What knives have you "TRIED" to like but just "COULDENT"??

I have a few that I just did not warm up to. I have one of the large bone collectors that just didn't do it for me. I have a stainless combo edge native that I just could not get used to. A Kershaw scallion that I never much cared for. There are probably more but that's all that comes to mind.
 
yablanowitz said:
I must admit I find it impressive that you've both bought every model and tried to like them, but I find it a shade difficult to believe that there wasn't a single one of the 150+ that suited you.
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Sure is impressive. Im a spyderco fan boy and Ive not even gotten close to using all there models like the 2 guys quoted above who dont like em. To each there own :thumbup:
 
oh and a few I couldnt warm up to

bm mini grip (dont like handle) and most others BMs Ive used without the spyderco hole. Still regret selling my 710, sweet knife.
spyderco terzoula slip it. Such a good lookin one though, just to small a hole for me to warm up to it)
spyderco shabira, yikes! cant stand that knife.
spyderco superhawk, I wanted to, just too wide/fat/massive to carry efficiently.
 
The BM Grips have come up so often. Do you guys think that if BM ever wised up and offered it in a flat g-10 handle that it would be one of the most beloved Benchmades ever made? I do. :)
 
Tanto tips. Very early in my knife buying I got caught up in the tanto thing because, you know, it kinda looks like a samurai sword. As I started to try to use some of my knives I found I didn't like them at all.

Metal handled knives. I've got to say there are some really well designed ones. I've gotten a Sebenza, Buck Mayo, Benchmade 940, a couple of CRKTs, and even a Lochsa from Scott Cook. Each time I found I didn't like the feel of metal handles. Eventually I stopped buying metal handles.
 
Sebenza. If you could follow my enthusiasm as a graph it would be similar to the outline of a short roller coaster ride. A flat line with a sharp upward climb followed by an equally sharp drop, back down to a straight level line. I don't hate it but I dont really love it either.
 
Interesting Thread. For me it's CS Hatamoto, neither here, nor there kind of knife that I bought based on the looks, but it wore off pretty quickly.
 
Only a couple come to mind....the Emerson Commander and the SERE 2000. The Commander felt great in hand but I just couldn't get used to the chisel grind and the recurve blade. As for the SERE, the handle to blade ratio was the reason I didn't find it too appealing....nice, big comfortable handle but blade seemed too small(loved the blade shape though).
 
dericdesmond said:
Yeah so use it already then become a spyderco person, duh winning :D
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I used it to cut a pizza box this morning. Besides, why do I need to become a Spydero person when I picked up that LionSteel at Blade? That's winning :D


Oh, I've never warmed up to any ESEE knife. They're too boxy and I don't really care for them.
 
M67 said:
I used it to cut a pizza box this morning. Besides, why do I need to become a Spydero person when I picked up that LionSteel at Blade? That's winning :D


Oh, I've never warmed up to any ESEE knife. They're too boxy and I don't really care for them.
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Not even the dandy little Izula? It's in my edc rotation. :)
 
M67 said:
I used it to cut a pizza box this morning. Besides, why do I need to become a Spydero person when I picked up that LionSteel at Blade? That's winning :D
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That free se d'fly will out cut that $300+ monster all day (winning). But hey if cutting stuff is not a determining factor when choosing yer knives then whateva :D Oh and its spelled Spyderco, not Spydero ya yoyo :rolleyes: Xoxo
 
cziv said:
Not even the dandy little Izula? It's in my edc rotation. :)
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Yeah...I'm not a big fan of the Izula. Nice knife, and well designed and suited for its purposes. It even opened me up to carbon steels, and made me grudgingly respect 1095.

I dunno. Never warmed up to it. It was always about half and inch less blade than I really needed, and too much belly and sweep for what I generally use my knives for.
 
M67 said:
Here's another for the Sebenza, it's just never felt right.

Never been a Spyderco person either, but I do have one that someone gave me as a gift.
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i have sebenza, but i have never treated it like a super special knife. it's just ordinary to me and i regret that i spent so much for it...it's become a utility knife for me that gets most of its use when i go fishing.

as for spyderco; a great line of knives for sure, but i never have found the styles appealing.
 
gotta say the native excellent blade steel but the handle just rubbed me the wrong way
 
yablanowitz said:
I must admit I find it impressive that you've both bought every model and tried to like them, but I find it a shade difficult to believe that there wasn't a single one of the 150+ that suited you.
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Can't speak for the other guy, but I really did try. I have over 20 spydies and all of them sit in their boxes waiting to be gifted or traded. I can't complain about their F&F or ergos, they just don't "speak" to me the way my BM's. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
 
Anything Tanto or Chisel ground. Most newer Benchmades ( the early 1990's stuff is ok). Glock knives ( the ultimate sharpened pry-bar). Syderco Q (thoughtit was cool looking, but afraid I was going to break it every time I used it.)
 
this one is easy for me, Strider. i used to feel this way about spyderco, but i have a sprint run CTS-XHP military on pre order.
 
I love most knives I get, I more have the problem of trying to use them, rather then trying to like them. For example, I can't bring my self to throw my brand new Microtech Kestrel in my pocket, it's too beautiful. :) I also bought a Gerber fixed blade as a camping beater because I couldn't bring myself to harm the finish on my Ratmandu.
 
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