What knives do you hate, and why?

NeoClassic said:
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Maybe I should feel bad for it, but I kinda like that one:P

If there was a knife I would have to say I hated, it would be that Corkum first strike and MOD ATAC. Mostly cause I felt so stupid for buying them.
 
Should the dragonish knife from NeoClassics post be of decent materials, good design and nice fit and finish I really wouldn`t mind it on my bookshelf.
I do dislike crap art though.
And reputable Szaboinc with their mall ninja armoury, worse than mall ninja page design (I mean THAT many skulls, are they selling to necrophiles?), tacticool intro, several products meant for the mall ninja master, worst of which was
http://www.szaboinc.com/edged_detail.asp?offset=0&ID=148
Advertising with blood stains, seriously?
I did see several good knives there I really wouldn`t mind owning but this
http://www.szaboinc.com/edged_detail.asp?ID=176
is bit too much. Or is it just that mall ninjas have become too many to be ignored as possible customers. After all, their money is as good as anyone`s.
I have heard about Cold Steel but they have lot to learn.
 
Planterz said:
It's OK to dislike balisongs - they're certainly not for everybody - but don't base your opinion on the cheap piece of chinese pot steel crap that you had as a kid. The flagship of balisongs, the Benchmade 42, and its Spyderco and Bradley brethren are as solid as any folding knife out there, if not moreso. The "lock" is second in strength only to a fixed blade. Find someone with a quality 'song you can play with and you'll change your tune about how they'll hold up to use. Of course, you'll probably still hate them after you ricochet the blade off the back of your hand because you were holding the bite handle, but at least then you'll have a legitimate reason to hate them.:D
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Well said.
Balisongs have no lock to fail once opened, unless the materials/component falls apart, which is unlikely.
 
Fantasy knives and when people think they are so excellent by how they look. I also think Gereber's knives with "mystery steel" are a joke...says just how good the steel is when they don't even want you to know what it is.
 
I hate knives with useless improperly tempered steel that will never take an edge no matter what you do (usually cheap flashy imports.) The better they look the more I hate them because they entice false hopes of making them decent and their looks are nothing but false advertising (think of a turd that is beautifully gift wrapped.)

I am not too fond of inferior direct knockoffs of new unique designs either.

I also hate knives made of super hardened super steel that are sent to consumers unsharpened causing the customer who doesn't have a power blade sharpener to undergo a long project that may last days in order to transform his expensive novelty item into a proper cutting tool. I hate the ones you have to profile yourself even more.
 
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K.K. said:
Should the dragonish knife from NeoClassics post be of decent materials, good design and nice fit and finish I really wouldn`t mind it on my bookshelf.
I do dislike crap art though.
And reputable Szaboinc with their mall ninja armoury, worse than mall ninja page design (I mean THAT many skulls, are they selling to necrophiles?), tacticool intro, several products meant for the mall ninja master, worst of which was
http://www.szaboinc.com/edged_detail.asp?offset=0&ID=148
Advertising with blood stains, seriously?
I did see several good knives there I really wouldn`t mind owning but this
http://www.szaboinc.com/edged_detail.asp?ID=176
is bit too much. Or is it just that mall ninjas have become too many to be ignored as possible customers. After all, their money is as good as anyone`s.
I have heard about Cold Steel but they have lot to learn.
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I actually like the unique designs of Szabo as far as looks are concerned but I do have a phobia of them. Mr. Szabo's knives are made for specific purposes that disturb me to think about. These uses can be and often are legitimate but nevertheless still frightening.

His blade shapes (the Szabofly comes to mind) give me the impression that they are designed by a very knowledgeable and skilled surgeon who has gone evil.


I am not saying that Mr. Szabo is evil, just that the designs of his blades have not gone unnoticed by me. I find beauty in the looks of a lot of his blades but not in their purpose.
 
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Any of those things with soft steel (420j2 or similar) that can really only pretend to be knives.
 
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Knives in this color look awful.
 
For me it's emersons I dunno they seem to be made of decent materials I guess it's just that awful chisel grind.
 
K.K. said:
And reputable Szaboinc with their mall ninja armoury, worse than mall ninja page design (I mean THAT many skulls, are they selling to necrophiles?), tacticool intro, several products meant for the mall ninja master, worst of which was
http://www.szaboinc.com/edged_detail.asp?offset=0&ID=148
Advertising with blood stains, seriously?
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Can you imagine sitting in a court room while the prosecutor informs the judge that the name of the knife you were carrying is "surgical felony"? It seems that some knife makers don't care much how knife enthusiasts are viewed by the general public; it is possible to design knives for fighting/ninja duties without giving them names that make us look like a bunch of serial killers.
 
Dorito Monk said:
On the plus side, it would make a pretty wicked band name. ;)

Surgical Felony

It would but that song Haters gonna hate...really blows. :cool:

NeoClassic & Kyui Su Kim - You guys have to "close the image tag" to make it show up. :)

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I hate knives that suck when they are made by companies that used to have great reputations. Gerbers used to be great - now it's pot luck.

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