I'm not going to turn my Espada into my main EDC, but this is a small comfort, makes me breathe a sigh of relief. The only way another person would ever see my emergency knife is by being trapped in a precarious position like a car, or having just walked through a cloud of pepper spray to continue attacking me.
I sometimes worry that if by chance a cop would make contact with me, they would dislike my knife or distrust my reasons for having it, but I hope my positive and respectful attitude, explanation, and possessing of other tools like a SAK + clearly expensive Spyderco would deter any thoughts that I am out there trying to be a tough guy with a Black Talon, Yojumbo, Espada XL, or something. I mainly don't worry about it, because if you don't make a nuisance out of yourself, you aren't to be pulled over, but, one never knows when contact may be made.
My true main wonder is what to refer to a reverse-S style knife as. I certainly do not want to call it a self-defense knife. do not want to make an idiot out of the cop and insult his intelligence by calling it a pruning knife for gardening, with it's retention ring and mean serrations. I could explain that, as you see, I have three other knives of different kinds, and they are for X, Y, Z, and this one is just great for pulling apart fibres, ropes, anything. It's fresh off the stone, feel it! Or, I could just say if asked what it's for, that it is an emergency knife, which is true, had in a similar way a traditional rescue knife or medical scissors would be. Seatbelts, straps, clothing, anything one may get stuck in, best safe than sorry.
