what knife that you regreted to buy?

Smith and wesson SWAT, gerber mini-covert. I bought both of them when I was inexperienced about knives. Won't take an edge. And plenty of blade play in the Gerber.

TBG
 
I would say a lot of the cheaper knives I bought for whatever odd reason before I knew much about steel.
 
Gil Hibben Kerambit from UC . It just won't get an edge to begin with due to the original grind. I really don't feel it's worth it to spend the time to regrind an edge on this one.
 
i bought the Ontario Spec Plus 24 USN1
i payed about 50$ with shipping and when i opened the box it was just so dissapointing, cheap looking, and way smaller than it appeared to be in the pictures...but thats what i get for buying without researching and being a newbie...i should of put that money towards a camp tramp. dammit!
 
goldie said:
Emerson raven;way overpriced, the thumb disk was set too far back to open easily, & the handle didnt feel good; too much handle, too little blade...............
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Really? Darn, I just got one off of ebay last week that's on the way over to me. No particular reason. I didn't have an Emerson in my collection and I chanced upon an auction for the Raven.
 
The knife I'm dissappointed with is this $40 survival knife I got. It was early in my collection, and it's what actually kicked off my interest in a collection. That knife I got primarily because of all the survival functions -- built in slingshot on the sheath, compass built in the handle, and a tube in the handle with bandages, needle & thread, mirror, and other things, nylon roping, screwdriver, can opener.

But the knife is horrible. It feels cheap and the blade rattles from the handle (it's not a folder).
 
Emerson SOFCK. Action was extremely tight, and the grind was too thick.

CRKT SealTac. Dull out of the box, and I would have needed a belt grinder to put an edge on it.

Benchmade Ascent. Dull out of the box, and when I tried to switch the pocket clip to the other end of the knife, I discovered that the handle had a mold defect, preventing me from screwing the clip down.
 
I regretted buying my Benchmade 705 BW knife. The knife is well made but the wood inlay was rather plain. I feel that Benchmade should have picked a piece of wood with a better grain.
 
CRKT Kasper Folder worse $35 I've ever spent. I was practicing thrusts with it to see how it felt compared to my handmade Crawford version and on a hard stab the lock let go and damn near took my finger off (didn't have the LAWK engaged) store took it back without question.

Strider AR and SnG. Had a couple of each of these and the fit\finish and overall quality was not something I would expect in a $350-$400 folder. Off center blade, unequal profiles\grinds, shoddy lockup on 2 AR's. Eventually got out of them and into 2 SMF's that have no quality issues at all.

Early Pat Crawford Combat Folder, has a tanto blade and skeletonized titanium handles. The lock fails on this poor thing with VERY light hand pressure. I did buy it used though, and paid friggin $500 for it. It was one of my first handmade folders and is sentimental for that reason. I kick myself for not being more informed at the time, since I think this piece listed at $375 from Pat back in it's day.
 
thebladeguy said:
Smith and wesson SWAT, gerber mini-covert. I bought both of them when I was inexperienced about knives. Wont take an edge.
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We must have went to the same school of kniventry! (lol) I was class of '98!! We know better now! :D
 
I have a prototype of the old Phrobis C.U.K. A stub tang a a total waste of money. It is worth it's weight in rat turds.
 
Tom Anderson Seahawk off ebay for around $20. :barf:
(Collaboration with some crappy factory.) :barf:



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The Gerber spectre. What a horendously built piece of krap. When the blade is locked open there is a gap of about .015" between the stop and blade. Never bought a gerber knife again.

I have a small Peter Bauchop hornet boot dagger I just never got around to carrying.

I have a Cold steel Skimitar also. Not a bad knife but I never carry it.
 
I have regretted buying all of my fully serrated-edge knives and combo-edge knives--now I only buy plain-edge.

I also regret buying a few hawkbill folders that I have since gotten rid of.
I just don't find them all that useful.

Allen.
 
Most CRKTs, a Camillus EDC. CRKTS 'cause they wear out fast and the EDC because it only seems to fit small hands. And has very little point.

Phil
 
marauder220 said:
Strider AR and SnG. Had a couple of each of these and the fit\finish and overall quality was not something I would expect in a $350-$400 folder. Off center blade, unequal profiles\grinds, shoddy lockup on 2 AR's. Eventually got out of them and into 2 SMF's that have no quality issues at all.
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Careful! If his fanclub sees this, you will have 42 pages of aggression!

For me, I dont regret many of my purchases. As a maker, I feel like im wasting money when i buy a production knife that for other than heavy EDC use, but can't afford others' customs and can hardly afford to own my own!
 
I sort of regret buying my boker helios ceratitan. It cost me $170 (which is an insanely good price) but the wood inlays look like sanded down dog poop. and the handle is more of a blue than grey like the picture. Plus I'm always worrying about blade strength. I know it's not as brittle as my infinity, but how much stronger?. it wasn't really sharp out-of-box and I haven't got my lansky system back from loaning it yet.
 
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