Day in the life of a traditional at Disneyworld

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I am at Disneyworld with my family. I have a seven year old son, four year old daughter, and wife who loves all things Mickey. Part of my gift to her was to let her plan this trip. She has done so with precision that would impress the German military staff. I only insisted on a few things. One of which was that I must bring a knife. Since we drove, security issues were mooted. Since I am not advertising that I am carrying a clipped knife, I have had no issues with Disney security.

I brought a Case Texas Jack CV and a Moore Maker Stockman. We've been here since Sunday. My wife has come to see the logic of carrying a knife. I do not know how many tags I have cut off of purchases or strings I have trimmed. The oddest request was cutting up a desert from Goofy's Candy Co., one a rice crispy treat dipped in white chocolate, rainbow sprinkles, and more white chocolate and allowed to hard. The other marshmallows dipped in dark chocolate, M&Ms, and more dark chocolate. I let the kids try to eat them to no avail, them the Case to the rescue. A few quick cuts and bite sized deserts for all. One or two people watched me. But, since I was not brandishing the knife I got no comments and I saw one grandfather chuckle.

The point of this is, you can bring a knife here. It makes sense to do so, just think about where you are when you use it.

Should I need to make any other interesting cuts, I will let you know.
 
You are preaching to the choir. I too took a small knife, flashlight, etc. into Disney World, the flashlight coming in very handy when the electricity went out when we were inside space mountain. Thats a very, very cool place when you can see things that aren't meant to be seen.

As far as I know, it is not unlawful to carry a knife in Disney World, though if they saw it they could no doubt ask you surrender it or to leave. I would not carry it there if I knew it to be unlawful.
 
They wand everyone entering the Texas State Fair and will confiscate your knife.But handguns are fine with the permit.At least that was my experience several years ago.I had to hike back to the truck to leave my folder,but the .38 was cool.
 
I think that is a good story. My employer is in health care. Due to 9/11 stuff, our security guards were mandated by HS to carry firearms and be deputized. So with that came a formal weapons policy...and with that came a knife clause. I am happy to say that we are allowed to carry anything that does not have a blade that exceeds 3 inches. Thanks to what I believe are thoughtful folks at Spyderco (in the sense of they thought this through), my Delica, at 2 7/8" is good to go here as is my SAK.
 
Seals said:
They wand everyone entering the Texas State Fair and will confiscate your knife.But handguns are fine with the permit.At least that was my experience several years ago.I had to hike back to the truck to leave my folder,but the .38 was cool.
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That's funny. My buddy who's a LEO had a similar incident at the Circus with his Spyderco Tenacious. They gave him a hard time about it even after he showed his badge. Eventually they let him take it in and he said "You'd really poop your britches if you knew what else I'm carrying." :D The lady just said she didn't even want to know.
 
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Folks, let's get back to the discussion of "traditional knives".

(Wayne, feel free to carry on if you have additional reports.)
 
the small traditional knife seems to be posses no threat in eyes no-knife folk. Great story. Texas jack rides nicely in pocket, slim and thin profile is really comfy in pocket and it has nice clip and pen blade.
 
thejamppa said:
the small traditional knife seems to be posses no threat in eyes no-knife folk. Great story. Texas jack rides nicely in pocket, slim and thin profile is really comfy in pocket and it has nice clip and pen blade.
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I agree, Jani. I think the Texas Jack (which is essentially a premium jack) is one of the classics of the Case line (in both the "32" and "92" patterns). :thumbup:
 
thejamppa said:
the small traditional knife seems to be posses no threat in eyes no-knife folk. Great story. Texas jack rides nicely in pocket, slim and thin profile is really comfy in pocket and it has nice clip and pen blade.
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Agreed. While I usually have a one-hander on me, most of my cutting tasks are handled by a slipjoint, especially when there are curious eyes around. I don't have to worry about causing any nervous reactions with my old-timey knives.

- Christian
 
Heck, fifty years ago if a kid showed up at Disneyland with a coonskin hat and a 12 inch Bowie knife on his belt he would have been the envy of every kid there.
 
I Just got back from Disney World over Thanksgiving and while I left my clip knife back in the room, I carried a Peanut every day with no problems. They look in bags, but no metal detectors (can you imagine the delay :eek:) and no pat downs.
I used it a few times, and did not think anything about it really. Just business as usual.
 
kamagong said:
Agreed. While I usually have a one-hander on me, most of my cutting tasks are handled by a slipjoint, especially when there are curious eyes around. I don't have to worry about causing any nervous reactions with my old-timey knives.

- Christian
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A reason why I have traditional slipjoint or sak with me. I mean I still carry one hand opener like Spyderco Bob Terzuola slipit but GEC Congress or toohpick with nearly as long blade as my Terzuola is still going to rise less eye brow than modern folder.

All this made me dig up my case small texas jack in CV and put it on my pocket for tomorrow instead GEC 3" wharnie jack, congress or toothpick or my favourite: Queen small Dan Burke Barlow.

Old timers are safe knives to carry and use... and often more pretty aswell.
 
Stringfellow Hawke said:
I carried a Vic Cadet through Disney, Epocot, Animal Kingdom, Downtown Disney, ect... for a week. No problems.
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Good choice! Exactly what I did. A Vic (Orange) Alox Cadet for a week at all the parks. Did that for two trips we did to Disneyworld. I picked the Cadet because of the size and if it was confiscated, not much to lose money wise.
 
I have actually thought about collecting old disneyland slip-joints. There are a whole bunch of them. A lot were made overseas, but I believe I found a few made on the east coast. They had basic branded giveaway knives as well as specialty knives from Tom Sawyer's Island and the like.

Can you imagine what a security officer would say if you pulled out your slip-joint and it had a Mickey Mouse shield looking right up at you, waving his big white hand?:D:thumbup: What are they gonna do, deny Mickey?:eek:
 
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I have actually thought about collecting old disneyland slip-joints. There are a whole bunch of them. A lot were made overseas, but I believe I found a few made on the east coast. They had basic branded giveaway knives as well as specialty knives from Tom Sawyer's Island and the like.

Can you imagine what a security officer would say if you pulled out your slip-joint and it had a Mickey Mouse shield looking right up at you, waving his big white hand?:D:thumbup: What are they gonna do, deny Mickey?:eek:
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If I remember correctly, I think they sell small Vic like knives in the shops there.There might even be some in the countries at Epcot.
 
I carried my Schrade 8OT while in Disney back in '96 while visiting with my wife and daughter, I had no problem back then but that was pre 9/11.

I do remember hittin' every shop in Disney lookin' for a Disney Knife, everyone looked at me like I was knutz except for one old guy who had been workin' at Disney since the 70s, he said he remembered a knife sold at Disney for a little while.

He said he thought it was made by Colonial, anyone know if it was true, did Disney ever have a knife contracted out?
 
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