What you do and do not like

Haha alot of people probably don't like what I'm doing! :p

Lets see....

Likes:

Micarta/G-10
High quality stainless (ease of maintenance)
Price and ease of HT for 10 series carbon
Japanese styles
Quality automatics
Thin edges
Satin finishes. (even a rough vertical line belt finish)
Wild decorative patinas on carbon blades
Peel ply G-10
Ghost jade G-10
Kydex/concealex sheaths
Neck knives
Wharncliffes
Swedges/false edges or sharpened clips
"bayonet" grinds
Chisel grinds
Forge finishes on the flats
Flat grinds
Knives with an integral guard
Stacked leather handles (Marbles, Randalls, Barkies etc.)
Small knives
Skeletonized handles
Flared Tube rivets
Coffin handles
Damascus on a modern/tactical blade (a la Snody)
Everything Matt Lamey does.
Wispy cloudy hamons (Speaking of Matt)

So many more to think of.


Dislikes: (On premium cutlery, factory or handmade. No need to mention obvious atrocities in the knife world)

Most horizontal hand rubbed finishes
Mirror finishes
Convexed knives
Gut hooks
Turquoise
Filework
Brass
Plain wood handles
Poorly executed stag
Celluloid/mother of toilet seat handles
Dymondwood of any sort
Scrimshaw/bulino (on anything other than on a whale's tooth)
Naked fantasy chicks on knives
Art knives
Integral knives - Criollo, gaucho knives etc
Spanish notches
Fat obtuse edges
Serrations
RECURVES! :barf:
WSK knives from the Hunted movie.
Handles that are uncomfortable or make no sense.
Knives that have a beautifully sculpted sweeping plunge line....Ruined by a secondary sharpening bevel cut right in the middle of it.
 
Love. 1080/1084 I use 1080 maybe 20-100 times a day. My Channel Lock Pliers are made of 1080. Rust schmust. Other than once or twice a year I NEVER have them rust.(scotchbrite and they're good to go)I use them in water environments daily.(I'm a plumber) Patina? Yes! My biggest dislike is people badmouthing simple carbon steels. Cuts awesomely, easy to sharpen.
I love wood handles. Koa? Ooooooooh!!! Stabilized Redwood! I love, love, love Mark Farley.('s Burl Source)
Another love? Unique bladesmiths. Guys who follow their muse. Here in Shoptalk, Patrice Lemee',Trypper, and any others who make what they WANT to make.

Hate? Hmmmm. Cheap Chinese knives.
 
Love? A lot of different styles of knives, including many that I would not choose to make. I really like natural handle materials as long as they are some color that occurs in nature. i am indifferent abou some things like jigged bone, but such things have there place IMO.
Hate? Cheap ugly knives, expensive ugly knives, mid-priced ugly knives........you get the point. I HATE wood that is dyed a color that is not normally seen in nature.I hate the smell of micarta when grinding it and the look of the brightly colored laminates. Pakkawood makes me want to go shoot up a McDonalds. Paracord handles........don't even go there. I also dislike clunky knives, even ones that are done well. One thing that has been really getting on my nerves lately is bad damascus. It can be cheap Pakistani crap that won't even fully harden or the low layer count stuff that you see some of the big kitchen knife companies pimping. According to them, all you have to do is wrap up a stainless core in some lame soft low layer damascus cladding and you have Excalibur in your kitchen for $129.99.
 
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