The most hated knife you own.

ZT 0350. Handle way too small for me. The quality is there, but for the weight I would definitely carry something else. First knife I've ever had to return in my short time as a collector, a sad day...
 
I picked up the CRKT Hissatsu fixed and folders on sale.

I've seen plenty of Army guys running around with the CRKT m16 folders and was never impressed.

I caved because these great looking knives, the man who designed them certainly knows what he's doing....

However, the steels on both are very soft. Lots of edge and tip deformation, and easily.

The grinds on the fixed blade look like poo, no big deal.

The folder is insanely hard to open, I have pretty strong hands and tried giving it a couple hundred open/close to loosen it.... no dice.

Removed the assist spring and somehow it opens much easier and with more force :confused:
 
A Buck Vantage Select and a Vantage Pro. Here is your choice: 1) If you center the blades, they are impossible to open, or 2) If you loosen the blades so they will flip open as designed, they rub the liner. I really like Buck knives, but I haven't bought one since.
 
The most hated knife I own? Any (all) of my SAKs. Yeah, I know, knife lover blasphemy. But it's true. Everytime I use the darn things I feel like they're gonna fold up on me and I'll end up at the Dr. And the steel is so soft, they go dull just looking at them hard.

I have a whole mess of them scattered about here and there. I keep one everywhere I might need it but the only one I ever really use is the Deluxe Tinker in my junk drawer. The small blade on it is my box opening blade. I barely use it or any of the others for anything else. But I guess they are there if I need them!
 
Right now it's a Buck Vantage pro force that after minimal use I noticed had fine little chips out of the blade, which is too bad as it has soured me on what I thought felt was a great knife, loved the handles ergo's, cut great initially, and looked great with blue g-1o handles and black blade.
 
I don't really have a knife I hate. I guess my least liked knife though, would be a Chinese SAK knock-off but it was my primary EDC knife for years and always did what I needed it too so I can't really hate it.
 
savagelh said:
for me its a zt350 with the satin blade. It's not a bad knife but i think i built it up in my head too much and was looking forward to it for too long that I was a little dissapointed when i finally had it in my hands. It's not really good at anything in particular IMO. I use it as my work knife now (electrician) and its ok at stripping teck but it is pretty hard to sharpen. Its too heavy and the blade touches the liner on one side but I wouldn't sell it. The other one that i don't like is a buck vantage. It is the select model and has too much side to side and front to back play. I could send it back to buck but i put a mirror polish on the blade and I'm not sure if the will validate the waranty.
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I don't own it anymore, but the Zt350 is one knife everyone seems to love but I never could enjoy.

I think it's the blade shape I don't like, it's this huge wide thing that is kind of stubby, but not that thick. Leaving you with a blade hard to use for some more precise tasks, yet not a hulking beast of a knife that you could pry open a car door with.

My main EDCs these days are a pair of Sebenzas (Large Insigno and a small 21), an XM18, a Strider SMF, and a ZT0561.
I found the ZT350 to be kind of a compromise that I wasn't a fan of.

This isn't to say it wasn't well built, I just found the blade shape kind of pointless.
 
Since the knives that I use the most are kitchen based I have to say a Wustof classic chef knife. Balance is not too bad but for a user knife the blade steel is terrible at edge holding. This is after even a nice reprofile with my Edge Pro. No wire edge or burr but the edge will just not last even compared to lower priced kitchen knives. This is why I use custom kitchen knives daily.
 
The gerber gator machete jr that bit my finger. I had just sharpened that POS and was talking on the phone and inadvertently making a stick pointy with it (not too bright). It lunged at my finger when I least expected it. Made a nice gash, went down to the bone on my middle finger at an angle from above the top nuckle to under the nail bed. Bled like a stuck hog and its still numb two years later. That one now lives in the Jon boat for bow-fishing duties, its the carp killer and it gets no love, but am pretty careful with it.
 
My most hated knife is my Spyderco Terzuola Slipit. I hate it because it hated me first. Seems like I can't pick the thing up without it biting me. It sits untouched in a Spyderpac now. When it comes up in normal rotation I just think 'Move along... Nothing to see here...'
 
I have three I strongly dislike... SOG Aegis, SOG Trident and *sigh* SOG Auto-Clip. I bought the latter in a moment of extreme stupidity. Don't care for the handle materials, or the blade play that plagues each one. I had a SOG Flash I but I returned that because the "lock" rattled. I now know (slow learner) that SOG is not a company I wish to do business with.
 
Byrd Crossbill. The blade shape looks cool and everything, but after getting it I quickly realized it's impractical for most EDC uses. I don't work on a fishing boat or cut rope and webbing on a regular basis. Also, it's big and heavy for the blade length. It has thick solid stainless steel handles, and it folds into roughly the shape of a small frisbee. The knife was solid and I'm sure it was a decent blade for what it was. I just had no use for it. It sat in a drawer for 3 months before I sold it.
 
I bought a highly lauded "heavy use" knife once. It was more heavy and less use oriented. It cut like crap because the edge was so thick, was a pain to sharpen because of steel type and blade shape and it weighed just shy of half a pound. I didn't hate it but I couldn't see keeping it.
 
My SOG Twitch 2.
It looks so cool, and flies open, but the blade wiggles around like a Frost knife. For $40 I'd expect much more than that.
 
All the knives I've hated I've sold and yes the zt 350 was one of them, I love all the knives i have now, except for the benchmade contego, I love the blade steel, blade shape, and all that but I hate the friggin over jimped handle, and the tear your hand to shreds g-10, does that count??? Even though I hate the handle , I cant keep the knife out of my pocket. I could make a very long list of knives I've bought , and hated and sold, but it would take me probably 30 minutes.
 
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