Whats your pocket knife pet peeve?

Heavy pulls and nail breakers especially w/half stops
tanto blades
sharp corners on handles and bolsters
Half stops
 
Whats your pocket knife pet peeve?
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  • Skulls
  • Squishy steel in otherwise great knives (Case and other traditional makers I'm looking at you).
  • Thick blades
  • Thin handles
  • Cramming so many blades in the handle one can't grip it for useful work; think Stockmans . Some how the people who design Swiss Army knives know how to do this with no grip problem .
  • Sticky pivots, even after I've loosened the screw, on knives that otherwise I would like to drop when I release the lock
  • Nothing worse than a serrated blade except a partially serrated blade.
  • The single bevel on the wrong side for a right hander ON ALL SERRATED BLADES ! ! ! !
  • For the most part Orange knives; I can tolerate Spyderco's burnt orange Delica / HAP-40 knives.
  • Overly stiff pocket clips (I have super useful springy clips on ten dollar folding box knives; what's the excuse on $100 plus knives ? ? ? ) !
I could bang on for another half hour but I'm being called to dinner . . .
Whats your pocket knife pet peeve?
. . . oh . . . you wanted one . . . theeee one . . .
Oh well pick your favorite.
 
Pocket clips that don't keep the knife where you put it.

Pocket clips that snag your shirt.

Pocket clip screws that loosen over time.

Big, useless, jimping.

Framelocks that you can pinch too easily, jamming the blade.
 
GB940Rookie said:
Black blades
Bearings
Lanyard holes
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Excessive blade play in any ditection. (if I can feel it wiggle, it's "excessive".)

Serrated Blades.

Pocket Clips.

Single blade "Trappers" and other Traditional patterns that usually have two or more blades.
(A "real" "Trapper" has two blades. Hate me if you must, but consider that since they ain't for me, and I won't be buying one, that leaves more for y'all that like them.)

Dull/lacking a "working edge" out of the box or hang pack/Blister Pack.

Knives that come in a hang pack/blister pack, requiring another knife to get the new knife out.

Fully or Partially Serrated Blades.

Knives promoted as "weapons" by the manufacturer and model names that make prosecuting attorneys drool and judges and juries cringe.

Questionable/hit and miss QC.

Knives that can't be sharpened without expensive diamond or SiC stones, or powered sharpening systems.

Holes in the blade.

Serrated Blades.

Pocket Clips.

"People" (note quotes) that see someone with a knife in public and panic, for no reason.

Serrated Blades.

All the Fakes sold on ePrey.

"Nail Breaker" pulls.
(A stiff or hard pull does not make a knife "safer" ... quite the opposite, in fact.)

The attitude that some brands are made by "gods" (Mods, please note the lower-case "g") and then give those brands a "pass" on issues they won't tollerate on "lesser made by mortals" (and considerably less costly) brands.

Blades that rub the liners.

Celluloid handles/covers/slabs.

Liner and Frame locks.

Pocket Clips.

Holes in the blade, regardless of shape: Circle, Teardrop, Critter, or Critter Foot/Hoof Print.

Serrated Blades.

Studs on the blade to facilitate opening.

"Over Built" sharpened crowbars/prybars.

Chisel Grind.
 
My two biggest pet peeves would be - number one, final edges too steep and require immediate re-profiling on a brand new knife before it will even cut hot butter and number two, poorly designed pocket clips that shred pockets because of handle texture and or clip tension. Cold Steel is bad for this. I like a lot of their designs but generally avoid buying them because of their poor pocket clip designs.
 
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