What is your "pet peeve" when it comes to knives?

[puukkoman]

I don't carry a 30 dollar folder but i sure don't look down on anybody who does. expensive knives are not my pet peeve and just because I don't carry a sebenza doesn't mean I don't like it. one of my pet peeves are the people who do, and act all superior to the ones who don't.

Brother in knifenerdness, please realize something: we're not out to get you. You don't need to get defensive, or feel threatened, or point fingers about who may be perceived as superior to whom.
Chances are, nobody here really cares what you carry, as long as you like it.

 

[batosai117]

I like the high end folders as much as the next guy, but what can your sebenza or strider do that's so much better than the 30 dollar folder? and will you be willing to do it with your high end knife?

I think you chose the one sentence in my post that was intended to contradict my first sentence.

I see things from both sides:

I don't like the high and mighty attitude either, but I also don't like seeing others who instantly stir the pot when someone is proud of their expensive knife. If you saved up money for an expensive "item", you would be upset if someone called you out and asked what good it was to spend that amount of money when a cheaper one would suffice. Value is all up to the individual.

 

[KEmSAT-Survival]

A pet peeve of mine, is people that take life way too seriously and run around with some up their you know what. Sorry, but chill. You say you don't like people much, but I have a feeling it is probably mutual

Awww....but that just breaks my little heart right in two. Does this mean I shouldn't expect a Chrissy-mus card? We aren't going to be friends now, are we? Oh poop.

 

[ATF6281914]

I made a video on a peeve I've seen with knife users. It has to deal with scratches on people's knives. Feel free to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zGjV8cuFY

 

[batosai117]

I made a video on a peeve I've seen with knife users. It has to deal with scratches on people's knives. Feel free to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zGjV8cuFY

I LOL'd

 

[stabman]

for me here in the Philippines where 400 dollars can feed 10 families for a month, that seems a little obscene.

In Canada, $400 will feed a family of one person for a month, but only if you live in a rent-free box in an alley. Rent for even a tiny apartment is more than $400 per month in practically every Canadian city.
So, in relative terms, you spent WAY more money by buying a $30 knife than I did with getting even a $500 knife.
Context is everything.

 

[singularity35]

In Canada, $400 will feed a family of one person for a month, but only if you live in a rent-free box in an alley. Rent for even a tiny apartment is more than $400 per month in practically every Canadian city.
So, in relative terms, you spent WAY more money by buying a $30 knife than I did with getting even a $500 knife.
Context is everything.

I actually don't have a 30 dollar knife but it doesn't mean I get upset if somebody calls me out and says his knockoff can do anything my millie does. My post was merely in response to a post by somebody saying that "It's also annoying when you have a nice new expensive knife and someone tosses out that "my sub-$30 knife can do what yours can and more." Kind of like rain on a parade." Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of quality but it's the attitude that of "you're less of a knife nut than me because i have a more expensive knife" is what I'm commenting on.

 

[stabman]

I actually don't have a 30 dollar knife but it doesn't mean I get upset if somebody calls me out and says his knockoff can do anything my millie does.

Gotcha.
I don't get upset either; to me, it just means they haven't had the chance to use a higher quality knife, or at least not enough use to notice the difference.
The Military is no cheap knife in my eyes; even us folks with knives much more expensive often appreciate what the Military brings to the table.:thumbup:

 

[mustangfootball]

on a related note I greatly dislike poor people who think just because I believe my expensive folder is objectively better than the toy they have that I am some sort of elitist.

i greatly dislike u because i am thirteen and the most expensive thing i can offord is 80$ and under knife you are prolly some mall ninja with a big ego

 

[mustangfootball]

Ha ha, well that would be "Charles Manson" the infamous and freaky mass murderer.

haha intresting

 

[vonhizzle]

My pet peeve is when people try to open my flipper knives by the blade or cosmetic thumb stud. Also when they pull the flipper like a 90 yr old arthritic old man and the blade doesn't lock up and they make my knife look bad.

 

[redisburning]

i greatly dislike u because i am thirteen and the most expensive thing i can offord is 80$ and under knife you are prolly some mall ninja with a big ego

a. get a job
b. I applied to be a ninja, but they said no. something about being a "baka gaijin" or something like that.
c. the size of my ego has no bearing on your level of butthurt over what was clearly a sarcastic post

yes but are those capabilities worth that many dollars? the operative word here is "want". for the average person they don't need that much knife capability. most use a knife for cutting. mostly you just have pride of ownership. the "my knife is more expensive than yours" syndrome. some guys have the mentality that if a certain individual can't or won't by the highest end knives that they are less of knife nuts. if you like your expensive knives fine just don't be annoyed when someone else expresses the opinion that for his purposes 30 dollar knife is as good as yours. maybe you're just annoyed that in spite of your expense, the other guy isn't impressed.

yes, I clearly think that money is the best judge of quality for a knife. that's exactly why I suggested that people not worry so much about cost and more about whether or not they like they knife.

