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Nightwalker
01-07-2007, 21:19
$900. . . https://dstactical.com/images/gigantosaur.jpg
The "Gigantosaur" this has to be the most expensive and useless "tactical" knife I have ever seen. How useful would that blade be eh? lmao.
https://dstactical.com/product_info.php?products_id=8 28 :theyareon
:banghead:
How do you sharpen it? Bang it against a rock until you can shave hairs off your arm? Utter crap!!
I love its name GIGANTOSAUR
The shape of the tip reminds me of those novelty nail file things you get on a set of nail clippers from the Isle of Wight on a crap summer holiday!
I want one!
Groan! Oh God no!!
:D
BIG-TARGET
01-07-2007, 21:31
If you want a better value for your money!! Get an Emerson!!!
http://www.emersonknives.com/ ;)
No serious think of its uses......... it looks scary...:D
http://www.emersonknives.com/RWB_index.html
Quote: We haven't decided what to do with these knives yet....
I have one or two suggestions!
Peter Marzitelli Custom Knives are built with the user in mind. They are working knives and as such only the best materials and construction techniques are employed.
"Working knives"?
Can anybody give a genuine use for one of these? I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but come on, they are just ugly and impractical!
Well, with a shape like that if you stuck it in something you would never get it out...
bloodline
01-07-2007, 21:40
I dont care what any of you think. I have ordered two :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
I kind of expect Worf when I see that....or do I mean barf? ;)
What a waste of Damascus steel.
cheers,
Toddy
That is the ugliest 'knife' I have ever seen :yuck:
I think that they are more of a show piece rather than a working knife:D
Dougster
01-07-2007, 22:24
Each to their own, as my grandfather used to say.
demographic
01-07-2007, 23:34
Whats with the cutouts from the blade?
Its a lot of cash to spend on a cheese knife...
https://dstactical.com/images/gigantosaur.jpg
All I can think of for their use would be as a rescue knife for cutting through seat belts or the like maybe - but hey I'm no expert.:22:
Raptordog
01-07-2007, 23:44
If you had just crash landed your plane in the jungle, you would be grateful of a fine piece like that. :lmao:
Surely that has been photoshopped and the world isnt as crazy as i am thinking it is
Nightwalker
02-07-2007, 07:28
no, tis bloody real, ugly & useless.
Me or the knife, sounds like me!!!!:)
Boatswain
02-07-2007, 09:57
If you had just crash landed your plane in the jungle, you would be grateful of a fine piece like that. :lmao:
If I crash landed in the jungle I'd be grateful for anything sharp was that wasn't embedded in my flesh.
Does this item come with a sheave (sheaf or sheath) is there a firesteel, At that price are woodlore selling them yet?
Cheers Roy
no, tis bloody real, ugly & useless.
Can't put it better myself.
I have an old chisel that's been used to cut nails or bash concrete, I don't know; it looks jagged, just like that piece of....art;)
Tell you what, i'll put it on Ebay, I'll call it art and make a fortune:D
it looks a bit like a normal knife that has been chewed on.
I'm sure there's a law against things as ugly and useless as that. If there isn't, there should be...
naylor b
02-07-2007, 13:58
http://www.emersonknives.com/RWB_index.html
Quote: We haven't decided what to do with these knives yet....
I have one or two suggestions!
burn um!!1
I usually stand up for the American knife designs as we have different needs and tastes here. However, this is an enormously expensive piece of junk.
BIG-TARGET
02-07-2007, 15:39
http://www.emersonknives.com/RWB_index.html
Quote: We haven't decided what to do with these knives yet....
I have one or two suggestions!
They be STRICTLY rfor the collectors market!!:rolleyes:
If it keeps them from buying practical things and pushing the price up then surley its a good thing?
I was thinking more along the lines of putting one in the middle of a huge pineapple and shoving it right up the makers.....
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Internet connection has failed!
naylor b
02-07-2007, 20:01
horrid little thing! Who ever designed it should be shot and that should not be called a knife!!!!!!!!
Longstrider
02-07-2007, 21:33
What an astonishingly priced piece of tat ! I can see no practical use for the thing whatsoever. I wouldn't even use it as a cheese knife for fear of having the thing snap due to that ridiculous hole through both blade and ricasso. As for the edge... Hell, I can knap flints to a neater edge than that, and they'd probably be sharper AND stronger.
Someone (bless'em), somewhere, will buy the thing and be chuffed to bits with it (until they use it and break it, I guess) but I think I can just about manage to resist the urge to put my own hand in my pocket for the time being :lmao:
rapidboy
02-07-2007, 22:25
that must be the most expensive tent peg ever
naylor b
03-07-2007, 12:29
that must be the most expensive tent peg ever
he he he
good one mate
Dave Budd
03-07-2007, 15:13
You've all got it wrong. this is not a knife but a saw! Can't you see the serated blade that will saw through almost any of the cheeses that you could put infront of it?!
It must have been made for a reason, afterall it does say "made with the user in mind", we just don't know what the person who designed it had in his mind :D
"made with the user in mind"
I think that is a typo, it should say "made with the useless in mind!"
mark wood
03-07-2007, 20:44
How about this for dubious value for money:
http://www.bayleyknife.com/bear.htm
BIG-TARGET
03-07-2007, 21:46
How about this for dubious value for money:
http://www.bayleyknife.com/bear.htm
Stick with BRK&T, J. Neilson, or Ernest Emerson. a better value for the moola!!!;)
How about this for dubious value for money:
http://www.bayleyknife.com/bear.htm
I am really searching for the right way to put this, is it me or does the sheath just look "camp"?
I just mean the look of it, looks like it would be on the belt of one of the village people.
