What popular knives that you don't understand why

Knuts said:
Medford Knife and Tool.
Direware.
Hoback.
Tuff Thumbz.
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QFT.. I never understood poor cutting geometry frame locks that are marketed for hard use. Atleast Tuff Thumbz doesn't give out free knives to military agencies around the world to market his knives off of.
 
jill jackson said:
Best looking Spyderco made and it's very well made at that.

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Agreed...just got one and it actually IS beautiful.
 
Blackie Scantling said:
Maybe I'm not awake enough yet but I didn't understand a word of that.
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Probably my english. Or maybe i should have quoted the whole sentence: "A knife is a tool and if we don't treat our tools with a certain familiar contempt we lose perspective. Bob Loveless.

dantzk.
 
Oh this looks fun. Ok who do I wanna poo on?
ZT: Tacticool, heavy, and ugly. Tiger stripes? Really?
CRK: Ugly, boring, overpriced.
And on that note, Strider, Hinderer, Brous, all that awkward shaped, overpriced nonsense. They're always on the exchange in mint condition. Does anyone actually use these things? Of course not. They suck.
Oh and screw Opinel too.

I need a cigarette...
 
Blackie Scantling said:
Another very popular knife with an almost cult following, a fixed blade, that gets disqualified because of looks, is the Becker-9, :eek:, (crowd goes Oh,hhh and murmurs). A blade that looks like it came off a lawn mower and bulbous war club handle, form follows butt-ugliness on this one.
Too small to ax dead trees into firewood unless you want to turn it into a noisy, all-afternoon 'wood processing' project and too big for anything else. In a hunting camp it's one heavy piece of steel that would stay in it's sheath.
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Oh...Dear...God. I think its in the forum rules that you're not allowed to dis the BK9. Expect to be banned for that.:p
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Only if you use it wrong. What I don't understand about it is simply why they recommend the method of closure they do--that is unsafe. You should pinch behind the thumb studs with the forefinger and thumb rather than simply grabbing the blade. Totally safe that way, even when wet.
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I've got 10,003 reasons why you shouldn't use one:
1. Severed right thumb tendon
2. surgery
3. Months of physical therapy
4. $10,000 deductible.
 
squarebox86 said:
Here are some:
- Flippers (overrated)
- Any Zero tolerance knives (why not just get a fixed blade)
- Any Boker knives
- Any CRKT knives
- Any Kershaw knives
- Any thick tank folder aka sharpen prybar (why not just get a fixed blade)
- Cold steel knives
- Recurve blades
- Tanto blades
- Damascus blades (overrated)
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Sooooo..... Every knife? lol. That's quite a broad brush you're painting with.
 
Assisted flippers. Seems like they are made for someone who is handicapped. I shouldn't speak too soon. I may need on soon enough. Then I'll understand.
 
For me, it's the Benchmade Grips. I don't understand why they're so popular! IMO They're just ill-balanced...
 
JCB0802 said:
Sooooo..... Every knife? lol. That's quite a broad brush you're painting with.
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Yup, it's pretty broad but it also saves me lots of money being picky.
Spyderco makes great cutting tools. Benchmade makes good sharpen-folding-prybars.

For example, Boker, Kershaw, CRKT, Cold steel and SOG loves to use low-end steels even for great collaborations/designs which fail the very purpose of a knife, to cut. Some are so terrible that even my Victorinox stays sharper after some use.
 
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