Your Most Regretable Knife Purchase

Ekdrm2d1 said:
I have a post to contribute, but it's my own fault. As a knife noob, I did not know any better.

I bought a $450 Busse. I thought it was indestructible. (Hence the INFI fame with the $450 price tag) I chipped the edge of the Busse on concrete. :(

Other than the concrete incident, I have no regrets. I just wish a $450 item would be literally indestructible. I thought it was "Nuclear meltdown proof".

Pictures coming soon? brb
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Damn Concrete.....Who da thunk! LOL.......:D
 
Dishonor39 said:
Your little brother broke an RTAK-II chopping wood? Thats incredible... how did he manage that? I mean I agree in your implication that the Junglas is a better quality knife, but the RTAK-II isnt exactly fragile...
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It saw a lot of batoning before this happened but I think it must have been a flaw in the knife itself, he had the serrated blade and it broke right through the serrations. It's definitely a beast of a knife and I wasn't there when he did it so I don't know what type of wood he was chopping but I saw the end result and it didn't have and dings in the blade like it hit something hard, it just split. He is supposed to be sending me some pics I'll try and remember to post them.
 
My most regrettable knife purchase would definetly be a Gerber from walmart. Forget the model but it is the one with the skeletonized handle. I have sharpened s30v on my sharpmaker to a hair shaver. I couldnt even put an edge on the gerber mystery steel.....
 
I got a Chubby on the Snap On truck. The tools are exciting, but I'm talking about a Kershaw Chubby. I got a couple, they were cheap and I could abuse them at work, but for a similar price I could get a mini griptilian or delica. Oh well, my kid had a couple of better knives to learn on than I ever did.
 
I've put together a pretty good collection since I started collecting late last year and my least favorite so far is a Kershaw Cyclone. Bought it used here on the forums and the speed safe broke on the first day I had it. I know Kershaw has a great warranty and I could send it in to get fixed but I'm not fond of the knife anyways so it seems like more hassle than it's worth.

Was also disappointed in the Kershaw Damascus Skyline. After reading good things about it I guess I was just hoping for something more.

And no, I'm not a Kershaw hater. I actually love most of their knives and the Leek was got me into collecting.
 
My worst purchase was an Emerson Mini-com. I was carrying a CRKT M16-13SF for a while and thought it was great (now I know better) with the dual flippers and being able to wave the knife open. So I finally found a waved Emerson, used, for a price I couldn't turn down. Thinking there's no way I could be disappointed with what I considered such an expensive knife, I jumped on it.

However, upon arrival the fit and finish, the compromise between smooth opening or centered blade, but not being able to attain both, the seemingly inefficient grind all led me to hate the thing. I carried it for a few months and sold it for a few dollars less than i paid for it and considered it a rental fee.
 
SOG EOD multitool - felt like a piece of junk next to my leatherman and I send it back the same day.
 
I bought a custom knife from *edit* Custom Knives. The listing said the knife had a 20"+ overall length, but the picture was at a weird angle so you couldn't really tell how long it was. I was surprised when the knife showed up in a small flat rate usps box.

The blade was 7" I think with a 5" or so handle. The blade was wrapped in newspaper and that was all the packing material he used. There was no kydex sheath as stated in the listing.

The tip of the blade had folded over due to poor packaging.

The main bevel was chisel (ground on one side, completely flat on the other) with a V cutting edge. I thought that was weird...

I contacted him and he told he would build me a new knife that was the dimensions he advertised. He told me to keep the original knife he sent me.

I took it to my test block of wood: a 2"x2" of very light, soft wood. I lightly chopped the block and the edge of the blade chipped away to the end of the relief, where the edge met the body of the blade... I told him I thought either a V edge was wrong for a chisel ground blade or the heat treat didn't take well. He told me it was the heat treat and he was going to have someone else do his future knives.

Fast forward a few months and I see he has 30+ new knives that he's built since and not one word about the knife he promised me.

I contacted him and he told me he'd give me credit towards a new knife. I told him I didn't want anything he had. I told him I wanted to send it back and he said he wouldn't take it because I screwed it up... I told him it was messed up from the get go because he didn't test his design. He told me it had been more than 30 days so I was SOL.

I threw it in the recycle bin. I'm sure it will be more useful melted down and recreated as something else, maybe part of a bedpan...

*edit* My issue has been resolved and I understand the maker has rectified their procedures *edit*
 
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