I dont think I ever claimed to be a "knife nut" anyway, I own a handful of knives (single digit) but have owned many. Sold the ones I didnt like kept the ones I did and trust me there are guys who carry cheaper knives than I do who own collections worth more than my car.

Let me make an analogy for you, so that you might better understand where Im coming from. Some people buy nice cars and drive them. Some people who dont understand that their anger and/or consternation comes from jealousy will tell them how much money theyve wasted because their toyota gets them from point a to b just fine; and then perceive being laughed at as the other person looking down on them or in cases like yours as getting offended.

I posit they are laughing at you because you are angry and they are banging hot chicks in the back seat.

Oh, and I am looking down on you. I hate poor people, Im secretly the reincarnation of Ayn Rand and I think youre a terrible person for not having nice things.

 

[Nomad333]

Most states won't let you work until you're at least 14.

 

[udtjim]

This one is easy for me. Number one pet Peeve, UNAVAILABILITY. If I want one, I want it now.

 

[batosai117]

I actually don't have a 30 dollar knife but it doesn't mean I get upset if somebody calls me out and says his knockoff can do anything my millie does. My post was merely in response to a post by somebody saying that "It's also annoying when you have a nice new expensive knife and someone tosses out that "my sub-$30 knife can do what yours can and more." Kind of like rain on a parade." Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of quality but it's the attitude that of "you're less of a knife nut than me because i have a more expensive knife" is what I'm commenting on.

If you are quoting me, I think you missed the entirety of my previous post.

IF YOU bought something that you have been saving up lots of money for, and a third person stepped in and said "you wasted your money" or "my inexpensive knife can do that and more" or "why spend $XXX on that?" then it's like rain on a parade - completely unnecessary. I don't know where you got the "less of a knife nut than me" from

 

[Tony8179]

Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of quality but it's the attitude that of "you're less of a knife nut than me because i have a more expensive knife" is what I'm commenting on.

I understand what you're saying, but there wasn't one instance when I said that or gave you that attitude. As long as someone has a love for sharp, shiny, pointy steel then in my mind they are a knifeknut. It could be that they like kitchen cutlery, gas station knockoffs, or $5,000 grails. A love for steel is a love for steel.

No one ever said or gave the impression that if one carries a $30 folder they aren't a real knifeknut. Shoot, I try to get people into knives by giving them something along that line. A SpydercoTenacious or Persistence, a plain jane Kershaw Leek, a RAT-1 folder, a small CRKT, or even a SAK. These are the kinds of knives that can spark someone's love for steel. The more quality sub fifty dollar knives out there that people can fall in love with the better. As far as I'm concerned, the more knifeknuts the better.

 

[singularity35]

I understand what you're saying, but there wasn't one instance when I said that or gave you that attitude. As long as someone has a love for sharp, shiny, pointy steel then in my mind they are a knifeknut. It could be that they like kitchen cutlery, gas station knockoffs, or $5,000 grails. A love for steel is a love for steel.

No one ever said or gave the impression that if one carries a $30 folder they aren't a real knifeknut. Shoot, I try to get people into knives by giving them something along that line. A SpydercoTenacious or Persistence, a plain jane Kershaw Leek, a RAT-1 folder, a small CRKT, or even a SAK. These are the kinds of knives that can spark someone's love for steel. The more quality sub fifty dollar knives out there that people can fall in love with the better. As far as I'm concerned, the more knifeknuts the better.

gotcha!

 

[stabman]

i greatly dislike u because i am thirteen and the most expensive thing i can offord is 80$ and under knife you are prolly some mall ninja with a big ego

Try judging others less, and spend more time on your studies.
You'll thank me when you grow up.

 

[bushman14]

I have two peeves.
1. Knife store people or even knife makers who talk down to me. Do you want to sell a knife or show me how worldly and supreme your knowledge is? It can only be one.

2. People who hand me a knife and then critique my handling of it. I opened a knife once with the provided thumb stub and the owner got flustered and asked me to open it with my fingers, as he didn't use the stud. I have been admonished for handling the blade and getting fingerprints on it. Here's some advice, and some here might use it. When you hand a knife over, STFU and deal with a flipper or a thumber, or a fondler, etc. It's one time, and you don't have to hand them another one ever again.

That's not to say you aren't justified with interrupting actual abuse. I have actually seen a dude take an offered knife and whip out a pocket sharpener and start "touching up" the edge. He very nearly got some teeth knocked out for that.

 

[thejamppa]

- Bladeplay. I hate it.
- No adjustable pivot screw
- Western tanto
- Etchings / blade filled with other nonsense.
- Uneven edge
- Excessive toothings in combo blades
- Tacticool knives that look nice but don't work as knives
- People who bother to ask why I have knife with me or carry one. So I can cut things like letters and packages open, not so I could go berserk in office building with my case peanut or SAK classic. *sighs*