Knives and multitools you DON'T like?

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

I bought my dad a Gerber paraframe once.


It absolutely wouldn't hold an edge for any reasonable amount of time.

Buttery soft steel on that one.

 

[rhinoh]

I bought one of the Gerber Remix knives recently. I really like the large hole to stick your index finger through for absolute retention, assuming you keep your finger.
But- when closing it with that skeleton frame..whoa That could shear off a fingertip instantly if you have them poking into the openings in the skeleton. I'm really amazed in todays society Gerber even sells these, I'm sure they'll get sued if they haven't already.
Its ok otherwise, nothing great but its only a $25 knife.

BTW CDNN has been including a free knife with their orders recently. A Maxam brand...they included 3 in my recent order even though I was only due 1, I wouldn't give you $3 for all 3

It reminded me of the total POS Sig was giving away awhile back for registering a purchase online. They charged $5 to ship what turned out to be a 50 cent knife..that wasn't even the one promised. One side of the blade said SIG the other said China

Multitools- I love my Leatherman Surge. Have carried several other Leathermans in the past. Had great service out of all of them. Somewhere I have one of the early Gerbers- yep it pinched my palm too! Left a long blood blister I have never forgotten, its been retired for years, one of my sons probably has it, haven't seen it in a long time.

 

[conw]

Biggest. Waste. Ever.

 

[rhinoh]

I liked Leatherman better when they were marked "U.S.A." They no longer meet that criteria, but the prices continue to go up. I didn't mind paying their prices for an American made product. Now, I find it a little more difficult.

Curious where you got the info they weren't American made? Is it current or part of an old dispute?

I dug around some and found they were sued by California because they contain 5 parts made in Europe, Canada and Mexico but 25 parts that were made in the USA.

California won a judgement against them in 2004 that was overturned in 2006 on appeal, affirming they can say "Made in the USA"

I looked all over my Leatherman Surge and can't find any label at all as to where they were made...which I find odd.

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2006/01/23/story7.html

 

[Doug S]

rhinoh,

I don't know the details other than it does have to do with the California lawsuit. As you mentioned, it is one of those deals where not enough of the parts are made in the U.S., for the product to be stamped made in the U.S.A. according to California law. They were once marked that way, but my newer ones are not. Same with Gerber, which is now marked manufactured in U.S.A. "of foreign and domestic" parts. My SOG tool is marked made in U.S.A., but I don't think I see the U.S.A. stamp on the newer ones. I'm sure someone could lecture me on the merits of the global economy, but I guess I'm a little old fashioned when it comes to knives/tools. I like them "Made in the U.S.A.

 

[usmc1371]

I used the hell out of my gerber multi tool for 4 years and it never let me down. I have the "engineer modle" with the nifty blasting cap crimper, det cord cutter, and priming punch all of wich I liked and used. Back in the real world all of those features make it pretty much usless.
I swear by Benchmade knives and have carried the same one for over 10 years, Spyderco has always done right by me as well.
Not a fan of CRKT they just didn't seem to hold up well and I don't like the factory edge.
One thing I really like about benchmade is they are made about twenty min from where I live so its no prob to take them in for a rebuild every five years or so-for free!

 

[conw]

Oh, CRKT is a definite disappointment in my book. I consistently see people raving about their M16 line. Every time I handle an M16, esp their "EDC" version, it looks/feels flimsy like a gas station Chinese knife. Lock seems poor, and lots of side-to-side sway and flex. Maybe these were great back when folders were more expensive...

 

[Valkman]

Every time I handle an M16, esp their "EDC" version, it looks/feels flimsy like a gas station Chinese knife. Lock seems poor, and lots of side-to-side sway and flex.

That's how they've always seemed to me too but people keep raving about them. Maybe they've never had a knife with real good lockup? I wouldn't trust it.

 

[usmc1371]

I had quite a few marines run out and buy CRKT M16 knives and atleast 90% of them broke over the corse of a nine month deployment. The lock up is second rate at best, edge holding was poor as well. It's almost a crime that they are sold in every PX/BX on earth when for ten bucks more you could have a spyderco and ten more bucks you get a benchmade griptilly that will last and actuly work for a long time.

 

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

I've owned a chris reeve sebenza, benchmade, etc...


I still love the CRKT carson series knives.
I even gave one of the big SF versions to my cousin when he left to Iraq.

He had no problems with it at all, and lost it in a firefight near the end of his tour.