Yet another pet peeve thread {:->

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My pet peeve is the tip of the master blades or other blades sit right at the top of the frame/scales. A little sharpening and then it sits in the open ready to stick you or pocket material. Seems to be the way traditional knives or done.You have to file the tip down a little or file the kick down some and this should not be on a new knife this day and age.
 
Pet peeves:
  • Bad factory edges that take a lot of sharpening / reprofiling to correct
  • Springs not flush when blade fully opened
  • Handle-to-frame fit is not flush
  • Significantly mismatched scales
  • Stock photos of knife that don't accurately represent what the handles actually look like

I don't mind a blade with even bevels on both sides that just need some smoothing up because they use a coarse grinding wheel, but what I hate is those grinds where it's a 15 degree angle on one side and a 25 degree on the other.

I got a knife yesterday that had the most jagged factory edge I've ever seen on ANYTHING. Finally got it into shape with my Sharpmaker and it cuts well, but it was a lot of work.

I think some of the companies that cater to the collector market just assume people are going to take a brand new knife and stick it in a display case and may actually value that bad factory edge because it can later be sold as "never sharpened" and you'll believe them.

Whenever I buy a knife it is with the intention of carrying and using it. I just happen to like attractive knives. I wish the manufacturers would remember that first and foremost their products are intended to be used as tools and not just collector's items.
 
OK, I'll chime in :D. This peeve seems to be mine alone but it is a deal breaker for me. The way GEC sinks their pins drives me Crazy. WHY do they do that :confused:
Blade wobble, slow blades, blades way off centre, lots of things bug me :D. I like choils though.:D

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Robin
 
I used to have to cut big hanks of yarn and if the blade had a choil it would always snag the threads :grumpy: So I don't like choils.
 
The choil isn't a problem for me but if a guy loses his knife on the job and steps into the hardware store or any store for that matter on his lunch hour to buy a new one, the new one should at least be sharp enough to use right out of the box to get him through the rest of the day. That just isn't so with a good percentage of the knives out of the box these days.
 
Whitedog said:
My pet peeve is the tip of the master blades or other blades sit right at the top of the frame/scales. A little sharpening and then it sits in the open ready to stick you or pocket material. Seems to be the way traditional knives or done.You have to file the tip down a little or file the kick down some and this should not be on a new knife this day and age.
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I'm with you 100% on this one, although I never file the tip; I go straight for the kick.
 
Blade wobble is something that drives me crazy. Blunt edges on new knives likewise. I prefer to have the pen in front of the main blade on a jack knife, but that's just a preference really. Bad design itrritates me generally, particularly bad design that isn't even original, but copied because it's fleetingly fashionable. Copies too annoy me of course, and manufacturers generally not being honest about their products or the production process (eg claiming knives are handmade when they're not).
 
jc57 said:
Whenever I buy a knife it is with the intention of carrying and using it. I just happen to like attractive knives. I wish the manufacturers would remember that first and foremost their products are intended to be used as tools and not just collector's items.
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Exactly. :thumbup:
 
Gary W. Graley said:
So, most that know me, know my largest pet peeve is the sharpening notch before the edge starts, really bugs me and is usually a show stopper for me to buy.

next would be blade play, that also irks me.

But what prompted the thread is a blade that I received today, blade grinding. I've made a few fixed blades and I know that I favour one side while grinding more than the other, much I guess like being right or left handed, you tend to do that a little easier or smoother. The folder I got today has one side, no big surprise it's the side with the logo on it ;) that was ground fairly flat, while the opposite side had a sizeable ripple about mid way of the blade, from spine to edge, which makes sharpening a pain, it irks me, I guess I'm easily irk'd ? :) I'll not mention the company on this but it's a traditional type slipjoint folder, quite small, single bladed.

What hurts the most on this folder, it's pretty small and narrow bladed, so you don't have a lot of blade to try and work out the kinks. I've emailed the Mfg but I'll see where that will take me, probably no where, but small or not, over $50 shipped is not something I can afford to just take it on the chin. The distributor wouldn't be at fault, in fact I had asked them a favour to check if there was any blade play and they did check before shipping, appreciate that! Part of the trouble of not being able to put hands on before you buy. My plan was this knife would be my 'Airplane riding folder' should fit the definition they have put forth, if they keep it in place.

