What's the worst knife you've ever bought?

The highly over priced SOG Ageis mini. I noticed alot of up/down playmbut I loved the look. in a nutshell I had it less than 24 hrs when it closed on my pinky and ring finger after stabbing a cardboard box!! 80 bucks and I stompped it into a hundred pieces in less than 8 seconds. Ive had close calls with the trident and flash 2 as well. The mini pentagon was that supposed to be a joke? i thought it was. SOG makes some great fixed blades but their folders I menchoined are a joke
 
Buck Tarani Strider. Didn't actually buy it (got it as a gift) but it is easily the worst knife in my collection.
Bizarre lockup, scrawny liner, off-center, overly-heavy blade, cheese-grater G-10--just awful.
 
Smith and Wesson knives are crap. Like their guns hate their knives. A close friend of mine bought one and seemed pretty pleased with it. I bought him an Emerson and told him to throw that crap away.
 
It's hard to tell. It could be that crappy no name liner lock that folded up under pressure or it could be any of my larger fixed blades. There have been very few times when I could actually use a large fixed blade outside the kitchen. And the few times there were I wasn't carrying. YMMV.
 
I've been given several terrible knives. Brownings, case, frost cutlery... The worst knife I've personally purchased is the ZT 0550 in S35VN. It looked great but underperformed. For the price it was a huge upset.
 
The worst knife that I bought was probably a Buck Vantage. That knife was an absolute disgrace to Buck Knives. It took a lot of work to get that knife into usable shape. How an Enlan can have completely superior fit and finish to a Buck is beyond me.
 
I bought 2 in one go. I bought a CRKT Ichi from Ebay, and the seller threw in a cheap Frost folder. The Ichi was way too small for my hand, and had a nasty habit of opening on its own in my pocket. I accidentally dropped it in the dumpster when I was breaking down some boxes at work, and never thought about retrieving it. The Frost, on the other hand, I still have and use it for destructive tasks like opening bags of topsoil in the yard. I also sometimes heat it up on the stove for cutting open 223 battery packs to harvest the 123 batteries for use in my flashlights, so it has no HT to it anymore, I'm sure :D
 
Today, a chinese multi-tool knife for 2€ (2,7$). simply the worst knife I've ever seen... it's a fu**ing messed up ripoff of a Vic, with dull blade, crappy materials, extremely bad springs... overall, a tiny red piece of s**t.
wasn't expecting much better though.
 
Gerber Mark II Survival Knife. Nothing wring with the knife per se, it's just that I have utterly no need for a double edged partially serrated combat dagger. But I bought it new when I was about 19, one of those foolish purchases of youth. I still have it.
 
The worst knives I bought in the past were made by Herbertz. Though Solingen is stamped they are built in China. Nothing bad with China in general, but this brand is horrible. The steel is pretty soft.

The other one I bought was a cheap Buck 112 clone at a hardware store. It was in its blister package and I opened it. The blade was dull, the "so-called-grind" didn´t exist and the blade wobble was just horrible.
 
Not sure of the exact name, but it was crkt foldrr (habdle had holes in it), cost about 60 dollars (in 2001).

After a year it started becoming loose. And this was almost never used other than mail and boxes.

other than that I dont buy a knife unless I did a month of research on it
 
It was a gift, but the worst knife I have ever owned was a Gerber FAST Draw. That was also when I found out that the Gerber warranty does not exist. You have to contact them through their website, and they give you an automated response that says someone will be contacting you in a few business days. The last part never happens.

Avoid Gerber like the clap is my advice.
 
Tsujigiri said:
Gerber Paraframe 2. It's not a horrible knife, but I bought it when I didn't know anything about knives. I could have gotten something with a plain edge, better steel, and higher grind.

I have a friend, though, who did intentionally buy a horrible knife from Big 5 when he turned 18, just because he could finally legally walk into a store and buy a knife for himself.
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Thats funny, and i agree its pretty bad, but one year i bought one for a relative and he still carries it ten or twelve years later. He said he loves it!
 
I would have to say it was a Smith & Wesson liner lock from Big 5. I was young and did not know any better:D
 
A couple of Frost Cutlery folders I got and gave as gifts. Very embarrassing when two people came to me within days of receiving them and said the knives has basically fallen apart.

I didn't expect much from them and they were cheap enough but two day's? Definitely the worst.
 
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