What about knives/knife people just makes you laugh?

[Krissig12]

Oh man, this Ontario fanboy just doesn't quit! Now he's telling the mods what he'll do?

We're obviously dealing with a hardcore crusader here guys. Also probably a hipster for which cold steel is too mainstream. This is the type that would still turn up his nose at a cold steel knife if he was stranded in the desert with nothing else but sharp rocks to use....

 

[Krissig12]

Back on topic though, you know what makes me laugh about knife people? People who baselessly hate on cold steel

 

[RemyKaze]

That's not specifically staying within the rules.



You want to see a Cold Steel product that's actually durable? Have a look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J784S8eQZ8 Four minutes of pounding away at a tree with a Cold Steel machete before finally bringing it down, thicker around than the guy's leg, and no damage to the blade.

And I'd say this video shows that the Kobun is a lot tougher than you give it credit for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIwbIpIlcFg Just to save you the trouble if you don't feel like believing your own eyes, first the guy cut down a tree limb with it, then he shaved his arm, then he punctured a steel gas can with the tip, and then he shaved some more arm hair, just to show edge retention ability.



You see those Cold Steel and SOG sections in the manufacturer's forums? They're business partners with the forum. You're suggesting attacking the people who help pay for the forums.



So what? Any knife will fail if used improperly.

What a lot of people fail to realize is that knives not meant for hard use aren't going to be made out of hard use steels. There's no need to use the more expensive 1095 steel in a knife that's not designed for rigorous, wood splitting, car puncturing work. The Kobun wasn't built to contend with the BK9 or the SP10, so it doesn't need to be built to similar standards.

Making proper use of a knife is a lot like making proper use of a gun. You have to be selective about what you want to do with a specific platform, and tailor accordingly. You can't just grab the first thing you see and say you're going to use it as you see fit. That's like trying to cram .30-06 rifle cartridges into a .243 chamber; a recipe for disaster.

Some good points, but I'd like to say that a machete chopping down a tree is no big deal. I have routinely felled trees with a machete. Granted it was a Tramontina in the $10 range. I've only ever destroyed/broken one machete in my life, one made from a lawnmower blade that cracked(didn't break) while splitting logs, something I've also done plenty of with machetes. Sometimes a thin, wide blade can take waaaay more punishment than people would believe.

 

[n7titan]

Cold-Steel, SOG and Gerber should be boycotted for inflationary pricing, cutthroat business models and forced into bankruptcy. Who's with me?!?

Stop derailing my thread. This is the same as Gerber bashing even when someone mentions a quality Gerber product (They're out there, just buried under the other stuff). You don't like CS. Okay, that's all that has to be said. Keep raging on and I'll report your more troll-ish posts.

The point of this topic was never to insult people. See these cars? The style is called Bosozoku.

they're brash, they're loud, they're ridiculous, they're funny, they're fun; but you can't necesarily call them crap. Maybe one person went with all the cheap Walmart mods (or the Jap equivalent) but you can be sure there's quite a few out there with enough tech to compete with luxury brands.

 

[midnight flyer]

As usual, threads like this have lost their fun and have devolved into not-too-veiled personal discussions, including pointless profanity substituted for poor writing skills.

So what makes me laugh? I got suckered into a thread that went really wrong a while back. Stooopid me.

I realized with a chuckle how little I care about what others think of my knife habits. I like what I like, others like what they like, and so it goes. They don't care about my preferences anymore than I care about theirs. I read with interest if someone's opinion is well written and based in fact, not so much if it is fanboy blather.

How silly it is for those to try to define the grammatically correct use of "EDC". What knothead thinks that is indigenous to the knife world? (Please, don't bother to dust off your college English books and lecture about "contextual correctness".) I smoke cigars, and on dozens of sites an EDC is an "Every Day Cigar". Let's recall that EDC started as a generic term for many things, not just the microscopically tiny world of Google educated knife experts with linguistic degrees:

http://www.abbreviations.com/EDC

The biggest chuckle? How these thread ALWAYS get to this point; the mods warning people, folks championing their knife choices, personal attacks on one another... different starting points, always the same ending.

