Whats your pocket knife pet peeve?

DrRollinstein said:
Assisted knives were basically the work around for all of the auto legal issues. They generally arent as nicely made and need a little bit of actual force to use instead of a button push.


This argument has been beaten to death. You'll never convince the other side. Even buying american and chinese is usually out of the question for them.

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And you can have all the China junk you want Doc.
 
One knife is not every knife. I have to keep buying them to find out for myself what I find cool and interesting and useful.
 
Shorttime said:
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.
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Pocket clip screws that aren't flush with the clip.

The rest of this list is super spot on, I hate framelocks that you can't help but put pressure on when opening the knife.
 
DEEP CARRY CLIPS! and especially the assumption that because some YouTubers like them we all want them. I particularly dislike it when the reasoning for having them is to not draw attention from or offend the "sheeple". I can't think of a worse possible driving force for one's behavior. No offense to those who find them well suited for their practical needs, I just prefer my knife being easier to grab, and I actually dig having that bit of knife sticking out of the top of my pocket.

Another is spring assist or auto on an AXIS lock...Hmm. Let's take one of the most ingenious and intuitive one handed open/close lock designs of all time, and remove the ease of one handed closing, just to make it open the smallest fraction of a second faster than it can already be deployed with the AXIS lock in the first place. Oh wait, there's more! Not only can you now open it with slightly more authority than you could have already with just a small flick of the wrist, now that is all you can do and there is no longer an option for discrete opening. Brilliant idea!
 
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DrRollinstein said:
Dont knock em till you try them, sir. These arent gas station specials im talking about.
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Not knocking the knives per say but the communist country itself. My company in Vietnam was caught in an L shaped ambush and we were nearly wiped out.Captured enemy documents proved they were part of a Red Chinese force helping the North Vietnamese Army. This happened near the Cambodian boarder within Vietnam boarders. Yes sir, they can keep their knives. Oh and I hate Jane Fonda too. Please don't ask me why because any good American will already know the answer why.
 
DrRollinstein said:
... This argument has been beaten to death. You'll never convince the other side. Even buying american and chinese is usually out of the question for them.

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To be fair, people do have different reasons for making their decisions on this one. For instance, Ripcord 82 has a strong personal reason. Quiet hasn't elaborated yet. As I hoped my original comments made clear, I often see people taking an isolated stance on this tiny sliver of the overall market out of some sense of economic patriotism.

I should clarify that I'm not commenting on the merits of our "global economy" or the factors which have caused it. The fact is that it exists. The causative factors affecting the global market place and the health of American manufacturing have a lot more to do with politics, trade deals, regulations, etc. than they do our personal buying habits.

I prefer to use more tangible metrics like quality and price to make my buying decisions. Given that I carry budget gear, generally under a hundred bucks, most of the gems happen to be made in China. Over the last twenty years, I've always had at least one American-made Kershaw in my EDC rotation but it wasn't because they were made in America. I'm not sure that would matter anyway since Kershaw does make so many of their knives in China. To make a long story short, I feel like both pride and shame for knives depending on their country of origin is a "pet peeve" of mine.
 
Chronovore said:
To be fair, people do have different reasons for making their decisions on this one. For instance, Ripcord 82 has a strong personal reason. Quiet hasn't elaborated yet. As I hoped my original comments made clear, I often see people taking an isolated stance on this tiny sliver of the overall market out of some sense of economic patriotism.

I should clarify that I'm not commenting on the merits of our "global economy" or the factors which have caused it. The fact is that it exists. The causative factors affecting the global market place and the health of American manufacturing have a lot more to do with politics, trade deals, regulations, etc. than they do our personal buying habits.

I prefer to use more tangible metrics like quality and price to make my buying decisions. Given that I carry budget gear, generally under a hundred bucks, most of the gems happen to be made in China. Over the last twenty years, I've always had at least one American-made Kershaw in my EDC rotation but it wasn't because they were made in America. I'm not sure that would matter anyway since Kershaw does make so many of their knives in China. To make a long story short, I feel like both pride and shame for knives depending on their country of origin is a "pet peeve" of mine.
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What difference does it makes what his reasons are? I don't buy Chinese knives either. I'm very glad you enjoy them, but no one has to explain themselves as to why they don't...
 
