Has this ever happened to you

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crentsch68

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So I'm at football practice this morning, and one of the receivers asks me if i have a knife (I'm kinda known for having a knife) , he wants to trim the rubber on the end of his mouthpiece. I'm already dressed for practice (shorts, t-shirt and tennis shoes, nothing in my pockets) so i point him to my locker, and say there is one in my bag. He gets it out, and looks a little shocked. The receiver looks at me and goes "This is your knife? its huge! I thought you had like a swiss army knife or something." I was a little bit shocked, (the knife in question is a cutco bullwhip my dad found in the garage). It is by no means a large blade. So, i just kinda awkwardly watched him trim his mouthpiece and then told him to put it back. I know there have been a couple of posts similar to this recently, but has anyone you handed your knife to looked shocked, or like the mugger in crocodile dundee:D
Oh well. I guess it just comes with the knife nut territory. Like bald spots on my arm
 
yes. i tend to favor knives over 3.5 inches. the way i avoid these moments is a victorionx tinker in my left front pocket. while my main folder rides in my right front pocket
 
I've had a similar experience. I've started carrying a traditional in my offhand pocket. Usually a Case peanut. Sometimes a SAK of some variety.
 
I think that has happened to pretty much everyone else around here.

Oddly enough, the one time it happened to me, was when I took out my SAK to open a friend's beer! We were hanging out with some exchange students from Germany and they freaked out 'cause I had a knife on me!!!
 
I'm starting to think I need to carry another blade in my offhand pocket too.
What are you guys opinions on the buck deuce? It's the only non-locking blade I have at the moment, but I do plan on getting a sak of some sort
 
Just looked up the Buck Deuce. Looks like a pen knife so it would serve the same purpose as my peanut. Sometimes I carry a pen knife. Seems like it would do the trick nicely.
 
I cant wait till I get my custom titanium framelock thats the size of a large cold steel ti-lite
 
Ah, the uninitiated... Funny how "big" means such a different thing to us, compared to what they think of as big.

The first knife I owned, other than a SAK, was a 10.5 inch WWII bayonet. It takes an awful lot of steel for me to say "That's a big knife!" now. The only one's I've seen in person that evoked such a response were owned by my employer's tech guy. He's like the resident bad ass... One day he walked up to me and said "Want to see a knife?" and pulls a sheathed ESEE Junglas out of his pants.

I'm still not sure how that thing fit down his pant-leg without looking weird.
 
Let them use the ~ 1.5" blade on the Victorinox Classic that you carry on your keychain. That way, they never get to touch the good stuff.
 
I remember a similar situation. A friend of mine came over to my house wearing athletic shorts (very loose and baggy). He had asked me to sharpen a knife of his. I asked him where his blade was, and he lifted up the leg of the shorts, revealing a buck nighthawk strapped to the inside of his thigh.
 
I used to get a shocked reaction when I pull out my Gerber EZ Out to the point of even being told it was an illegal size knife. So I also carry a small Swiss Army or a USA Uncle Henry Praire Jack.
 
Thus, we all need to carry 6" knives so that the regular 4" stuff can actually get labelled "small" like it truly is.

If you have a Leatherman to hand out those are pretty universally recognised as tools.
 
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