What knife can you not bring yourself to like?

nick21 said:
Spyderco Tenacious for me

I just don't like the ergos. And I'm not a fan of how the edge goes all the way to the handle.

Also mine squeaks a lot and in general isn't that smooth.
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I like the Tenacious and I love the grip and most of the egos are good for me. I just don't like the blade steel and how much room the knife takes up in my pocket.

One that I don't like is the SOG Flash II. Oh, don't get me wrong, I own one. I bought it while I was on my honeymoon. Love the looks and the blade is fantastic. I just can't get past the feel of the knife in my hand. Fun knife to play with though. I have owned 3, now I am down to one. Maybe if I tried an older one with the metal handle.

Another knife that I just can't bring myself to like is the Benchmade Griptillian. However, the knife works very well for me. As a matter of fact, it works so well that I entered (and won :D) a GAW for one here at BFC. I like the blade steel, love the Axis lock, and the thing fits my hand like a glove. But, I don't like the overall looks, feel or size of the knife, and I HATE the sound that the knife makes when it is opened. I own other benchmades and they are all very subdued compaired to the noise that the Grip makes when you cycle the blade. Maybe the handle acts as a sounding board. I don't know.
To me, the Grip is the Prius of the knife world. Well engineered and butt ugly.

There is no question, I have a love/ hate relationship with the Benchmade Griptillian.
 
Jhoppmann said:
CRKT M16-13. Blade seems too delicate for the thickness of the handle
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My problem with that knife is that the grip is too slender. Fill it out a little and and you would have a decent knife, ergo wise.

Let a M16-13 and a M16-02 mate and the offspring should be just about right. A longer grip than the 02 and a fatter grip than the 13. Everybody wins.
 
There are a lot of knives that just don't appeal to me.
Spyderco Rubicon, I like the steel and the handle materials, but the design just does nothing for me at all.
Emerson CQC 11 - Not a fan of the blade shape, it just looks odd to me and I would rather have the 7
Benchmade - Lots of the newer stuff is just strangely designed, almost like thins were just rushed or created as an after thought. I do like some of their new stuff though.
Some custom or semicustom - "tacticool" folders appear to be made to look cool and not actually cut anything. Ugly, thick bladed, brick like, pocket hog, prybars advertised by folks that appear to be used car sales men for people with more money than sense. Too many in this category to mention and it might not be appropriate if I did. I could practically hear the crying from here and the hate mail would be a sight to see.

/runs and ducks for cover.
 
Spyderco PM2 and Rubicon. I tried, just couldn't adapt to them. Some of this years Benchmades don't even look worth trying to me.
 
Pretty much anything with a choil. You end up with a gap of an inch or two that prevents you from doing heavy cuts with the base of the blade.

Thick and/or wide blades on non choppers. If they are thick behind the edge they won't slice and if they are wide they won't handle changing direction during a cut. Basic food prep becomes a chore.

Chisel tipped prybars

Short and stubby folders
 
For me it is a Becker BK2. I love the look and the idea thatbnit should be bulletproof. In use, however, that thick blade just does not cut good enough for me to carry it into the woods. I will probably put it on a course stone (again) and reprofile the edge to see what I can do to like it.
 
I'm a big ZT fan but I never carry my 0350s for some reason. I don't like the way they carry in pocket and handling them the handles feel too square. The whole thing is practically one big hot spot.
 
Spyderco Gayle Bradley..had one and couldn't get rid of it fast enough..thinking back I think I would have been more satisfied to watch it can squashed by a bulldozer rather than selling it..
 
Anything by "strider".

Then, anything by companies who don't actually make knives but put their name on some questionable product.
 
I can't get over the "bump" in the spine of most Spyderco blades. They are well made, the few that I've been up close with are incredibly sharp out of the box, and they do feel nice in my hand.

But the whole design seems driven by a quest to point out how neat that Spyderhole is. There are ways to integrate it into the design (the new Brend collab does a good job), but for the most part, they don't.

I don't mean to troll 95% of the people who visit General Knife. I just can't love Spydercos from either an aesthetic point of view, or a performance point of view.

