"the kraken" u.s. elite what you think of it?

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Scotty27 said:
But would you buy a strider? Talk about not good for anything except "looking cool":barf: That guy thinks he is Gods gift to the knife industry, has an attitude like none other on the forums, and charges $2000+ for a custom and gets it all day long. Their fixed blades have horrible ergs and I think paracord feels horrible in the hand. Gunner grips.. Lol. Talk about hot spots when actually using them.
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What I would or wouldn't buy varies, but I generally do not buy super expensive knives based on a "OMG this was designed by/designed for/designed with the help of: SpecWarGruSWATBlackOpsSEALTeamDeltaOperatorGreenBeret bad asses!" Without deviation, every single friend of mine who is either currently serving, or who has served, and who have engaged the enemy, did so with firearms, not knives. So, to me, such advertisement is ridiculous. I personally know multiple special forces guys, and none of them have ever had to knife a guy, so I don't get this fascination with knives which are allegedly made for super stealthy black ops combat. If hard use is your requirement, there are countless well made knives on the market that sell all day long withOUT needing to be pimped out that they were designed by elite special forces people (or ANY military-connected people, really).
 
The blade grind looks interesting, but the handle does look like it would chew your hand up under hard use. I saw these in TK a while back. I liked the pics enough to look them up. It was a limited edition or something and as far as I could tell they are sold out.

Kinda funny to see the pissing contest this blade is responsible for...
 
Quiet said:
This was honestly my first thought. I sincerely cannot stand bandwagon defenders. It reeks of a post made elsewhere fomenting some sort of forum war. "HAY GUYS THEY'RE S#!+ TALKING KRAKEN KNIVES!!! GO OVER AND DEFEND JACK!" :rolleyes:
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Like this?

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Quiet said:
DING DING DING, Marcinek sails in with the folding chair to the back of the head!!!! The croooooowwwwd goes WIIIIILD!!!!
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So wait....people joining the forums to provide feedback on a knife that they actually own and use is a bad thing??

Call me crazy, but when I click on a thread to read about a knife I'm curious about, I think I would rather read input from those who have actually handled the damn thing! I also don't care what their post count is or how good of friends they are with the mods. I want to know about the knife.
 
jonnyt16 said:
So wait....people joining the forums to provide feedback on a knife that they actually own and use is a bad thing??
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That's not bad. I'm just not a fan of the organized "stick and move" fan onslaughts. Of course it's certainly their right to do so. But it's always nicer to see people who have joined to contribute on a variety of subjects.
 
So, if a person doesn't care for the look/handle design/blade grind of this particular knife, and happens to voice that opinion on this (or any other) forum, that automatically makes them a "mall ninja"?!

:suspicion:
 
jonnyt16 said:
So wait....people joining the forums to provide feedback on a knife that they actually own and use is a bad thing??

Call me crazy, but when I click on a thread to read about a knife I'm curious about, I think I would rather read input from those who have actually handled the damn thing! I also don't care what their post count is or how good of friends they are with the mods. I want to know about the knife.
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I would love to great about their experience with the knife, or better yet see some pictures of the knife being put through its paces. What I don't like is fanboys on the offensive when no one was even attacking the knife or maker, all they were saying was that there are better deals for the money.

I do have to say that dragging up a thread from last november and sending his fanboys over here isn't really selling me on his knives.
 
Scotty27 said:
But would you buy a strider? Talk about not good for anything except "looking cool":barf: That guy thinks he is Gods gift to the knife industry, has an attitude like none other on the forums, and charges $2000+ for a custom and gets it all day long. Their fixed blades have horrible ergs and I think paracord feels horrible in the hand. Gunner grips.. Lol. Talk about hot spots when actually using them.
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I actually agree with you about strider. Funny thing is the knife in the op has everything I hate about a custom strider. Uncomfortable looking handle, terrible grind, overpriced for what you're getting (in my opinion), and being sold through the whole tacticool military expert angle (which in striders case is a pretty big joke)

No one here was really bashing the knife in the op, people were just sharing their opinions that they didn't like the design.
 
Couple of 1-post-wonders making unsupported claims always smells fishy to me. I don't like that kind of marketing, and if you sell a quality product, let your products speak for themselves.
 
Not a soldier, haven't been a soldier for forty years. Don't need warfighting tools so I tend to avoid anything with "tactical" in the title or description. It may be a grand knife for warfighting but it just seems to me to smack of over-the-top marketing. The Kraken? the great mythical monster from the depths?

I would be curious how many soldiers have actually used a knife for warfighting rather than a firearm . . .
 
