boker plus credit card knife impressions, ideas, ramblings

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aguijonmagico

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This is the knife:
http://www.boker.de/us/pocket-knife/boker-plus/outdoor-knife/01BO010.html

it's a small folding blade.
2,14 inch blade
1,1 oz weigth
when opened, ol 5 inch

History.
John Kubazek, this guy

http://www.kubasekcustomknives.com/

He patented The Creditor, this knife

http://www.kubasekcustomknives.com/creditor.php

this custom original model is in D2 steel, titanium frame, and carbon fiber.

The boker plus version is 440c steel al around, with g10 instead of carbon fiber.
Being a mass production boker plus folder, there are minor fit and finish mistakes. But very minor, neglegible. If you search for them, you'll find them, like little disalignements, marks, etc.

Folded, the edge of the blade seems to have cutted a few people, because the blade is partially exposed on the side.
In the knifecenter reviews, there are two people complaining about this issue
http://www.kubasekcustomknives.com/creditor.php

In those reviews, a user talks about similar models, CRKT Kiss, and CRKT Peck.
The Kiss, here

http://www.crkt.com/KISS
it's a different design, tanto.

The Peck it's actually "Delilah's Peck'

http://www.crkt.com/Delilahs-PECK-Wharncliffe-Razor-Sharp-Edge

a wharncliffe, very similar to the Kiss in design.


Sooooooooo

Been wanting ir for a long time.
I've bought the Izula woth the full intention of using it as a necker, only to find that to be tacticool you need to have that bead chain whatever or the bad guys can estrangulate you, God forbids!
So there I was, with an unneckable necker.

Then, one day, I say the boker credit card knife.

to be continued...
 
...and I also saw the bk 11 becker necker. IT HAD A BEADED CHAIN to use around the neck and hang the knife!
But it was so similar to the Izula...
Instead, the boker plus credit card knife was different, because IT'S A FOLDER.
In my mind, that would be enough to justify the purchase in the eyes of my wife. When I buy a knife, she always goes "another one? it's the same that the others! what's the difference? stop spending money in knives!"
From time to time I've been historically able to soften her heart showing her why I was passionate about a knife.
So I needed an excuse, and the excuse was there: THIS ONE IS FOLDABLE, it's smaller, it's very smart. I had to have it. Please don't hit me. Not again.

It's very cheap, also. In Argentina, about U$D25. Or less.

Been eyeballing it for a long time, never making the move. Finally it happened. Since it was cheap, I manage not to eat and walk a little extra and the knife went to my hand unnoticed by the eagle's financial eye of my wife.

I thought, because I've seen it only open, that the knife only had the chain as a carrying method. Nope. It has a clip.
It's a good one.

So I got my extra dork ops tacticlol fat ninja secret agent man idea. You use the chain FOR THE IZULA, WIN!. FINISH HIM! FATALITY!
And use the clip to conceal carry the knife.

Where?
Because it's been a known problem that you can get cut even when folded. Don't care btw, danger is my middle name.
Imagine your shirt. Picture it buttoned. There is one side of the shirt that goes above, another one that goes below. In the middle, holding both sides, the buttons.
Ok, the below side it's hidden by the above side. Clip the knife there, UPSIDE DOWN, in a slightly diagonal angle. In this way, the clip bites enough shirt to get a very good hold, but it's totally hidden.

Another idea: behind a tie, clipped to the horizontal strip of fabric wich all ties have in the back. You can't get cut in there. Even better. Take away the clip, to remove weight and thickness, and let it fall in the natural bag formed by the lower back part of your tie. Super duper secret agent, not get cut.

The tie as a secret stash for weapons of mass destruction it's now revelead for all the word to know. SORRY CIA.

The knife has mixed reviews, to say the least. On top of the ones of knifecenter posted before, I give you now the Amazon reviews.
First one is totally negative, but it has a video of the knife.
http://www.amazon.com/Boker-Plus-Credit-Card-Knife/product-reviews/B00365NKL2


The edge is chisel with back bevel, a fact you must understand to be able to sharpen it properly.
Explained here: http://www.zknives.com/knives/articles/knifeedgetypes.shtml

All in all it's what it is. To me, it's a Maxwell Smart type of knife, the one that Liam Neeson could have used in Taken II when captured, instead of the mini cell phone. It's a last ditch knife. It's the last ditch of the last ditch. It's a folding Sghien Dhu or whatsitsname.
It's not an utility knife. It's not a money clip.
It's a knife you keep clipped to your underwear, to the side of a sock, a shirt, a tie.
And when they throw you inside of the dungeon with a plastic zip tie around your wrists, you fake been unconscious, wait until they are gone, jump and in mid air slip your both legs between your tied hands so you have your hands in front of you, falling in a crouching position ready for action. You take your shoe lace partially, extend it with your mouth from your shoe and pass it behind the zip tie. Then rub the plastic zip tie against the extended shoe, and IT WILL BURN THE PLASTIC ZIP, yeah, thanks Jim Wagner, and then, just then, you pull your credit card knife.
Then you wait with your arms and legs extended, holding you to the roof, and when the bad boy look through the tiny little window of the dungeon's door, they don't see you, because you are out of their line of vision, because you are attached to the roof, the get in in total puzzlement, you fall over then, and WATAAAAHH!!! cut them in shreds with the credit card knife.
That is the REAL use of the credit card knife.
AND I FRIGGIN LOVE IT.

YOU GOTTA OWN ONE!
 
your enthusiasm is contagious but . . . what good is a knife that folds backwards when yo try to cut something with it??
 
OP- I just found one of these for $23. bucks. I'm going to get one. :)
rolf
 
I am not interested in the credit card knife thing in the least, but i read your whole post and you are a funny dude. Two thumbs up to you.

Leif
 
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