What is the WORST knife made?

How two countries can make such crappy knives, yet make nuclear bombs, is beyond me. Yes, I'm talking about India & Pakistan. You, with the red dot, down in back. Next time you're on a sidewalk, look at a manhole cover....80% of the time you'll see "Made in India." Their knives have cutting edges similar in cutting ability to the manhole rims. Pakistan...every hemostat in the world was made in the last 15 years by 23 Pakistanis in a remote mountain village. In their spare time, they make knives. All knives must pass the Pakistani sharpness test, which is to be able to cleave 5-day old goat cheese 3 times without re-sharpening. I hear the rejection rate is 56%. You, with the handmade AK-47, down in back.
 
The Gerber Chameleon, couldn't open it with one hand. I thought it looked like a good idea, just poorly done. By Case, the Russlock. Needed a friggin pair of pliers just to open the blade. Again, good idea, poorly done. By Spyderco, the Meerkat. I couldn't open it with my left hand (I'm left handed), every time I went to push the blade out the scales did their little trick and stopped the blade from opening. Were I right handed it might very well be sitting in my pocket right now. Great fit and finish, very clever design, I just happen to be one of the 10% who can't use everything built for righties. Not so much a bad knife as sour grapes. Schrade Cliphanger. Cheesy. They should stick to tradtionals, which they do very well. Nothing else springs to mind.

Frank
 
Cold Steel Voyager series . YUK!:barf: One of the ugliest knives ive ever seen.


Oh yeah, tally another vot for United.
 
I would have to go with the Blade lock by CRKT..dam near cut my finger off trying to close it..
Myerchin..what trash..knife came so dull that cream cheese was too much for it..and it didnt fit the kydex sheath..
Junglee..crappy knock offs that sucked..

by the way all these knives are for sale in my collection LOL!!!
 
... people remember those cheapie Made In China / Taiwan / Hong Kong survival knives? They cost like under $20? Had a bottle opener notch, compass, saw wire and rings, matches, fish hooks, fishing line, sharpening stone, etc... The knives couldn't cut or sharpen worth a darn. The sheath was cheap vinyl / leather. They were crap, crap, crap... Ah, memories.
 
Cold steel is okay, I'd take a small Spydie or BM any day over a 2 cold steel folders. Their fixed blades are okay and they are making generally affordable (under $1000) Kanata's that aren't complete crap for Samurai wannabes *cough*United*cough*, United made some good knives during WWII but thats about it :(

Okay on-to the crappiest knife... none, I don't buy crap, if I wanted to handle crap I'd shiit and fall back on it :rolleyes:
 
anyone seen the RAM knives?

moteng shows em on the site i think, good effort, each knife comes with a hex wrench and a tool to adjust the blade pivot, but the liners are paper thin and dont engage properly all the time.

the grind on the knife that i got (free with an order) was just horrible the guy doing the sharpening musta been drunk
 
I am thinking these are made in China, but Frost Cutlery seems to ring a bell in my head for cheap, poorly machined, worthless knives.
United makes cheap knives too, but at least some of them look cool. If you hang them high enough on the wall, people may not even notice the crooked pins, and stamped parts.;)
 
Every single tactical folder by Böker (don't know about the AFD and the AK-47 folder though).
 
Except for poop from Pakistan or China, the one I cannot stand is
that model the U.S. Navy used with the very acute point, saw on the back and damn near unsharpenable saber ground blade.
 
Some of their stuff was OK. Most was crap. I still have their "Elite Forces Bowie" I got for $35.00. It is ugly but will out perform a Kabar by far.

I got to admit though the Hibben art designs make me throw up.
 
The worst knife that I have had the chance to handle was the Paragon X-O lite. The Linerlock is paper thin and on all three that I tried the lock engaged the blade almost all the way over to the right. I would swear you could close the knife with the lock engaged. This knife looked nice, but was not well made at all.
 
The worst I have seen so far, was a (I am pretty sure) chinese made folder on a local gas station.
It was a pathetic Buck 110 knock off, the blade could hardly be opened, the scales didn't fit by a long shot and the bladeplay was out of this world!
Of course it came with a leather sheath that was about to fall apart before use!:D

Oh yeah....some of those "Rambo supertacticalmegadeathsurvival" knives that have about the strength of a plastic fork!:rolleyes:

The Porcupine
 
Shrade makes some fine traditional type knives(my lb7 has served me well from the Yukon to the south west deserts)but the Cliphanger is a real piece of junk.

To me this makes it the king of bad knives,we expect pos knives from companies that only make junk,but when a long time company of fine knives for the working man turns out something this bad,its a real disapointment.
 
Of all of my Bowie style knives, probably the worst is the very early model Cold Steel Trailmaster in Carbon V steel, whatever in Hell that is. It has never been able to do what little I have asked of it, the convex edge is a joke, and the kraton hilt is even worse. And, oh yeah, it came with a cheap *ss leather sheath, this when everyone else was using ballistic nylon with some sort of plastic liners. I promptly sent away to Cutlery Shoppe for a decent sheath for an additional $25.00.
 
"...a slip-joint called a 'banana knife.'"

I still have mine. Forty years and I haven't been able to find someone to take it off my hands.

John
 
Originally posted by Lone Hunter
Shrade makes some fine traditional type knives(my lb7 has served me well from the Yukon to the south west deserts)but the Cliphanger is a real piece of junk.

To me this makes it the king of bad knives,we expect pos knives from companies that only make junk,but when a long time company of fine knives for the working man turns out something this bad,its a real disapointment.
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Amen brother! The Cliphanger is inexcusable since the other stuff they make is so good! The thing is just so horrible I think I'm going to go throw mine into a tree or something...

Anybody else a member of the "Cliphanger Haters Club"?

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