A new category of knives

I have a couple:

Fixed.

or

Folding.

(_E=mc^2_)

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Sport Utility

Multifunctional

Practical

Versatile

We are trying to come up with a new name to describe what we really want in a knife.

How about PVM Practical Vesatile Multifunctional Knife? It can do most things reasonably well
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I like the Sport Utility as it really does do a fitting job. I just hope that the SU tag doesn't do to the price of knives what it did to the price of a good ole four wheel drive truck
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A good word now is worth ten on a headstone -- Vermont Proverb
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Yeah, I gotta say the LAST thing we need is another buzzword.

We've already got words to describe knives that work just fine, wether they be weapons or tools.

Now, if you're just looking for a new name to market, that's different.
 
Mr Not to sharp,

Could you please clarify the " Time to grow up and stop the name calling " thing ?

I wen't back and re read every thing I wrote in this post and don't recall calling any body a name. And I totaly refuse to grow up , Where's the fun in that ? Maybe I missed something and I would appreciate a case and point.

I think this is a great topic . I can get a clearer understanding of what the rest of you out there feel about this issue thank you .

 
So... could this desire for a less militant sounding class of militant knife be a subliminal extention of the thread that Senator had started on the "sick of black" thingy.
Picture a your favorite black tac knife in a, gasp, Senator color! Then throw on a slightly modified improved radical Onion blade, maybe even in a funky damas steel. Lash it to your side in a complimenting, gasp number 2, colored kydex sheath with contrasting colored rivets. Pop it on a colored B-T tek-lok or E-W mini-paddle.
Jack up the price cause now my mother inlaw would be wanting the latest SUK.
 
If we can make your mother in law want a new knife, and a bunch of other women besides her, we will have doubled the market for practical tactical high-performance sport-utility knives, and dramatically reduced the ranks of the knife-adverse!

Every now and then I've started a thread on "Why are knives a guy thing?" So far not much progress in closing the gender gap, though The Wife, who doesn't like the "tactical" look, now carries a Spyderco-Herbst.


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Speaking of radical new Onion blades in damas:
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[This message has been edited by imp (edited 20 October 1999).]
 
What is the question here? Are we trying to become politically correct? Should outlaw calling them any thing but knives? Perhaps any type of descriptive term, could be offensive to some one. We would not want that. Maybe we should call them _______. Damn, I could not think of anything that would accurately describe a knife, that would not upset someone. I guess, I will have to stop describing knives period. Probably be safer to stop talking about knives period. Maybe, I better stop carring them. What next?

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Lynn,
Are you saying that we should take the "artist formerly known as prince" route and just have some sort of symbol to represent the "implement formerly known as knife"?
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So I would say something like, "Hey Lynn thats a nice new § you have there"

IMP,
That is very nice. Now if we could get that with orange scales, a lime green kydex carrier with blue eyelets, and a red mini-paddle we might have just the SUK for the SUK market.


[This message has been edited by RadarMan (edited 20 October 1999).]
 
You guys crack me up ,
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The difference I'm refering to is the difference between;GI Joe and James Bond ,Arnold Shwartzeneger(sp?) and Tommy lee Jones , Thor and Spiderman, Conan and Batman.Both cool as sh-t both completely different one more refined than the other both effective both desireable .

thats the difference I could care less if it's less millitant,I'm just looking for a category. Ya can't call a stag handled hunter a fighter cause it aint. just like you cannot call Sean connery a Barbarian.
just like you cannot call an Apogee a tactical . Sur it's tough but it's more than that it's refined.

I'm not trying to piss in anyones cereal,I thought this would be a welcome thing .So I'm not gonna say any thing more about it I'm gonna go pout somewhere
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If I offended any one you have my most sincere apologies . But I still think it;s gonna happen.

Take care Aloha!!! Ken
 
Ken,
I want you to know that I understand completely with what you are saying and believe that the idea of a new catagory of knife is due. Some may laugh but I think the idea of a Sport Utility Knife is a do-able project and am serious about more appealing color schemes.
You see A LOT of threads on this forum about making a knife less threatening looking while retaining its function. A less obnoxious looking knife than a tactical, in an appealing synthetic carrier, might be the thing to actually achieve this goal.
Of course this may not be what you are thinking at all.
 
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