I've sharpened it now, got the rippled side to be flat along the edge now, luckily didn't eat too much of the blade in doing this.

I've seen this on other knives from different company's, some high named ones, I'll not bang on them but the email I received back from them when they got my knife was, I must have twisted the knife in order to have those ripples appear. ? but what's odd is, it's just on one side, to twist a blade to make it do that would also show on both sides, I gave up on that fight. Wasn't worth it if that was their stance.

Hmm I must be in a bad mood ? lol maybe so, you can get cynical I guess at times.

So, I know you guys/gals have your own pet peeve's, so list em' if ya got em'

1. Sharpening notch
2. Blade play
3. Poor grind
4. Poor fit and finish

G2
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Despise what I put into red bold.
 
My pet peeves in a knife:
I may be extremely biased here, but stainless steel. I just don't like the stuff, in general. Plus, I like me a patina :)
Too shallow nail nicks.
Squashed, mashed, or dented pins that hold the handle scales on, as well as when the pins have a noticeable ring of material missing around them.
Blade play in a new knife.
When the knife comes from the factory with a bunch of factory grime/grit/metal shavings in the pivots, I love case knives, but I have had this happen to me sometimes with them.
Blade rubs.I've learned to deal with it with the stockman pattern.
I can live with almost all of these issues, it's just that sometimes they annoy me.
 
colekmiller11 said:
When the knife comes from the factory with a bunch of factory grime/grit/metal shavings in the pivots, I love case knives, but I have had this happen to me sometimes with them.
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This seems to be very common with Case these days, all my recent ones have had this
 
jwren said:
This seems to be very common with Case these days, all my recent ones have had this
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Clean them. Other knives are coming from other manufactures this way too. Cleam them, oil the joints, and use them.
 
It's comforting to know I'm not alone !

G2
 
I don't care for blade wobble at all. Makes me loose confidence in the knife in general really as I don't feel it can take as much (ab)use as it should. Excessive factory grit seems unnecessary too, although it's not that big of a problem. Took 3 good rounds of oiling and a heck of a lot of opening and closing before my douk douk stopped making grinding sounds and started snapping open as it should.
 
Lets list a few of mine.

1. Weak pulls! I would much much much rather have a bear trap pull that borders on nail breaking than a pull the borders on weak or no snap. One I can remedy, one I can't!
2. Obtuse edges. I have one knife, came blunt as a butter knife. Obtuse angles at down right silly degrees.
3. Blade wiggle. Side to side blade wiggle annoys the dickens out of me. It is something I can fix my self, and have done so on several knives, but it is annoying. It takes time to fix, and often, with my limited experience, I over tighten a bit, and then have to work the blades a bit to loosen it back up a tiny amount. One problem, is that if the spring is weak, the wobble fix often will leave the blade so that it has even worse weak snap.

4. Thick grinds behind the edge! Dull I can fix in very short order. As long as the geometry is good, I can put a great convex edge on it and it will slice. Thick/obtuse blade grinds on the primary grind are something I have never really had the patience to fix. I can put a shallow angle wicked edge, but if there is too much meat behind that edge, it is for nothing. The knife won't ever be a great cutter.

5. Crooked blades (ie non crinked, just crooked or bent for no reason).

6. Gaps. I don't mind a little daylight on a working knife. I have had some "high quality" knives delivered with enough gap that I could read or watch TV through the gaps. After a squeeze in a vice, and re-peen and sand and polish on the pivot, some of these can be fixed.

7. Poorly peened or spun pins. This has been a problem on a few knives. Almost as if they simply snipped the brass pins off, and said "good enough". Where they hang up and are proud.

8. Poor handle scale fit.
 
Not a peep from the company yet, will give them a little more time and then call them up on it.

Now I got the knife pretty sharp, but the bevel's are not proper, for me at least, but it's such a cute little knife, ah well, everybody can't live by a knife store!
G2
 
My pet peeves are proportional to the cost of the knife
So what is totally acceptable in a $30 knife is absolutely a send back for a $80 knife
 
neeman said:
My pet peeves are proportional to the cost of the knife
So what is totally acceptable in a $30 knife is absolutely a send back for a $80 knife
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Good point! I'm much more forgiving as the price goes down
 
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