What to do with junk knives??

I have 4-5 junk AO knives that I bought at a gun show for $10 each. After a year, only 2 of them still work, both of which have developed an inordinate amount of lateral blade play when I adjust the pivot loose enough for the AO mechanism to barely function.

These are my loaner knives. The rest I plan on throwing away.

After having a Kershaw, Benchmade, and 2 Spydercos, I will never buy one of those junk knives again. For the money I wasted on all those cheap knives, I could have bought a really nice Kershaw.
 
To practice sharpening I picked up cheap knifes from the.... ummmm places where you donate items and they resell them. I bought the kitchen knifes for $1 and returned them very sharp. Someone appreciated them.

I imagine any knife that is sharp some people would appreciate... maybe give them to the boy scouts and teach them how to sharpen them? With a rock?
 
There's guys over at the Busse forum that just Love to test Busse knives by chopping up other knives to see how the edges hold up on their Busse's.
I'm sure someone over there will be glad to use them as test subjects.
 
lost a really nice benchmade(temporarily). my daughter came home from a softball tournament one saturday all excited that she had found a pocketknife out in the grass in the outfield and thought it would be a great replacement for the one i had lost. I did not have the heart to tell her it was a junk 4.00 gas station knife. works great opening up bags of concrete mix.
 
"You collect pocket knives? Well you can have this, I found it under the seat of my truck."

Or else my junk knives are the ones that I carried as a boy. Just can't throw them out, but they're used so they can't be entered into my collection catalogs. What to do...

I keep them in a Velveeta cheese box.

Only one ever did I throw away, a broken el-crapo switchblade that someone gave me. Simply wasn't safe to have around. Into the dumpster it went.
 
I use 'em to dig up weeds. If ya got a lot of other junk, have a garage sale. I give everything that is still useful to Goodwill. I don't know if they take pocket knives, but I don't see why not.
 
Sell them all at once in bulk. Someone will buy them, on that auction site.... maybe here.
I don't know. Are they really junk? How bad are they? Let's see some pictures!
 
If you have a serrated junk knife, practice grinding off the serrations :) That will come in handy when you have an expensive combo edge and you want to do the same thing.

When I was refining my collection I broke all my cheapo knives. I practiced the spine whack test on my cheapo Smith and Wession folders. . . I used my gerber paraframe to pull nails out of a wooden board. It's fun to do this kind of stuff to cheapo knives just to see what kind of abuse they can take (not much).

Use them as throwing knives if you don't already have some ! :D
 
I have about a half a dozen junk knives, that I keep in case of jury duty. I can carry it to the building-toss it in a bush-and then retrieve it after my day of civic service. If it turns out to be gone no great loss.
I know this sounds extreme, but I've observed others doing it.
 
d762nato said:
There's guys over at the Busse forum that just Love to test Busse knives by chopping up other knives to see how the edges hold up on their Busse's.
I'm sure someone over there will be glad to use them as test subjects.
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Are they drunk?
 
I have my share of junk knives too. I keep a lot of them in a separate box form my beloved Benchmades, Cold Steels, Keshaws and Bokers, but I keep them. I bought some knowing they were junk because they were very cheap and looked cool.

I have given the away to my brother who fishes a lot and needs a knife to cut string and such, but has lost several good knives I bought him by leaving them in at his fishin' hole, dropping them in the lake, or alowing them to rust in his tackle box. A 5$ cheapy does evey thing my bro needs to do, and it isn't a tragedy when he loses one.

My cheap knive are also a great source of spare parts when I find a good used knife that might be missing screws.
 
joe-bob said:
Are they drunk?
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Well that question is like asking, "are they guys from Busse forums?" Of course they are drunk. But on rare occasion when they sober up, they go and chop car hoods and stuff.

because god knows I and my neighborhood ran out of phone books!!!!

No Regrets!!!
 
I had a really bad junk knife I bought in Italy (didn't think of bringing anything over or EDCing there). For the 13 euro it cost, it was 13 overpriced.

The entire thing started to rattle/come loose after a day or two. Took it home, and a year or two later while my brother was handling it around a sharpmaker, it literally fell apart. Still have the pieces in a ziploc bag. I guess I could make a shiv, but the rest of the parts are junk (nor do I feel like reassembling it.)
 
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