Actually, one-post wonders coming here in response to the knifemaker calling for backup smells to me like ... who was that guy? Free knives for spamming Bladeforums? :D

Ban them all?
 
seems like this is the current way to gain entry at Bladeforums, maybe the knife just needs a Passaround, a membership upgrade. A few members telling how the next best thing changed their lives. This method has been used at least twice within the past 30 days. Here's your sign, members shows up, post of the next big knife know to few men, within the advertisement a link is posted. Link is allowed by Bladeforums to grow. Mfg. boost the arguement on his site or even facebook . Knives are all sold out. It's getting better, this Mfg. did not even have to offer free shipping. I wonder how fair this is to our knifemaking friends here with fully paid memberships.
 
jonnyt16 said:
Yeah, let's ban a few guys who joined the forums to provide some feedback on a knife they actually own and to defend a product that (in their view) is worth the money.

Amazing what Bladeforums has become.
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you've been warned...

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jonnyt16 said:
Yeah, let's ban a few guys who joined the forums to provide some feedback on a knife they actually own and to defend a product that (in their view) is worth the money.

Amazing what Bladeforums has become.
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Amazing how some folks jump the gun as well eh jonny? Please enlighten us on what Bladeforums has become?
A place where someone gets a critique on a knife and then feels they are "getting their butt beat"?
Calling for reinforcements because of an imaginary beat down that is only occurring in the mind of one person? Maybe the inability of a maker to receive criticism that falls short of gushing and swooning over a product?
These guys aren't here because they have a love for the knife community are they?
Knives for the super sensitive operator?

They are here for one and only one purpose as previously stated by Esav. Don't get your tighty whiteys into a wad prematurely, especially when there is no cause for it. It used to piss me off to no end when the melodramatics start to roll in with posts like yours, as well as those Facebook posts. Now, it just makes me laugh to see how purposely folks misconstrue one thing, yet they can't see how their own comments bend the rest of it out of shape. :rolleyes:
 
Gentlemen please,
Jack here from Rustick Knives. My purpose of having customers come to Blade Forums was not to brow beat or defend but to shed some light on the subject. I asked that if they owned a Kraken or any other of my knives to give "Honest" feedback. Not to defend or protect but I wanted then to comment on what they like or dislike about a knife that I designed and make one at a time by hand.
I also see a lot of comments of guys bashing me because of my Military service. Like how dare I design anything because of my background or "I hate anything tactical". That's cool fellas, my favorite knife is a Bob Loveless, nothing more beautiful in my opinion. Your right to say so and I'm the guy the sacrificed my body for that right. But think about this... I carried a knife as a professional Soldier for a good part of 3 decades and still train guys regularly as a Military contractor. I've been in a lot of combat too. 1st Gulf War, Panama, Balkans Air War, Jump into Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq and other scraps that you've never heard of. Knives are tools, 99% of the time used to open MREs, ammo cans or used as a breaching tool. But every now and then they are used to dispatch an enemy combatant when shit hits the fan. Not like in the movies to take out a sentry but in the back seat of a taxi when an intel source changes his mind and pulls a knife with a driver, civilian intel officer and an Operator in the vehicle. Things get bloody real quick when the Operator fights the guy in a little back seat and wins. Or ... while conducting CQB in a house in Fallujah and you turn a corner and run smack into a guy and the fight is on. Can't get you weapon up so you go for your knife to "make space". These scenarios happen more than you might think. In my Unit we studied things like that and then came up with weapons that might give us the edge the next time it happens. I use that knowledge when I design my knives and I have a strong following of Military and Law Enforcement Officers that carry them on their kit. I'm honored by them because they picked my knife to carry out of a million others in this world. They're big, thick, ugly, razor sharp over built tools that these guys stake their lives on. That's how I market my product ... through them.
So with that being said, let me close by saying "Can't we all just get along?" Better yet, come by both #54 at the Blade Show this June in Atlanta. Get to know me and my blades. You just might buy one :)
 
But think about this... I carried a knife as a professional Soldier for a good part of 3 decades and still train guys regularly as a Military contractor. I've been in a lot of combat too. 1st Gulf War, Panama, Balkans Air War, Jump into Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq and other scraps that you've never heard of.
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Mogadishu Mick and SuperMarine Poland already beat you to this marketing angle and faked it into an approach that now smells like phony baloney when anyone else tries it.

Why not just make a solidly designed and useful knife and sell it at a reasonable price? Not many knife buyers with $300 to throw at a fixed blade are interested in paying extra for a résumé anymore.
 
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