Knives that make you go huh?! Why?!

kobold said:
IDK.. the Condor Bushraft Parang IS a chopper. So is the Mini Duku.
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I agree that you can chop with them, but the specs on the thickness is .16-.17. Thats plenty for most applications. However, my thinnest khuk (as in actual traditional khuk, not a machete shaped like one) is well over 1/4". The one on my person today is considered a "lightweight" coming in at 18" overall and only about 24oz. Its about 3/8" thick at the spine.

I will concede that khukuri shaped machetes or KLOs (khuk like objects) kinda suck. I will say that the Parang is much preferred, and Condor is a very solid brand. El Salvador knows how to make a machete.
 
Trying to cash in on the SD market ? Sure. Why not ? Everybody likes to have an Eviscerator 2000 in his pocket.
 
The only be that makes my head tilt with confusion is the old orange paratrooper switch blades. The hook to cut the parachute cords is not the auto opening feature. It always seemed to me that for such a purpose built knife the cord cutter would be the one blade you want out one handed and fast.
 
For me its the punch blade style neck knives. Not only are they pretty small for self defense, I cannot think of something less practical in a panicked self defense scenario than grabbing for a pendulum swinging around your neck. Especially if worn beneath a shirt. Never understood that thought process
 
I'd say that there's much more a trend to make knives too small for best function , than too large .
 
Tom Brown Tracker.

I don't get it, but if it works for people, more power to them.
 
Looks like wharncliffe to me (older aesthetic taste, I guess). I got a knife called a "wall street knife" a couple of year ago and love the inverted style. A drop point would probably be more useful for stabbing, but my knife generally stabs vegetables and cuts bits out of paper. No clue what the wall street part refers to, other than that it works well to lay paper on a desk and used the tip to snip articles or bits out of paper.
 
Houlahound said:
Hawkbill blades are pretty weird to me.
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"Hawkbill Knife"; AKA: "Linoleum Knife" and "Pruning Knife" when I was a youngling. :D

(They still work well for those tasks, also cutting carpet, and scoring drywall, by the way. :) )

I believe my maternal grandfather (a master "can do it all" carpenter, before carpenters became specialists. He passed before specialization (framing, interior finish, (trim, cabinets, drywall/plastering, linoleum/carpet, and hardwood floors, etc.), went into effect) sometimes used his ...old hickory? ... fixed blade linoleum knife to scratch lines on the lumber he had to saw, and to clean/trim the edges after sawing.
I vividly remember a fixed blade round wood handle linoleum knife in his (self made) job-site tool box. :)
 
DocJD said:
The main advantage of the Frenzy is slimness for easier carry . Talwar is the better slicer , but quite wide .
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I like how slim it is and almost everything about Frenzy's design, especially the blue one, but not the size.
I can't understand why they didn't make a mini version. It would be great with 3.5 inches blade, maybe max 4 inches instead of that big 5.50. I don't really see the use or need for that in a folder. Other than posting images with that's the knife meme.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
OSS lapel knives have always struck me particularly useless. They seem like they'd be fine for cutting tape, but I feel like using one for self-defense you'd be more likely to inflict serious injury on your own hand than an opponent.
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Definitely. These things would be hard to use in a practice environment, let alone under real stress. A person would be better off using a bigger sharpened nail, no edges to slash the user and it would pierce just as well. It would be easier to dispose of it, nails are everywhere and most of the time people don't think anything of them. Drive it into wood where it looks like it would belong or stomp it into the ground. That's a lot more discreet and spy-like than those lapel knife things.
 
Omnius said:
I like how slim it is and almost everything about Frenzy's design, especially the blue one, but not the size.
I can't understand why they didn't make a mini version. It would be great with 3.5 inches blade, maybe max 4 inches instead of that big 5.50. I don't really see the use or need for that in a folder. Other than posting images with that's the knife meme.
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I actually like it, the blade profile is practical. I am leaning more and more to long slender blades for EDC than the more common short wide blades.

I see less practical application for these short, thick and wide blades even tho they have become the new normal.

My knife memes are short, thick, wide blades because I don't get it unless your one of those folks that thinks it's cool to hang a bowling ball from the tip of your knife blade just so you can post pictures of it to impress the lads.
 
MarkN86 said:
So what you're saying is, as a CS Magnum Kukri owner, my uneducated self should go out and buy a real Kukri.. I like the way you think.

It's settled then. My only question now is which one fits me best in hand and wallet.
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For sure. Everyone needs a real deal khukuri, at least to try out. I cut my teeth on an old Gurkha Lite Cold Steel knife. After I got my first Himalayan Imports, I gave it to a coworker. Now being that it was made out of Carbon V and Cold Steel has been sold...kinda wish I had kept it;)
 
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