the worst knock off you've ever owned.....

A Halo III clone. Talk about blade play! :o It was still a cool little toy none the less
 
I bought a clone of an MOD Casillas LadyHawk for $5 ata pawn shop once, before I started spending a couple a hundred on one knife. I liked the overall shape of it but it had a ton of blade play, zinc diecast handles and a liner lock that, if I remember correctly, was riveted in on a post in the handle. I shiver just thinking about it. I've gotten some pretty ugly knock offs lately too as free-bees with my orders form some companies. G-Force V&D-wannabe, YUK! I got one of these once with an order for a Microtech HALO 3, the blade on the G-Force wouldn't stay closed because the spring latch was too short. The lease they could've done was give me something of acceptable quality like a CRKT. (I'm not saying that CRKT knives are not good knives, just that my tastes have changed. I still own some CRKT's that I'd find it hard to part with.)
 
My neighbor kid bought a POS Victorinox knock off , It was soo bad , I took out my used but not abused Vic. hunter , and traded him for it ! He's a pretty perseptive little guy , I got a hug out of the deal .
 
I once bought five CRKT Kasper/Polowski clones for $3 each. They were so obviously cloned that they had the gap CRKT uses for the LAWKS mechanism in the handles, but nothing in it. I'd justified them cuz I was working a very knife unfriendly job at the time and I figured I could throw 'em in the trash without shedding a tear if I ever got called to the table for it. I was pretty friggin' self righteous when I bought 'em. I'd even posted a pretty snotty reply in a thread here about how y'all can gripe about my buying clones when you aint the one that's gotta manage my money, yada, yada.....

liner locks were weak, as I'd expected, but I really didn't have any catastrophic failure with 'em. I carried one for a week or so, and thought about what I'd read on the forums about clones, and got to feeling really pretty bad. So....I threw mine in the garbage, gave the rest away as fast as I could, and haven't bought another Chinese knife since. (this was a couple years ago) Guess you could say I got edge-a-muck-ated here.

Now I have to bite my tongue until it bleeds when I walk by booths at gun shows and see these sleazy dirtbags hawking off direct clones from BM, Emerson, MOD, Spyderco, etc. I want so freakin' badly to ask them how they manage to sleep at night when they're selling property stolen from fellow Americans. :mad:
 
I've owned a few less than good knives, but have not owned, nor will I ever own a knockoff. I feel that the companies that make them are thieves and I will not under any circumstance support such a company.
 
When I was in my teens and didn't know any better I bought for about $20 what seemed like a pretty good all metal liner lock. Found out years later it was a Terzoula (sp?) clone. I the angle on the engagement between the liner and the back of the blade was off, causing accidental closure under stress, and I took a file to it and corrected the angle - and after that it was actually a pretty good knife, except for some blade play. I carried it for several years but it died from being batonned while I was making a walking staff from a fir sapling...
 
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