Guilty Pleasures / Odd Interests

T.L.E. Sharp said:
Ever heard of two handed lock stick? This has THREE handed lock stick. I seriously had to get my wife to help me close the damn thing. It was so stuck that it took both of my hands to disengage the lock and then her help closing the blade so I didn't accidentally slam it into my fingers. Back to bladehq it goes!
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LOL

Too bad. You getting a replacement or a refund?
 
Refund. If it were spyderco, BM, etc. I might try my luck again. This is an unknown company to me with few models and no real public presence. One dice roll was enough.
 
dustinarai said:
Same. Just checked the link it looks like the first zirc batch is sold out too.
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I signed up for FRWK notification of back in stock. Was one of the first 40 to do it after they sold out few weeks ago. Got email notification before they went public. Guess I got luck being one of the 40. They only put 22 up in this batch of the Ti. I had to grab one.
 
Wowbagger said:
Nahhhh . . . you got to see this Spike in the proper perspective :
You are up on a roof top; several floors up.
You are being chased down by the Evil ________'s henchmen.
You've exhausted all your weapons and you are down to your trusty Cold Steel Spike.
Oh and you have a damsel with you that must not be relinquished to the harry palmed henchmen who will no doubt do unspeakable things to her before they top off their lovely day of mayhem and carnage by eating her brain.

You unlace your boot laces, use a brick to beat the spike into the cornice of the building and crawl over and hide just out of sight dangling with one hand from the boot lace which is looped around the spike and holding onto said damsel with the other hand.

Now . . . aren't you glad the Spike has a little beef to it ?
Never leave on a mission without it. ;)
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Lol! I'm actually EDCing a cold steel spike when I happened to read this. The bowie version. It's basically a ruggedized steak knife, but I really dig it.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Modern folders could be considered a guilty pleasure.
I have a few I like and carry here and there as a change of pace, but I definitely feel guilty when I do it.
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I understand you have a deep love of traditional knives, so I'm legitimately interested to know which modern knives you carry, and what about them qualifies as a guilty pleasure?
My guilty pleasure I guess would be anything in a neon green, but it would still have to be a real knife :eek:
 
JupiterPaladin said:
I understand you have a deep love of traditional knives, so I'm legitimately interested to know which modern knives you carry, and what about them qualifies as a guilty pleasure?
My guilty pleasure I guess would be anything in a neon green, but it would still have to be a real knife :eek:
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I only have a few modern knives, and most of them are only modern because they just don't qualify for the porch.

For folders it would be a Buck 482 that I carried every single day for years before joining here, and second would be a KA-BAR mini Dozier ( these are the full on moderns )
For the most part modern folders were all I would carry as a not so smart teenager, and they had to be the fastest assisted openers I could get too.

As I became an adult I gradually shifted to simpler more practical knives such as the 482, then eventually simpler yet with traditionals.
Now when I carry a modern folder I sort of feel like I'm reverting back to something childish I've grown out of, Because I was a dumb kid when I was all about modern folders.
I've slowly grown to accept carrying a modern one handed folder once in a while though, because it's only the fact that they're modern and no actual aspects of them.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Because I was a dumb kid when I was all about modern folders.
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I think you are writing off a huge amount of knives because you are mistakenly equating mall ninja Tac-Force crap with modern knives in general. Growing out of that stuff is a good thing, but there is nothing childish about a proper modern knife. Lots of sensible choices that don't have assisted opening, flipper tabs, or whatever other feature you may dislike.
 
JupiterPaladin said:
I think you are writing off a huge amount of knives because you are mistakenly equating mall ninja Tac-Force crap with modern knives in general. Growing out of that stuff is a good thing, but there is nothing childish about a proper modern knife. Lots of sensible choices that don't have assisted opening, flipper tabs, or whatever other feature you may dislike.
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And there are lots of sensible, mature people who carry assisted-opening flippers, too!
 
JupiterPaladin said:
I think you are writing off a huge amount of knives because you are mistakenly equating mall ninja Tac-Force crap with modern knives in general. Growing out of that stuff is a good thing, but there is nothing childish about a proper modern knife. Lots of sensible choices that don't have assisted opening, flipper tabs, or whatever other feature you may dislike.
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I don't think he was saying that modern folders are for children, but he associates them with his own adolescence, which he apparently wants to move past.

Nothing wrong with choosing traditionals over modern folders after all they were used for work for decades if not centuries (not that I would use them much myself, modern all the way).
 
SpySmasher said:
And there are lots of sensible, mature people who carry assisted-opening flippers, too!
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I was not saying they're for kids, not at all.

Liferung is right

In a way the stupidity of my youth gave me distaste for modern folders.
Me and my friends had to have the fastest opening folders with the loudest thwack ( the thwack being an impressive noise that related to speed ) because we would see who could get their knife out the fastest.
On top of that nothing was chosen for practicality as a cutting tool, and the funkiest least practical ones were the coolest ones to us.

Now that I think about it, a really big factor may also be that modern type folders with stainless blades are a dime a dozen and practically all that was available where I bought knives back then, it was time for a change.
 
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JupiterPaladin said:
I think you are writing off a huge amount of knives because you are mistakenly equating mall ninja Tac-Force crap with modern knives in general. Growing out of that stuff is a good thing, but there is nothing childish about a proper modern knife. Lots of sensible choices that don't have assisted opening, flipper tabs, or whatever other feature you may dislike.
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Thinking about it, that's not all there is to it.
Modern stainless folders were really all that was available where I bought knives.
Once I learned of carbon steel and saw a nice knife with this thing called " patina " I was on a quest for something carbon steel besides my 34OT which was small to me and also a little bit rusty.

I guess the plain and simple of it would really be that modern folders were something I got tired of or bored with.
 
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