Franklin Mint Knives....???

Vampire Gerbil

Vampire Gerbil

Gone, but not forgotten. RIP Dave
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Hiya EdgeFetishists!!!!
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We've all seen those pretty ads in TV Guide, People Magazine and Gerbil Fancy magazines.
These are the knives that have lots of engravings on 'em, or are made with some kind of theme in mind. The silliest one I saw advertised was the Vampire Version (go figure)... it came in a coffin!

I figure that they must be the Pinnacles of POS but I wouldn't trust my opinion on anything.... other than ways to inflict pain on cinder blocks.

Has anyone ever received one of these Frankin Mint knives?
If so, do they really taste like mint????

Off to see Madame Ruby to have her remove that danged Cinder Block's curse,
I remain,
VG

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Vampire Gerbil: Nosferatus Rodentus Moderatus; similar to a domestic gerbil, except for the odd accent and little black cape.


 
VG,

A friend of mine has a franklin mint knife and it SUCKS!! the blade is so polished that it looks like a real mirror. The guard came loose very easily and the blade was not sharpened...AT ALL! I am not sure what it tasted like. If I had to guess, I would say it probably tastes similar to it's quality.....SH*TY

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Louis Buccellato
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V.G.
I've had several people that know I'm a knife nut ask me about them. Are they made well, are they collectable, will they go up in value......
And I say no, I think they are a P.O.S.! This is without ever actually owning one or even seeing one! Now, I would never do or say that about any other knife unless I've had experience with it.
It must just be the price and the way they look in the pictures!!!!!!
Neil

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A Franklin Mint knife is only made to look like a knife. Just like most of the other stuff they make. Its all embellishment and no substance.
 
The Franklin Mint Knives are pretty but lack any quality, they are very expencive trinkets.I have seen them first hand at the Franklin mint store at the local mall.You can go by your local gun and knife show and find a customized Buck or Case even Queen.Rehandled or file worked,it will be just a pretty and a lot more knife for the same money.
 
Franklin Mint knives???? Aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I didn't mind the picture of you with the Micra, VG, but PLEASE don't post any pictures of Franklin Mint knives! You want to give us all nightmares??? It's bad enough just talking about them -- no pictures, PLEASE!

A friend of mine showed me his when it first arrived in the mail and obviously wanted me to admire it ... well, I'll do a lot for a friend, but ... I did manage to say nothing derogatory ... if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all....

His is a large dagger with a blade apparently made of chrome-plated aluminum (or it might be mild steel ... hard to say what might be under that triple-chrome plating) ... it has no edges, which cleverly gets around the laws some jurisdictions have against daggers with double edges ... no point, either ... the bladelike sheet of aluminum or whatever it is appears to have a short tang like a file, just stuck into the handle, and they should have hammered it in about an inch farther (25.4mm). Maybe they were afraid if they tried to do that it would break....

That brings us to the handle, which the ad in Parade Magazine described as a beautifully carved work of art in faux ivory, or something like that. It's a crudely injection-molded lump of what appears to be white polyethelylene, the stuff milk cartons are made of -- not the translucent plastic milk cartons, the opaque white plastic milk cartons. To be perfectly fair, it does have mold marks on it which bear some resemblance to beautiful carving ... in the dark....

Then there are the fittings, the guard and pommel. They appear to be salvaged metal wingy-looking gimcracks from a cut-rate bowling trophy ... I've often wondered what happens to all those cheesy trophies after the winner takes it home and the cat breathes on it and it breaks into pieces.... They're not chrome-plated, though; it's genuine precious gold plating according to the ad and I bet the plating is .0000000000000000000000000000001 inch thick (.0000000000000000000000000000254mm) -- and maybe even more.

I didn't want to touch the thing but my friend just shoved it into my hand ... I couldn't just drop it on the floor ... it was a perfectly clean floor....

It has the balance of a vaguely pointed slab of aluminum stuck part of the way into an irregular lump of melted-down milk carton plastic with metal wingy gimcracks glued onto it.

It feels alive in the hand ... like a veritable living slime mold.

Of course that's only one datum point -- that particular Franklin Mint knife could have been a factory reject ... we didn't x-ray the tang for secret marks....

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Hi Guys...

HeHeHe..
This brings something to mind...

Knife Collectors Home Shopping Club....

Ever see some of those scary looking Fantasy crap knives?
My God,,does anyone buy that Crap?

12 dozen Tactical folders for $19.95 shipping included!! LMAO...
Made in China from recycled Toyota lug nuts!

Incredible...

ttyle Eric...

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Eric E. Noeldechen
On/Scene Tactical
www.mnsi.net/~nbtnoel


 
HEY,

Maybe Mike Can get one of those Franklin mint knives as a Contestant in his next TESTING Round..........LMAO.

