Ceramic fixed as EDC

augostos said:
Thank you all very much for valuable suggestions.

It was only by change I could sneak a Native thru border control. I should have left it in my car before crossing the border.

Maybe it is because I was so used to carrying a folder I was really uncomfortable with traveling without a knife.
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On arrival, just pick up the Vic pairing knife, you mentioned. They only cost a couple of bucks/Euros and can be had in most countries.
I think I know, why you want one of those - they are all the rage right now;);):D
 
They've been 'in' since earlier in the year. There's a guy on IG who makes sheaths who I was looking at back in March, he had a ton of orders for a snag sheath he made so you can whip the Vics out of your pocket already unsheathed. Kind of funny how a food knife turned into a tactical fad.
 
Which border is this?

Is it established that your Native is illegal on the other side?
 
The term is 'Hobo Tactical,' I believe. As this is not PracTac, I dont want to go into specifics.

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Stumpy72 said:
True, but a far smarter option is to not be judged by 12 OR carried by 6. If I was considering vacationing someplace where I felt I needed to carry a knife for personal safety, I’d revisit and revise my list of vacation destinations and go somewhere else. My personal experience with border station grunts is that they’re an unfriendly, unhappy, hostile bunch. Their behavior always made me suspect each of them had a large pinecone up his butt. The one and only attitude/course of action I ever found sensible when dealing with them was making it as easy as possible for them to let me pass through and then get the hell away from them ASAP. BTW... on my international travel experiences, I always found the US grunts to be the worst of all to deal with (when I was coming home to my own country!).

As regards taking a ceramic blade through border crossings in the hope it won’t be detected by the grunts.... I think the probability of that resulting in all kinds of costly and monumentally unpleasant trouble is astronomical. As suggested above, just buy a knife when you get where you’re going and then dump it before you cross any border stations on the way home.
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And if unicorns could fly I'd have a billion dollars in an offshore account and two birds in a bush.

We could go on all day with ridiculous scenarios. This was taken out of context because, as I stated in my post, it seemed to me this guy wasn't talking about taking a knife for self defense purposes, but maybe he stated that and I missed it. But maybe, also, he's got some kind of obligation to be there. We can't possibly know all the specifics without him telling us and I'm not one to jump to random pointless conclusions without the facts. I do so deeply detest conjecture.
 
BeyondTheBox said:
I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six.

That saying holds true no matter the weapon or country. Death leaves you no options or outs, but a jury leaves you 12 chances of vindication and survival.

I'm not advocating for breaking laws, of course, and I don't think that's at all the intent here, but it's something that must be weighed for consideration.
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Dude just get a box cutter and bring it across with no blade. When you arrive at your destination just stop at a hardware store.

There are lots of folding styles available.
 
BeyondTheBox said:
We could go on all day with ridiculous scenarios. This was taken out of context because, as I stated in my post, it seemed to me this guy wasn't talking about taking a knife for self defense purposes, but maybe he stated that and I missed it. But maybe, also, he's got some kind of obligation to be there. We can't possibly know all the specifics without him telling us and I'm not one to jump to random pointless conclusions without the facts. I do so deeply detest conjecture.
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With a high degree of probability, you did indeed miss it.
When a poster mentions a low signature knife, that he wants a Vic pairing knife for 'special occasions' (all mentioned in the first post in this thread), it doesnt take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out the purpose. You would of course have to be in on the whole Vic Pairing knife 'hobo tactical' fad but maybe you missed that one.
The OP just chose to post in GD and not PracTac hence veiled it a bit and didnt go all out PracTac Rambo - and thats fine.
 
augostos said:
Thank you all very much for valuable suggestions.

It was only by change I could sneak a Native thru border control. I should have left it in my car before crossing the border.

Maybe it is because I was so used to carrying a folder I was really uncomfortable with traveling without a knife.
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What border? I've never had any trouble with a Vic Cadet at a north American border crossing.
 
lieferung said:
They've been 'in' since earlier in the year. There's a guy on IG who makes sheaths who I was looking at back in March, he had a ton of orders for a snag sheath he made so you can whip the Vics out of your pocket already unsheathed. Kind of funny how a food knife turned into a tactical fad.
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I think it is kind of cool actually. I like the pikal version. I did think it was funny when I first saw it though.
 
