What are the LEAST FAVORITE Knives You Own?

Uzi Defender folder. Lousy fit and finish. I hurt my thumb evety time i try to engage the liner lock. Heavy too.
 
Oh, I do have one...
I was given a Boker-Matic as a gift years ago.
An out-the-front auto with a decent sized blade, except the blade only retracts automatically! Opening is manual, awkward, and takes a few seconds at best. Really dumb design IMHO and a real buzzkill. Everyone get excited when they see it but upon inspection they all say "oh, I see" and look away in disappointment. Same reaction I had when it was given to me.
 
The Boker-Matics are one of those knives that just never look quite right, and it's a real shame that it only retracts automatically! Even when knives auto open and close from the front, they sacrifice too much. The blades don't tend to be secure, either. Most cutting chores are not practical and the knives are soon relegated to a drawer somewhere. I don't have the Boker, but I do have an auto that my friends like to play with. The only thing the knife is good for is to get you thrown in the poke for carrying an illegal weapon.

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The shape of the blade is
pretty hideous.
 
Artfully Martial said:
Weird...I love my M16...anyway, my least favorite is probably my Spyderco Paramilitary...it's such a brilliant design, marred by so many QC defects....I'm always intended to send it off to Spyderco to get it fixed...but...
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Send it to be fixed. I believe it will be worth your while. I love my Para-Military. It's tough as nails, a thick blade, great locking system, legal to carry concealed, and with the full Spyder edge, it can cut the crap out of just about anything. For the money, I think the Spyderco Para-Military is one of the top knives out there.
 
quinque voces said:
The least favorite knife that I own is the CRKT Corkum 1st Strike. The edge is much too thick and impossible to sharpen properly, the handle too thin. Due to its pointy skull crusher, the knife will poke you in the rips or tear your flesh if you should ever fall while carrying it. It looks cool but really is a worthless piece of metal.
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Bought the CRKT 1st Strike 5.6" and the 3.1" at the same time. What a waste of money. The "appleseed grind" it not correct for a thick blade made of cheap steel. Can't get a good edge even with the Sharpmaker. When I do get a somewhat sharp edge. I can dull it with just my fingers after playing with it for 10 minutes.

The steel is crap. I'll never buy anything that's AUS-6 again. It's as bad as 420, maybe worse.

A like many of the CRKT designs but using such crappy steel is a ripoff. I have noticed that they have a few higher quality knives now and I hope they have more in the future. I believe that CRKT could but one of the higher quality production knife makers, along with BM and Spyderco, if they used better quality steel and hired some fresh designers. Until then, they won't get any more of my money.
 
DRider said:
AFCK in D2, axis lock, half serrated.
Love the ergos, love the lock - the half serrated and half plain edge makes it half good for anything... and it will not take a decent edge. I can scary sharp my pro hunter, my cuda maxx, my rukus, my old kershaw g-10/ats-34, my frikkin swiss army knife... but this knife won't take and hold a good edge despite lots of work. heat treat? maybe... probably...
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No offense ment, but unless there is something chemically wrong with the metal, you don't know how to sharpen D2 steel. I have the same knife and I can get it "scarey sharp". It took me a long time, however. In other words, patience. But as it is now I could dry shave with it for many days. Once sharp with the correct angle, it will stay sharp for a long time.

Good luck with it. When sharp, the AFCK is hard to beat. You also might contact BM. Tell them your problem and send it to them for a factory sharpening. It still may need some touch up but you will know you are starting with the correct angle.
 
jeswa said:
Okay, my S30V Native is a hell of a knife, but I can rarely flick it open first try out of my pocket. The ergos are near perfect for holding, but horrible (IMHO) for opening. I just know I'm gonna accidentally slice off a little bit of me one day with that thing. Regardless, it's as good of a knife as you're gonna get for $40.
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Not all knives can be "flicked" open. There has to be some momentum build up of the blade. Momentum is mass times velocity. For the sake of simplicity, we'll say that mass is weight (it's not really but close enough for this discussion). The "mass" of the Native blade is very low (short and thin). So, to increase momentum, one would have to increase velocity. One can only move one's hand so fast so a momentum increase from an increase in velocity is really non-existant.

Therefore, the fastest way to open a Native it to keep your thumb on the hole until it is completly open. Practice on speeding up your thumb. I can open my Native as fast as I can open my CRKT M-21.

Good Luck
 
monkfish4 said:
I know I will get flamed for this, but I had a folding Spyderco that was given to me. I used it a few times and it worked good. I kept it on the dashboard of the boat, becausew the aggressive serrations worked very well for cutting ropes.

One day I picked it up and the lockback just broke in half. I had maybe used it ten times tops. I wedged some wood in the handle and wraped it in electrical tape to keep using as a rope cutter, but I will NEVER buy one.

