The knife your most embarrassed to admit you own.

LOL, back in my pre-anything-approaching-knife-knowledge days, where in my naive mind AUS6 by Smith and Wesson was to be trusted *Crosses himself*... I had some bad knockoffs from Cheaper than Dirt. I don't think they were even a brand name, just made in Pakistan crap. I took them out the other day to see what I could do with them. Beat the snot out of them. I bent this little CRKT KISS knockoff into an oval. Had this Strider knockoff that I just broke in half. By hand. Having done what should be done with all such POS, I feel better about posting that I was once stupid enough to buy those.
 
i have a ruko folder, chisle ground, cuz they were to cheap or unskilled to bevel both sides, this thing had a red led light on the handle that was completely useless, and the blade wiggled more then......well imagine something really wiggly then multiply that by 10. so i put the thing out of its missery by removeing the blade from the handle and now the blade is used with my fire steel. beats the crappy peice of steel it came with.
 
I bought a bunch of stuff from Cheaper than Dirt once and they sent me a little strider-style tanto neck knife. I gave it to a friend of mine who really likes knives but doesn't have much money. She loved it and said it was the greatest she ever had for carving pumpkins.
 
Small CRKT Urban Shark. It looked pretty cool in the picture and I thought it might make a cheap edc for opening boxes and whatnot.... How was I to know the gray Kraton handles had disco glitter on them. :D
 
ahhhh looking back to those days of my youth!

The cr*p that I purchased!!

I have got to say I had a lot of fun in those early days. Running round in the woods, throwing them at trees etc..

Guess I am most dissapointed. with:

1. United Cutlery R1 Rambo Knife (thank god I managed to sell this for quite a good price on ebay!)

2. Users Knive. (Fake SAK from China) Reach those hard to cut places by bending the blade to fit the task ;)

3. Rostfrei fake Delica (Once the tip snapped off I threw it in the sea)

4. Anything I bought from Whitby.
 
I gotta say, the Rambo III knife was pretty decent along with the UC Terminator II dagger. I sold them b/c they didn't fit in with my collection, but the quality was there in my opinion. :p
 
Pretty much anything I have ever bought from one of the big hardware stores downtown. I was learning to sharpen, and needed something CHEAP. $5 did the job, and each of those poor POSs has been tormented beyond belief. Bent blades into corkscrews, worked them down to 10 degree bevels to see if it would take it, all sorts of crap.
 
I went against the advice I received here (sorry Knifeclerk) and bought a Colt Guardian Tanto. Now I know why knifenuts stay away from United Cutlery :barf:.
 
I am sort of curious about the Playboy knives on that Ebay link. I don't remember the issue with the Indian Chief on the cover. lol. Great thread. I was a sucker for the knock-off Swiss Army do-it-all knives. It was huge. Pretty bad, and it was like carrying a 3 pound miniature brick in my pocket.
 
I've bought my share of chinese and pakastani crap in the past. And I still occasionally recieve well intentioned crap gift knives from relatives. At the moment I have none of those. I appreciate the thought behind the gift knives but it is kind of a pain figgering out when I can get rid of them without offending the givers. Hoping they have forgotten about the gift. Of course, I make them gifts to other folks...

But the knife I am most ashamed to admit I own to you fine folks here at BladeForums is a Magnum tanto blade automatic I bought last year at a gun show. It was not made in China, at least. It was made in Taiwan. And it does seem to be a pretty decently put together knife. I haven't used it so I have no clue about how well it will hold up. But it is fun to open. It is the only automatic I have. Probably the only automatic I will ever buy. I did not pay much for it. Twenty five bucks. Which may have been too much. Of course, non-knife guys are really impressed with it... :D

I intend to keep it. :o
 
ohkay... here goes......

Ten years ago I knew only one thing about knives, 420 bad, 440 good. Used to get a catalog a month from this little company called EdgeCo. They always listed Boker and Smith & Wesson knives for what I assumed were decent prices. However they always had one big ole bad knife somewhere towards the back for (back in the uneducated days) an ungodly amount of money, usually over $200 for this one big bad knife.

Price went down on this one knife from ~$200 to an unbelievably low sale price of $179 and I immediately jumped on it and ordered one....... :rolleyes:

United Cutlery Gil Hibben Pro Folder
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Blade 420j2 / Handle 430 (Handle actually tougher than the blade)
Don't think the thing was even heat treated.
So sad.... to think back on those days.
Still have the knife, broke the tip off the blade about a week after I bought it, ten years later, it's in my toolbox, still in it's leather holster, soaked in oil, with a reground tip, not even useful enough to take out and use for crap work.

To date, still the most expensive knife I've ever bought or owned.....

Once Bitten ...... Twice Shy.
 
oh wait, hold on, i got another one. my Opinel #7......

agreed that it really doesn't fit in the "POS-category" and many people love Opinels.

but everytime i see this thing, i think to myself... "man, even though it only cost me a mere $8, what was i THINKING when i bought this POS with its staining blade and dumb collar-lock that binds and unbinds whenever it wants to?".

i hide it in my kitchen drawer in the open position, because in there it looks like a "cool potato-peeler" :)

btw, do you know why we often get and give cheapo's to and from another? it's because the good stuff is "too expensive" for a gift, and people are foten cheap when it comes to gifts. :p

denn
 
I bought a handful of Chinese folders (3 for $5) at a gunshow and tossed 'em in odd places about the 'ranch' just so I could have a beater handy. Somehow they never get used except the serrated tanto on the riding mower is good for getting weed tangles out of the undercarriage.
My wife bought one of those "Knife of Doom" with the molded base metal handle with skulls and crap on it. Think the blade is stapled on. It looks really cool from a distance....somewhere in the attic with the 'moving picture' waterfall scene light.... :barf:
 
I'm happy with all of my current pieces. Years ago when I lived in Florida, I bought a couple of switchblades just because I was at a flea market, I had $40.00, and I wasn't supposed to be able to buy switchblades.

Both of them together would have come out second best in a fight with a Campbell's soup tin. Come to think of it, they used to BE a Campbell's soup tin.
 
Oh, all right...I got a Gil Hibben designed kerambit. Paid $20 for a knife that isn't worth $5.... :rolleyes:
 
In the opulent conference room of Frost Cutlery Co: The CEO puffs on his enormous Cuban cigar and says, "Gentlemen, our mission is to sell these cheap-ass pieces of s#it to the... well, not to put too fine a point on it, but... the suckers. Now move!!!"

Ren eagerly scrabbles at the box to see his prized new knife. In passing, he glances at the words:
" mission acomplished"
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:D :D :D
 
haha, I bought some really cheap knife, i think $8 at a fleamarket. It has a wicked cool looking blade, like a talon, but the brand is called "Handypocket". Enough said.
 
fbi428 said:
haha, I bought some really cheap knife, i think $8 at a fleamarket. It has a wicked cool looking blade, like a talon, but the brand is called "Handypocket". Enough said.
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:) :) :D
 
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