Uninformed cocky users of bad knives

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Hey i think this is my second post here but when im looking through the forums i see lots of stories of uninformed knife users insulting peoples crk's striders etc and saying how much better there gerbers,s&w etc are. These types of posts never fail to crack me up so if you have some stories please post them here.
 
um...My nutnfancy duracoated tenacious is way better than your tenacious with warranty intact?
 
i see them too. Its a bunch of people that just dont know any better. Let them stand out on their own.... they do it so well already!
 
there is something for everyone out there.... some people just stop to really smell the roses and understand what some things are all about.
 
i heard from my knife guy(guy i buy my toys from) today that the other weekend ago a gentleman came up to his table and said that spyderco,gerber,kershaw, smith and wesson and benchmade all used the same blade steels, they just marked the blades differently hahaha. i got a kick out of that one
 
I've had people hold my ~$200 ZT's, Benchmade's, Spyderco's and say they're ok, but they like their *Insert cheap crap brand knife here* better. Some people just can't tell quality, or just don't care. They hold it and move the blade half way out, look at it, close it, and hand it back. Half the time I have to tell them to open the freakin blade all the way and actually grip the handle.

One guy got offended when I told him Smith & Wesson knives are complete crap. I had to explain to him that S&W doesn't make knives, that it's just a copyrighted name that Taylor Brands paid to use to sell more knives. Not to mention they're made in china with crap no-name steel, screws and fasteners that might as well already come pre-stripped, and the dumbest looking mall ninja designs ever.
 
I constantly get giggles from people asking me how much my knives cost, the funny part is that i only own one kind of expencive on (my rajah I) and no one sees that.
They giggle about my $35.00 Spyderco Ambitious ( i know thats not the cheapest you can find them but that was 2 day postage and im Canadian so everythings more money) that little knife is a bargan but they laug because there knife was $2.00.
They will learn there lesson in time when that paper thin liner lock fails on them.
 
I'm not gonna say it's any better than another knife, because in all honesty it's not a very quality knife. I own a S&W Bullseye caper, and I've beat the crap out of that thing without a single turned point or chipped edge. I guess sometimes, even the worst companies do something right by accident.

I'm not uninformed for saying this. I just happen to have first-hand experience with both quality and non-quality knives.


Maybe we'd all be happier if everybody played nice and enjoyed the knives they like. If you want to tell people about your great knives, go ahead. But don't put them down while you do it. :thumbup:
 
tentmaker said:
i'm not gonna say it's any better than another knife, because in all honesty it's not a very quality knife. I own a s&w bullseye caper, and i've beat the crap out of that thing without a single turned point or chipped edge. I guess sometimes, even the worst companies do something right by accident.

I'm not uninformed for saying this. I just happen to have first-hand experience with both quality and non-quality knives.


Maybe we'd all be happier if everybody played nice and enjoyed the knives they like. If you want to tell people about your great knives, go ahead. But don't put them down while you do it. :thumbup:
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exactly.
popsickle said:
i see them too. Its a bunch of people that just dont know any better. Let them stand out on their own.... They do it so well already!
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to the majority of people on the planet, we are the ones standing on our own,we are the freaks.
 
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/870105
Here is a thread full of those situations. The fact is not everyone needs to carry a $400+ knife to do simple cutting tasks. I know a guy that carries a pair of Klein Tools Broad Blade shears, he can strip cable faster than anyone, get rid of zip ties, and tear open packages quicker than most people can pull out and deploy their knife. So, different people have differen needs.

As for the forums, some people are trolls by nature, and say that quality is anything but. Others are genuine novices, they have a lot to learn becasue they are coming from a place where accurate information is few and far between.
 
Not everyone is going to put the time, effort, and $$$ into a quality tool such as a high end knife. I always get the WTF comments and laughs about my ZT's, and flashlights.

It's always the <$20 knife crowd that's the worst who pick up the 2 for 1 tacticool S&W knives at Big 5.

I know some people who brag about their 10 LED Husky flashlight they got for $5.99 saying how bright it is for such a compact size, until I show them my Streamlight Protact 1L I EDC. 110 Lumens FTW.
 
Insult them if you like, but please don't crap on CRK before actually handling one:thumbup:.
 
Thank goodness there are so many smart people here to tell everyone else how ignorant they are.
 
When I started on the forums, I couldn't for the life of me, figure out what the difference was between POS knives and quality ones. I had a few beatdowns in our local forums since I asked questions that the guys had a hard time answering.
 
About 8 months ago, I gave a $12 S&W folder to a landscaper friend of mine. Since then , he has used it as his only work knife.

The other day he told me it needed to be fixed because the blade was wobbly. I looked at it and realized the pivot was too loose ( and it needed to be sharpened). A few minutes with a bit driver and ceramic rod and it was ready for another 8 months of hard work.

If you told my friend you paid $400 for your pocket knife he'd probably laugh at you... maybe those ignorant people are on to something?
 
Here is a funny story.

I was carrying a $400 knife and my brother-in-law was using a $20 SAK to cut limes for the drinks he was mixing. He correctly stated that his VERY thin bladed knife was superior for the task and he did not need to spend much to get it. Further he was skilled at sharpening so his edge was truly spectacular.

He has never even handled a knife like the one I was carrying, so I guess he was inexperienced. I probably should have insisted that he spend more money to get a knife that actually would not have worked as well for the job he was doing?
 
singularity35 said:
When I started on the forums, I couldn't for the life of me, figure out what the difference was between POS knives and quality ones. I had a few beatdowns in our local forums since I asked questions that the guys had a hard time answering.
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At its most basic a knife is just a sharpened thin bar of steel with a handle of some kind. Price and finish usually corrolate poorly with performance and utility. Those gigantic camp knives and bowies certainly make for impressive displays and there are many beautiful and wonderfully engineered folders being made; but you wouldn't want to carry the massive things all day long and those pretty knives stop being as pretty after a little field work. I have been collecting new and old knives now for many years, and I have seen many simple knifes that have clearly been worked hard for decades if not centuries. Who are we to say what works or doesn't work, just because the thing isn't made with the latest knife steel or stamped with a preferred maker's mark?

I was once taken aback when I walked into a knife store in rural Texas. Just about everything on display was made by companies like Frost cutlery and Colonial. I asked the store owner, do you have any good knives? Who buys this junk anyway? He said the local ranch hands buy the knives and they use them to cut bale wire and many other farm tasks every day. It is all they can afford and they usually get many years of use from these knives. With that he showed me a cigar box full of knives that his customer's had "traded in" over the years. It was mostly very worn versions of the same cheap knives. You couldn't say that these users were cocky or uninformed; they knew exactly what they were doing, they were doing a lot of it every day, and they were getting a lot of utility from what most of us would consider modest knives.

The same can be said for old butcher knives, machetes, and even your kitchen knives. These are common and inexpensive knives that are often used daily for generations, yet they continue to perform. Perhaps that new custom hunter can hold an edge for a little longer, but does it cut as well and would you want to throw the thing in your dishwasher every day?

There are no bad knives, knives can be expensive or inexpensive, and there can be better or worse knives for specific tasks; but, every knife has its use.

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
The same can be said for old butcher knives, machetes, and even your kitchen knives. These are common and inexpensive knives that are often used daily for generations, yet they continue to perform.
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Nicely said. I have a Russel "Green River" butcher's knife in my kitchen drawer that must be 24 years old now. Cost me about $5--I put the maple slabs on the handle myself. Takes a wickedly sharp edge and is a great performer. Looks like crap, but it cuts well....primary job of most knives.
 
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