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

That's easy. It's a cheap $10 knock off of a CQC7 that I bought from a walk-in vendor who strolled into a local "establishment":rolleyes: that I was in with some friends a few years ago. It's a made-in-China POS that I regetted almost immediately.

It resides deeply hidden in the back of a closet--I only look at when I feel the deep need to do pennance for some evil deed I've done. It's kind of my own personnal purgatory.:p :p
 
I bought a China POS knife with engraved wolves heads in the handle and etched blade, Only reason I bought it was becase it was 77 cent plus 3 bucks shipping off E-bay LOL I figured hey it's knife, OMG it was crap but kind of fun to get for nothing.
 
I don't know whether it counts, but when I was 6, we lived in Norway. My father went on a trip with the RAF and, on his return, presented me with my first ever knife. It was a POS shaped & painted (!) like a cigarette. The "monkey metal" blade was about 2" long.

I felt like Indiana Jones playing with it. I lost it on Day One...

I wonder where it is now.........

maximus otter
 
I bought a Buckmaster for $200 Canadian! Thought it was the best knife in the world. Then returned it when I found out what it really was. Not really a poorly made knife, and the hollow handle was strong enough to bear my weight without breaking off the knife, but the overall design was just plain goofy looking. Plus, it had started rusting sitting on the shelf.
 
I had a buckmaster that I traded from a friend while in the military. I quickly found out, it was ridulously big, and not good for much!! The only thing I think it would be good for is a boat anchor!!!
 
mine was an gerber applegate combat folder.
i got it for x-mas. showed it to my friends.
it din´t cut $hit. that was emberassing for me.
even the sharpmaker can not give it a proper edge.
fails the spinewhack test too.
now i´m more knowledgabe about knives. thanks to you guys.
so that won´t happen again.

matthias
 
sometimes its just trial and error!!!:) it failng the "spinewhack" test could have been the particular knife being defective?
 
Oh lord...where do I begin. :rolleyes:

Lets see...When I was 8 or so, I bought a 5 dollar dragon knife that eventually broke into pieces.

Recieved a HSN Bowied knife special thing, with 3 swords, for Christmas one year. Im pretty much stuck with them being as how my parents game them to me.
 
hsn? hmmmmm......Im sorry, but look at it this way they were trying to do something nice for you! :)
 
When I was a teenager, and was a 'knife expert' , I bought two embarrassing knives. :rolleyes: The first was this wookie looking pakistan 'buck 110' knockoff, about 12" long opened. I could never get it even close to sharp.

The other one, which I still have (20 years later, I still take it out and laugh at myself...the knife, that is), was a 'survival' knife. It has the liquid filled ball compass on the butt end, hollow plastic handle, 2 rings that slipped over the butt end threads, which you could use as handles for the wire saw conveniently stored in the hollow handle. Don't forget the matches and fish line. The sheath has a side pocket with a sharpening stone, that breaks in two the first time you use it.

Believe it or not, one of my favorite knives.......to laugh at.
 
When I was a kid I bought two stupid knives. One was a fake automatic-
one of those knives that had a metal sheath on the blade that would retract when you pressed a button. $10 chinese toy. My parents were not amused :)
The other was a kris bladed stiletto. It looked "cool" but would bend back when I tried to slice with any effort, so it went into the trash, before it got me in trouble.
Then as a gift I got a goofy folder that had a blade longer than the handle- when you folded it, it became a "fixed blade." When you swung it open, a hilt appeared. A fun toy, but not very practical. LOL, I made a sheath for it out of cardboard and duct tape. :rolleyes:

The first "good" knife I bought myself is a tiny Camillus lockback which I still have, and the first knife I remember being given is an Western M49 Bowie my father gave me back in the late 70's, which is beat up but still in fine shape. I love the big obnoxious guard on those blades... no longer in style, I imagine. :D
 
Originally posted by glennbad
The other one, which I still have (20 years later, I still take it out and laugh at myself...the knife, that is), was a 'survival' knife. It has the liquid filled ball compass on the butt end, hollow plastic handle, 2 rings that slipped over the butt end threads, which you could use as handles for the wire saw conveniently stored in the hollow handle. Don't forget the matches and fish line. The sheath has a side pocket with a sharpening stone, that breaks in two the first time you use it.

Believe it or not, one of my favorite knives.......to laugh at.
Click to expand...

LOL I once bought a knife just like the one you described. I paid about 3 bucks for it.

What a major POS!

The edge was not only dull, the knife didn't even have something that could be called an edge. It was more like an unground piece of flat scrap metal.
It had more blade play than a cheap slipjoint folder (keep in mind that it was a fixed blade).
Oh, and the tip was rounded. That doesn't mean that it just wasn't very pointy, the tip seemed as if it were intentionally rounded.
 
stripey I have an old w49 also! one of my favorite camp choppers!! tip is gone, sheath has been restitched any times, but still a worker!!!



glennbad, quiet storm,

I remember those knives!! user to see alot of them in flea markets in the 80's, 90's. Did yours have the genuine manmade leatherlike sheath? that resembled cheap vinyl from a car bra???
 
Originally posted by rev_jch
Did yours have the genuine manmade leatherlike sheath? that resembled cheap vinyl from a car bra???
Click to expand...

Yup. :D

Purchsed it not too long ago (thought it was fun to own a real POS knife as an example showing non-knife knuts the difference between a real POS like that plastic hollow handle crap and a quality knife), so I guess they're still around today.
 
well it is a good example of cheap quality and dangerous cutlery! You know because of lawsuits many companies have put warning labels on their products. Some peanut cans will read "warning contains nuts", or a chainsaw label, "do not use hand to stop blade". Should these knives have not had lables also? if not out of liabilty, at least out of courtesy?!?

warning: lock will fail under medium stress.
warning: not meant to be used for survival.
warning: will not take a good edge.
warning: will not make a good gift for discerning knifenut.
 
Maybe more like:

WARNING! This low quality knife may cause laughter when shown to knife knuts.
 
Warning: Not to be used as a defensive tool, may cause possible assailant to fall down laughing if pulled out.
 
I am not going to get into the most embarrassing knife I "EVER" owned, but I will confess to the most embarrassing knife I currently own.

When I was younger (5-15) I owned a huge collection of fantasy pieces by United Cutlery and other various cheap makers. I ruined and lost most of them in my early teens. One of my favorites was the United Cutlery Terminator 2 dagger.

I mentioned this in a post about 6 months ago here and got an e-mail from someone who had one sitting in the closet NIB and I snagged it up at a great price. It currently resides in one of my Fixed Blade displays above my computer desk. It will probably be one of the few knives I have now that I will die owning. Simply because it has more sentimental value to me than I could ever get cash out of it.
 
Thats ok Bad Guy!!! I have a frost two bladed muskrat with red bone my Dad bought me when I was about 13, 14, 15? anyway its one of the times My dad and I got along when I was young, so to me it means something.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top