Ugliest Strider Ever?

When it comes to looks rather than function, I find half the production knives are not very attractive and maybe 80% of custom knives are not attractive... to me.

OTOH, most actually can cut something. Many will hold up quite well doing it.

Rich
 
I suppose the Kabar TDI Law Enforcement Black Serrated Tanto is equally ugly and useless, being it's the same format.

And all those larger military issue versions from India . . . kookreys, kukry, khukri, whatever. They sure look ugly.

I think somebody has a bent blade problem. Might be Freudian. :D
 
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i just checked out the strider knives website - it's pretty self explanatory. They say that as a knife company their "goal is the evolution of Problem Solving Tools". Obviously that knife is designed to solve problems. Hi-speed operator confronted by a bad guy - Hi-speed operator announces to bad guy, "You are the problem..." Hi-speed operator pulls out the Tiger, "This is the solution!"

Strider knives goes on to state unequivocally - "Around the globe, people stake their lives on our tools" - listen to those words. People stake their lives on their tools! Somewhere right now a hi-speed operator is putting their life on the line because they have the best PST (Problem Solving Tool) available!! At $750 the Tiger is a highly-evolved PST!

Personally, I don't have any camo-striped knives - but I'm also not in the business of fighting bad guys! You guys can make all the excuses ya'll want - but in the end you don't have the same need for a highly-evolved PST like a hi-speed operator does.

my .02
 
I like the 8MM kitchen knife. I see it as more like a Guacho knife than an actual kitchen knife.
The Tiger is hideous though but it is the kind of thing they want for video games. Just check out some of the weapons in Halo.

A real kukuri is a using knife that is actually a very practical shape. They have been used as both weapons and tools for generations by a people who did not have a lot of steel to spare for impractical things.


I don't hate Strider I actually have an ED on order but I don't like the nightmare grinds.
This one I rather like.


I did find myself jumping to the defence of the Scotch Dispenser(even us Buse fanboys admit they have silly names) so I may be guilty on that count. It is a lot more practical than this one, but at least these are pretty.
 
I actually really like that Strider Unsub posted above. I like a lot of their folder designs quite a bit. Most of their fixed blades are less than par, for me, however. I don't hate Strider, but the Tiger is, admittedly, silly by design and a bit ironic for Strider to even produce.
 
Blaming Strider for the looks of a commissioned knife is kind of like blaming Randall for making a special ordered hollow handled survival knife. It's what they do. If somebody doesn't like the knife and has artistic problems with it - well, post pics of knives you think look better, that do the same job. :D

Obviously, gamers want cool knives, not the usual boring stuff we talk about. There are zombies to be killed.
 
Cobalt said:
Man, I cannot believe how dense you guys are.

This knife was designed for special operators going under covert status under unfriendly conditions. It's use is not for killing others. It is indeed designed so that the user can quickly deanimate himself before being captured. This will prevent extraction of information frm the dead deanimated corpse of the covert operator.

there you have it, now you all know.
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As unbelievable as it may seem, Cliff had the best comment EVER on this knife:

You are showing your true ignorance here, I would have thought it was obvious. Vampires need beheading to be truely deanimated, hence the heading edge, however Zombies are not overly effected by sharp edges and the large cutout behind the main edge is used for limb control and general body manipulation as even the walking dead can be joint locked.

What is often left out of the description is that the quenching of the blade is performed in a silver nitride solution of holy water so it also works well on werewolves and demons. There is also a special edition which has been "harmonically balanced" (TM) so that when a powerful blow has been struck and your opponent deanimated, the vibrations induced in the blade are exactly tuned so it screams "Lick my sack!"

-Cliff
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Taken from this thread, about 18 months ago: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=404737&highlight=lick

Rick
 
A couple nice Striders.

EB-S love the knife but not that fond of the stripes.

The simple lines here are the opposite of the Tiger.

Santoku cleaver

While not a Strider the guys had some input in this ZT which is the only ZT I actually like.

Bowie style.

FS Dagger

Copy of a inferior copy of the FS Dagger

MFS ,My favourite Strider, the ED skeleton model.
 
BEHOLD! a RARE glimps at the Tigers PROTOTYPE!
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just kidding. Its actually an African throwing knife. it does look eerily similar to the Strider though...
 
Take a close look at the African throwing knife. I looks like a Pelican taking a crap while in flight.
 
I am glad the ugly Strider was made. Now I know that my Tom Brown Tracker is no longer the ugliest knife around. Don't ask me why I bought the Tracker. I still don't know. Maybe I thought it was an axe. That Strider reminds me of those wierd knives you see in Bud K's catalog.
 
A great example of an excellent quality, perfectly executed piece of junk. I like Striders, currently only own one, but this looks like Klingon fantasy come true. Steven
 
rbmcmjr said:
As unbelievable as it may seem, Cliff had the best comment EVER on this knife:



Taken from this thread, about 18 months ago: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=404737&highlight=lick

Rick
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I think that quoting Cliff is an automatic banning:D


Seriously though, I think all makers at one time or another make ugly knives or ugly finishes on knives. There is always a knife that will attract someone. Kinda cool that their looking out for all areas of the buying market. This knife will be popular with the Treky, computer geek crowd.
 
Better buy a good set of chain mail gloves along with this thing.

Can you sharpen one edge without tearing yourself up on one of the other edges? Or is it supposed to be so intimidating that when you pull it out, your opponent messes his drawers and faints in fear - or faints from laughing - thereby alleviating the need to dull your knife with actual usage? Inquiring minds (who WON'T buy this knife to find out) want to know . . .

thx - cpr
 
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