The knife your most embarrassed to admit you own.

well, "The knife your most embarrassed to admit you own"...

it is not a cheap POS, far from it..
My Grand-father girl-friend did WW11, was a french resistant that follow Gal Leclerc division.
During his trip up to Berlin, he managed to bring some "souvenirs"..
One of them is a quite nice long dagger with eagle, german cross, etc...
probably some officer parade dagger....
So TECHNICALLY, it's a nice blade, nice handle with silver chain inserted on it and so and so, but ANYWAY, i never touch it, it stay in the cellar, and i am quite embarrased with it....
 
Okay folks,

Don't get too jealous. I just had to post this pic of my genuine, compass-as-the-butt-cap, hollow handle, "high quality" survival knife.

This baby is over 20 years old, and in as good a shape as the day I bought it. :p

It comes with a convenient sharpening stone (broke in two, the first time I used it)

I guess I can't use the butt of the knife as a hammer. :rolleyes:

I don't know why I still have this knife. Yeah, I know, it's POS, but I can't seem to part with it. It's one of those knives that you bought when you were a kid, and you thought it was the greatest thing you had ever purchased. You took it out into the woods, and hacked up trees with it (amazing it didn't fall apart), and pretended you were a special forces commando.

I just can't throw any knives away, even some of the broken ones...

Anyway, just thought I'd share...

Glenn
 

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That rambo compass knife you got there looks at lot better than the neon green one I had, with the awesome fake pleather sheath, yes fake pleather (don't ask). It was a fun knife when I was a little crap pants, used to take it up to the tree fort and cut up the tree and toss it down at friends. The compass had some kinda flamable stuff in it, found that out when I broke it and well I used to like fire a lot as a crap pants.. yep, fun times. :cool:
 
Mine is a Jaguar Terminator I paid $6.00 for at shippingonly.com.
It really is a lot of knife for the price, if you are a deranged murderer
bearing down on your victim and you want all the scare value
you can get from a radically styled claw and partially serrated
chisel ground blade... What was I thinking?

-Rebus
 
hi glenbad,

i got exactelly the same POS "kindda survival knife" 20 years ago.
It seems that china sell it all around the world.

Don't know exactelly why, i separate the blade from the handle 19 years ago...
and now this blade is in my parent house hide somewhere... (in case I get attack by Ninja during night... Sound like a good idea at the time :rolleyes: )
 
glennbad said:
Okay folks,

(...)It's one of those knives that you bought when you were a kid, and you thought it was the greatest thing you had ever purchased. You took it out into the woods, and hacked up trees with it (amazing it didn't fall apart), and pretended you were a special forces commando.

I just can't throw any knives away, even some of the broken ones...

Glenn
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I know just what you mean. Still got some cheap knives from back when I first became fascinated by blades when I was a kid. Introducing my hall of shame:

1. A fake hunting knife with a kitchen type blade. Bought it when it was around 12 years old. Already felt sorry the next day.... :barf:
2. A cheap hunting knife made in good ol' China: Cal Hawk "the best defense". To bad it can't even defend itself against the elements.
3. A large knife bought in some gunta shoppe. 'T has plastic plates screwed into the handle. Talk about toughlooking! It came in a box that was awfully similar to that of nr. 2... :confused:
4. Some knives that I either bought from 'friends' or that I got for free. Absolute crap! I traded 2 of them for an anime dvd and a pokemon T shirt way back. That says it all, doesn't it? :D
 
Cold steel colluden. Why someone of irish descent would buy a scottish knife...I must have been possessed. Sharp blade, no guard, kraton handle, with a useless clip on sheath. I did kill a trapped squirrel with it...the sharp point is good for pithing.
 
glennbad said:
Okay folks,

Don't get too jealous. I just had to post this pic of my genuine, compass-as-the-butt-cap, hollow handle, "high quality" survival knife.

This baby is over 20 years old, and in as good a shape as the day I bought it. :p

It comes with a convenient sharpening stone (broke in two, the first time I used it)

I guess I can't use the butt of the knife as a hammer. :rolleyes:

I don't know why I still have this knife. Yeah, I know, it's POS, but I can't seem to part with it. It's one of those knives that you bought when you were a kid, and you thought it was the greatest thing you had ever purchased. You took it out into the woods, and hacked up trees with it (amazing it didn't fall apart), and pretended you were a special forces commando.

I just can't throw any knives away, even some of the broken ones...

Anyway, just thought I'd share...

Glenn
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LOL I had one of these when I was about 12. I think its the only really bad knife I ever bought.
 
1 Fury ka-bar style military knife made in spain for somthing to keep next to the bed

1 opinel wooden folder (gift), cuts carpet pretty well though!

and yes, i did just order a cold steel safe keeper in aus-8 (hopefully), but i guess a lot of people think cold steel is crap.

in fact, it seems like this whole list is craptastic! :(

luckily, all of them have served me pretty well and work as beaters while still holding a decent edge. :rolleyes:

hopefully soon i will treat myself to a decent benchmade or spyderco folder, and the wife is also giving me a letherman SAK soon! :p
 
I have never thrown away any knife. I still own my first knife, a little chinese or pakistani buck-esque folder with a 2 inch blade and broken lockback. I have purchased several craptastic knives in my life. here is a pic of one:
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It is UC, I had a brain fart I guess, some years ago. I would sell it if I had any hope of recovering much of my lost money. I guess I should try hacking some melons with it, and pray it doesnt snap and skewer my chest.
 
Boozoo Chavis said:
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
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??? I have an Urban Shark. The handles are very plain gray - absolutely no glitter. They're also Lexan (or similar hard plastic), not Kraton (rubbery stuff).

The overall design is great - very similar feel to the Mini-Griptilian. However, the edge geometry is weird/wrong (IMHO).
 
lsstaipei said:
Cold Steel Gunsite Large Tanto. :barf:
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That's the WORST knife you own??!! I think Thompson is obnoxious, and hypes the CS stuff to excess, but that's not really a bad knife.
 
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