whats the most embarrassing knife you've ever owned and why?

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Whats the most embarrassing knife you've ever owned and why?

For me it was a united rambo 3 knife I bought in the 80's that I tried to hack a 1" sapling in half and the sapling won. My blade came loose from the handle and became what appeared to be....a medieval flail.
 
I once owned a POS made-in-Pakistan copy of the Buck 110 that was a "gift" as part of a magazine subscription. That "knife" was sooooooooooo dull that I couldn't cut ANYTHING with it...Not even hot butter! It was also so loose that the blade wiggled around like a warm piece of pasta, and I didn't even have to release the "lock" to close it.

I broke it in-half and put it in the "round file", where it belonged.:barf:
 
It's posing as a Chinese broad sword. It was made for the stage, no edge, no distal taper, heavy. I figured if would be a no frills, sturdy sword I could afford. Live and learn.

Frank

P.S. It made me happy when I bought it and it inspired me to draw and write, so maybe it was worth it.
 
There were 2 a POS SAK copy some one close to me gave me as a gift, it took an hour and a half to educate them as to the difference, and a POS Pakastani Buck 110 on steroids, this knife weighed at least 2 lbs, and was about 18" open, this one my mother found in her driveway all beat up , so she cleaned it and polished it all weekend and gave it to me as a gift cause she knew I collected knives.:rolleyes:
 
Some cheap Pakistanian knife that was given to me. I used it for the first time after spending a lot of time sharpening it. I was using it on a cutting board, (( forget what I was trying to slice ))
Anyway, the knife gave way in the handle area . The blade went backwards towards the handle.
That knife hit the trash can immediately.

Jack
 
I bought a balisong about 14 years ago before I knew too much about them.
What attracted me to it was the wood inlay handles (always been a sucker for wood inlays). What I didn't realise were the handles were so light (I think the wood might have been stained balsa) they barely had enough weight to complete a swing uner their own weight.
It went in the bin two days later.
 
Originally posted by T. Erdelyi
There were 2 a POS SAK copy some one close to me gave me as a gift, it took an hour and a half to educate them as to the difference, and a POS Pakastani Buck 110 on steroids, this knife weighed at least 2 lbs, and was about 18" open, this one my mother found in her driveway all beat up , so she cleaned it and polished it all weekend and gave it to me as a gift cause she knew I collected knives.:rolleyes:
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i hope you kept it. that knife will probably be worth more (to you) than all your others someday.
 
It would probably be all of those stilettos of my youth. I lost count on just how many there were. The cheap ones had spring failure within a year, the really big ones opened slowly and the expensive good ones always got sold for cash to gullible collectors who wanted to live a tad dangerously.

I gave the last one away to my college roommate sophomore year. He thought it was 'cool,' and I was embarrassed to have it with all of my new biker friends.

I bought a new Buck 110 (or the Shrade look-a-like) and was simply amazed at how much better a decent knife really was! It actually cut things crisply! I could open it in public! Oh well, every kid has to grow up sometime.
 
A few years ago I ordered a "Rambo" looking knife from some company for about 20 bucks. Then I saw one advertised for around 40 bucks. The one for 40 skins was a piece of crap and the 20 dollar one was obviously much better. I will admit that the more expensive one had a better sheath so I switched them.
I even sent a note to the company telling them that they should be embarrassed selling a piece of junk like that for 40 bucks. Wouldn't you know, I never received a reply.
 
I know what you mean Ichabod! I had a cheap german stilletto one that I trade for when I was young. It was generic the blade was only stamped "rostfrei" (stainless) nothing else!!The spring broke so I "epoxied" it back into the handle. It did work after that, it was a bit stiff, but it did work....for a while!!!
 
Yeah parfive the rambo knives (the cheap ones, which accounts for most of them) seem to be in a "special" class so to speak!!! to me a "cheesey rambo knife is most embarrassing.
 
older BM Ascent

it was my first 'modern tactical' knife.

and because i didn't have a computer yet i paid much more than i could have had it for anywhere online. all the worse because the lockup was almost nonexistant. i could close it by just pushing on the spine. nothing like carrying around a POS that you paid $85 for.

Metis
 
Metis,
I hope you sent that knife back to benchmade!!! they do stand behind their products. The quality usually is pretty good.
 
Some assisted opening knife I bought at a stand in Hampton Beach, NH for about $30. A main bolt came loose and disappeared within two day, and two years later the knife (now in several pieces) resides under my desk where it fell approximately one month ago and I've been too lazy to pick it up even though I know exactly where it is.
 
rev_jch,

heh, i would have, but not only was it my first 'modern' knife (slipjoints and puukkos still my faves), but it was the first time i'd ever heard of something called a warranty.

all was well though, i gave it to a buddy that couldn't afford a knife. it's his working knife and has sharpened about 30% of the blade away and had to reprofile the tip twice. as long as someone was using it, i was happy.

Metis
 
Not long ago I bought three chinese knives at a local flea market for less than one U.S. dollar each. they all had blades made from cheap thin sheet metal.

One was a single blade lockback, cheap camouflage painted plastic handles, no liners, lots of blade play.

Another was a stockman pattern, cheap plastic handles with thin metal pieces glued on to simulate bolsters, also no liners and lots of blade play.

The third was a SAK knockoff I guess like some that have been mentioned, I´ve seen lots of these around, can´t imagine anybody actually using them.

Embarrassing because it was like throwing away three dollars.
 
An Emerson CQC-7. It was a well made knife with great hand ergonomics. The problem was that it only had one edge on the secondary bevel.:eek: Then I found out that it was supposed to be that way. My knife nut friends all went along with my ignorance until the day that I was going to send it back to the manufacturer. Then they showed me the catalog that described the blade. It was more like I was embarassed because I didn't know, than I was of the knife. :(
 
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