I should not say this is my WORST knife, though. That honor would have to go to a Pakistan Buck clone. I think I just threw that one out.
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Too bad to cut yourself off from some of the finest production knives in the world just because you got one that was defective. Spyderco would have happily fixed or replaced it.

Why do people make such irrational decisions based upon a 1 in 10000 event (or whatever the odds are)? I doesn't make sense.
 
My current hate knife is the Buck Strider Tarani SBT Police Advocate in 420 and FRN. Why? the name, 420 steel, overcheckered handle, and the fact it's the replacement from Idaho customer service. The first wouldn't hold a lock up - I could spine whack it on a leather covered steering wheel and it failed. It had less than 10% engagement and Buck apparently agreed.

Overcheckered? oh, as in cuts slots in your jeans pocket in just a few days. Did I mention the serrated handle, extreme grip swedge for inertia opening, and lanyard hole that feeds paracord to the blade?

Now I have a replacement, I can't get my money back, it won't sell, and I won't carry it.

I have sinned and this is my purgatory.

Edit: 6 Aug - the new one won't pass a spinewhack, but at least I sanded off the annoying checkering. I carry it to remind myself I could have saved up for a real Strider, not a psuedo pSnG.
 
mine is a benchmade pika, it has stiff opening and is hard to sharpen. don't know why i freakin bought it. my favorite knife is my Buck Tarani with ats-34 steel, always sharp, although i agree on the lanyard being purposeless, seeing the blade goes right through it.
 
It's interesting, but a lot of folks who buy a bummer of a knife either throw it away, give it away, or toss it in a drawer somewhere. No one would really think of doing that with a gun, but knives seem to be different. And a person can judge an entire company on ONE knife, not seemingly realizing that the heat treat might be off that one particular blade or the lockup off by just a little. (I knew two cops who had consecutive serial numbers on their stainless firearms. Both barrels began wearing rapidly and their front sights wore down just from holster wear. Of course it was a heat treat problem and both guns were fixed, but the overall quality of that particular model was legend.)

As for lanyards being useless, I don't agree. A leather lace can pull a knife from the waistband more quickly and, wrapped around the wrist, can help you keep ahold of the knife.
 
I guess everybody has diff experiences.My favorite knives for several years of edc are a crkt crawford/kasper,a crkt polkowski companion and various cold steel knives.they have all held up to police work,hunting,camping and hard practice on my kelly worden silent fighter cutting dummy.I would have to say my most hated knives are most of the ones ive owned by newt livesay. i guess the fact that i liked him kept me buying and selling them(i was a dealer for awhile)I never had a woo that came with an edge,had to refund money on quite a few.my last one i still own is an air assault model that ive given up on ever getting a decent edge on, and yes i know how to sharpen knives.and oh in rfeference to the woos i was told they were designed more for stabbing than cutting.also what is the finish on those?creosote?
 
Confederate said:
As for lanyards being useless, I don't agree. A leather lace can pull a knife from the waistband more quickly and, wrapped around the wrist, can help you keep ahold of the knife.
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I think they meant it was useless because the blade cuts it when you close the knife?

tirod3 said:
Did I mention the serrated handle, extreme grip swedge for inertia opening, and lanyard hole that feeds paracord to the blade?
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I hate my point guard.
 
I love all my knives , a few of them grudgingly such as the CS Recon Tanto , I have beat the crap out of this knife and it still wont die , I hate tanto's period but this one is so hard to sharpen without dulling the point , it makes me mad to just look at it , but I still have some love for it (I would be bummed if I lost it lol).
I hated my Spyderco Meerkat for a long time and then I fell in love with it , its so damn cute and that serrate is dangerously beautiful.....
The knives I know I hate are the POS comemmerative knives I got as gifts, those are in a drawer somewhere and will remain forever.

Not to get OT here but the knife I love to hate because I can abuse it and abuse it and not care is my CS true flight thrower.
Took me a while to figure out it does not penetrate cement very well.
:D
 
Mine is surprisingly, a SOG Pentagon Elite. The liner lock has never worked correctly, and the blade always seems loose and wobbly. I did send it in for repairs/replacement though...so waiting to hear on that. My worst knife other than that, (which will be a good knife if they fix it) is a Gerber Paraframe. Just not a good feeling knife, and loses it's edge very quickly.
 
The worst knives I ever bought turned out to serve a good purpose, after all, I was 13 and the flea market open every Saturday had a table full of "made in pakistan" knives. All varieties. I bought up a few butterfly knives at 3 bucks a pop and learned really quickly that they wouldn't cut butter after hours of sharpening. But they were PERFECT for learning all the flashy moves without worrying about getting cut.
 
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