What You thought would be the best turned to be the worst???

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Did you ever shed blood, sweat and tears for a knife you just thought you had to have only to find out when you got it that it was a pile of sh!te??

If so what was the knife and how did you rid your self of this unworthy demon.

(I am not sure if I am breaking any rules by asking this, I certainly didn't mean to!)

Mine has to be a "Andejar" fixed 9" survival knife with removable wooden handles to store a survival kit and chainsaw like teeth that wouldn't cut morning dew. Bought it for £80 (about $130) sold it for £40)

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Hunting?
Don't be a wise guy!
What d'ya hunt with a knife?
Name it!
 
[XXXXXX] Bird & Trout knife (I'll be nice enough to protect the identity of the maker).

Cheap production damascus steel.
Bad piece of stag with big, soft core & no butt plate or cap.
Crooked grinds.
Little, if any, "fit" or "finish"
Sloppiest soldering job I've ever seen on anything that's ever been soldered in the history of soldering.
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...and a beautiful certificate of authenticity, signed by .... his WIFE

like they say, caveat emptor...
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BTTT!!!

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Hunting?
Don't be a wise guy!
What d'ya hunt with a knife?
Name it!
 
Wulf, I dont think it is wise nor right to "protect" a maker from telling others you are not satisfied with his product, in most cases. After all you may save others from getting disappointed.
 
Sigurd,

I appreciate your sentiment, but we all know how important reputation and public opinion is to a knifemaker. Though I usually don't hold back my opinions, I feel that this particular situation warranted a bit of discretion on my part. For one, I bought the knife sight-unseen from a private collector on E-bay. His description of the knife failed to mention any of the flaws and the picture told me very little (the seller, after hearing my grievances, resolved the situation to my full satisfaction). Second, the knife was inexpensive. Third, the maker backed his product with a warranty.

The maker never made any false claims, so I feel it's innapropriate to bash him in the forums. Plus, his knife-making skills may have improved by now.

However, I have heard other collectors say negative things about the maker. A custom knife dealer in Utah actually told me he couldn't bare to sell any of that maker's knives, even though he had several. I'll just assume this maker's reputation already sucks, and revealing his name here won't do anybody any good...
 
Hope I'm not gonna step on the collective toes of the Microtechianmaniacs, but I'd have to say that my biggest disappointment was with the Microtech Vector.
Pictures of it absolutely blew me away, but when I received it, I thought it was a joke.
I forget the specs, but it was, to use professional-speak, teensy-weensy ANDitsy-bitsy!

Workmanship was what you'd expect from MT, but MAN!! I can't believe that a knife like that would be made to such liliputian specs.

I wound up giving it to my best friend's son for Christmas. His dad's kinda on the small side, so I figure that when he gets older, he might find it usefull.

Yes, I KNOW I shoulda read the specs before buying, but the blade was too sexy to ignore. Kinda like an eastern european mail order bride. Everything looks great on paper, then when they finally arrive, they all complain that they wanna live in a house with plumbing.... I'm ranting, so I'll shuddup.

Anyways, that's my worst experience.

Disgruntled, yet smiling in an eerie kinda way,
I remain,
VG

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don't worry, I'm a Microtech fan but I think the Vector and the Kestrel are complete ripoffs. way too small, and ugly in my opinion... wtf was MT thinking?
 
I was deeply disappointed in the Gerber AF combat folder. I got one of the first ones that came out, and was disgusted with the way the liner lock only engaged the blade the teeniest tiniest fraction of a micron... So I sent it back to Gerber for adjustment, only to receive what looked to be the exact same knife, but with the pivot screwed tighter. So their idea of repairing the linerlock was to make the knife harder to open, but with the same poor lock engagement.

So I traded the knife to a gun store proprieter, figuring it would be HIS problem to unload the thing.

Razor

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[This message has been edited by Razoredj (edited 07-02-2000).]
 
Luckly for me after allll the knives I bought there is only one that stands out as a GREAT disapointment.

A few years ago I bought the Benchmade CQC7 designer collaboration. The chisel ground edge sucked for anything I ever need. The tip broke off and the blade edge as a whole was prone to chipping. The handle was huge and square .. yea I gave it away and wrote off the money.

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Kershaw Wild Wild Turkey.Just did not do it for me.Big downer.

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