Worst POS Knife You've Ever Bought?

[DancesWithKnives]

There's a high-quality knifemaker named Mike Franklin (www.mikefranklinknives.com) who hand makes some very nice stuff. Around a decade ago, he authorized a factory version of his famous "HAWG" fighting folder. Unfortunately, he made a bad choice of factories to manufacture it. Turned out to be a "display only" piece. I saw one listed on a wholesaler's website, marked down for clearance, and bought it. Even though it cost very little, I still feel I made a mistake and wasted that cash.

I've been given much worse POS knives than the above-referenced knife and I purchased a couple junkers to grind up for training knives, but that's the worst I bought thinking it would be decent.

What's the worst or most disappointing knife you've ever bought?

DWK

[rimrock]

it may have been the one real P.O.S. they ever made but I bought a G96 folder back in the early 1980, it was a clone of the BUCK 110, the blade tip busted off on the first deer I dressed, I filed and honed the blade to a shorter length and about a week later the blade popped out of the handles when the pivot pin sheared, now keep in mind I was not throwing it or hammering on it or twisting it, it was just used to dress ELK and deer and lasted less than a week, in use,


I swapped to a GERBER,folder and still carry that 30 plus years later as a pocket knife,

but I purchased a sharade woodsman for dressing out game and still use that frequently, (an excellent game knife)

btw they still make and sell those
the sharade woodsman
http://www.knifeoutlet.com/shop/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=SCH165OT

http://www.knifeoutlet.com/shop/products/sch165ot.jpg

[DancesWithKnives]

Glad you got such good service out of those later knives! Don't lose that older U.S.-made Schrade because the original company folded and the right to the "Schrade" name was bought by an outfit that now has them produced in China. They aren't what they used to be....

DWK

[Bill Gunn]

A Boker Knife from Germany.

It wasn't very expensive, and seemed very sharp, but the second time I went to use it, the blade spring broke, and the knife would not stay closed anymore...

http://images.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/boker/images/101.jpg

[Twanger]

I 'won' a Mossberg folding knife, the one at the top of the picture below, and it's will hold an a edge for 3 minutes or 3 inches of field-dressing, whichever comes first. The holes in the blade load up with whatever it is you're cutting and are impossible to clean without a pressure washer.

Save your money and spend it on booze! :D


http://www.discountcutlery.net/media/MSG7338.jpg

[DancesWithKnives]

Those are both bummers. I can't say that the Mossberg surprises me but Boker used to produce a fairly decent product---at least the few I own have worked adequately.

Sorry to hear about both of them.

DWK

[ncboman]

guess I'm lucky ... but I don't buy a lot of knives.

I already had enough to hold me and then I inherited several dozen knives. A few of those are plastic handle cheapies but I don't recall the brands.

I reduced myself to using my buck to cut an outlet hole in a gutter this week. I was up in the air and didn't want to make the trek to the truck and back for tools. Didn't hurt my knife but I still feel bad about it.

[DancesWithKnives]

That's an advantage of a sturdy but normally priced knife: You can abuse it a bit and chances are it will be fine. Even if it's not, you haven't trashed an exotic custom.

Glad it came out OK!

DWK

[Twanger]

While we're in confessional-
I broke the tip off that Buck-110 trying to dig an arrow out of a tree and was pretty much horrifed because it had sentemetal value. But, I shaped the blade slowly and carefully on a grinder, taking care never to let it heat up. It resharpened to razor-levels and has been going strong for 3 years, though 1/4 inch shorter.

[Scout]

I've been suckered into a couple of Smith & Wesson knives that were about as ****py as any that I've owned...

Got a no-name freebie with a magazine subscription (deer hunting rag) that would bend when you looked at it the wrong way.

[DancesWithKnives]

Yes, S&W knives are not of the same quality as their firearms. A guy at my martial arts academy once showed me one that he had proudly acquired "at wholesale.". I never told him that not only was the knife really mediocre, but he had paid full boat for it.

DWK

[gailt]

A crkt KISS the lock was so easy to disengage I was afraid to use it.

[Ol` Joe]

I bought a small - 2.75"/3" - Case liner lock about 15-20 years back with the belief I was getting the same level quality as the old "Muskrat" with carbon steel blade I carried in my pocket in the 60s.
Their stainless did not hold an edge anywhere near as well, and 6 months later the lock was so loose the blade flopped around like a perch on a hook. I tossed the knife out in a northern Michigan field when I got tired of wondering when it was going to cut me instead of the object I was whittling on.

[Outdoorman]

Back when I was 11 or 12 years old, I bought a skinning knife with a Queen Steel blade. 5 inch curved blade, shiny beyond belief (still is today), bone handle. Felt good in the hand, leather sheath with a big "Q" stamped out on it, paid 20-some dollars for it. Couldn't wait to help Dad skin coons and whatever else we caught in traps. My brother bought one just like it, only with a straight blade.

Mine wouldn't hold an edge for anything. Three or four swipes, and it's dangerously dull. My brother's knife wasn't too bad.

My brother took his to Wyoming on an elk hunt (I think), and dropped it several hundred feet off a mountain. He couldn't go look for it. I still have mine.

We both wish he would have taken mine with him on that hunt.

Outdoorman

[Craig]

The worst knife I ever bought was when I was a kid, one of those $8 'survival' knives years ago, ya know the one with the compass on the end and fishing line and matches crammed up in the handle. The blade flew off when trying to cut some wood with it.

[DancesWithKnives]

I found that with the KISS knives you have to use a specific grip that, in effect, reinforces the locking mechanism. Otherwise, you're right----they are easy to unlock.

DWK