Allen 8-)
 
I guess most people have nightmares about walking around in public in their underwear...but many knifeknuts have nightmares of pulling out a Franklin Mint knife at a Bladeshow...or maybe stuck out in the wilderness with only one of the FM knives...hehehe...
Jim
 
Allen, when I read your post I was afraid you would write: ...."Maybe Mike Can get one of those Franklin mint knives as a NEXT MONTH GIVEAWAY...."

I would like to see those posts on Knife Review forum
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David
 
FMK's are commemortive knives period, just for looks or show. I received one as a gift from my mother (The Colt pistol on the handle) because she knows I have a love for SAA guns. Because it was a gift from her, I'll always keep it and to me that makes it a valuable knife.
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~Keith~
"War to the knife and knife to the hilt"

 
My family knows that I'm an EdgeFetishists and occasionally they mumble something about buying me one of those THINGS for my birthday or Christmas ('cause they look so cool an' all). I have to say over and over and over again: PLEASE don't!



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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Like several above, my family catches me staring at the ad in the Newspaper "Parade" magazine and take my facial expression for longing. Actually, it is the look of one disgusted because someone wasted raw materials and built a piece of junk in the name of "art."

I actually had one given to me by a colleague from Holland. He thought he was presenting me with a lovely, cherished gift. "HE WAS WRONG!" Since he collects corkscrews (has over 2000) I decided to buy him a bottle of cheap wine with a screw top! I didn't because I didn't want to hurt his feelings, but PLEASE!

Bruce Woodbury
 
we have a FMK store in the mall here and I have seen and handled these knives. They are pure POS, BUT, there is that small chance that theycan in some small way affect the public that knives can be more than just a weapon of street gangs. And there is always the possibility that someone could even get into collecting through them and then hopefully realize after a while what a real knife is and how much fun they can be to collect.
It's possible

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Dave
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A friend of mine bought one of those F. Mint Egyptian Daggers for $250.00. When I told him I collected knives, he proudly showed me his "knife". Then he asked me if I wanted to buy it for $100. Great deal huh?- $100 for a $250 knife! I told him I didn't have the money right now. These people don't know any better. They see these knives that look fantasy-like and it attracts them. I just feel bad for them. They don't know what a POS they're buying. Apperantly these knives do sell or else FM wouldn't be in business. I had another friend who asked me what I thought about those HSN knives. I just told him I wouldn't get one if I were him.
 
Thanks for the info gang!
It's reassuring to know that I'm still able to spot garbage eben in its printed form.

I keep getting those ads in my mailbox at the firehouse, cuz it's a well known fact that I'm into edges. I don't have the heart to make an announcement that these things shall never grace my junk drawer, so I secretly burn the ads when I get 'em.

Now if only someone would gimme an ad for a Vampire Gerbil doll, my day would be made!

VG

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Cougar,
I hate posts like this and I feel like a dork for posting this, but ROTFLMAO!!!!!


slime mold. how can you go wrong with material like that. Slime mold.
Next BG that steps up to me, I'm gonna call him a slime mold. Then stab him up to the hilt with my leatherman micra using one of the techniques on VG's page.

chizpuf

PS I'm thinking of starting a POS knife self defense MA. Techniques include flaking the crappy chrome off the blade into your opponent's eyes to blind them, and savagely slashing at them with the injection mold edges on the milk jug handles, as those are far sharper than anything the Franklin Mint could call an edge-- see, the advantage of the blade having nega-tang, as I call it (a tang so small, why bother), is that after your first slash, the blade falls out, and then you can actually use the _sharp_ part of the knife, the mold marks.
 
Hello,

The above posts that refer to "People just dont know any better" when it comes to There Blade purchases, is RIGHT ON THE MONEY!! Thats why i think it is the Responsibility of MAKERS and Buyers alike of Fine Quality knives, to Teach and Instruct People in the Aspects of Quality Bladeware compared to those of lesser Quality.

I Run into people all the time that want me to "SHARPEN" there CHINESE "BUMPER" alloy
Bladed Knives. And then COnsider i did a poor Job of Sharpening ,when it doesn`t hold an edge past cutting the AIR. Again Education is the KEY.

I do Try to never Downplay there Judgement in Buying those kinda Knives, as that can create Hurt Feelings on there part,
But i do Try to Discuss on a Standard Level the Differences in Quality versus Non-Quality. And let them make there own mind up.

Just my .02

Thanks , Allen Blade
 
As Aristoteles tells us, a dead hand is not a hand. An imaginary boat is not a boat. A toy gun is not a gun. And a Franklin Mint knife is not a knife.
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They are, in fact, knife-like objects.

Great posts here! After reading a lot of depressing posts tonight, I really needed this. Thanks Guys!


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