BladeScout said:
With a high degree of probability, you did indeed miss it.
When a poster mentions a low signature knife, that he wants a Vic pairing knife for 'special occasions' (all mentioned in the first post in this thread), it doesnt take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out the purpose. You would of course have to be in on the whole Vic Pairing knife 'hobo tactical' fad but maybe you missed that one.
The OP just chose to post in GD and not PracTac hence veiled it a bit and didnt go all out PracTac Rambo - and thats fine.
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Yeah I still don't take from that what the lot of you seemed to've, but again, conjecture, and the lines we all individually draw as to what constitutes such, can and will, inevitably, vary.

I have to hear it from the horses mouth to go there. I like low profile blades as well. I don't know what a Vic pairing knife is, but I know what pairing knives are and they're very useful tools for a broad spectrum of things. Kind of like a mini kitchen utility knife. Not great for use with prying at things, but great slicers and cutters. The "special occasions" bit, however, I can recognize as being somewhat suspicious. So I see what you're saying there.

Anyway, maybe your experience in this world gives you more of an ability to read into things further than I could, so I'll succumb to the notion that there's a likelihood that you're absolutely correct. That's just evident from my lack of online tacticool lingo and behavior.
 
BeyondTheBox said:
Yeah I still don't take from that what the lot of you seemed to've, but again, conjecture, and the lines we all individually draw as to what constitutes such, can and will, inevitably, vary.
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Again, its simple deduction.
BeyondTheBox said:
I don't know what a Vic pairing knife is
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In that case, you havent been paying attention;I posted a Vic pairing knife earlier.
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Anyway, maybe your experience in this world gives you more of an ability to read into things further than I could, so I'll succumb to the notion that there's a likelihood that you're absolutely correct. That's just evident from my lack of online tacticool lingo and behavior.
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I dont carry a knife for self defense, im no knife fighting 'operator' and I havent stabbed anyone with neither a knife nor a pencil...lately:D Ive just been paying attention to knife trends because knives.

I might be mistaken and the OP just wants to peel an apple but I dont think so.

Anyhow, apart from the border issue, the OP wants advice on carrying a knife in a foreign country and seeking that advice is perfectly fine.

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BladeScout said:
Again, its simple deduction.

In that case, you havent been paying attention;I posted a Vic pairing knife earlier.

I dont carry a knife for self defense, im no knife fighting 'operator' and I havent stabbed anyone with neither a knife nor a pencil...lately:D Ive just been paying attention to knife trends because knives.

I might be mistaken and the OP just wants to peel an apple but I dont think so.

Anyhow, apart from the border issue, the OP wants advice on carrying a knife in a foreign country and seeking that advice is perfectly fine.

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No sir, I don't pay a single bit of attention to stuff that I'm not specifically interested in. This is the only knife forum and even subforum I've ever taken any part in and have only done so for the last couple weeks at most. That's why I'm willing to acquiesce, to a degree, to others' more experienced, thus, likely, knowledgeable insights. I will only and always, however, still maintain as much impartiality as I can in matters in which I don't have all the facts I deem necessary to conclude anything. So while you may feel that you've got enough to make that conclusion, I don't feel I do nor do I know any of you well enough to put that level of confidence into you to go along with your conclusions either.

I hope you see that for the intelligent and correct course of action that it is.
 
I have been trough 2 ceramic chef knives. They both chipped or plain out broke over time. I am using a steel chef again. I would not even think about ceramics for a general purpose EDC. Let alone for a possible defensive role.
About the border thing, smarten up man. Smuggling knives has a very low return. There are better things to make money from.
 
Take this with a grain of salt, but I've seen an episode of how it's made as well as another show that showed the production of ceramic cutlery.
In both of these from two different manufacturers it was said that the ceramic they use contains just enough steel in it to set off a metal detector.

Don't know how many manufacturers do this if at all, but I personally would not risk it based on the mere possibility.
 
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