What about knives/knife people just makes you laugh?

celtic11 said:
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.
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You're kind of a troll aren't you?
 
Wolf_1989 said:
You're kind of a troll aren't you?
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Of course. The default answer to anyone who disagrees on the internet.

Look, I don't find myself in situations where I need to baton, or split wood with an Axe or hatchet. But I do think telling people that a way they do things is wrong and silly, then saying you don't like it when people tell you the way you do things is wrong is hypocrisy. I don't know why no one here can have a conversation without calling someone a troll. I don't think you really know what an internet troll is, because what I did wasn't even close to trolling.
 
The "Tastes great - Less filling" arguments.

Tip up vs. tip down
Choil vs no choil
Lanyard vs no lanyard

Also complaints about the fit and finish on a $40 knife.

My favorite pet peeve in knife forums: the overuse of "price point".
 
AntDog said:
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!
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That's what I find odd about the 'big knife' bias, LOL. "I can just choke-up on the blade..." "I can cut it in one pass, rather than around the circumference.." etc.

The expression, Horses for Courses, rings true. I like creamy salad dressings, and a whole serving or more sticks to the insides of the bottle and cannot be shaken out. I understand I could cut one open SAFELY with a 2.5" stockman, or a 3.5" folder. However, with the little spey on my SAK, I can finesse one side open as if it were a sardine can without making a giant mess from splitting it in-two.
 
Many things(knives/knife people) cause me to smile a bit, but I can't think of anything that really makes me laugh.
 
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1. As mentioned before, these insane tests to show lock strength, material toughness, etc are laughable. Just when will a
person ever hang 300 pounds on a knife handle? And lock failure at 305 lbs does not mean a bad knife.

2. Most metals rust no matter the 'corrosion resistance', Flitz works.

3. People that preach constantly about safety and imply the user does not have the brains to use a knife. The funny part is
the Safety Preacher is the first person to wind up with a terrible blade bite.
 
Wolf_1989 said:
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.
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Ugh, this one is insane, and yes, laughter is the only way to deal with it! Laughter and demonstration of real skills. Bushcraft is something we DO, not a tool we have. Stone-age man used knapped flint and pumice-sharpened antler as bushcraft tools for millennia! Bow drills start fires as hot as any high-tech tactical lighter and my analog wristwatch tells me which way is north as well as any Suunto digital compass. So let's laugh at the tool-chauvinists!

Zieg
 
i laughed at my buddy when he tried to give me grief for buying a small sebenza, then goes out and buys a $5 batman knife from amazon because it was cool looking
 
Let me think,...things that amuse me about knives or knife people.... Ok here are a few:

- anything that has to do with "Zombies" or Zombie killing.

- Military guys who defend "Mic Strider"

- Guys who think the most important thing to consider in their purchase, is that it be made of the latest super steel

- Guys who are interested in knives enough to be on the forum, but pretend knives are nothing special and it's just a tool, no different than an hammer or a screw driver, and if your not willing to beat the crap out of every knife you own, there is no point to owning it.

- Guys who say "Nothing compares to my....." as if its the best knife in the world and has no equal.

- Names like Rick Hinderer and Mic Strider,...are those names really real or just made up to sell knives? they sound too cool to be real.
 
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The Zieg said:
Ugh, this one is insane, and yes, laughter is the only way to deal with it! Laughter and demonstration of real skills. Bushcraft is something we DO, not a tool we have. Stone-age man used knapped flint and pumice-sharpened antler as bushcraft tools for millennia! Bow drills start fires as hot as any high-tech tactical lighter and my analog wristwatch tells me which way is north as well as any Suunto digital compass. So let's laugh at the tool-chauvinists!
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Granted. But at the same time stone age man didn't try to baton logs with their flint knives, or chop branches with sharpened antlers either.

ericvar101 said:
- Guys who are interested in knives enough to be on the forum, but pretend knives are nothing special and it's just a tool, no different than an hammer or a screw driver.
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Guilty as charged.
 
