasing the one that looks funny doesn't mean any more than purchasing the ones that look less funny and happen to fold.

tl;dr to each their own, the shamers are the problem, not the buyers.
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Personally, I don't get what attracts people to these kinds of knives, but as many have said, to each his own, I couldn't care less what you buy (for the most part). If less bought them, there would eventually be less of them to buy, and maybe there would be more options that "I" am interested in, but its not like there aren't enough for me out there already. So again, no big deal.

Where I "might" care is when people that buy these types of knives might do something foolish that makes the rest of us look bad, as I care what others perceptions are of knives. I would just prefer that when I tell people I am "into" knives, they don't assume I have a basement full of knives like that, or practice stabbing people or something. IE, I don't want people to be "predisposed" to think that I'm somehow dangerous to them after they find out I have a hobby, when it turns out I primarily like camping/kitchen knives.

But then again, ANY person could do foolish things with ANY knife (all of them cut, and could be considered dangerous), so I guess maybe I'm just worried that people will do foolish things and influence how others act around me (or worse, over time get laws changed).

So yeah, I don't care that my nephews or the scouts that I work with like knives like that, I worry more that one of them will do something stupid and cut someone with it, and THEN the bad part happens.

Maybe I'm just weird though.
 
we need to lighten up. Shaming people for buying fantasy knives is proably wrong. Shaming people who make fun of folks that buy fantasy knives is also wrong. That is one damn ugly knife, but if folks want to buy one, more power to 'em. If other's want to denigrate, and laugh at those that buy, that's fine too.
 
Vinifera said:
And a lot of people think you should not be able to carry ANY kind of knife, whether it is designed to repel zombies or not.
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It is legal in my state to carry ANY knife whether you be wandering through the downtown portion of a city or out in the woods. However, you need to apply some common sense as there are other laws that can be brought into the mix if an issue develops.
 
Here here, by this ideology is a Jimmy Lile Rambo knife garbage?

I remember the first time I was able to take some money and buy a Pakistan knockoff of the Rambo knife at the Atlantic City boardwalk and how happy I was. It inspired hours of adventure in the backyard for me.

Even if its not for me I wouldn't disparage it. I think the whole zombie genre is just a heck of a lot of fun!
 
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