Can people not use slipjoints any more?

[OwenM]

You know, that's a really cool idea

 

[Morgoth412]

Deadmanwalking,
Haha, that sounds like fun!

BTW, WallyWorld sells a USA made Buck Cadet with Poly-pearl handles instead of the wood. The quality seems a better on the US model.
-Kevin

 

[Moondrop]

Thought I'd update this monster of a thread I have created.


"Excuse me ma'am I'd like to purchase that Buck Stockman you have on display there."

She looked at me confused. Okay I didn't really expect her to know her knife brands or patterns and let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she's either doesn't like Buck for some reason or is used to seeing stockmans with slightly different configurations or something . I sighed. "You know, #26."

That doesn't really surprise me. When I bought my Chive it was at my local Wal Mart and the guy behind the counter needed to know the number of the knife I was asking about even though I asked for it by name. Then he tried to open it and couldn't figure out how, so I had to show him the little lock on it.



I asked the Wally World clerk as I slid my license out what she thought someone was going to do with that knife. She shrugged and laughed at my lame joke. Okay so that verifies that no one is intimidated by this little knife.

I've never been sure whether the dept. manager where I worked for a year was kidding or not when he'd joke that I shouldn't mug anyone with the SAK I used to open boxes of new merchandise. He was probably kidding, but it was strange to me all the same.


And of course what does he need but a knife to cut the nylon twine with?

First of all why does he not already have one? So I see my opportunity and lend him my new little Buck. AND he can't open it. It's not that he tried to open it and just slipped on the nail nick, which I will admit still happens to me sometimes, he stared at it and turned it end over end.

This amuses me a bit. Like I said, I worked for a year in a place where many boxes needed opening and cutting up and as far as I know I was the ONLY one who owned and carried the equipment needed. Everyone else relied on the few box cutters provided. Maybe they found pocket knives too complicated to operate. I found early on that there were never enough of those things to go around, so I decided I should bring my own, which I was also less likely to leave just anywhere in the store where little fingers could find it.

BTW, those same knifeless co-workers asked me at least once if I wasn't afraid to walk alone out to my car at night after work. I never really was, in spite of the fact that there had been some incidents at other local businesses. Obviously I didn't expect to defend against a mugger with a corkscrew, but I do think that being the kind of person who is prepared also made me project a different attitude than the one that the rest of them did. Also, I was raised in the Bronx, NY.