Cold Steel Nightshade Series

Anywhere I'd need to carry a plastic knife to avoid detection is nowhere I wanna go.

With my luck, I'd get caught and off to Gitmo I'd go.
 
I am getting one of the Tai Pan model ones (UPS willing, later today). I would really like to get a real one, but the $160 or so I have found them for is still a little out of my price range for something that (legally) can't be my EDC.

They could be easily used for some good marketing too, just pass out a bunch of freebies at a the local gun & knife show.
 
Thirteenth,
I'd recommend against trying to sharpen them. Disappointing. They're for jabbing and stabbing, and the ones I have have sort of a diamond-shaped blade profile for strength, good enough for envelopes as they come from the factory. Use your real steel for cutting.
If you really had to try to make an edge, you could get decent results from those tongue-depressor-sandpapery-things whose name escapes me that the ladies use for fingernail touchups. Emory boards, maybe? but quit after you get to the "Ahh, I see some results" stage. Anything much more would be wasted effort, as you'll just grind the blade down to dust.
 
A women on another board mentioned her use for the older CAT Tanto, a shower buddy. If you think about it there has been cases of women getting attacked while in the bathroom and the thing aint gonna rust so she hung it on her shower nozzle. I might get a couple to stick in the car cause it aint easy to get to the gun holstered in the small of my back or the knife clipped to my pocket when I'm sitting down with a seatbelt on. If you think about it theres times when something that requires no sharpening, no oiling, and no worrys if you break it or it gets misplaced or stolen can come in handy. I'm getting a couple as soon as my fav net dealer starts carrying them.
 
I don't know why I cannot find this online, but are these knives legal to carry? I live in TN and I currently carry a leg knife (CKRT Sting) and a folder. The sting is double sided and I already question the legality of this, but what about a double sided knife used exclusively for punching people? I bought two of these FGX knives and I want to carry them when I'm around the water. I also wouldnt mind having an EDC push knife.

So, are any of these plastic knives carry legal? if so, is the push knife legal?

Also, does anyone happen to know if double sided knives are carry legal in tn? and if they are, are they legal to conceal?
 
Jos said:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=481624
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I was gonna say that...but while we're here, anyone have experience cutting with one of these...like, will it cut cardboard? plastic bag? plastic packaging? other random stuff that we normally cut open with our knives? It would seem that if you could get the bevel fairly low that the hardness of the stuff (sposed to be like 90 rockwell?) would allow it to cut OK, but maybe not.
 
fudo said:
Trust me, they're sticky-pokers, not cutters.
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....yes....the blade is not intended to cut....Nightshades are designed to be "jammed" into something; they are essentially "pointy sticks". That does not mean they cannot be used with effectiveness.....however so can a 59 cent Bic pen.......if you know where to stab.

- regards
 
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