Don't know what that recurring situation means...

Robert

 

[The Zieg]

I laugh everytime I see the skull bead I have on my SAK lanyard. I put it on there as a lark, and because it's rather Mexican-looking, not scary or menacing, but it still cracks me up. A buddy looked at it and nearly fell down laughing. Non-menacing knife, non-menacing skull. Sort of like putting a Punisher logo on a Super Soaker. Or Flying Tiger teeth on a Radio Flyer wagon.

Zieg

 

[The Zieg]

I laugh at my own (and I think every other knife person's) desire to carry the biggest knife I can in certain circumstances. What the hell am I doing with my Dawson Sheffield bowie on a canoe trip? What knife do I go to in camp? Puukko. What tool splits wood? Hatchet. But I'm canoeing the backcountry, dammit! I need that bowie! I'm on a backcountry ride! I need that bowie! Oh, well, we're all kids at heart and playing cowboys and Indians is in our blood.

Zieg

 

[Charlie_K]

I laugh at my own (and I think every other knife person's) desire to carry the biggest knife I can in certain circumstances. What the hell am I doing with my Dawson Sheffield bowie on a canoe trip? What knife do I go to in camp? Puukko. What tool splits wood? Hatchet. But I'm canoeing the backcountry, dammit! I need that bowie! I'm on a backcountry ride! I need that bowie!

Lemme guess. You saw Deliverance at a young age?

 

[RemyKaze]

Lemme guess. You saw Deliverance at a young age?

Squeal like a pig!

Wheee! Wheeeeeeeeee!



Yeah, I went there.

 

[The Zieg]

I'm from North Carolina. I was the banjo kid on the porch.

Zieg

 

[AntDog]

You gotta purty mouth boy...

To stay on topic: another thing that makes me laugh is dudes that ALWAYS bring up some type of sak as the answer to EVERY solution...

Wanna chop down a tree? Sak! Wanna cut rope? Sak! Wanna fillet a fish? Sak! Wanna throw a knife at a tree stump? Sak! Jeebus. Ya know, they have their place (my place for them is at the bottom of my sock drawer), but everything under the sun can not be accomplished with a damned Swiss Army knife.

 

[RemyKaze]

You gotta purty mouth boy...

To stay on topic: another thing that makes me laugh is dudes that ALWAYS bring up some type of sak as the answer to EVERY solution...

Wanna chop down a tree? Sak! Wanna cut rope? Sak! Wanna fillet a fish? Sak! Wanna throw a knife at a tree stump? Sak! Jeebus. Ya know, they have their place (my place for them is at the bottom of my sock drawer), but everything under the sun can not be accomplished with a damned Swiss Army knife.

I always make a point of bringing one no matter what else I have.

 

[Charlie_K]

You gotta purty mouth boy...

Well what can you expect, being the first guy seen with a full set of choppers?

To stay on topic: another thing that makes me laugh is dudes that ALWAYS bring up some type of sak as the answer to EVERY solution...

Wanna chop down a tree? Sak!

Well not so much chopping, but depending on the size of the tree, you really could cut one down with an SAK. Nobody actually specifies the size of the tree.

Ya know, they have their place (my place for them is at the bottom of my sock drawer)

You realize that could result in a nasty case of athlete's cutlery, right?

 

[AntDog]

I always make a point of bringing one no matter what else I have.

I carry a tinker with me occasionally. I just laugh my arse off at the guys who recommend them for everything on every thread!

Example: I want a knife for self defense that can disembowel 20 ninja warriors.... First reply post - "sak". Lol!

 

[Morrow]

I thought I made it clear that posts will be on topic. Continuing to discuss other members will result infractions.

 

[AntDog]

Staying on topic: it made me laugh like crazy watching my friend try to field dress a deer with a "Rambo special".

