Why did i buy it? Regret thread

Fossilized Fish 969.
The flipper tab will rip your thumb off and the amount of pressure required to open it makes the knife 100% child proof (damn near 52 year old proof). Once open it's not a bad knife it's just not anywhere near the fidget toy I thought it would be.
 
Kiteman72 said:
I would hate to see everyone pile on just you, so I'll add the CRK Impinda for me.
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badmatt said:
Every. Single. Benchmade...
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I have to say im this boat as well. I personally love the look of many benchmades, but find them too thick and dont like the axia lock. I had a Sebenza 21 and a 25…. For me… they just seemed to be high quality yet ordinary and overpriced.
 
Cementite said:
Is it just me, or is the steel in those knives complete garbitch?

I'm far from an expert at sharpening (although I'm starting to get the hang of it) but my Gerber Paraframe is one of only two knives in the entire house (along with a POS stainless kitchen knife from the 1950s) that I CANNOT put an edge on.

Anyone else experience this with the Gerber Paraframe?
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Who spends $15 on a knife and expects it to be great?
 
marrenmiller said:
I'll throw mine in, I suppose.

A Brous Vendetta is probably my worst and most embarrassing knife-related purchase that I can remember. It looked cool and had an astonishingly stiff detent that made it open like a firecracker. That's about all the good I can say, though.

It was overpriced (even "on sale" from Brous), was seriously lacking in quality, and was completely impractical for cutting with or holding in one's hand. There was even a significant blemish in one of the G10 scales where it looked like whoever made it had bonded two pieces of G10 together into a single sheet. I felt like I had to make apologies for it every time I carried it. I sold it at a significant loss and focused on more reputable brands.

I still laugh a bit every time I see a Brous listed for sale because I know they don't really have any resale value.
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I have a silent soldier G10 flipper that no body wants to trade me for 😂 it's actually a pretty decent little knife that I've decided to hang onto.
 
irsh said:
Who spends $15 on a knife and expects it to be great?
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When I bought mine I couldn't have been much older than 15 or 16... At the time that represented nearly an entire morning's worth of wages from the dairy farm I was working on.

I have a few now that are in that 15-20 dollar range that I think are great knives... But not a Gerber amongst them.
 
Wild Willie said:
When I bought mine I couldn't have been much older than 15 or 16... At the time that represented nearly an entire morning's worth of wages from the dairy farm I was working on.

I have a few now that are in that 15-20 dollar range that I think are great knives... But not a Gerber amongst them.
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I will shit on Gerber all day long but even they have decently functioning knives for 15-20 buckaroos, their slipjoints and I think one called the highbrow???? They aren't bad but of course you're playing with fire trying to get one that's not janky from the factory.
 
RoyalHolic said:
I will shit on Gerber all day long but even they have decently functioning knives for 15-20 buckaroos, their slipjoints and I think one called the highbrow???? They aren't bad but of course you're playing with fire trying to get one that's not janky from the factory.
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I always liked the gator grip folders as a youth, but that paraframe really made me gun-shy of the brand in general.

I might recover one day, but I'm pretty content with where my accumulation sits at the moment, so that day might be some time away yet
 
Wild Willie said:
I always liked the gator grip folders as a youth, but that paraframe really made me gun-shy of the brand in general.

I might recover one day, but I'm pretty content with where my accumulation sits at the moment, so that day might be some time away yet
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I wouldn't bother with their folders they don't have anything worthwhile, every few years they come out with something like the fastball which is a good knife but fall back to mediocrity or bad.

I would trust a lot of their fixed blades though.
 
The 3V Puukko is my only Benchmade and I am happy with that.

Regretted my Paragon Warlock, terrible, and, the Case Texas Toothpick I had.
 
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Lesknife said:
Rather than admitting I bought and paid good hard earned money for a crap piece of knife I tell everyone I got it to scrape paint, carbon and corrosion to save my good knives. Lol dare I venture to cut something with it lest someone sees me trying. Lol
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If it were not for our poor knife choices we wouldn’t fully appreciate our better knives.

n2s
 
Wild Willie said:
I always liked the gator grip folders as a youth, but that paraframe really made me gun-shy of the brand in general.
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my only experience with the gerber brand is the standard size para frame and the mini. I want to say the two came as a pair but I don’t recall, as this was 10+ years ago. All I remember was getting a blister from using the damn thing for more than a few minutes and it wouldn’t hold a decent edge. That was all I needed to decide gerber wasn’t for me. Maybe they’ve improved since then, but I’m in no rush to find out.
 
norcalAF said:
I have a silent soldier G10 flipper that no body wants to trade me for
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I think I remember that... Weren't you trying to get a Shiro F3 or Brown Cortex V2 for it? I was actually starting to feel bad for you, seeing you get ignored in post after post.












