The most hated knife you own.

I've had 2. A SOG Slim Jim XL. I like the concept, but the handle was not comfortable. I do not fault them. Second was a Boker Plus Nano. I like the handle, size, and blade shape, but the grind makes it tough to get through cardboard more than it should
 
Mine most hated knife is a the Boker Plus MA-2, bought on a impulse buy. Impulse buys seem to always burn me.
 
SOG Tsunami. Most useless knife I own. Total impulse buy. Handle is crap, AUS 8 steel...and the length is illegal in Texas. It's my bed stand "stab an intruder" knife. I think I have used it once to cut a spaghetti squash.
 
Buck 103 Skinner!!!!! Damn thing has been reprofiled three, maybe four times. I have used diamonds, ceramic, wet/dry paper, lapping sheets, Arkansas stones, even strops...... NOTHING will make this SOB shave hair like it did out of the box. For now it is convexed, needs to be finish stropped, but barely cuts arm hair:.( So much effort for nothing. Cannot get rid of it either, my Dad gave it to me as my first fixed blade for my 14th birthday.
 
unclejoe357 said:
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:
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I did this too with the same result.
 
CRKT Lake 111. I meant to get the big one but accidentally got the small one (my fault). The grind is all over the place. The tip didn't come to a point. When opening it felt like there was grit inside. Also stiff to open. The safety mechanism is almost useless when engaged while closed, IE you can still open it enough to cut yourself. Took it apart and cleaned it so the gritty feeling is gone but it is still difficult to open one handed no matter how much you mess with it. This is what you get for a $12 knife. I use it for stuff I don't want to gunk up my other folders with.
 
I can kind of deal with most knives. If I didn't like a knife I wouldn't still own it.

The worse knife from recent memory was a ZT 0561. The handle had so many hot spots(like 3-4 if I remember right), the thumb stud was useless because of the strong detent, the flipper worked fine if you want to tear your finger open because of the gimping underneath it, my pocket use to get caught on the inside of the clip because it wasn't recessed into the frame, machine marks all over the place.

It looked cool and I liked the washer system but I had to part ways with it rather quickly.
 
Benchmade bone collector! Too heavy, big olé handle. Ugly blade. The only thing I like is the d2.
 
My Emerson CQC-7B. I like the way it looks, but literally everything else about it sucks. The whole knife is garbage. Fit and finish is a joke, don't get me started on the goofy useless chisel grind, and it has questionable lockup (it closed from locked on its own once)--you name a problem, there's a strong possibility that this knife has it.

It's so bad that I vastly prefer a <$10 Chinese Bee L01 tanto to it.
 
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I've had knives I didn't like, but no longer have any I hate.
If I order something and find I don't like it I get rid of it quick.
 
cncpro11 said:
I don't hate my Emersons, but evidently many people do.
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One mans trash is another mans treasure. I remember trading once with someone who didn't care for the
Ka-Bar he had and when I got it was extremely happy with it.

Just goes to show we all have different tastes, likes & dislikes but thats what makes it interesting right?

Nice Emerson's by the way!
 
pbcg said:
One mans trash is another mans treasure. I remember trading once with someone who didn't care for the
Ka-Bar he had and when I got it was extremely happy with it.

Just goes to show we all have different tastes, likes & dislikes but thats what makes it interesting right?

Nice Emerson's by the way!
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And I still don't miss it! HA
That does remind me of the story of the HI Bilton, love that knife.
 
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cncpro11 said:
I don't hate my Emersons, but evidently many people do.
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I don't hate your knives. I dislike the company (hate is too strong a word). Ernest Emerson always struck me as a bit of a Gaston Glock type individual. He is a smart guy who developed some excellent designs, but refuses to evolve his designs because he is convinced of the perfection of his design.
 
If I don't like it, I put it in my shop. Knives don't last long out there.................

If it's an expensive one, I sell it.
 
Haha I like how you think man. The knife I can't stand would be the newest edition cara cara 2 with a stainless steel handle from Spyderco, the opening was so sloppy I even cut myself on it the first day I got it and that was the only knife I have ever cut myself on. Nothing makes me bleed my own blood. So I returned it for the tenacious.. and since have stepped up my choice in knives a bit to higher quality Japanese or American knives still a lot from Spyderco though. In all honest truth I only had the knife for one day because I hated it so much, maybe over time I would have adapted to the cara cara 2, but I doubt it.
 
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