1.When someone complains how their $400 is not shaving sharp OOTB.
What you going to do when it gets dull? You have to sharpen it anyway, might as well do it to begin with.

2. Shaving sharp
no knife will ever be shaving sharp, not like a straight razor(try one to understand the difference). The geometry does not allow, and the way the two are sharpened is way different. Shaving arm hair sharp sounds a lot better and is the reality of a knife edge.
 
I'm amused by:

Batoning

People who get a new knife and are overly effusive about it (pics and a review!!!) - then sell it on the exchange shortly after.

Those who forgive all manner of defects on a new knife with the claim that it's OK because " its a user ".

Some who state - " I have no safe queens - all my knives are users." - when they own over 100 knives.

Some people who talk about the heat treatment of a steel like they really know something about it, but are only repeating what they've read here, much of it wrong. Very few actually understand the process (some here are experienced and educated laymen or metalurgists, who actually do try to educate us), but almost every one seems to be an expert on the heat treat of the steels in the knives they own.

Those who ask about the best "hard use" knife, when they obviously don't need one. Look on the exchange and you'll see dozens of "hard use" knives that haven't been used at all. How many knives do you see for sale that haven't been used or carried and have cut nothing but paper? Most of us here (myself included) probably don't make a dozen cuts a day that are really necessary. We look for something to cut, to justify our need of knives.

Don't mean to offend anybody in this forum, but a wealth of informaton is here for the taking. Just be selective in what you take and don't spread unproven assertions just because they've been repeated endlessly.

And why can't we all just get along?:)
 
nick21 said:
People who completely ignore knives that are made overseas.

Things made in China or Taiwan aren't automatically bad, it's the quality control that matters. A good example of well-done quality control would be the Spyderco Tenacious. And there are others that stand out as well, like the Ontario Utilitac series.

And of course I'm not saying that it's silly to support your own country's knifemakers or even prefer USA-made products over China and Taiwan made products. By all means, do so. But people who completely ignore every knife that isn't made in the US (or whatever country they may live in) are being a bit silly in my opinion.
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I am guilty of this. all my knives are made in the good ole USA.
 
mainaman said:
1.When someone complains how their $400 is not shaving sharp OOTB.
What you going to do when it gets dull? You have to sharpen it anyway, might as well do it to begin with.

2. Shaving sharp
no knife will ever be shaving sharp, not like a straight razor(try one to understand the difference). The geometry does not allow, and the way the two are sharpened is way different. Shaving arm hair sharp sounds a lot better and is the reality of a knife edge.
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Murry Carter would disagree about the shaving part of your comments.

[video=youtube;KsUw4CmDwfA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsUw4CmDwfA&index=4&list=PL054248E8627060B6[/video]
 
Gavin S. said:
Murry Carter would disagree about the shaving part of your comments.

[video=youtube;KsUw4CmDwfA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsUw4CmDwfA&index=4&list=PL054248E8627060B6[/video]
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Murray Carter has a lot of fanboys, I guess if it is on the internet then it must be true right?

You know, over at the Straight Razor Place, someone posted about Mr Carter, and his knife spoon etc shaving, so experiment was conducted, using his methods to sharpen, turns out it does not work as advertised. Reason, knives and razors are not the same thing, huge difference in construction and approach to getting the right edge for the task.

Murray Carter started making Kamisori and quickly found out that that aint the same as making knives, his customers were not happy with what they got for a razor.
I am very confident that that is pretty telling about the difference between a razor and a knife.

Murray Carter makes great knives though.
 
Aaah I've got another. People who impulse buy, then turn around and sell it right back because they need the money. I always see lines like "just got this and I love it, but I have bills to pay". Really? Why did you buy it in the first place?:confused: I see a post like that pretty much every other day. I totally understand getting a knife, not liking, and reselling it. This, however, is poor impulse control. :p
 
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