Oh wait. Maybe that was some other guy
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Every knife I regretted buying that I sold, I have regretted selling. Except one. And that was a mid 1990's custom that was of such poor quality that it did not deserve it's price tag. I traded it to one of the owners of Tops knives in Las Vegas for a prototype Anaconda. Which I sold several years later, and certainly regretted selling that Anaconda.
 
K.O.D. said:
We've had a few regret selling threads here ad of late, but what do you regret owning whether now or in the past. Big list for me.

As a middle schooler and high schooler, all the cheap crap at the "ninja store" at North Pier mall. Throwing knives, small daggers, typical kid stuff that I (mostly) would never see after high school. Still have one very dull throwing knife left I found recently.

Everything tanto, and/or partially serrated. I still have my Sog mini x-ray vision, somewhere. Used it many years.

Including, but not limited to:

Sog Trident tanto tini
Sog flash partially serrated
CRKT M16-12Z tanto
CRKT K.I.S.S. tanto
Camillus lev-r-lok tanto

I own none of these, sold or lost more than ten years ago. Well the CRKT went in the garbage.

Anything assisted
ZT 0350TS partially serrated
Kershaw leek
Kershaw blur
Aforementioned Sogs.


Brous Bionic. I used the hell out of it, but it's battered, ugly, and embarrassingly inferior to Everything else I own. It's a loaner.

Flea market knives. Yes, terrible as it is to admit, I once bought a United cutlery "phoenix" knife at a flea market when I was in my early 20s. Among other crappy knives. Disappeared in one of my many moves, definitely don't miss it. The likelihood of a klingon breaking into my apartment and challenging me to a d'k tahg fight were very slim.

I'm thankful that the Brous and Sog are the only two remaining.
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Except for orders that turn out to be clone /fakes, not as expected ; or arrive defective somehow , with the hassles of returns etc ...no real regrets !

I consider it a journey . A learning experience . An adventure !

A personal process of evolution of both knowledge and skills .

Trying new and different designs and materials . Variety .

Yeah ...even the crappiest ones ,if I learn something ...no regrets ! :cool:
 
Honestly, I regret most of my purchases, and there have been alot. There are some that I like better than others, and I find many times the ones that I enjoy most are not really what would be considered "premium" products.
I guess I am a glass half empty guy, but I seem to find something that I don't like about almost every knife. Could be the grind, blade shape, position of the tip, blade steel, blade coatings, handle shape, handle feel, cutting performance, difficulty in sharpening, lock system, position of thumbstuds, stupid matchstrike pulls, too stiff, too loose, too heavy, too light, too big, too small, etc.

I haven't found a perfect knife yet, because everything that you gain in one attribute seems to be a tradeoff in another area. What is good for a woods knife, or hunting knife makes it suck for edc. What makes it feel good in the hand is often uncomfortable in the pocket.
Some of the ones I love the most I actually don't carry and use very often. And I admit I overthink the whole thing, so I should use my gut instinct to grab one and sell the rest. But knowing me I would be trying to buy them all back in a month 😂
 
chevyrulez1 said:
Honestly, I regret most of my purchases, and there have been alot. There are some that I like better than others, and I find many times the ones that I enjoy most are not really what would be considered "premium" products.
I guess I am a glass half empty guy, but I seem to find something that I don't like about almost every knife. Could be the grind, blade shape, position of the tip, blade steel, blade coatings, handle shape, handle feel, cutting performance, difficulty in sharpening, lock system, position of thumbstuds, stupid matchstrike pulls, too stiff, too loose, too heavy, too light, too big, too small, etc.

I haven't found a perfect knife yet, because everything that you gain in one attribute seems to be a tradeoff in another area. What is good for a woods knife, or hunting knife makes it suck for edc. What makes it feel good in the hand is often uncomfortable in the pocket.
Some of the ones I love the most I actually don't carry and use very often. And I admit I overthink the whole thing, so I should use my gut instinct to grab one and sell the rest. But knowing me I would be trying to buy them all back in a month 😂
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I used to be like that, I didn't regret buying them as such, but managed to find fault with everything one way or another. I decided to stop buying knives and start buying equipment so that I can make my own. It's a steep learning curve. But, even though my creations are far from perfect, its more pleasurable than that sinking feeling that you have wasted your cash. I pick the knifes purpose, pick a design I find appealing, decide the order of the attributes that are important to me, and go from there. The whole process is very enjoyable. To cap it all off, there are some great lads on here who bend over backwards to help you along the way.
 
hhmoore said:
I think I remember that... Weren't you trying to get a Shiro F3 or Brown Cortex V2 for it? I was actually starting to feel bad for you, seeing you get ignored in post after post.












Oh wait. Maybe that was some other guy
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Lol, I wasn't that ambitious!
 
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