Worst knife?

One thing I notice is that even "cheap" are OK. It kind of makes me feel guilty for spending lots of money on knives that "do" the same things as the cheap ones do. I only feel guilty for a very brief time though.
 
Heck we've all had some lemons I suppose.., but at least I know better than to borrow a knife from Keith, because he told us all what he'll loan us :p


"Hunters seek what they [WANT].., Seekers hunt what they [NEED]"
 
Gerber EZ-Out Jr. sure, there are worse knives, but they are priced cheap & you expect them to be cheap. This one was relatively pricey, and the lock would give out if the wind blew. Cut myself twice & then threw it away - too unsafe to give to anyone else. I'd give Gerber the benefit of the doubt & say I got a lemon, but then I read other posters here who had the same problem. Shameful! No more Gerbers for me.
 
...(tongue in cheek here guys...)...

Worst knives? Hmmm....all the Randall's I sold would have to be #1. What was wrong with them? Nothing, the problem is I don't have them anymore. ;)

Second? It's got to be that POS Spyderco 50/50 G2 Endura I bought over 8 years ago...I use it about 20 times daily, have tried to kill it more times than I can count, and the little bastid just refuses to die...

(Seriously, I don't think I've ever owned a bum knife....at least not since I was about 12...)
 
The people I loan knives too, for the most part don't even know how to open a folder. If one of the members of this forum wanted to borrow one of my knives I would have no trouble lending them the best one I had with me. That is except for you ExamonLyf. Try to get me into trouble will you? :p
 
...not a knife that I'd ever make a dollar on, but while slumming at the swapmeet I see this little black handled Gerber LST...

"How much?" sez I...
"Bouta buck" sez he...

Pretty cool knife, and I put on a wicked edge in about 5 minutes...

In comes the wife while I'm sharpening it...

"What cha got there honey?" sez she...
"A pretty cool little knife that I got for a buck, check it out, do ya like it?" sez I...
"Oh, yeah, this is cool, thanks honey" sez she... :rolleyes:

Yep, that had to be the worst knife I ever had...cuz I only had it for about an hour...lol

"Oh well, easy come, easy go..." ;)
 
During the early tactical phase, I bought a BM CQC-7 (970SBT). I could get it sharp, but I didn't like the way it cut. When the BM Stryker (910SBT?) came out, I bought it because it had a traditional double bevel grind, but it was made from the same materials as the 970SBT. I carried the Stryker for about a month, and just never cared for it. I was out running errands one day, and a friend saw the pocket clip and admired the knife. I sold it to him directly out of my pocket.
 
For me it was a cheapo Chicom SAK knock off someone had given me (I see them selling for $1-2), after a couple strokes on my DMT, the blade was so loose that if I did manage to put an edge on it, it would be dangerous.
 
I have a Buck Odyssiy. The worlds worst use of ATS-34 Ive found yet.
Due to a bad tempering the blade refuses to hold eny sort of edge and
is in a perpetual state of dullness. This knife gets a 10 on Shade's
patented sucko meter!:mad:
 
When I was about Cub Scout age, I bought a really cheap (probably my life savings at the time) knife with lots of tools like a swiss army knife has, but plastic "stag" scales. The distinguishing features were a full-sized fork and spoon that folded outside the knife. It was impossible to eat with and even more impossible to hold in any other mode. Any of you guys that grew up in the 70's might remember these. That was such a POS, I can't believe, even as a kid, I was stupid enough to go for that one.
 
Like frank k -- those little POS chinese "Swiss Army" knives -- blech!

I actually got one as a gift for being in a wedding and it has my initials on it! So I still have it. And, of course, I seemed nothing but grateful to the couple, and in fact was grateful for their sentiment, if not the gift itself. Knowing better is no excuse for being a jerk.

I particularly love the way the blade never opens to a 0* angle but only about a 15* one.

I have had 2 co-workers with those little Gerber keychain SAK things and they are pretty bad too. The plastic piece with which you slide out the implements keep falling off. I think it is just a poorly designed tool. I have liked every other Gerber I have owned.

Other than that, I have had very good luck with knives, even ones I expected to be POS's.
 
The absolute worse for me was the Emerson CQC7. It was and is a good knife. However, the blade does not fit perfectly snug into the handle when clipped in the pocket. So I ended up with an extremely sharp point barely a centimeter out of the handle pointing up in my pocket. So, I reach in my pocket for a quarter or something. And I immediately say, "damn, it looks like my *$%&?! pen busted in my pocket" Because my entire pocket was filled with "ink". Well you can figure out the rest. I pull my hand out and it is a blood covered mess. Which goes to show the sharpness of the blade. I didn't feel a thing. That knife is no longer with me.
 
Of all the knives I have received I think that the Israeli Commando knife made by Sheffield is one of the biggest P.O.S. of all times. It came flat dull with NO edge. When I took a nice clean file to it it felt like I was filling a piece of mild steel flat bar. I though that the Israelis had some good equipment but this knife is deffinatly a throw-away!
:barf: :barf: :barf:
 
I personally can't stand those POS Spyderco knockoffs they have for $6 at the local hardware/convienience stores!!!!! In addition to any of the Cold Steel, Emerson, or Chris Reeve knockoffs passed off as "quality cutlery" on the shop at home network late at night.:mad:
 
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