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I generally don't use bottle openers because I generally don't drink beer. A Corona or some other beer with specific types of foods is all right with me but it is a rare thing. Even more rare when I am away from home to the point of never happening because if you get pulled over for anything with one beer in you, that just might cost you a couple thousand dollars now.
All of the, "You don't need a bottle opener to open a bottle" or "you're stupid if you don't know how to open a bottle with the spine of a regular knife" is interesting banter.
The saving grace of a knife and especially a fixed blade knife in the urban environment is camouflage and innocence. The bottle opener gives it more of a tool appeal to people that don't look at a fixed blade knife as a tool but as something more akin to what O.J. Simpson carries around (Not anymore!).
Pelton probably didn't care about this angle. The laughing skull logo, while cool, blows the innocence angle out the door but can simply be removed or otherwise covered up. Skulls on knives will tend to send up red flags among the bedwetters.
The H.E.S.T., to me, is simply a handy little knife that has a lot of quality and a dynamite warranty and doesn't cost an arm and a leg in the process.
People will go back and forth about it for some time to come.
Some people still don't "like" Glocks because they're "plastic." Ho-hum, don't care, couldn't care less. Bore is lower towards the hand, they go bang when you squeeze the trigger, they put a bullet where you want them to and they do it time and time again with very little problems. For some people, NO problems. Yet people will still passionately hate them or even make up lies about them.
Such is the nature of man.
All of the, "You don't need a bottle opener to open a bottle" or "you're stupid if you don't know how to open a bottle with the spine of a regular knife" is interesting banter.
The saving grace of a knife and especially a fixed blade knife in the urban environment is camouflage and innocence. The bottle opener gives it more of a tool appeal to people that don't look at a fixed blade knife as a tool but as something more akin to what O.J. Simpson carries around (Not anymore!).
Pelton probably didn't care about this angle. The laughing skull logo, while cool, blows the innocence angle out the door but can simply be removed or otherwise covered up. Skulls on knives will tend to send up red flags among the bedwetters.
The H.E.S.T., to me, is simply a handy little knife that has a lot of quality and a dynamite warranty and doesn't cost an arm and a leg in the process.
People will go back and forth about it for some time to come.
Some people still don't "like" Glocks because they're "plastic." Ho-hum, don't care, couldn't care less. Bore is lower towards the hand, they go bang when you squeeze the trigger, they put a bullet where you want them to and they do it time and time again with very little problems. For some people, NO problems. Yet people will still passionately hate them or even make up lies about them.
Such is the nature of man.
