"So, just what do you do when you cannot have your new Wiz-bang "Tactical Folding Knife?"
"What if you can't have your "newest and bestest" folding knife with the Space Age Steel and the latest Wiz-bang, slide-rule developed locking device that you can hang weight plates from, what then?"
"What happens if, one day, the mere sight of a folding knife's pocket clip means an instant arrest? It could happen, look where we're going with laws. Look at the various lying mouthpieces in politics and the media beating the drum for banning everything they consider "dangerous.""
"Through many conversations with Fred Perrin, I started to develop this whole idea that I did not have to leave good tools behind that were no longer considered "Modern.""
(Above are excerpts from the brief article "Low-Tech Knives in a High-Tech World" by Don Rearic)
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If you're in a town where you can be arrested on the spot for carrying a one-handed opening knife,
and yet you still want to carry something more than a SAK, Rearic has a few recommendations.
Douk-Douk, Mercator K-55, Laguoile, and Opinel.
"...the fact remains, these knives can be used for defense. They have been used for years, probably much more than what we know as "tactical" or "fighting" knives of the past 20 years These types of knives were the "tactical knives" of their day. Some people are going to bellyache about no locks or whatever else they want to gripe about…
You can use these knives for defensive purposes or…simply to cut your food, cut anything you need to cut, it doesn't matter."
Reasons, pictures, some modifications, and plenty of other info you just don't see every day are in the article: http://www.donrearic.com/lotechhitech.html
"What if you can't have your "newest and bestest" folding knife with the Space Age Steel and the latest Wiz-bang, slide-rule developed locking device that you can hang weight plates from, what then?"
"What happens if, one day, the mere sight of a folding knife's pocket clip means an instant arrest? It could happen, look where we're going with laws. Look at the various lying mouthpieces in politics and the media beating the drum for banning everything they consider "dangerous.""
"Through many conversations with Fred Perrin, I started to develop this whole idea that I did not have to leave good tools behind that were no longer considered "Modern.""
(Above are excerpts from the brief article "Low-Tech Knives in a High-Tech World" by Don Rearic)
__________________________________________________________________________________
If you're in a town where you can be arrested on the spot for carrying a one-handed opening knife,
and yet you still want to carry something more than a SAK, Rearic has a few recommendations.
Douk-Douk, Mercator K-55, Laguoile, and Opinel.
"...the fact remains, these knives can be used for defense. They have been used for years, probably much more than what we know as "tactical" or "fighting" knives of the past 20 years These types of knives were the "tactical knives" of their day. Some people are going to bellyache about no locks or whatever else they want to gripe about…
You can use these knives for defensive purposes or…simply to cut your food, cut anything you need to cut, it doesn't matter."
Reasons, pictures, some modifications, and plenty of other info you just don't see every day are in the article: http://www.donrearic.com/lotechhitech.html
