What brands WON'T you own?

Buck - they made me unhappy on a warranty "fix"

Gerber - there are other brands that compete in the areas Gerber focuses on that I like better

I try to stick with US brands with solid warranties.
 
Sulaco said:
Buck - they made me unhappy on a warranty "fix"

Gerber - there are other brands that compete in the areas Gerber focuses on that I like better

I try to stick with US brands with solid warranties.
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I just made Spyderco the first brand on my do not buy list for that reason. I had noticed as many warranty complaints as warranty praise, but since I hadn't had a reason to get something fixed, it didn't really concern me, and I wrote off the number of complaints, thinking perhaps that since it was my preferred brand, I paid more attention to what was posted. Going through it once was enough to reevaluate buying them.

I have more Spydercos than every other brand put together, but their warranty and CS just doesn't make it worth buying more when other companies will fix manufacturing mistakes without hassle. I won't sell off the ones I have and use or anything like that; I just won't waste money on more of them.
 
Re-reading this interesting thread, it seems that SOG, CRKT and Gerber (so sad with that . .) 'wins' !

I'm more surprised to see brands like Benchmade (i thought i was alone to share nothing with BM production :) and specially Spyderco sometimes (wich i respect more than i am a fan, more 'good' and pragmatic knives than 'nice' ones, to my opinion, but will continue to keep an eye on new models and buy in confidence)

I'm also surprised to don't read often as a main criteria how much a poor customer service can kill a company, wathever is the original quality of the knife (Microtech)

Happy to see 'ethicals' criteria reaching importance in choices made, finally it has something to do with 'overall quality' and how you put trust in such a personal and longlasting item.
 
Schrade (I've had two, both were garbage), Case (just not interested), any knife with a gun company name on it (yeah, many are made by knife companies, but if I want a knife, I'll have a knife co. name on it), anything made in mainland China. I have CRKTs made in Taiwan and I've had no issues with them. The few Chinese knives I've bought have all had issues that my US, Japanese, Taiwanese, or German knives didn't have.
 
I'm surprised how many times Spyderco and Kershaw were mentioned as do not buy/no interest.

They are two of my favorite brands. Well, I still like 'em.
 
Amaranth said:
What brands do nothing for you, and you don't see that ever changing?
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1: Bark River - I've heard enough not nice things about that companies business practices that i choose not to interest myself in their products.
2: Chris Reeve Knives - I'm 100% sure Mr. Reeve makes superb, lovely blades. it's just i have no interest in owning any of them.
3: Busse - I might, one day, buy a BIG Busse or Busse'kin blade (scrapizashi comes to mind). but i have no interest in any of their smaller blades.
4: Any knife from any company that obviously rips off other companies designs and ideas (SOG is but one example). i don't object to shelling out the cabbage for a quality blade, but i choose to support those companies that do their own RnD.
5: DarkOps - enough said.
 
I can think of a few brands Ill probably never own due to price.
If I know for a fact that a business/person cheated another or was disrespectful for absolutly no reason I wont deal with them. Even if said knife was better than the one in my pocket I wouldent trade even with them. Yes, I really mean that
I walked out of my favorite Italian resturant right in the middle of dinner never to return because of the way the owner embarassed a young waitress for no reason. I left her a good tip and never went back.
 
As many said before cold steel. i bought the american lawman and i simply dont like it very much. I feel like they focus to much on the lock and how tactical it is and forgot about everything else. i payed 60, but i think 40 would still be overpaying.
 
Kentucky said:
I can think of a few brands Ill probably never own due to price.
If I know for a fact that a business/person cheated another or was disrespectful for absolutly no reason I wont deal with them. Even if said knife was better than the one in my pocket I wouldent trade even with them. Yes, I really mean that
I walked out of my favorite Italian resturant right in the middle of dinner never to return because of the way the owner embarassed a young waitress for no reason. I left her a good tip and never went back.
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I am the same way most of the time, I hate jerks.
 
Ankerson said:
I am the same way most of the time, I hate jerks.
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Yea, I mean there are times to be a butthole. Just not to a 16 year old girl (in front of a crowded resturant) who honestly dosnt know the difference between fettunici and spaghetti...He wanted know why I never came back. "I dont give money to assholes"
 
Kentucky said:
Yea, I mean there are times to be a butthole. Just not to a 16 year old girl (in front of a crowded resturant) who honestly dosnt know the difference between fettunici and spaghetti...He wanted know why I never came back. "I dont give money to @ssholes"
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That was really bad, I have seen things like that too and it really gets on my nerves.
 
For me, some of the companies that i generally try and steer clear of are:
chinese blades (obvious reasons),
sog (major quality issues in the past, and in my opinion generally overpriced for what you get),
cold steel (I dont really like aus-8, i hate Lynn Thompson's advertising methods, they dont stand behind they're product as much as I'd like)
CRKT (generally cheap in my experience, but the Ripple is starting to tempt me)

The chinese blades includes all the brands like gerber, schrade, etc. that moved production to china and lost quality along the way.

There's probably more that I'm forgetting, but those are the main ones
 
Knife collecting makes very nice hobbi. It is quite positive, generates good feelings. There is a nice veriety - you can always pick something you like and actualy crave for fo some time. And then get it and enjoy.
I am actually surprised that so many people are so negative about it - find knives and brands to hate, get upset and actually wage small wars about whatever they find anacceptable. That would really upset me and even probably turned it all off for me if I experienced anything like that.
I probably have a whole long list of brands I do not really care for at the moment. But no actual hate at all. Why to have it, to keep it close to your hart and get obsessed about it? If I like a knife and find the price acceptable - I will probably buy it for the hack of it. If then it disapoints me - I simply put it in the bottom drawer or just sell it - there is always a demand, if the price is right. You can never collect 200 - 300 knives without getting a few surprises. So what? Just keep buying the same knife from the same company? Comon!
 
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