whats the most embarrassing knife....

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whats the most embarrassing knife you've ever owned, and hoped no one ever found out about it!!!

for me it was the rambo 3 knife came out around the same time as the movie, by united. I whacked on some saplings next to my parents house and the blade came loose from the handle :eek: , no big surprise though!!!
 
I don't know if this counts, but I was embarrassed BY a knife.

When the Benchmade 970SBT's came out (a CQC7), I couldn't get a sharp edge. Here I was was, the guy who always had a sharp knife, and I was failing. I bought the 970ST (the all titanium version) and even Benchmade said that this knife would not be as sharp as a knife with a traditional alloy.

Finally I got Ben Dale on the phone and he walked me through a procedure that worked very well, (use all of the stones and the tapes, then lower the arm flat at the end and gentlely knock off the burr), but the knife still cut to the right in a big arc. Our office got some new furniture and I had a devil of a time trying to control the cut of the knife whacking through 3 feet of cardboard. I couldn't *steer* the knife very well.

I sold the knives to a good friend. He has no problems. The problem was ME all along.
 
The bevel on the cqc7 is one sided like a chisel, so technically the prob wasnt yours, as far as sharpening, you sharpen the same way as a chisel or pair of scissors. sharpen one side and slightly remove the burr from the other side.
 
Two, a fixed and a folder from Sword and Shield knives from Solingen Germany. With matching deer hoof handles. Kind of makes me nauseous now.
Jeff
 
ALL the knives I bought in a BM store over here before internet.

/Colinz
 
I've never had most embarrassing knife even if they are a cheapie I still enjoy them because they are a knife, sometimes you just have to enjoy the cheapness and get a chuckle out of them :)
 
A cheap swiss army copy that I bought at a flea market, my hot water heater wasnt heating water that great so I decided to go out and check it out and reset it, well the door had a latch that required a screwdriver to open it I pull the china army out and stick the flathead blade into the slot twist and the knife fell apart in my hand ! Well I saved up some cash did some extra jobs and bought a Swisschamp thats been with me for 8 years doing every possible job from trimming my moustache to helping me fix a friends vcr. That knife taught me a valueable lesson dont ever trust a cheap knife to do anything but break...
 
I once had a real POS Pakistan copy of a Buck 110 that I received as a "gift" from a magazine subscription. I bit the damn thing in-half and threw it away.:barf:
 
A Frost liner-lock that had a nasty habit of opening up in my pocket :eek:

I quickly learned which brands were better quality...
 
a giant sized, flimsy, pakistani lockback. oooooooh that brass and those wood handle slabs...mmmmmmmm:barf:
 
Originally posted by DB1
A Frost liner-lock that had a nasty habit of opening up in my pocket :eek:
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You got to be careful. Some good quality knives will do that, too.
 
A $6 Made in China 'Tarpon Bay' folder. Yeh, I know, but I bought it to keep in the truck. Actually, there's enough play in the blade to use the thing as a pair of sissors.
 
The most embarrassing knife was a huge 12" closed 22" open pakastani copy of a buck 110, this knife must have weighed 3 lbs. My mom found at the bottom of her driveway, someone must have tossed it out of a car window,(was probably used in a murder somewhere, did they ever find OJ's knife?):eek:

I spent a week polishing the brass, cleaning and reprofiling the blade, putting an edge on it, afterwards I tried to yard sale it, and nobody would buy it. I even tried to give it away, it was so crappy looking, no one wanted it, in fact anyone who's willing to send me shipping costs can have it.
 
Well living over here, I am made to feel like I am a weirdo every time I ever let anyone see a knife I might be carrying or have bought.

Makes me sad, but what am I gonna do (short of moving)? :(
 
I had a knife that had massive potential to embarrass me, but so far I've successfully kept it hidden. My wife's uncle gave me a small box one Christmas morning. He was beside himself with glee and literally couldn't wait for me to open it and see the great gift he'd gotten me. After all, he's a cheap b#@$%rd and he was probably stoked that he'd gotten such a great knife for only 2 or 3 dollars. It had ridiculous plastic scales with chinese dragons on them, and the pot metal blade looked like it was pressed out of old fishing sinkers. I've kept it hidden so well that I'm not even sure where it is now. Hopefully I hid it in the garbage can.
 
Well, this one time, in the Army Navy store; I saw this survival knife, and it was only $10! Then I got it home and managed to break the wire saw within 3 minutes. It's the kind of gaudy, tacky POS that I cringe when I look at now. My only defense is that I was only 13 at the time. I coined what became a new phrase around our house after that though; I called it a "hunk of junk", after my dad was kind enough to 'buy' it off of me after the wire saw broke! Of course, then he wanted to know why I called it an 'HUJ' after he'd shelled out $10 for it. My reply was that he offered to buy it, I didn't ask, so it was his fault not mine. We got a lot of laughs out of that crappy knife, and I learned a valuable lesson too.
 
The most embarrasing knives I ever owned were Schrade knives. Two I bought myself: Avatar, Lake & Walker 2. Three I received as gifts: Cliphanger, Simon, and an X-Timer I got for Christmas this year. Schrade makes some decent slip joint folders, but their one-handers are absolute crap. :barf:
 
cid, they're knives are well....something to be desired.

Torz,
if there was an "embarrassing knife award" I'd give it to you!!!
 
My Sister got me a set of 4 Jaguar folders for Christmas this year. The first liner lock I pulled out was missing the thumbstud. Just a little hole in the blade where a thumbstud was supposed to be. I didnt even look further on that one. The second one had it's thumbstud, but would not open with one hand. Once opened, it had lots of blade play, horrible steel and horrible grinds, etc...
The third one actually opened with one hand, but was pretty stiff. I have since given this one to a neighbor kid. The fourth knife in the set is some kind of cheezy little Swiss Army type copy. I didnt even bother to look further at this one. All four of these "knives" are of the cheapest possible materials and construction. All are proudly marked CHINA, and would fit perfectly on the Home Shopping Network knife show. Thanks, Sis!:barf:
 
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