What are the LEAST FAVORITE Knives You Own?

steelscout30 said:
The KISS is truly a piece of $#!&. I was out at Philmont (a Boy Scout Ranch in New Mexico) on the trail and two my the members of expedition had bought them at a shop in town before hitting the trail. One's lock collapsed on day two of ten in the trek, and the other's blade was pretty much blunt and had about a quarter inch of blade play halfway through the trip---the whole camp ended up using my Spyderco Military and Chinook. Anyways---the least favorite knife that I own is the Cold Steel Medium Voyager. Despite the fact I'm fifteen, the knife is too small for my hands and the thumb studs are really unusable.
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Are scouts not permitted to carry fixed blades? If so, then I have a problem because i was going to make a 4 or 5 inch hunter/utility in W2 for my son to take to Philmont next year:eek:
 
I actually realy like my CRKT Ryan folder. But then again my right had is a little mangled. Two broken fingers, two surgeries later they still arent right. Anyway i realy like the huge choils and the lawks system. But it dont compare to my Cruiser.


ANyway, knife i hate? i dont much care for my AK bayonet. Folder? I got it for free in an order from Savonswordsandknives.com i think. Its on of those cheapo 99 cent ones. Made my Tomahawk.
Folder that i actually bought? Back when i was a teenager i bought a bunch of cheap folders from Frost. Thought that i'd just toss them as they got dull or whatever, nope. Just carrying them made the handles fall off! but at $2.50 piece what do you expect?
 
My Glock Field Knife 78 sucks! I bought is as my first user fixed-knife for camping and stuff like that. I first liked it and even put a convex edge on mine but that didn’t help. Really not the knife for the job. Bad handle, thick edge, dulls fast and so on. Maybe a good knife for a soldier (cheap, light weight and a good prybar) but not for outdoor activities.
 
these are all the brands of knives ived owned with all had lock failure or blade problems......crkt all suck and break, Gerber even worse, gator,air ranger,applegate fairbairn all failed and all had poor tolerances and really thin leaf lock. buck alright. Only kershaw, benchmade and spyderco will forever be the most reliable and long lasting knives, looks aside.
 
My least favorite was probably a Buck Crosslock due more to the fact that it was a dissapointment in what could have been a great knife.

It's certainly a great idea: two thumbstuded blades (one plain edge drop point and 1 sheepsfoot serrated) that can be opened with one hand and have individual linerlocks- you just roll the knife over in your hand and choose which one you want. The problem is in the execution. The thumbs studs were HORRIBLE- they dug into your thumb, resisted moving and would only open the blade about 50% of the time. I tried crazy-gluing beads onto them to make it easier, but they didn't stay put for long.

Secondly, I went camping with this knife all of one time and cleaned and dried after using it every time, and after one night, the blades were covered with rust spots.

I'd love Benchmade or someone good to try their hand at a similar, better version of this knife.
 
CRKT Wrangell Range hunter with stacked leather handle. I liked the traditional looks when I saw it in an A. G. Russell catalog. Later I found it in another catalog for less than half of retail. I should have wondered why.

Lousy fit and finish. Pommel was loose. Scrapes and scratches on all surfaces. I should have sent it back.

Tried to tighten the pommel by soaking the handle in water. The pommel is still loose, but now the leather is black.

I did learn a lot by breaking the rough edges, polishing out the marred surfaces and reprofiling the edge.

I'm still pissed at my brother-in-law...maybe I'll send it to him for his birthday.

You can never get enough of what you don't want. Bustelo
 
I got rid of all my knives that I don't like, so I gotta say that
I like all my knives.

BUT...there's the Gerber Gator, about 10 years old, that I won't
get rid of (yet, anyway) because it reminds me of some good
people I was with at around that time.

So I don't use it, I don't really like it, and I haven't pulled the
trigger on moving it out. So I'll say the Gerber Gator.

What I don't like about it is that it's fatter than it needs to be;
and has no thumb studs. It is pretty well made though, with no
blade play. And I think they were using decent steel then.
So it's not a POS in my view. Just a big sort of ugly thing that
doesn't fit in with the rest of my collection.
 
Of all my knives ( I only have about 43 right now), the one I like the least is the SOG Flash II. I bought the knife because of the locking mechanism and it's looks. However once I received it and handled it, I was very disappointed. In real life (not of photo or ad) it looks and feels very cheap. I have never carried it or used it. I wiped the blade on it several times because I like to and the blade appears to have scratches or rub marks on the black blade finish. Again I have never carried or used it. Also, the blade has excessive play in both the vertical and horizontal axis. I would not be comfortable using this knife for more than cutting string or opening envelopes. I keep it because some people thinks it is cool. I will probably give to someone here soon so I can open up a space in my SpyderPac for a better knife. I do have SOG Multitool that I am completely happy with and is one of my favorites. The SOG Flash II is a piece of crap...at least the one I have is.
 
ashtxsniper said:
gerber paraframe what a pos
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Yup. got mine for free with a Gerber Crosscut (I think that was the name, anyway).

I nearly sliced off the tip of a finger when said finger was pushed slightly into the "frame" when the blade was closed.

Think guillotine. Fortunately, it only grazed the skin.

I ripped the clip off it and modded a Vic Recruit.
 
I've got a freebee North American Hunting Club liner lock that is a POS. Scratch that, calling it a POS gives POS a bad name. Liner lock wedges between blade tang and far scale. Partialy serrated, but not enough of either to be useful. Serrations tear more than cut. Not terribly sharp new, and made from Chinease mystery stainless. Rubber grip is slick when dry and gets MUCH more slippery when wet. Brand new the blade had a gritty feeling when opening. Thumb stud is positioned so that it is uncomfortable to open the knife with it (too far toward the tip of the blade). The clip is positioned so that more than an inch of the knife hangs out of my pocket if it is carried. Blade play in all directions. I wouldn't wish it on an enemy, so I still have it. It does see occasional use when I can't find anything else, or am doing something not knife intended, but for the most part it sits in an ammunition box, under several boxes of shotgun shells. Lest I, or my non-knife wife, be able to find it easily.

You get what you pay for. I wish I could get my money back on this one.
 
I have bought lots of junk over the years. Remember the Rambo 2 POS? Right now, my worst knife is my SOG Jungle Primitive. I can't figure out why my cheap Colt Jungle Commander (420) can take an edge and the SOG (420)won't. The Jungle Primitive is a disgrace to SOGs good name.
 
I hate all CRKT's but the m1 and the larger m21.
The fixed blades are horrible my least favorite being the sting
 
I bought an American Kershaw liner lock many years ago. Can't remember the model. Small knife and it handled really well. A week later the liner lock would over deploy and get pinched between the blade and the frame. Expensive piece of shyte. I returned it to the Snap On truck from which it came.
 
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