Sorry for Newb Question, but what's so bad about S&W?

speaking as a gun nut or more precisely a nut with a gun, i have found that S&W knives don't come in powerfu enough calibers for my taste. i mean with all the talk of meteors aiming at us, bound to end the world, iI want a knife I can aim at t that'll at least put a dent in the offendinding flying chunk o' spacerock, but that's just me and more than one persn has said i ain't playing with a full deck (something about missing te Ace of brains, I dunno.
anyhoo, i got me a limited run S&W little folder that's real easy for me to sharpen and it cuts off those annoying plastic rings left on Gatorade bottles once ya unscrewed the lids. i used a mini sebenza to do this once and stabbed my thigh so deep i went into shock from blood loss. i had a stroke a year ago, so I'm on blood thinners and once I start bleeding i continue until goats fly outta my orifices here's a sexy pic of my foot after dropping a S&W on it while sharpening it. looky here: did the picture show up? nope....man.. ever since my right brain blew up, i don't remember how to post pics! anyways after i post this i'll know if the picture's there or not and if it is, i apologize for the blood and gore. hope that answered yer question exactly mister newB. if not lemme know and i'll type a few thousand more words. it ain' like i got anything else to do, ya know? hey, ya know who makes really, really sharp knives? Cold Steel and Spyderco. yes, they truly do. so does exacto!
farewell, my newb pal, i gotta soak my head... too much oxygen in my system makes me hallucinate, so it's under water/bleach/ammonia, i gooooooooooooooOOOOOOO.
nite nite,
with all the nicest thoughts in the world,
love, me,
vampire gerbil.
 

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When I was just getting into tacticals and had a huge lack of information, I made the mistake of buying a Colt knife and a S&W knife. They both suck! I was under the wrong impression that the name of a gun manufacturer on a blade was some sort of quality warranty.

Anyway, there are lots of very good folders that are as cheap or just a little more expensive than these crappy ones. Like Ka-Bar Dozier folders, SAKs, Opinels (I'll take a humble #8 over that S&W POS any time), even FRN Spydercos are cheap if you consider the quality you get for $40.
 
You will find that the Kershaw Storm has a thicker lock. the metal handle itself is the lock, but the s&w seems to have a much thinner metal liner.
 
GarageBoy said:
The knives aren't made by S+W, they're made by taylor cutlery, some knock off company in china. They're not bad, they're just hit and miss with quality
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For the record, Taylor Cutlery is located in Kingsport, Tennessee.
Last time I checked, that is not China.:rolleyes:

As to where their knives are actually manufactured; yes, many are made
in China. I wonder how many other knife companies do the same?
 
Hit & miss quality really says it all. Unfortunately, they miss more often than they hit...

Being a LEO, I find it even more unfortunate how successful their marketing approach targeted at law enforcement is. I've said it before, but the average LEO knows and cares more about his pen than his knife. Many who aren't SWAT operators are wannabes, as well. S&W knows this, and plays on it.

So being, S&W makes fairly inexpensive cool looking black knives with stuff like SWAT, Tactical, HRT, etc printed on the blades.

The average patrol officer looks in a LE catalog and sees Al Mars and Emersons on one page, and S&W's on the next. Guess which one they buy? For someone like myself, it goes right past annoying to pathetic.

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with not wanting to spend $100-$200 on a patrol knife, but there are a lot of folders that are comparably priced to to S&W line that are far superior, and not a quality crapshoot. Kershaw and Gerber are two that come immediately to mind...

My current favorite concealed carry patrol folder is the Gerber Gator II. I like a hand filling handle & big blade...
 
WadeF said:
Looks like something you'd see at a flea market on a table with other inferior cheap knives made in China that only excite mall ninjas.
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Looks like? A smith and wesson knife IS an inferior Chinese knife you see at flea markets to excite mall ninjas.
 
Can anyone comment further on the SWAT marked framelocks? Any issues with the grind being non-symetrical on the Tanto style blade sides?

Also, many ads say that their frames are aluminum, but they attract a magnet too well. The overall package seems OK for the price, but I'd like to hear the voice of experience for their use as a light duty item.

Thanks

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At the shop I used to work at we had some S&W knives. I didn't look at them much since I liked playing with the Kershaws and Beretta knives. I did show a large tanto framelock with urban camo to a customer and the lockup felt pretty good.

And Carl, you don't get mall ninjas at flea markets... You get an entirely new type of ninja.

To quote a movie, "That's all I have to say about that."
 
It is interesting that Chinese 440C is nothing like American 440C. The chemical composition is very different. Just because a Chinese made knife has 440 steel listed for its blade, that doesn't tell you a thing.
 
Hey Vampire Gerbil,

Invest in some bandaids you crazy bastid, lololol.

The only S&W that ever served me well was thier 440C throwing knives. Very inexpensive and very durable. Have not broken one yet, they even survived the refrigerator test. If you look closely at the Ralph Thorn throwing videos it sure looks like he is using the S&W throwers. Unfortunately they are no longer being made and the price went from $10 to $30+.

S&W has a very obvious problem with thier quality control on folders. That in itself is good enough reason to "run Forrest run!"
 
I bought an Extreme Ratio in Big 5 last Sat. for $10 when buying shoes. No up-and-down play and a little side-to-side play. After I heavily stabbed it against a plastic cutting board for 30 times, the two types of play didn't increase and the liner lock didn't obviously wear out. Maybe I just got an exception.
 
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