What pieces of gear didn’t live up to the hype for you?
by Bunnysteww
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- True EDC
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- F style Hunter with ADS damascus blade and matching bolsters. Mammoth ivory for scales. Ti screws and a cool pivot pin. The sheath is tooled leather with a very soft pig skin lining. OAL is 9 inches and the blade is 4 1/8
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- Rovyvon A3 Emitter swap
37 Comments
My Benchmade 940. The blade style isn’t all that great for everyday stuff and the axis lock just feels cheap.
Minimalist Wallet, god what a waste of cash that was after a few weeks my cards were falling out of it.
Who hypes up the Dime?
Fucken Geber Shard. So awkward in shape and it clicks around with other stuff it hits.
Big Idea Design TPT. Wasn’t able to replace my knockoff I already had.
SOG baton series, I have the Q2 & Q3. Initially I thought they were great but the Q2 deployment is a bit janky and feels quite weird when your cutting anything. It’s essentially a fixed blade with a fold up sheath/flashlight. The light is decent and I have carried it quite a bit over the years since it’s so minimal despite the unpractical nature of the tool. Buuuut the Q3 is a different story, the locking mechanism for the various tools is OK at best. I’ve had them break the lock on occasion and snap shut. And the pliers are almost unusable. The gimmick of the tool is the slide out handles but when your trying to get the plier tips into a tight space or the handles slide down and won’t let the pliers close all the way. And they were quite expensive when I first purchased them. Thought about the Q1 for the scissors but I’ve heard the pen isn’t great and the Q4 is basically the Q3 but with an interchangeable but driver. So there’s that.
The CRKT CEO. The one with the stud. By saying this have a Ceo compact (flipper) which I really like.
Adulthood.
Benchmade bugouts, they just feel cheap to me
CRK Umnumzaan
Buck Impact
MT Ultratech
Pocketable fountain pens, specifically the Kaweco Sport. Works fine for my pocket notepad, but forget about signing receipts or napkin drawing.
Gerber keychain tools. Dime, vice, curve. All of em break incredibly easily.
CRK Sabenza 31 is all hype
Microtech utx-85, you can’t go a week without having ejecting problems and you have to constantly clean it out. Also too much blade play
Cold steel american lawman,mine has literally 1/3 inch of uneven grind on the spine
Ontario knife co Rat. 10 minutes in I knew I would never use it again.
Trayvax wallet. Aged nicely but storing 10 cards on top of each other does not make for easy organization and they got a lot of shit on them over time. The wallet strap also left an indent in them.
Benchmade bug out.
This will probably make someone’s butthole pucker on r/EDC, but Knipex channel locks. I found the generic straight teeth channel locks better.
They had a few good specific applications in my job where they were useful. Like gripping on to 1/4″ and 1/2″ pipe. Removing nuts from bolts, etc. However, the straight teeth channel locks did that just fine too.
Spyderco PM3 lightweight. Feels cheap. And it’s damn near impossible to keep the blade center. For something at that price, it’s pretty annoying. I recently snagged a TRM neutron 2 and I’m in love. Around the same price and leaps and bounds better in quality.
Definitely the Dime. I wanted to love it but the only part of it I enjoyed using was the bottle opener.
Benchmade MCR
Wood SOG twitch 2. Nice knife but quickly knew it wasn’t for me
Like 2017 but I was so confused when my Boker Strike arrived six weeks late from Optics Planet and didn’t have a spring installed in it
Emerson knives. 20 years ago I was a huge fan, and owned many. But god damn have they lagged behind on materials and their fit and finish is absolute garbage, all while steadily raising prices. A brand new Emerson is over $200 with some over $300. This get’s you a knife with one titanium and one steel liner, 154CM steel (NOT CPM154) and fit and finish on par with gas station knives.
Dude made some knives on contract 25 years ago for DEVGRU and has rode that wave since 1998 ish.
Anything by Benchmade. Overpriced garbage knives.
Leatherman Raptors.
And that’s coming from a paramedic. They’re decent but gimmicky and have to be thrown away after the first call because they’re literally impossible to clean.
Leatherman Crunch. Within 2 months of purchase it broke and wouldn’t clamp.
Sent it out for warranty. And they gave me a new one. This one broke in 2 weeks.
Sent that one out and got another new one. It lasted about a month. I gave up and threw it in the garbage.
I wasn’t abusing it by putting too much pressure on it.
Leatherman ES squirt. The metal of the handles are very soft for some reason so they got damaged easily. Plus some of the tools on it are quite useless. I guess Victorinox has a patent on the small scissors with a spring because the design Leatherman uses is total crap… chisel grind on the small little knife blade had a lot of burr on the grind also
Leatherman Skeletool CX. I carried one for years, but switched to an SAK this year and realized while the Leatherman is super robust, the blade is just too thick, the bit driver is awkward to use, and the whole thing honestly just feels terrible. They curved the design to make the pliers feel better, but the thing is just a barrage of thin metal bits digging into your hand. And it pinched me a lot. Like, all the time.
Also carried a Style CS with it, and never really realized how much better EDC scissors could be. The joint is just too loose and the whole thing flexes a bit too easily. It’s cute tho.
Chavez liberation. Loved the design. The quality did not match the price point at all.
Koch Tool Duo-X
Gerber LMF II ASEK
Huge hipe, expensive. And what you get is a chisel grind (onesided sharpend) blade with a soft steel. Its maybe good für 1 time use (Survival knife). But until you use it the dandle material will get brittle.
Hinderer XM18 3.5 , had a g10 harpoon version , wanted to try an xm for years , finally got one and idk it just didn’t really speak to me . Nice knife but nothing was amazing or special to me , good thing Hinderer fans help recoup money so easily haha
All that „pocket art” stuff, hella expensive,useless piece of so hard advertised crap,200$ for a micarta piece shaped like <input anything you can imagine> boom! People fight in raffles to get a chance to buy it.
I went and got a civivi elementum because everyone was hyping it up. The reality is that it is the only knife in my collection that won’t take a decent edge no matter what I do to it.
Wave+ black oxide.
The coating rubbed off for aaages.
Jagged hotspots everywhere.
Sometimes won’t close cos the plier head is jammed under the bit driver.
Tools don’t come out cleanly individually.
Most tools are on the “inside”.
Still a great toolset and design. Just poor manufacturing and finishing.