Coated blades. They look cool when worn, but they add resistance in cutting (for me).

Places with metal detectors.

As an idiot that I am, took my rare bronze spirograph sebenza to the airport (was running on little sleep and 4 hour drive to the airport), and had to ship it out of a kiosk in a flimsy plastic bag and my credit card number.

Took 3 weeks to end up in my hands again, I was sure it was stolen.
 
HwangJino said:
Coated blades. They look cool when worn, but they add resistance in cutting (for me).

Places with metal detectors.

As an idiot that I am, took my rare bronze spirograph sebenza to the airport (was running on little sleep and 4 hour drive to the airport), and had to ship it out of a kiosk in a flimsy plastic bag and my credit card number.

Took 3 weeks to end up in my hands again, I was sure it was stolen.
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Man what a brilliant idea. Wonder what it would take to set up in the airport to ship people's knives back home for them the right way. I bet tons of knives go in the bin, confiscated or stolen by err I'll stop there. But that's a good idea. I'm betting they have a lock down on that game.
 
South paw draw said:
Man what a brilliant idea. Wonder what it would take to set up in the airport to ship people's knives back home for them the right way. I bet tons of knives go in the bin, confiscated or stolen by err I'll stop there. But that's a good idea. I'm betting they have a lock down on that game.
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They have had this for years at my airport here (major tourism town). I've had to utilize it myself once. It suuuuucks, because it's essentially a red thick plastic bag that looks like a biowaste bag. It seals up, and you have to pay something super dumb like $15 to get it sent to your house.
 
Quiet said:
They have had this for years at my airport here (major tourism town). I've had to utilize it myself once. It suuuuucks, because it's essentially a red thick plastic bag that looks like a biowaste bag. It seals up, and you have to pay something super dumb like $15 to get it sent to your house.
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$15 is cheap! I think they billed me about $43. I wrapped my knife in a pair of socks, figured nobody wanted to steal ankle socks...
 
Things that I dislike in/on a knife are,
-Partial serrations
-Assisted opening blades
-Flipper tabs
I own knives with these features and just don’t care for them.
That’s what’s great about knives though, something for everyone!
 
Quiet said:
I am not under any obligation to answer leading questions from you. If you'd care to read more on that particular subject, feel free to utilize the search function. There have been countless threads on this already.
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Weak sauce, dude. Chronovore made some good points. Would it kill you to actually address some of them?

Yeah, we've all discussed this before. So what? You brought it up here in this thread. It's like all the other issues that get discussed once a week, like the caliber debates over on TFL. Don't bring it up unless you want to talk about it.

For me, I want to see more manufacturing stay here in the States. I want to see more jobs for American workers. I think buying American is part of the equation. Of course, I'm also in the budget camp. Is there an American competitor for Bestech or Civivi? How much more do I have to spend to get that level of quality made in the USA?

It looks like Chronovore was talking about why that's the case. That's a serious issue. I'm active on that stuff but it goes beyond the scope of the forum here.

Now that's out of the way, I don't like weak detents or 8Cr13Mov. :p
 
Cosmodragoon said:
Weak sauce, dude. Chronovore made some good points. Would it kill you to actually address some of them?

Yeah, we've all discussed this before. So what? You brought it up here in this thread. It's like all the other issues that get discussed once a week, like the caliber debates over on TFL. Don't bring it up unless you want to talk about it.

For me, I want to see more manufacturing stay here in the States. I want to see more jobs for American workers. I think buying American is part of the equation. Of course, I'm also in the budget camp. Is there an American competitor for Bestech or Civivi? How much more do I have to spend to get that level of quality made in the USA?

It looks like Chronovore was talking about why that's the case. That's a serious issue. I'm active on that stuff but it goes beyond the scope of the forum here.

Now that's out of the way, I don't like weak detents or 8Cr13Mov. :p
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Your attempt at challenging my comment was weaksauce. You also don't get to tell others what they can and can't bring up. If that's an issue for you, well, that's not my problem. If you disagree with a comment I made, that's fine. "Don't bring it up unless you want to talk about it." NNNGGGG no.
 
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