Their blade grinds make them phenomenal cutting tools, but every time I pick one up, I'm scared to death of snapping the tip! I'm a bit of a knuckle-dragger, and I'm comfortable giving up cutting performance to get a knife that I can't break.

I'm lukewarm on non-locking knives, too. Some of them are attractive, and I can appreciate their good points, but again, my desire for a tool that is as foolproof as possible tells me to go with something else.

My calculus with any tool involves the possibility that it may get lost, stolen, or broken, during use. It has never happened to me, but I have to reckon with the randomness of the world when I decide what to spend my money on. So while I like a number of custom and mid-tech knives, it's their prices that I can't love. I might be able to persuade myself to pay two hundred dollars for a knife. But more than that, and I find myself with a knife that I cannot risk using, because I simply cannot afford to have anything happen to it!
 
Folding Omni Hunter™ 12PT Knife
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POS. Spring on the backlock way too strong combined with sharp edged release makes opening a painful experience. Supposed to be one hand openind, that must be a joke. The handle is the cheapest feeling rubbish that I've ever seen short of a cereal box, this is not a cheap knife yet it feels and looks like a cheap and nasty knife.

Add to that another Buck, the QuickFire Knife.
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Another plastic fantastic, at least this one has liners, within a week of buying it the right hand scale had broken close to the thumbstuds (blade open) and had to be fixed with superglue, at least the A/O works well and the knife feels better than the Omni.

Also a Nano Bantam
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Yet more plastic, bendable on this one complete confidence drain as you feel the knife flexing as you cut. The blade sharpened away too quickly making it just about unusable.
None of the above Bucks were cheap to buy over here in the U.K. and I consider the Omni and the Nano Bantam a complete waste of money.

Those three have put me off Buck knives for good, although I like the look and specs of the Vantage Force - Pro Knife I doubt I'll ever buy one because I've got a distrust of everything Buck has to offer. Before you start on about the famous Forever Warranty - the cost of mailing and the risk of getting it seized by customs is out for the QuickFire, the Bantam isn't worth the hassle and the Omni Hunter, well you can't polish a turd, it's simply a very poor design.
 
Anything by Medford but specifically the praetorian. It's a terrible knife and an even worse screwdriver or pry bar. Usually, something is good at one thing. It's terrible at everything.
 
sabre cat said:
Another knife that I just can't bring myself to like is the Benchmade Griptillian. However, the knife works very well for me. As a matter of fact, it works so well that I entered (and won :D) a GAW for one here at BFC. I like the blade steel, love the Axis lock, and the thing fits my hand like a glove. But, I don't like the overall looks, feel or size of the knife, and I HATE the sound that the knife makes when it is opened. I own other benchmades and they are all very subdued compaired to the noise that the Grip makes when you cycle the blade. Maybe the handle acts as a sounding board. I don't know.
To me, the Grip is the Prius of the knife world. Well engineered and butt ugly.

There is no question, I have a love/ hate relationship with the Benchmade Griptillian.
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This is spot-on. That plastic 'clack' when you close it is like nails on a chalkboard for some reason, lol. It is a great user, however.
 
I just acquired a Benchmade Adamas 275. I knew within the first 30 seconds I did not like that knife. It is so thick and wide - how do you use it? I'm sure it's a great knife and the new owner will hold it in high reguards, but it wasn't for me.

Another was the Cold Steel Spartan. I thought I was going to EDC this knife, but when it arrived I was amazed that this beast even had a pocket clip attached!!!
 
Two classes of folders make my "no buy" list:

1. Folders that weigh more than 4 ounces.

2. Folders with non-removable pocket clips.
 
SVTFreak said:
Anything by Medford but specifically the praetorian. It's a terrible knife and an even worse screwdriver or pry bar. Usually, something is good at one thing. It's terrible at everything.
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The Praetorian is my absolute favorite knife. LOVE mine.

I'm a well known Emersonoholic. I've owned almost every model Emerson makes, including all three sizes of the one I tried desperately to even like much less love - the iconic 7. Just cannot like that grip.
 
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