Challenge: the worst knife ever?
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Wow. Imagine showing up on a bushcraft course with the scorpion gauntlet knife thingy.
I've still got one that I've had since I was a kid...the Jungle King! Bought from Victor Morris in Glasgow (any Glasgow folks will remember the curious combination of a shop that sound musical instruments, knives, swords and guns).
The blade doesn't hold an edge at all, the wire cutter wouldn't cut anything stronger than solder wire, the catapult is lethal (to the person attempting to fire it), you couldn't baton margerine with it (and really wouldn't want to try)...but to my 12 year old self it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. The only thing on it that probably would be useful was the harpon included in the sheath...if I'd found a whale in my local river.
My youngest (who is now 12) also thinks it's a miracle of design...despite it's complete lack of useability.
Fair enough I was just trying to picture using the needle nose pliers to get a fish hook out, were the rest designed for actually using or for the plinths and mounts they came with?
I'd always thought of these as the traditional SAK shop window display item
I'd always thought of these as the traditional SAK shop window display item
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Fair enough I was just trying to picture using the needle nose pliers to get a fish hook out, were the rest designed for actually using or for the plinths and mounts they came with?
I'd always thought of these as the traditional SAK shop window display item
I always wanted one of those
I have to admit it, me too, there is one in my local hardware shop and it's been doing it's thing for well over 20 years, would be cool to have a mains operated one of an actual normal sized SA knife that done the same thing for on top of the mantlepiece or maybe usb powered so i could plug it into the lappy
I had one back in 1983/4. The knife was godawful, but the stone was worse. It must have been 2 grit or something
my dad bought me one of these when i was about 8 years old and we had our first ever holiday and went to devon for a week. About 3 hours after buying it me and my dad decided to test the sawback out by cutting down a sapling about 2in diameter and the knife bent completley over in an L shape and we threw it away. But funnily enough i still have the wire "saw", as i found a survival kit recently that i made as a kid (after reading the book 'staying alive with eddie mcgee' which i also still have).
ps. im 36 now
I think that's the one I had. Also about 12 years old and loved it, even though it would hardly cut a block of cheese
To be fair though I ended up using it as a throwing knife and never broke it!
So far for me the worst knives i've had yet were all Mora's.
Had 2 cutting edges chip badly, 1 the tip snapped off and the other the handle came off.
Wouldn't use another one if you paid me.
Had 2 cutting edges chip badly, 1 the tip snapped off and the other the handle came off.
Wouldn't use another one if you paid me.
begs the question what were you doing with them? I've only ever had tips break when I've been misusing the knife - e.g. using an opinel as a screwdriver...
Nothing different than i do with all my other knives, no problems with any of them.
In fairness those were by far the cheapest knives i own so not a fair comparison, but if a knife fails while being used as a knife it doesn't really matter how cheap it is to me.
When the handle came off one of them i completed my work using a folder, no problems with that.
You'd think a folder with give up a fair bit easier than the handle of a fixed blade.
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