Guts sliced and busted all over the place.... And me there laughing with my 3" fixed blade in my hand. I'm telling you - I was crying I was laughing so hard!

 

[Wolf_1989]

Clowns who tell me the type of knives I've used out in the woods for over 30 years "aren't bushcraft knives" because they're either too large, too small, not scandied, or whatever.

Batoning. The practice is goofy. I know what it is. I know how it's done. I've been out in all seasons and all weather and never once ever had to hammer some poor knife through a log. That's what axes are for.

Anyone who tells me my preferences are wrong. I choose my equipment for what works best for me, not for you.

Anything "tactical". I know there are some knives which really are "tactical" in the genuine use of the term, but the term has been taken to the point where it automatically means goofy mall ninja junk in my head whenever I hear it or read it labeled on anything.

Switchblade laws. They make no rational sense to me. A fixed blade can be deployed just as quickly and generally do more grievous damage to someone than an automatic knife. So can a claw hammer. Come to think of it, any fear based emotionalist legislation makes no sense to me.

People who think the ONLY reason you'd carry a knife is to commit a violent crime on somebody. By that logic, anyone carrying a camera must be a child pornographer then?

 

[CJZ]

I did stay on topic, I just called people names in the process, like "idiot". Fine, I won't call people "dumb" anymore but I will attack garbage, and I'll call a shit company a shit company if I see fit. I'm a grown man and, within the bounds of common decency, I'll curse a company as I'd like, thank you very much.

Yeah, Cold-Steel has that GI Tanto that you people keep bringing up ad infinitum in your defense, but look at the handle on that thing. At best I'll say its designed like a bayonet, yet it's not a bayonet! 10 dollars more for an OKC SP1 with a handle that is actually ergonomic, and better carbon steel!

Cold-Steel, SOG and Gerber should be boycotted for inflationary pricing, cutthroat business models and forced into bankruptcy. Who's with me?!?

Cold Steel isn't a shit company though. I got my Recon 1 Tanto for $40 and it's one of my toughest folders, and the quality rivals most of my Benchmade's/Spydercos/ZTs. I'd say it's a pretty great deal.

 

[celtic11]

Clowns who tell me the type of knives I've used out in the woods for over 30 years "aren't bushcraft knives" because they're either too large, too small, not scandied, or whatever.

Batoning. The practice is goofy. I know what it is. I know how it's done. I've been out in all seasons and all weather and never once ever had to hammer some poor knife through a log. That's what axes are for.

Anyone who tells me my preferences are wrong. I choose my equipment for what works best for me, not for you.

Anything "tactical". I know there are some knives which really are "tactical" in the genuine use of the term, but the term has been taken to the point where it automatically means goofy mall ninja junk in my head whenever I hear it or read it labeled on anything.

Switchblade laws. They make no rational sense to me. A fixed blade can be deployed just as quickly and generally do more grievous damage to someone than an automatic knife. So can a claw hammer. Come to think of it, any fear based emotionalist legislation makes no sense to me.

People who think the ONLY reason you'd carry a knife is to commit a violent crime on somebody. By that logic, anyone carrying a camera must be a child pornographer then?

Your second and third paragraphs are kind of contradictory aren't they? I mean if someone prefers batoning with a knife instead of using a hatchet or Axe, who are you to tell them their preferences are wrong? Its their money, and their knife.

 

[RemyKaze]

Your second and third paragraphs are kind of contradictory aren't they? I mean if someone prefers batoning with a knife instead of using a hatchet or Axe, who are you to tell them their preferences are wrong? Its their money, and their knife.

Eh, he's not really hating on the people who do it. I think he's just saying that he thinks the practice is goofy. I like to baton myself sometimes, but I don't think he was pointing fingers. Just stating hos own opinion and preference.

To stay on topic, I think it's funny when axe guys and machete guys start stating what you can and can't do with the other tool which they usually aren't familiar with, then big chopper guys chime in, and YouTube videos start flying all over the place like wood chips.