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Andre

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I bet you're wondering WTH even as you open this thread :)

I was just wondering whether anyone else found the idea of a zytel or "gryphon" knife appealling. Cold Steel released a number of plastic models in the Nightshade series a while back which i thought were interesting.

Was just wondering whether anyone ever thought about getting a "plastic" Spyderco? Maybe something like a Ronin or maybe even the new Spot 2....

Could call it the Covert or something like that.
 
Since you asked, I think it would be an extremely bad idea. Once upon a time things like that could be passed off as amusing novelty letter openers, as things stand right now, I'd favor summary execution for anyone caught trying to board a plane with something like that.
 
Spyderco makes useful cutting tools. Leave the gimmicks to sleaze peddlers like Cold Steel.
 
Platic knives are a joke but one that could cause trouble if you took it anywhere

I can't see the point
 
Lets leave the makeing of the terrorist tools to Blackie Collins. :mad:
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Wow! Some of the responses here amaze me at the narrow mindedness. "Sleeze Peddlers, jokes, and terrorists items???" Come on guys. Really.

There was a time when Cold Steel was giving one of those glass filled nylon triple edged spikes or a copy of their famous tanto fixed blade in the same material free with so many dollars worth of stuff that you ordered from them. You got to pick. My wife and I bought a bunch of stuff from them one year for gifts and for ourselves and got like 8 of those spike things over time. I found them to be very good tent stakes. I still use them for that same purpose actually. We have used them to secure covers for protecting our plants from frost on chilly nights also.

Some of those 'plastic' knives and swords make excellent trainers for a fraction of the cost of say a 'Spyderco trainer' that costs as much as the edged knife. So I wouldn't discount the possibility. They are not a total waste and certainly have their niche and purpose, although some are kind of funny. To say they are just for 'terrorists' is a bit of a stretch IMO. I'm not a terrorists and I have several of those 'plastic knives' including the one pictured from Blackie Collins.

Sleeze peddlers only sell them? What a hoot! Cold Steel knives obviously aren't in your knife collection, or on your favorites list I take it Planterz?
 
I have some leftover pexiglass I want to make a few blades out of someday, but I am afraid I may turn into a terrorist. :rolleyes:
 
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Wow! Some of the responses here amaze me at the narrow mindedness. "Sleeze Peddlers, jokes, and terrorists items???" Come on guys. Really.
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Same here. It's ironic that a group of knife collectors would contain people so quick to freak out over something THEY think is an evil weapon good for nothing but evil purposes (however poorly it may perform at the task). There are a lot of sheep out there that would say the same things about a lot of the knives all of us have.
 
Think about it for a minite.
The thing that REALLY bothers me is that SMKWs catalog was advertiseing these piece of ****,good for nothing pieces of sharp folding plastic as a knife YOU CAN TAKE ANYWHERE .You tell me who they are marketing them too.
Just think how bad the anti gun-knife sheep will make things if someone ever does anything bad with one of these useless pieces of trash.
 
Well, that is a problem with the marketing company not the manufacturer.

That little so called worthless POS happens to be a great box, and letter opener and it actually will cut tape also. But I do hear what you are saying.

The implication from some of the adds I've seen is that you can have one of these things on you and slip through metal detectors which isn't right even though it probably could be done. There are other adds that say they are designed for undercover police work too that I've seen.

Some of the spikes are actually viable self defense items though that can and have been stabbed clean through the hoods and doors of automobiles. I have one of those in my Navigator front door panel. Does this make me a terrorist? I don't think so.
 
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Think about it for a minite.
The thing that REALLY bothers me is that SMKWs catalog was advertiseing these piece of ****,good for nothing pieces of sharp folding plastic as a knife YOU CAN TAKE ANYWHERE .You tell me who they are marketing them too.
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Well, not to terrorists, obviously. The target audience is pretty clearly people who want to carry knives into clubs and concerts that have wand-nazis posted at the entrances.
 
I am not saying that haveing one makes you a terrorist,I am saying that things like this makes it easier for terrorists to do thier business.
 
things like this makes it easier for terrorists to do thier business
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Bit of a stretch don't you think? I know of no terror attacks where these weapons were used. I think they prefer metal like box cutters over plastic and nylon. But ok.
 
Been no attacks sence 911.If a terrorist or anyone else for that matter wanted to get a knife onto an airliner these knives would be the prefect choise.I don't really want to argue about it but thats really the only use I can see they would be good for.
 
I guess. Are they using just metal detectors and nothing else now at airports? I haven't flown in over 6 years.

But I don't want to argue either. I just think we have to let stuff like this go. We can't ban knives forks and spoons because they cause obesity and we really can't start banning things just because it looks like it could be used in a bad way. I realize you did not suggest banning them. So don't take that wrong.

I think feudal Japan proved that when weapons were banned from all but certain classes of people that people will make weapons out of things that were just tools before. Human nature you know? Nunchucks were just two pieces of hard wood of equal length with metal wrapped on the bottoms and secured together at the top with a horse hair cord, used for breaking ice until weapons were banned.

I agree they do market some of these things in a way I'd have to say I disagree with though.
 
As far as I know at least at the local air port it is just metal detectors for persons boaring planes.
This knife just gets me because I know the only reason it was made was to get by security.
 
These items are toys. They are not designed to function as real weapons.

Saying that these are marketed to terrorists is insane.
 
Some maybe but these are anything but toys.

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