Worst Knife You Own

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So I know there have been many discussions on favorite kinds of knives but I don't think there has been very much talk on the subject of least favorite knives. So in the comments leave a description of your least favorite/functional/usable knife that you own or have owned, also pictures if you have them.

Mine is a little no brand swiss army knife. It appears to be made solid out of some chiep pot metal. The steel is so soft that I can take the blade of the knife and bend it and curl it around into U's with pretty much no effort. Same with the "tools".
 
These are the worst
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I owned an Emerson CQC-15 for 6 months or so, it had lock slip (I could fold the knife closed without depressing the linerlock). I sent it in to be repaired, came back with a new lock bar. Same thing happened after being EDCed for a week. So I tried all the tricks to fix it, and went hard on the knife to try and break it in thinking maybe it just need to be broken in. Nope, nothing worked. The knife had terrible lock geometry, hopefully they've fixed it (it was a 2012 model). The backspacer was made of deteriorating g-10, and the fit and finish were appalling. The 154 CM was terrible as well, like it wasn't even heat treated, I swear it scratched up from cutting cardboard, didn't hold an edge well. Sorry for all the fanboys I just pissed off, but it was the absolute worst knife I have ever owned, complete trash to me and I will never purchase an Emerson again. I am really anticipating getting the ZT Emerson collaboration though, I know it will be superior to Emerson in every way.

Ah here's a pic of it, I really tried to love the knife, believe me I did. I gave it every chance I could, but it just let me down in every possible way. In fact sometimes I wish I had kept it, but it was dangerous to use the way it was intended. It's just too bad they don't give the production to a different company.

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I had some lock slip too. It broke in though. If ZT made a collab with a blade closer to 4" I'd bite.
 
Maybe I'll give Emerson another chance someday, but I can't see myself spending the money on one again for a while. I love the feel, size, and blade shapes, but too many things were off for me on that one. Did they change their lock geometry? I thought it was mentioned somewhere, but I don't remember.
 
Razdrazchelloveck said:
Maybe I'll give Emerson another chance someday, but I can't see myself spending the money on one again for a while. I love the feel, size, and blade shapes, but too many things were off for me on that one. Did they change their lock geometry? I thought it was mentioned somewhere, but I don't remember.
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I have 2 2014 Emersons and the lockup is fantastic.
 
all my worst or least favorite knives have been sold/gifted:

Cold Steel Scottish Spike
Cold Steel Kudu
Cold Steel Ti-Lite
Spyderco Native
Maserin Hi-Tech Stiletto
 
the worst knife I currently is a K.O. flipper knife from china. These were the replacement design for the original line of district 9 knives and they were horrible. They literally had 7 washers in the pivot. 4 on one side of the blade and 3 on the other. The washers look to have been made with a hand die set as they are off center and deformed and made from copper. It barely flips and lockup is very poor. My worst import knife I have ever bought. Its a shame because with some work it would be really decent. But its not worth the effort.
 
PURPLEDC said:
the worst knife I currently is a K.O. flipper knife from china. These were the replacement design for the original line of district 9 knives and they were horrible. They literally had 7 washers in the pivot. 4 on one side of the blade and 3 on the other. The washers look to have been made with a hand die set as they are off center and deformed and made from copper. It barely flips and lockup is very poor. My worst import knife I have ever bought. Its a shame because with some work it would be really decent. But its not worth the effort.
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I had one of those and have to agree. To get it to flip you had to loosen the pivot so much that the blade rubbed. If you tightened it down to where there was no play and it was centered then you had to use two hands to open it. It was a brick also. It's a shame. It took a helluva edge. Seemed like a good design but the execution sucked.
 
A Gerber Paraframe, 3" tanto, that I found in the street and thought someone had lost. After a few minutes with it I figured that someone probably just left it there for the next person.

And then there is the Buck 110 knockoff a former girlfriend brought me from Iran.
 
Several Gerbers over the years. Paraframe, Gator, and EZ out come to mind. Guess it took a while to learn my lesson. Lousy steel and blade geometry, none of them cut worth a crap.
 
Razdrazchelloveck said:
Maybe I'll give Emerson another chance someday, but I can't see myself spending the money on one again for a while. I love the feel, size, and blade shapes, but too many things were off for me on that one. Did they change their lock geometry? I thought it was mentioned somewhere, but I don't remember.
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Honestly, I think you got a bad one. But I know what you mean....
 
By far the Northwoods stockman that was the BladeForums knife a few years back. Several blade tips burned, bad walk, shield fell off, and seems like something else. I didn't get another BF knife again until this year. I got a couple of Rough Riders that are much better quality, but they live in the drawer too.
 
I still have a couple of flea market specials lying around that I picked up before I knew what a good knife meant.
 
I don't know if it's the worst, but my least favorite is probably the Kershaw Blackout. The liner lock seems so thin...and I'm not a fan of the handle.

Other than that I guess the Kudu would be the lowest quality knife I own. But I still like it. It's a great beater knife.
 
Must be the yellow SAK knock-offs Outside magazine used to send out years ago with a new subscription.
 
This piece of cr@p from Schrade. Fell apart the first time I gave it any serious use - the handle just disintegrated. In addition, the blade geometry is good for no task I know about. Sucks at chopping, too heavy for light wood work, can't baton with it because of the pseudo-sharpened back... And whatever steel it is made from won't hold an edge for any length of time. Total garbage.

TedP

P.S. - this knife was a Christmas gift from a well-meaning relative...

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