Anything new in the knife world?

Randomly found this wonder on Amazon and thought of this post.
It appears to be some kind of tactical boxcutter...
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Pricetag 200 must be quality :D knifetastical
 
They would start putting sensors all around a knife, which would prevent accidental stabbing and cutting.
 
For handheld knives, we haven't seen a revolution, just evolution.

But think of commercial applications. Lots of things are cut now without metal being involved at all: waterjet, plasma, that sort of thing. I'd say it's a revolution to use water jets to cleanly cut something instead of a mill.
 
It could be argued that the last revolutionary change in knife design happened when someone said to themselves, "You know, this sharpened piece of rock is nice and all, but it would work a whole lot better if it had a handle..." Pretty much everything that happened after that could be classified as just refinement of materials and evolution/specialization of design.

ETA: This is actually one of the things that appeals to me most about knives in general.
 
One day there will be knives that will sense when they need sharpening with an led on the handle flashing, or perhaps self sharpening.
 
CRKT made that knife called the Edgie that sort of self sharpened.

Miltner Adams made a folder that sharpens its self too.

Both knives sharpen by a built in sharpener that grinds the blade during opening / closing the knife.
 
Lapedog said:
CRKT made that knife called the Edgie that sort of self sharpened.

Miltner Adams made a folder that sharpens its self too.

Both knives sharpen by a built in sharpener that grinds the blade during opening / closing the knife.
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as Wenger scissors do!

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low hanging fruit was picked long ago.
 
ThePeacent said:
as Wenger scissors do!

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Do SAK scissors really sharpen themselves? I don't see how they could considering it is the flats that scrape eachothernand not the ground bevel.

I could see them removing the burr though after sharpening the bevels on a stone.
 
For all the advances made in knives over millenia it still gets me that there still isn't a steel or other metal that gets as sharp as the flint (?) knives that cavemen were using. Granted stone knives are brittle as hell and probably chips pretty easy, but what an edge. When it's said and done, the only advances of our chosen tools is mostly about convenience of use. New super metals show up periodically but it's aways a trade off between ease of sharpening and edge holding.
 
That liquidmetal Miltner knife is very interesting, not $260 interesting, but interesting nonetheless. Even the overall design is unique.

Laser knife. Let me know when that comes out.
 
Lapedog said:
CRKT made that knife called the Edgie that sort of self sharpened..
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I have one and "sort of" is the key there. I took the mechanism out and use it as a utility knife around the yard. I think the real issue is the crap steel crkt uses.
 
Icehawk said:
That liquidmetal Miltner knife is very interesting, not $260 interesting, but interesting nonetheless. Even the overall design is unique.

Laser knife. Let me know when that comes out.
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According to the company this LiquidMetal stuff is supposed to have amazing properties as a knife. Now the question remains to be seen if that is true or not.
 
Lapedog said:
Do SAK scissors really sharpen themselves? I don't see how they could considering it is the flats that scrape eachothernand not the ground bevel.

I could see them removing the burr though after sharpening the bevels on a stone.
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not all SAKs, only Wenger SAKs. :thumbsup:

http://www.sakhome.com/304372152
https://www.smartknives.com/Swiss-Army-Knife-Tools/Wenger-Scissors.htm
https://forum.multitool.org/index.php?topic=26187.0
http://www.bladeforums.com/threads/wenger-and-victorinox-difference.374583/ (post number 6)
 
Sorry if someone mentioned it here and I missed it but I think the water stones with diamond in the matrix is pretty cool. Maybe to you all it isn't that new but I only learned about it a few months ago.
 
bt93 said:
For all the advances made in knives over millenia it still gets me that there still isn't a steel or other metal that gets as sharp as the flint (?) knives that cavemen were using. Granted stone knives are brittle as hell and probably chips pretty easy, but what an edge. When it's said and done, the only advances of our chosen tools is mostly about convenience of use. New super metals show up periodically but it's aways a trade off between ease of sharpening and edge holding.
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You know . . . your post . . . for me, made me appreciate the EASE of sharpening the super stuff = easier than chipping flint. Still of late I have been looking at new knife purchases with one eye on my Shapton stone equipped Edge Pro. I have diamonds but just prefer using the Shaptons and the edges I get.
 
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