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Post by jimh on Mar 11, 2009 9:59:28 GMT -5
ok i have 2 that i can think of. now first off useless can mean either a real crappy knife that isn't worth the effort to open and use or a knife so nice you don't want to ruin it. mine is the latter, i have a Paul Knife by Gerber that i bought new in '82 (it's a #3). i had a nice sheath made for it and i was always afraid i would loose it.  i screwed up big time by both haveing my initials engraved on the face of th eblade and sharpening it. had i not done those two things i would sell it on ebay for a tidy profit. the second knife is a damascus (sp?) bird & trout knife i picked up cheap (it's used) but again i'm afraid to use it because i keep thinking it will fall out of it's sheath while i'm out and about. sometimes i'm too carefull for my own good. they look cool though. |
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Post by deputydon on Mar 11, 2009 12:43:59 GMT -5
I would love to have a Damascus bird & trout knife. Maybe someday!!!
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Post by jimh on Mar 11, 2009 13:28:01 GMT -5
DD picked it up cheap, under 35.00 it is a Kelgin (sp?)
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Post by jimiowa on Mar 11, 2009 13:32:24 GMT -5
Got a whole drawer full of useless knives.
My son buys them and after he nicks the blades up(Pakistani bailing wire blades etc) he brings them down for me to sharpen.
I have yet to convince him a screwdriver& vice Grips is what he needs to carry instead of a knife?
I do the best I can and throw them in a drawer, he never comes back for them?.
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Post by Bill on Mar 12, 2009 11:09:36 GMT -5
I don't have a useless knife. If I did I would give it away and get something what wasn't useless. I did own a Buck Knife for a short period of time. The point broke off trying to split the pelvic bone on a buck. Too brittle. I gave that one to the brother in law. Now when he goes hunting you hear him whine that he can't get his knife sharp. Someone always says I can sharpen it and they spend about 2 hrs getting it sharp. He just grins and keeps drinking his beer and watches them. Someone always falls for that one. I would rather have one of the high carbon steel blades that might have to be sharpened while gutting a deer but only takes a couple strokes on a steel and its ready to go again. |
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Post by jmarriott on Mar 12, 2009 13:19:01 GMT -5
I have a Parker (pre frost) that I have had for years. I need to find out where it is at and take a picture. It would only be good for sticking into someone and that is not my stlye. It is a folder and is heavy heavy for a folder and kinda has a switchblade look.
I don;t have a useless knife either i guess it is just waiting to be stuck into someone so I guess it has a use.
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Post by dovehunter on Mar 12, 2009 14:59:03 GMT -5
I have one that is both useless and one of my favorites at the same time. It is a CVA Bowie that I made from a kit years ago. It is way too big to be of any practical use as a field knife. It would probably be hell on wheels in a bar room brawl though. Nevertheless I like the looks of the thing and pull it out maybe a couple of times a year to admire it. If that was all you had, you might be able to kill a bear with it if, God forbid, you had to defend yourself against one.
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Post by twomoons on Mar 18, 2009 9:55:42 GMT -5
The death of a useless knife...
My boy Jeff was about 9 and we were headed to the Rockies for a couple weeks of back packing. Jeff saw an ad for a SURVIVAL knife and HAD to have one, and DAD it's only $7.95. He knew that if he didn't have a knife with a compass and a wire saw he would never come home.
Now Jeff at that age loved to chop. He would sit at rendevous and chop the fire wood down to saw dust and smile all the while. He also played hell with trees, tent pegs and chairs.
We arrived at Green river lake and headed over Osboourne mountain and at our first camp I am setting up the tent when I hear, chop, chop, chop... Well Jeff is busy again. A little later I hear CHING Ching ching... What??? Jeff has found a hunk of iron pyrite and is chopping out the GOLD with his new Tiawan survival knife. Now this knife was made of tin and the handle is cast from zinc, and now the blade looks like a cross cut saw blade after 20 years of use. There are gouges in the blade so deep you could open a pop bottle. The back of the blade HAD saw teeth but now they arre hammered to mush. The handle is so loose the blade flops and the compass has dropped out on the ground. I couldn't even chew the kid out, it was a fitting death! The kid took home a sack of GOLD and thought he was rich!
He got his reward too... on the way down the mountain he FOUND a near new K Bar 3 blde pocket knife laying in the trail!
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Post by jimiowa on Mar 18, 2009 10:14:44 GMT -5
Can't help grinning Two Moons! ;D
Reckon we've all learnd a lesson or two that way over the years.
Know I have!
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Post by jimh on Mar 18, 2009 10:59:48 GMT -5
two moons, just this past summer while on vacation my son had to have this replica of the Iffle Tower, however what it really is in disguise is a dagger. probably the same cheap steel (if you want to call it that) as was in your son's knife. i tried real hard to talk him out of it but at the same time told my wife that as a 13 yr old kid it was the exact same thing i would have wanted. she gave me that "then go buy it look" and i lost the arguement. it's butt ugly but my son thinks it is the coolest thing around.
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Post by bullseye on Mar 18, 2009 12:54:13 GMT -5
I have a knife that was given to me. It is a switchblade on a cigarette lighter. It is almost impossible to get a decent edge on. It sits on one of the shelves in my workshop. It is a good shelf sitter (aka dust collector) !!!!  |
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Post by bounce on Mar 18, 2009 14:15:41 GMT -5
Sounds like it's a letter opener ?
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Post by Bubba on Mar 20, 2009 15:39:15 GMT -5
When I read the thread topic for this one I laughed to myself. I have an old tool box with a mess of knives in it that aren't worth the powder to blow them to hell and back. I use them for everthing from screw drivers to hammers. They either won't hold an edge or you can't put an edge on them. The steel is crappy, not hard or too hard. I have purchased "ell-cheapo" knives because I wanted the scabbard and the knife was religated to the "tool box" because I knew the knife was no good from the start.
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Post by twomoons on Mar 26, 2009 8:33:27 GMT -5
How to lose a GOOD knife....
Dad came into the shoop one day and wanted me to SHARPEN his pocket knife. This was a made in Packistan cheepie. I took the knife and set it on the bench and cut the end of the blde off with my Gerber andgave him the buyy a good knife lecture. "SEE its still sharp, as I sliced paper with the Gerber". Whereupon he put it in his pocket and said "You can have the one YOU ruined".
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Post by jimiowa on Mar 26, 2009 9:11:09 GMT -5
How to lose a GOOD knife.... Dad came into the shoop one day and wanted me to SHARPEN his pocket knife. This was a made in Packistan cheepie. I took the knife and set it on the bench and cut the end of the blde off with my Gerber andgave him the buyy a good knife lecture. "SEE its still sharp, as I sliced paper with the Gerber". Whereupon he put it in his pocket and said "You can have the one YOU ruined". ;D ;D ;D ;D Which clearly demonstrates you can make you point and still be the loser in a situation. |
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i screwed up big time by both haveing my initials engraved on the face of th eblade and sharpening it. had i not done those two things i would sell it on ebay for a tidy profit. 
