Farid knives. An appreciation........

[trixx]

The folders look like an over-engineered implementation of an under-designed concept.

No doubt that they are sturdy, but they show the design flair of an autistic hamster combined with the engineering tendency to think that 2+2 is probably around 8, but let's call it 14 for safety.

Horses for courses, and they are only knives so it's no great significance in the grander scheme of things. They'll appeal to some, not to others, and certainly not to me.

[Chui]

The folders look like an over-engineered implementation of an under-designed concept.

No doubt that they are sturdy, but they show the design flair of an autistic hamster combined with the engineering tendency to think that 2+2 is probably around 8, but let's call it 14 for safety.

Horses for courses, and they are only knives so it's no great significance in the grander scheme of things. They'll appeal to some, not to others, and certainly not to me.

My dear fellow,

I appreciate you have a dislike for these knives. However, to use the language you have adopted - particularly for one of our own guys here in UK - I personally believe is utterly thoughtless and unwarranted.

Have a wonderful weekend..........

[scrubber]

Trixx : you may like/dislike a knife, but please be correct towards the skilled maker of it.
Let's keep this a civilized thread and a polite discussion about the appreciation (or not) of knives, not about people!!

[trixx]

My dear fellow,

I appreciate you have a dislike for these knives. However, to use the language you have adopted - particularly for one of our own guys here in UK - I personally believe is utterly thoughtless and unwarranted.

Have a wonderful weekend..........

Chui, old bean!

I am most frightfully sorry to have offended you through my use of language. In future I will take your advice and reserve any adverse comments for Johnny Foreigner who no doubt bally well deserves them!

Pip pip!

[Chastiser]

Chui, old bean!

I am most frightfully sorry to have offended you through my use of language. In future I will take your advice and reserve any adverse comments for Johnny Foreigner who no doubt bally well deserves them!

Pip pip!

Oh dear.

[savantuk]

Trixx,

Nothing, not even your long membership of the forum gives you the right to be so damned rude! Your comments are unwelcome on my thread. They are opinion, yet you present them as fact. They are also impertinent, perhaps even insulting to the maker, a member (and knifemaker!!) of this forum.

Your comments display absolutely no objectivity, and I'd really like to see you make anything better!! Unless, and until you can design and engineer a knife at least as good as a Farid, present it to the knife community, and have it accepted for sale at some of the most respected custom knife dealers in the US and UK, I suggest you keep your rude and unwelcome comments to yourself.

You have absolutely every right to think what you like, but unless you show objectivity, and present some evidence for your scurrilous comments, I believe that you should keep them to yourself.

[Chui]

Chui, old bean!

I am most frightfully sorry to have offended you through my use of language. In future I will take your advice and reserve any adverse comments for Johnny Foreigner who no doubt bally well deserves them!

Pip pip!

Offend......me? Not at all.

Sadden, yes.

I'm all for a bit of joshing, jollity and fun - but..........

[Martyn]

Steady on fellas, they are only knives and trixx is entitled to his opinion. A knifemaker opens themselves up to all and every comment when they sell their goods commercially. Not all of them are going to be good, nor are they required to be by this forum. All that we ask is that opinion is honest and frank.

[Chui]

Of course he is, Martyn, it's the basic raison d'etre of a forum..........but do you condone that kind of personal description and language, then?

[bwildered]

It's one thing talking about engineering, but why prefer bridge burning to knives?

[JungleBert]

Getting a bit prickly here aren't we chaps? Personal description? Language? I saw no personal description, good or bad in Trixx's post, and certainly no bad language. It seems odd Paul to get especially offended because Trixx is insulting 'One of our own' Do BB related knife makers exist in a bubble? Actually, some of them seem to.....

[Basemetal]

Trixx's critique is spot-on if we're adressing engineering...
Overengineering isn't elegant engineering and, by definition, is more than is necessary to do the job. It can negatively impact weight and cost for no functional advantage (else it wouldn't be 'over' engineered).
From college I remember the line " Many can design a bridge that won't fall down, but the best engineered is the minimum that's strong enough not to fall down."

But it doesn't do to get too precious about knives, even on here, and your OP was a bit on the fulsome side, Doug

[jamiemackie]

I think they are the ugliest knives you can buy, infact the tanto point folder on page 1 of this thread is the ugliest knife ive ever seen. I hate tanto points at the best of times but that one is seriously hideous. I really cant understand how anyone could bring themselves to own it let alone pay good money for it. They look over engineered which on certain knives is ok but on folders just looks tacky and like it was made for children. I like folders to have a certain elegance about them and Farids work doesnt have a whiff of elegance.

However theres no doubting his workmanship. Having seen his work in the flesh I can say that he really does know how to make a knife. His competition cutter looked like it could cut through a cast iron drain pipe like a cardboard tube and come out shaving sharp, his folders where very well made and did have good attention to detail.

They are good knives, no one can deny that but man they are ugly.

[Redeye]

Perhaps you could tell us what work you use these for, Doug? The tanto looks to me as if it would only be good for making holes in oil drums. What does it do well?

[andy6430]

I think they are the ugliest knives you can buy, infact the tanto point folder on page 1 of this thread is the ugliest knife ive ever seen. I hate tanto points at the best of times but that one is seriously hideous. I really cant understand how anyone could bring themselves to own it let alone pay good money for it. They look over engineered which on certain knives is ok but on folders just looks tacky and like it was made for children. I like folders to have a certain elegance about them and Farids work doesnt have a whiff of elegance.

However theres no doubting his workmanship. Having seen his work in the flesh I can say that he really does know how to make a knife. His competition cutter looked like it could cut through a cast iron drain pipe like a cardboard tube and come out shaving sharp, his folders where very well made and did have good attention to detail.

They are good knives, no one can deny that but man they are ugly.

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