Worst knife you've ever purchased...

Emerson Karambit

It had the fit and finish of a $15 import folder.

The lock would disengage if you looked at it wrong.

Nice design, just really poorly made.
 
Railsplitter said:
I had a Bud K camping knife with a fork and a spoon on it. I knew it wasn't a high quality knife when I bought it but that thing was just pure junk. One of the handle scales fell off the second time I opened the blade. Lots of play on the blade and the other implements too. It was more of a novelty knife than anything else.

I bought it because it resembled a knife that grandpa bought me when I was a youngster. Should have left well enough alone.

I've had a few others that weren't great but that one was the worst knife I've ever purchased.
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Case makes a model called the Hobo w/ a knife, fork, and spoon. Worth a look.
 
Kaizen1 said:
Case Mini Trapper in Damascus. Not because it was a bad knife, but because it fell out of my pocket within a week of owning it :(:

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What a beautiful knife. Sorry that happened!
 
Redmasta said:
Curious what batch was yours from? Seems like Microtech may have put out a lot of OTF's with bad springs early 2014. My Troodon from 08/2014 has been my daily carry since and has been rocking and rolling without a hiccup.
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2010. Got it in early November if I remember correctly. It had the new handle design with the grooves.
 
Bear and Sons Sideliner... (an impulse ebay buy) What in the hell was I thinking? The liner lock on the knife is like the top of a vegetable can - they should be ashamed.
 
Smith & Wesson knives are some of the worst I ever bought.

but this is the best S&W folder I ever owned. I regret giving it away to one of my friends, because now it's impossible to find another one.
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Just got the Boker Apparo. While the knife itself is extremely well made (I liked it better than my overly broad and bulky custom-made SURV 9), this is among the several knives I have owned that made me think it would cut better sideways (the early Buck Nighthawk being another)... I'm not kidding... I sent it to Razor Edge Knives to see if they can make a knife out of this very nicely handled blade blank (note the handle cording is superbly tight, better than I remember on the custom!)...

Gaston
 
Gavin S. said:
Man, the paraframe is winning this in a walk. I almost want to get one to just see how bad it is for myself.
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Save yourself the the trouble. I understand the way you are thinking, I bought one because I did not believe they could be that bad. As good knives can be hyped up, bad knives can be hyped down, I thought. So I did the experiment and got a paraframe. I don't like it.
 
Now I really have to try one too. You made me curious :-D

Btw what's up with all its positive Armazone reviews?
 
Paraframe is a awful knife, but the one I had long ago I tried hard to make it fail spine whacking the crap out of it and it never did give. The cheap lock just went all the way over and stuck there.
 
I recall two knives being absolutely the pits.

First was an Ontario RAT-7 in D2 steel. It actually wasn't really that bad of a knife but it had the worst fitting grip panels ever. And I paid a lot for it which made the knife seem even worse than it was. At the time--about a decade ago--I didn't have much in the way of tools and it took me forever to finally grind, file and sand down the micarta panels to fit the tang and remove the sharp edges. After that experience, I wouldn't buy an Ontario product for years until recently when I found they can actually make decent knives when they want to.

The other was a Gerber Something-Or-Other Chinese folder. The lock sucked and the pivot loosened in no time. I eventually threw it in the trash where it belonged. A year or so later I became friends with a guy who had the same model knife. I asked to see it and found the blade was so loose it rattled and jumped around when it was shaken while open. I immediately gifted him a Spyderco knife I wasn't using, telling him to get rid of that piece of crap. Honestly, I have a $9.00 S&W folder that has been a better knife than that Gerber.
 
Anyhing from Gerber since they stoppd making them in the US.
I still have a couple EZ-Outs and a Gator made in USA that are great knives.
 
A little (about 3.5") Gerber folder. Kind of a teflon-colored skeleton folder. Pieces fell off and were lost before I could screw them back on. Carried it until the screw that secures the blade was lost. I keep the blade around somewhere as a reminder.
 
Mission titanium blade garbage. A couple of Knives from MS Henry Torres worst heat treat ever blades chipped and would not take or hold an edge.
 
Bought one of those imported $0.89 'folding knives' off that big river in S.Am. It was meant to be a 'practice' knife for someone who has never sharpened or stropped a knife to learn how. (And not on the $130 knife I just got him.)

But the darn thing is so loose and poor fitting I have doubts about even handling it. Maybe I'll just epoxy it open and turn it into a 'fixed' blade.
 
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