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- Oct 13, 2001
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- 168
This is my second post to this wonderful forum. You guys are great. Been mostly a lurker for the past year, and have been carrying a BM42 everyday for the past year.
So far, it's holding up better than anything I've ever owned prior to it. I've used Bears, Jags, chinatown specials, but never had a PC or early Benchmade. So, my opinion is probably biased heavily.
My 42AS has taken more abuse than any of my other balisongs too. Dropped on hardwood floors, concrete, asphalt, human skin (ouch!)... and yet, the only real noticable damage is the trademark burr in the blade tip. I think that blunted the first few times it landed blade down.
Even the finish of the anodizing is still purple throughout except where it's rubbed off from the latch.
Still, the thing latches up extremely tight open and closed. Never a false deployment in my pocket nor while cutting anything.
I fortunately live out in the styx, the largest city around is Charlottesville, Virginia... The penalty for carrying a switchblade/gravity knife in VA could lead to confiscation or imprisonment, and I'm keen enough not to manipulate in public areas. I'm still not entirely impressed at the reasoning behind why they're outlawwed. IMHO, society stamps the the negative stereotype of a balisong = badguy or badboy. Am I a badboy for carrying a balisong?
With the recent terrorism and stereotypes with middle eastern men and women, it just proves that we're all just ignorant idiots. Basically, we're profiling everyone that looks remotely with middle eastern heritage and frisking the crap out of them at airports. Can you imagine what would happen if they had a balisong in their pocket?
But in order to fix that, you need to educate that any other racial group could have easily had a dangerous weapon.
But getting back to the issue. How the heck can they classify a balisong as a lethal weapon, over say my other EDC Benchmade Lockback? I can easily deploy my lockback as easily if not faster than my balisong. One flick of the wrist, and my lockback is ready to slice and dice.
Around my parts of the woods, you'll be hard pressed to find a pick-up without a rifle rack displayed in the rear window. Most of them, yes, are one-tooth cowboys... sometimes literally. (Scary when they smile at ya when you pass em.) Fortunately, the law around here isn't concerned with someone carrying a suspicious looking piece of metal that flips around with flair. But, you'll be darn sure that if I'm traveling elsewhere, the balisong stays out of sight.
What can we do to better educate our ignorance? thanks for your support.
-j-
So far, it's holding up better than anything I've ever owned prior to it. I've used Bears, Jags, chinatown specials, but never had a PC or early Benchmade. So, my opinion is probably biased heavily.
My 42AS has taken more abuse than any of my other balisongs too. Dropped on hardwood floors, concrete, asphalt, human skin (ouch!)... and yet, the only real noticable damage is the trademark burr in the blade tip. I think that blunted the first few times it landed blade down.
Even the finish of the anodizing is still purple throughout except where it's rubbed off from the latch.
Still, the thing latches up extremely tight open and closed. Never a false deployment in my pocket nor while cutting anything.
I fortunately live out in the styx, the largest city around is Charlottesville, Virginia... The penalty for carrying a switchblade/gravity knife in VA could lead to confiscation or imprisonment, and I'm keen enough not to manipulate in public areas. I'm still not entirely impressed at the reasoning behind why they're outlawwed. IMHO, society stamps the the negative stereotype of a balisong = badguy or badboy. Am I a badboy for carrying a balisong?
With the recent terrorism and stereotypes with middle eastern men and women, it just proves that we're all just ignorant idiots. Basically, we're profiling everyone that looks remotely with middle eastern heritage and frisking the crap out of them at airports. Can you imagine what would happen if they had a balisong in their pocket?
But in order to fix that, you need to educate that any other racial group could have easily had a dangerous weapon.
But getting back to the issue. How the heck can they classify a balisong as a lethal weapon, over say my other EDC Benchmade Lockback? I can easily deploy my lockback as easily if not faster than my balisong. One flick of the wrist, and my lockback is ready to slice and dice.
Around my parts of the woods, you'll be hard pressed to find a pick-up without a rifle rack displayed in the rear window. Most of them, yes, are one-tooth cowboys... sometimes literally. (Scary when they smile at ya when you pass em.) Fortunately, the law around here isn't concerned with someone carrying a suspicious looking piece of metal that flips around with flair. But, you'll be darn sure that if I'm traveling elsewhere, the balisong stays out of sight.
What can we do to better educate our ignorance? thanks for your support.
-j-
We will gladly welcome your intelligent posts. If you have any questions ya might want to try to search for the answers (though I think the search function is still broken in the Bali forum) but if you can't find the answers either ask us or email me. 
