Time for our first Bladeforums giveaway!! Who's with me?

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Worse knife I ever bought was the Buck on the bottom. I believe it's the Bantam. Super gritty action, blade play in every direction, uneven grinds that led to a blunt tip, scales felt cheap and hollow, and it was horribly off center. I've had some good experiences with Buck, but let me tell you, I won't be getting one of those Bantams again!

 
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A majority of the people that posted on the last three pages shouldn't own knives by the sounds of it; too many easily avoided accidents IMHO. ;):foot::p

Not that I've ever cut myself with my own knives or anything even remotely close to that LOL! :D:rolleyes:;)
 
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Worst knife I ever bought. "Lock bar" snapped at the cutout after a few days.
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My story isn't about me, but someone I know. He got a fixed blade knife for Christmas one year when he was younger. He was standing up while looking at it, and in his excitement of it being Christmas, he let go of the knife to drop it to the floor, while sitting back down at the same time. And as he sat down, the knife penetrated his hind end, requiring a trip to the emergency room!
 
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I bought a cheap $8 knife from home depot with aluminum and rubber handles and I thought thebserrations made it better. When the rubber grips fell off after first use, I realized that you pay for what you get, haha.
 
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Dumb knife-user story: I was holding a candle in my left-hand and trimming the excess wax around the top with my newly purchased Benchmade Mini-Barrage 585S, I let the blade cut too deep into the wax and forced it through. When the wax-chunk fractured, the blade proceeded quickly into my left-thumb through the flesh along the bone, parallel to my thumb-nail. Lots of blood and stinging. It sutured up and healed well :thumbup: but not a mistake I'll soon repeat. No pics as I didn't own a camera at the time.

I'll add in: worst knife purchase was a grab-bag of Frost Cutlery knives from SMKW. They're cheap and sharp, they also dull fast and break.
 
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Sure, why not. Just starting out, or I guess I should say, beginning again in the world of knife ownership I wanted to buy my first son a decent first pocketknife. My budget was around $30, I wanted a known brand, wasn't a member of an online forum, or blog, or any other discussion group where I could get good information, so I went to a reputable outdoor dealer - Academy.

I bought the worse POS knife I could buy for a third grader - a Gerber 2.5 whatever. That was a one-handled, painful-thumb studded, vaguely-described alloy, difficult to unlock liner-lock, gritty action, un-sharpenable, off-centered, loosely-fitted, all-around junky how-can-you-even-call-this-a-knife. The following Christmas I bought him a mini-Griptillian and learned very quickly what a decent knife was. Total Dad fail in the knife department. I've sort of tipped the other direction now. :rolleyes:

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Worst knife I bought was a $3Pakistan boot knife, I was about 12 and knew nothing about knives obviously and of course it never would sharpen, I must have spent all of 2 weeks trying to, don't know what happened to that knife, hope I lost it..
 
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I suppose I will go with a " something stupid I did with my knife story"
On a camping trip last year I was cutting up some semi-frozen meat with my ZT0801 and the blade slipped while I was push cutting and my thumb when straight onto the blade. Cut my thumb almost down to bone. It required 7 sutures and I got them right there in the woods from my dad who happens to be a doctor. He has stitched me up on more than one occasion. After I got the sutures I finished cooking dinner, it was delicious.

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The stupidest thing I've done with a knife is probably use not one but 2 different SOG folders as screwdrivers, snapping the tips off of both of them in front of family members for full embarrassment. That rivals the worst knife injury that I've sustained, which was when I first got my full-size SOG Aegis, and since it went with my mini Aegis I was walking around the house flipping both of them out again and again, and while talking with my siblings about the knives and how careful you need to be, I proceeded to flip them open, and then upon closing them I misjudged how closed the blade was in my off-hand and sliced my thumb open, again in front of my family.

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The stupidest thing I've ever done with a knife? Drop it, then try to break it's fall with my foot. You can imagine what happened next.
 
giveaway entry. thanks for the chance always wanted a 940 The stupidest thing I did recently was try and separate frozen chicken with the wife's new 8" chefs. Snapped the tip clean off. My neighbor told me a story of a cub scout leader, who was sitting carving a spoon and dropped his knife, and tried to catch it between his legs. his right leg pushed the hole blade into his left thigh.
 
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I got bit pretty bad by one of my Mini Grips a while back. When you twist the top off a bottle of coke there is that little plastic piece that usually stays on the bottle, well this time it was dangling from the bottle top of the coke. Used my Mini Grip to cut that piece off and it came off much easier than I had anticipated and right into my finger. Still have a lovely scar from it.
 
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I had an armchair ninja moment and through my opinel at a pizza box snapping the tip. It happens.
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I purchased a slip joint from a popular online retailer and when I received it the blade had a crease perpendicular to the blade. I returned it for a replacement. The replacement has deformations (not completely straight - warpage) in both sides of the blade making it impossible to sharpen keeping an equal bevel width, and the blade is way off center. I sucked it up and kept the knife, which is beautiful at an arms length. I didn’t take pictures because many would know the knife and the dealer and this isn’t the place to open up my displeasure. I like the dealer and will buy again, only I will be much more critical going forward.
 
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Definitely one of these three. I thought they were large and nasty and that I would be cooler carrying them. I've had them all for at least 10-13 years (since I was roughly 12-13 - Chinatown is a treasure trove for a young ignoramus) and I've definitely used them a lot, as you can see, but they're totally crap knives. Nameless Chinese Stiletto Swtichblade, Frost Cutlery Serrated Hawkbill and nameless Rostfrei(!) Balisong. Well... they all cut, I can say that.
 
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Took a knife through metal detector at court once. Had walked there so couldn't leave it in the car. Just stashed it in laptop bag and walked through. Worst knife I ever bought was a BM 300SN...cause I bought it, hated it, later bought it again, hated it again
 
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dumbest thing i ever did was with a kershaw barrage. i was probably 12 or 13 at the time and just received the said knife and wanted to test how sharp it was. so i grabbed a piece of paper and started slashing through fast and hard, well i got to where there was just a sliver of paper left, but my brain said, " hey there plenty of room left ill be fine". :rolleyes: well i misjudged and ended up filleting my left index finger almost to the bone, probably an inch long. as well as cutting of the tip of my thumb.
 
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This is my worst and I bought 3 at one time. A Harbor Freight knock off of a Smith and Wesson. Blah..... When you hold it I imagine that's what it feels like when a monkey humps a coconut, awful.


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Im going with the story of the stupidest thing I have did with a knife. Well not really a knife but a sword. This was back in 5th or 6th grade. I went over to a friends house and his step father had two swords on the wall. One was a replica of excalibur and the other was another similar styled sword. Both were better than average mall junk. They were sharpened. Neither of us knew anything about swords. But we got the super great idea to take those puppies in the back yard and see just how well they worked as swords. Now you guys are probably thinking what did you do chop some water melons or hack up a tree? No, that would be way too nice to the swords. We had a medieval sword fight right then and there. We must have clanked those things together 500 times. Never once did we think anything of it until we went to bring them back in side. Lets just say when we were done with those very smooth edged weapons they looked like a Ginsu serrated chefs knife. Notch after notch going down the both sides of each blade. I never went back.
 
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