What’s your least useful knife?

J.Mattson

J.Mattson

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The current thread about what’s your most useful knife has got me thinking. About the opposite of that question. What’s my least useful knife. The question of most useful is very subjective. And I think the question of least useful is equally subjective. For me its gonna be a Benchmade Pika II. Nothing wrong with the knife. I just don’t think I’ll ever carry it. If I want something in that size I got delica’s with much better steal. If I want something cheap enough to abuse I have Byrd knives which (IMO at least) have better ergonomics.

So what’s your least useful knife? And why?
 
I've got a little two bladed knife that is about 1 1/4" long when closed. Blades are too small to be useful. All my other knives are useful.
 
knarfeng said:
I've got a little two bladed knife that is about 1 1/4" long when closed. Blades are too small to be useful. All my other knives are useful.
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Key chain knife? I cant imagine not loosing a knife that small if its not fixed to something.
 
I have a cheap butterfly knife that falls apart after opening and closing it a few times. Loctite would help, but trying to make this thing useful is a lost cause. It's purely a plaything.
 
i think what is your most useful knife is a pretty strange question. might as well ask "whats your favorite practical knife?". what is your least useful knife is a much better question. mine would be my grandpas sandwich vic from the 70s. im not big on slipjoints but this thing is just too thick to be carried and used
 
My balis and autos

I can't legally carry them anywhere here, they just sit in the safe.
 
Sykes Fairbairn British Commando Dagger that I've had since I was 13. Cool bit of history, I suppose, but I just don't take out many Nazi sentries in my everyday life.
 
CRKT Sting

little dagger, would probably never carry it unless civilization ended, even then there are bigger knives that way less
 
Least useful knife I own is a Kershaw Chive. It's just so tiny and although I think it makes a neat little gift I just can't imagine carrying one and actually having to use it. Don't think I can even grip properly.
 
J.Mattson said:
Key chain knife? I cant imagine not loosing a knife that small if its not fixed to something.
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Little thing I bought in San Francisco's China Town in the 60's. Carbon steel blades. Got placed in a trunk and put into my parent's garage when I left home. About a dozen years later when I had settled down and had a house I retrieved the trunk and found that I still had the silly little knife. Of all my knives it is about the only one that has never seen any pocket time.
 
Probably this Rough Rider barlow I picked up some time back. The thing has springs so tough that I feel like I'm gonna break my nails trying to open it. Because of that, I just leave it sitting around. Probably just gonna scrap it since it won't be seeing any time in the pocket.
 
Any, and all my daggers. Essentially illegal to carry here, so no practical purpose for them. Only good as collectors.

Kevin
 
My LARGE S&W Bowie knife is pretty useless, UNLESS some bozo breaks into my place while I'm home...Then it'll prove to be very usefull, as something to pin him to a wall with.:D.
 
glockman99 said:
My LARGE S&W Bowie knife is pretty useless, UNLESS some bozo breaks into my place while I'm home...Then it'll prove to be very usefull, as something to pin him to a wall with.:D.
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Now you got me picturing a Trekkie fan, dressed up as a Klingon, trapping a thief with a Bat'leth.
 
J.Mattson said:
Hmm…you could scrap it or…send it to me. I’d even pay shipping.;)
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Hell, if you really want it, I guess I could ship it out to you.
If you want more information about it, it's a Rough Rider Deluxe Barlow with Brown Jigged Bone Handle.

Here's a picture from SMKW.
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Couldnt you sand down the springs and everything with them down the spine? Just thin the springs down a tad? Not really a slipjoint guy but it seems logical.
-Barry-
 
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