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

iambored388 said:
DUDE! I stripped like evry screw on my tenacious. It sucked!
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I hear you. On the other hand, on one occasion I screwed up screws that probably weren't soft because I used a TORX head driver on a hex head screw, and that seems to be a recipe for disaster. I guess that would lead to another pet peeve, and that is a brand using hex head screws on some knives and TORX on others.
 
Rick said:
For me, it's marketing weasels who employ juvenile ad campaigns and slogans that attempt to portray utilitarian cutting tools as weapons or "hardcore" military implements. This tactic--the only thing "tactical" about cutlery--is great for emptying the pockets of validation seeking adolescent boys of all ages, but it puts the rest of the cutlery industry, and its consumers, in the worst possible light.

Next up: An overwrought, overpriced, tiger-striped and skull-etched titanium shovel called the "Grave Digger 2000" with a slogan like "When you bury 'em with the Grave Digger 2000®, they stay buried!"
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FRIGGIN AYE!
 
I hate juridictions that limit blades to sizes under 8 inches. I also hate expensive knives with cheap steel, painted pocket clips, recurved blades, serrations, non-ambidextrous deigns, mystery steels (Sharp for Sure), and knives that do not resist the elements (rust).
 
I hate when people claim that my Otter Wharncliffe slipjoint is a locking folder!! i don't even wanna try taking that discussion with someone who knows NOTHING about knives and knife laws compared to me!
 
1. A dull knife... if it's dull, it's crap. Honestly, what good is a dull knife???
2. Amateurs using a knife to pry or cut things that a knife was never meant to cut. . . like aluminum cans
3. Blade play
4. Improper knife etiquette. The samurai had a mannerism of handing a sword to someone with the cutting edge/tip of blade toward YOURSELF, not the recipient. A good bit of honor is involved here, but safety too for the person who's receiving the blade. If you don't know how to properly present a knife, sword, etc, you're unworthy to possess a blade of any kind.
 
My pet peeve is people in general. But I'll try to make a specific example or twelve.

1.) People who find it impossible to type the word "Sebenza", "Wharncliff", "Spyderco", etc... all the way and instead must gimp it down to "Sebbie", "Wharnie", "Spydie", etc... If you want to talk baby-talk go back to pre-school. Would it kill you to use the extra syllable? You lazy douche.

2.) People who think "cheap" automatically equals "crap". Come down off your high and mighty pedestal, oh creme de la creme. Sometimes us tight [expletive deleted] might be on to something.

3.) Brand loyalty is fine. But being an overzealous douchebag is not. Everybody is different and variety is the spice of life.

4.) Calling it "satin finish" when you can see scratches and gouges in the blade. Satin is supposed to be smooth. If it looks like you hand-rubbed it with sandstone and then threw it into a the back of gravel truck it ain't "satin finish"...but it starts with an "s".

Those are just a few. Like I said, people in general are a pet peeve of mine. These are just the fine folks in the top 40.
 
I'm going to jump in my Chevy, drive home, sharpen my Sebbie, and have a Bud while the barby cooks my burger.
 
my pet peeve is the nice look of a BM and then the crushed feeling when i see that the decent knife cost $100+
but one day i'll get one, i need to know how they compare to other copanys' "knifes"
 
The only thing that bothers me is when you give someone a knife and you see it a few days later with rust and dings in the blade. (Granted its not my knife anymore, just sad :( _
 
People who don't know how to write knives instead of "knifes" & the same sort of nitwits who say "Knive" instead of knife.
 
Swedges on small knives, spyderco humps/holes, cheap steel, expensive steel, stupid ergonomics with a myriad of humps that fits one kind of hand, liner locks that digs into your finger, jimping- if you need it- you didn't make the handle correctly, made in asia, etc
 
finger choils on folders, this is the only reason I have not bought a manix
when people say sebbie(sebenza), slippie(slipjoint), and now people have been using izzie(izula) :barf:
spine whack "test" (what is this supposed to prove? no one even puts that kind of stress on a lock under normal use)
hugely overpriced knives. ex; 300+ dollars for aus-8 and zytel (cold steel, strider and CRK are some of them) <--------- I know im gonna get flamed for that
everything about Lynn Thompson
 
Finger prints on my blades. I always have have to wipe them off. Could be borderline OCD. :o Tape adhesive too, like when I cut a package open. I have to get that nasty adhesive off my blade.

Funny thing is, I don't mind scratches on my blade. But greasy, grimy finger smudges and adhesive tracks on my blade drives me nuts. :confused:
 
KEmSAT-Survival said:
1.) People who find it impossible to type the word "Sebenza", "Wharncliff", "Spyderco", etc... all the way and instead must gimp it down to "Sebbie", "Wharnie", "Spydie", etc... If you want to talk baby-talk go back to pre-school. Would it kill you to use the extra syllable? You lazy douche.
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haha exactly!
 
1. When someone tries and wrist flick my pocket knives....I hate it!
2. They cant close it...damn...there is a bar/liner in the way....no dont push it that way...where is the logic?
3. Try and shave at a 90* angle...cant figure out why it wont shave....have you ever used your logic in shaving? Ever thought why a razor is at a low angle?
4. Are you going to stab someone or me with that?.....please...your not worth a stab from my $10 knife never mind my $300 knife.
 
theamazingdrew said:
hugely overpriced knives. ex; 300+ dollars for aus-8 and zytel (cold steel, strider and CRK are some of them) <--------- I know im gonna get flamed for that
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Were is the AUS8 and or Zytel in the Strider and CRK?
 
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