Have we finally "gone round the bend?"

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Just got my new copy of "Blade" magazine.

The COVER has a pic of a CRKT desert CAMOUFLAGE knife that would make it hard to find if you happened to drop it down a 25 ft embankment.

AND

On P.35 in the article on what to do with a "$400 knife" we see a picture of a good use.........cutting THREAD !!!!!! (and here all this time I've been using the wife's scissors)

We may be gone already. When is KNIFE NUT mag coming out?

:D
 
Actually that picture of the Carson cutting thread is my knife. I've been carrying that knife for over 3 years and it has seen some hard use. I am a part time sheath maker and one of the uses I listed, out of very many, was cutting the heavy waxed thread I sew sheaths with, and that is what they chose to depict. I had to send the knife to them for pictures. That knife also happens to be used nightly for cutting stock off 2,000 lb. paper rolls at the NY Daily News. It has also been used on numerous camping and hunting trips, and just about anything else you can use a knife for.
The article was written by BF member Dexter Ewing and his point was that there are some of us who actually use our handmade knives rather than lock them in a safe place.Their pic makes it look brand new but if you could see the blade it is scratched to hell.
3 of the 4 other people interviewed for that article carry their handmade knives on the job as LEO's.

David Abramson
 
Getting back to the camo knife thing, it really strikes me as absurd for Victorinox and Wenger to be making realtree camo handled SAKs. Drop one of these things on the ground when you are out in the woods and you'll never see it again, and yet these companies are only responding to consumer demand., Just goes to show how the average person does't seem to have a lick of common sense anymore.
 
Isn't that oxymoronic, "the average person doesn't have a lick of common sense anymore"? What could the average person have, besides common sense? Certainly not extraordinary sense; otherwise they wouldn't be an average person anymore. If they lack common sense, aren't they below average then?

Thom
 
yobbos1 said:
Getting back to the camo knife thing, it really strikes me as absurd for Victorinox and Wenger to be making realtree camo handled SAKs..., and yet these companies are only responding to consumer demand., Just goes to show how the average person does't seem to have a lick of common sense anymore.
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Camo is the new TACTICAL MALL NINJA (TM) look. :p
 
Yeah, the world's gone mad. Look at it this way, though. The more knives the sheeple lose, the more we smart people can find! :D
 
If you think a camo knife is bad, how about a black flashlight? When do you need to be able to see where your flashlight is? ... in the dark :D
 
In 23 years of Army service, I never saw a time when a camo knife was necessary. True, I wasn't tabbed Special Forces or Ranger, and a polished blade or bright polished brass or nickel silver hilt or buttcap would need to be subdued. But a satin finished blade and a good black, brown, or gray handle would be fine.

...but it's the "sizzle" that sells the steak and I doubt I'll convince any "wannabe" tactical knife owner.

Bruce
 
Esav Benyamin said:
If you think a camo knife is bad, how about a black flashlight? When do you need to be able to see where your flashlight is? ... in the dark :D
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Heh heh.. never thought about that. Very true.
 
yobbos1 said:
Getting back to the camo knife thing, it really strikes me as absurd for Victorinox and Wenger to be making realtree camo handled SAKs. Drop one of these things on the ground when you are out in the woods and you'll never see it again, and yet these companies are only responding to consumer demand., Just goes to show how the average person does't seem to have a lick of common sense anymore.
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It's not absurd from Voctorinox or Wenger's perspctive!

They sell you one because you go oooooooooooh! They sell you the second one because you lost the first one.

Genius marketing in my opinion.

Drew
 
Buy what you like, carry what you want, use what you want.

If you don't like the camo versions, buy a different color or pick a different knife. Why worry so much about what other people want to buy.

I don't care for blue or red or pink handles, but I am glad that the variety is there.
 
...is an OnStar/DogFence setup for knifeknuts and sheeple. Each knife would have a transmitter that would emit a subsonic signal when unclipped or unsheathed. All sheeple within 30 feet of the knife would get a beeping noise on their sheeple collar. All sheeple with 15 feet would receive a painful-but-relatively-harmless electric jolt.
 
Lavan said:
Just got my new copy of "Blade" magazine.

The COVER has a pic of a CRKT desert CAMOUFLAGE knife that would make it hard to find if you happened to drop it down a 25 ft embankment.

AND

On P.35 in the article on what to do with a "$400 knife" we see a picture of a good use.........cutting THREAD !!!!!! (and here all this time I've been using the wife's scissors)

We may be gone already. When is KNIFE NUT mag coming out?

:D
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Bolded by me for emphasis.

Lavan, I may not be using my Greco Dangler Drop Point quite as hard as Lifter says he uses his Carson, and it didn't cost any $400, but I have taken to carrying it as an EDC when I am not going into DC and/or into my office where such a knife would either be seized or get me arrested or both. it is handy as it can be and I use it for all sorts of things, mostly around the house type of chores. I liked it so that I oredered one sent to my sister who lives on a horse farm out in Ohio and has use for such a tool around the farm.
 
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