British Red
03-07-2007, 23:43
Many years ago I worked in the antique picture game. A useful side to the business was providing insurance valuations. My boss was ever tactful and on a couple of occasions he described a painting as "a good example of its type". Being the new guy it took me some time to aske "what type of picture was that a good example of?". My vaguely intellectual arty boss (think Donald Pleasence in the the Great Escape) replied
"the type painted by an artist wholly lacking in talent, in a pitch black room using a live badger for a brush"
and wandered off.
This knife is without doubt, "a good example of its type"
Red
I just mean the look of it, looks like it would be on the belt of one of the village people.
What do you mean Bear grylls isnt a member of the villiage people :puppy_dog
One thing we have all forgotten though. Obviously the design is flawed, but the craftsmanship looks to be exellent.
He has made what someone must want. And if someone wants one and can afford it, thats good too. Each to there own. If the maker is reading this and my earlier post then my apologies. And i would like to add that i havent been told to right this! i just feel bad:tapedshut
And the Grylls knife looks like a good design to me, and top materials are being used. A little pricey though
I'm no fan of Mr Grylls but his knife looks okay. There's nothing special about it in my eyes and at 350 quid it's way overpriced, I'd much sooner have a Fallkniven F1.
As for Fred Flinstone's bread knife, what can I say? Perhaps Damien Hirst could pretend he made them and bump the price up to a million. :rolleyes:
mark wood
04-07-2007, 20:37
And the Grylls knife looks like a good design to me, and top materials are being used. A little pricey though
Thats exactly the comments generated on Bladeforums. It's not a bad knife but it's like the woodlore with a greatly inflated price for the name - should be about 100 quid or so.
It's also funny that Bear is endorsing a 350 quid knife whilst using cheap diving knives and Gerber folders (possibly a Wenger in one episode) in his programmes. They're still good telly though!
fredcraft
04-07-2007, 21:07
As a collector knife, it is beautiful IMHO, but the fact that it's being sold as "user" knife is leaving me a bit confused ...:confused:
As for Fred Flinstone's bread knife, what can I say? Perhaps Damien Hirst could pretend he made them and bump the price up to a million. :rolleyes:
If he can display it with a dissected vole in formaldehyde and worcestershire sauce, I reckon he could sell it for billions!:rolleyes:
$900. . . https://dstactical.com/images/gigantosaur.jpg
The "Gigantosaur" this has to be the most expensive and useless "tactical" knife I have ever seen. How useful would that blade be eh? lmao.
https://dstactical.com/product_info.php?products_id=8 28 :theyareon
:banghead:
I want one.........I'll probably hang it next to my RM Bush Shirt:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
What a pointless waste of money. The only thing more stupid than the knife are the 'knife pornography' annoraks we all know who can and will buy such a thing, who sadly are often the people who are completely clueless about bushcraft and the actual practical use of knives. Instead why not spend your hard earned cash on a set of clubs and take up golf. Or better still buy yourself a mora knife for a tenner, which is probably a much more useful tool, and donate the rest to a needy charity.:cussing: :banghead: :rant:
edispilff
05-07-2007, 19:16
Oh it is the sad shape of edge evolution when form precedes function!
Can you imagine trying to open the top of a can with this?
It's probably safe to say that 100% of the people on this site purchase a knife with the intention of using it.
Can you see the advertisement at the bottom of the amazon detail page that says
: "people that purchased this item also purchased..."
and then the onslaught of beautifully useless items:
- damascus steel mouse traps
- diamond flaked camoflauge fingernail polish
- titanium wind powered flashlight (just keep running)
- combination leather belt shotglass holder and waterford crystal shotglass
http://marzknives.com/images/models/gigantosaur_895.jpg
I found another pic of this beauty :D Looks like you can fold the thing. I was trying to find out if it actually had a real purpose but nothing so far.
That's the guy who makes it. His other knives not so bad, just not my taste though. http://www.marzknives.com/index.html
jamesraykenney
06-07-2007, 00:36
How about this for dubious value for money:
http://www.bayleyknife.com/bear.htm
You know... I actually rather like the look of that one, but 350 British Pounds!!!
$350.00 would be pushing it over here...
jamesraykenney
06-07-2007, 00:49
WOW, the BIG SNARLY "J" (http://www.marzknives.com/html/feature.html) is actuall NICE!!!
I was wondering why it is that this knife is getting such reaction? Is it because it offends our sense of esthetic, it is the price, is it the design that we see as pretty useless for our purpose? Or any other reasons? For me, my first reaction was :yuck: looks ugly. I think it's meant to look "reptilan" and a art piece destined to be a drawer queen.
Nightwalker
06-07-2007, 11:11
I was wondering why it is that this knife is getting such reaction? Is it because it offends our sense of esthetic, it is the price, is it the design that we see as pretty useless for our purpose? Or any other reasons? For me, my first reaction was :yuck: looks ugly. I think it's meant to look "reptilan" and a art piece destined to be a drawer queen.I think I can tell you why and of course this is merely my views, but I think it has been echo'd by others on here:
Its $900 / £450 I think that is way more than the vast majority of people will be willing to pay for a knife.
And for that excessive price you get a knife that is practically less capable in design than a £8 Frost Mora.
The knife is considered visually ugly by most who have posted here; another good reason why the $900 pricetag seems insane to me.
I think your right about the art-aspect of it and yes it looks like a true drawer-queen! lol. One concerning quote from the webpage I found it on: "They are working knives and as such only the best materials and construction techniques are employed." - Working knifes ! Yeah right :p it'll cut cheese (badly)! lol.
More like it will bludgeon cheese. That might keep Danzo happy!
"built with the user in mind" No no no! They got it wrong! It was made with Murder in mind!:eek: