MOST Intimidating EDC folder

[stabman]

I for one appreciate every thread that isn't dead serious and community accepted becoming an all out cat fight. I would much rather read arguments than look at cool knives!

P.s. that's the first little face thingy I've ever used. I'm pretty excited.

I'm excited for you too.

 

[B.F.U]

Heh, the XL Espada only fits into the pocket on two pairs of pants that I own, and is not useful for any pocket-knife type tasks.
The XL Voyager is just about in the same territory ...
I find that once a knife has more than a 4" blade, it becomes less useful for ordinary, "around the town" type of pocket-knife tasks. Up to 4" and I can use it for all my normal knife needs.
Plus, no one has ever gotten weirded out by my use of a knife in that size range, even at university.
If I pulled out the Espada XL to open an envelope in public, then yes, I'd look like a dork...probably a dork the cops would soon be conversing with.

Well said. The only comments I have ever gotten on long knives (Endura, large voyager, police model, rat 1) were either excitement/praise or jokes about a pocket sword from my training partners.

 

[B.F.U]

As an addendum to my earlier posts picture this scenario: you are a "bad guy" (mugger, thief, murderer, rapist, junkie, whatever) and you see a dude with a huge thing in his pocket with like two inches of steel visible (think xl anything cold steel or even any large tactical folders). Who cares if you know it's a knife or not, you know it's big and hard and you don't want any of that. You want to get whatever you want as easily as possible. So you pick the other guy, who looks to have nothing of danger on his person. When you approach he asks, then commands you to stop. You don't, cause what's he gonna do about it. So then he pulls a shiny pointy little knife out of his waist band and gets in a fighting stance. You say screw that, and back off (or don't and get stabbed, lets not pretend a two inch blade can't end a threat).
End scenario.

So who here avoided the situation more effectively? Honestly, the guy with the pocket sword. The intimidation was preconceived and took him out of the pool of potential victims. However, you have to operate within society. I can't walk around the busiest part of Pittsburgh with a rajah 2 in my pocket (although I would absolutely love to have one for back home). I can, however, legally and acceptably carry a squeak so discretely that if I have a belt on I could go through a pretty thorough eye/hand scan by a bad guy (or anyone) without them knowing I had a knife. It's similar to the whole "the best survival knife is the one you always have" argument.

I know this is slightly off the topic of the most intimidating edc, but I just thought I'd present some thoughts about an edc as an intimidation defense.

ALLHSS out!

 

[marcinek]

I can take it no longer.

The five hundred pound gorilla in the room.

These looks that one gets when whipping their oversized, "big and hard" (as ALLHSS put it), pants sword out?

Not always a look of intimidation.

Not pointing that out during a discussion of "What knives are most intimidating?" would be ignoring a significant part of the big picture.

Just sayin some may be thinking their knife is intimidating people, when, that's not quite what is going on.

 

[stabman]

I doubt most people who can string a coherent sentence together are actually going around whipping out "pants swords" at inopportune moments though.

 

[J_Curd]

I doubt most people who can string a coherent sentence together are actually going around whipping out "pants swords" at inopportune moments though.

Only the opportune times...



...when she offers to make breakfast.

 

[marcinek]

I doubt most people who can string a coherent sentence together are actually going around whipping out "pants swords" at inopportune moments though.

Well now...this thread IS about "Sometimes it's just fun to piss off people that think a pocket knive is meant for stabbing." Though I don't think that speaks to the coherence of anyone involved in the thread.

I'm just saying that if you are doing something like, as someone earlier mentioned, getting a "...kick at watching my family member's faces when I pull out my xl Voyager; especially on family vacations. Priceless." that those looks may not be ones of intimidation.

I wouldn't want someone believing their knife might be intimidating when it actually isn't.

(And I'm sorry "pocket sword" not "pants sword"...entirely different things. )

 

[K.O.D.]

Wait, a pocket knife isn't for stabbing? Guess I'm gonna have to stop using my knives on my voodoo dolls. Oh well, sewing needles work well enough, if not as fun.

 

[marcinek]

Wait, a pocket knife isn't for stabbing?

Maybe yes, maybe no. To each his own I say!

I'm just saying that if one pulls out their gigantic folding stabinator at the picnic or Applebees or wherever and gets a look from Grandma...Grandma may not be shocked or outraged or intimidated.

Go ask Nana what the look meant...she'll tell you. Grandmas will do that...they don't really care anymore about niceties.

 

[hank_rearden]

this is more about the singer than the song. a wee 2 1/2 inch blade held by hannibal lecter.

 

[chambelona59]

The one on the top.
Photos by me, not gleaned from the net.

 

[Easyrider]

The old R.E.K.A.T SIFU or Pocket Hobbit.

 

[Error 404]

The Yojimbo is exactly the kind of knife I'm looking for in the spirit of this thread. Designed for functionality, but happens to be very intimidating. Also perfectly practical in size for EDC.

If the Yojimbo meets your criteria, how 'bout the Gravitator!

 

[northwalesBill]

Yeah so a Matco truck was parked next to my neighbor's mechanic shop and I had to see what kinds of knives he has on his truck of course. He had a better selection than the online catalog and I'll keep checking it but as I'm looking at the knives my neighbor(who is also a cop) showed me his SOG-Tac Auto(not sure the exact model) which looked like the below model found at the link below it. That thing was beautiful but the strength the thing opened was basically the most intimidating folder I've played with! He was busting on me saying if I had one of these he'd confiscate it and then he'd have two.

http://www.sogknives.com/tactical/knives/sog-tac-auto-tanto-black-tini.html

Now I'm on a mission to get a knife similar to this. I wear folding knives kinda like this when I jog, just not as cool as this of course. When I buy a new knife it typically takes me a month or so of research before I decide.

 

[pinnah]

Lenny, you're alright. I'd drink with you.

Dreaming? Look at what's going on in this country right now. Our rights are being infringed upon as we speak. If you seriously think new laws are not infringing on our constitutional rights, then I ask you to re-evaluate who needs to wake up.

I don't disagree with you on this. We might see a different set of threats though. Laws suck...


... till somebody gets hurt. Where's the balance? Ideally, we work it that at the ballot box and it's the subversion of that process that scares more than regulation itself. Let's just say that I'm with Eisenhower on this. Fear the rise of the military industrial complex (and big business in general).

Getting back to knives and the OP, I believe in liberty but also believe that liberty demands responsibility. Irresponsibility begs regulation. And that was my beef with the OP's first post. Why go out your way to scare people? Unless it's needed, what's the win?

In any event, I'd buy you a beer.

 

[JTR357]

These are in my regular rotation.I've been told they're intimidating looking from NKP.I don't see it though.

Spyderco Matriarch & a Kiridashi from an unknown maker

 

[gtshin]

A glimpse of this at 3 am in the light of a Chicago alley.

An interesting discussion of the straight razor as a weapon may be found on the blog: Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters, and Fighting Techniques...

 

[sideways]

As an addendum to my earlier posts picture this scenario: you are a "bad guy" (mugger, thief, murderer, rapist, junkie, whatever) and you see a dude with a huge thing in his pocket with like two inches of steel visible (think xl anything cold steel or even any large tactical folders). Who cares if you know it's a knife or not, you know it's big and hard and you don't want any of that. You want to get whatever you want as easily as possible. So you pick the other guy, who looks to have nothing of danger on his person. When you approach he asks, then commands you to stop. You don't, cause what's he gonna do about it. So then he pulls a shiny pointy little knife out of his waist band and gets in a fighting stance. You say screw that, and back off (or don't and get stabbed, lets not pretend a two inch blade can't end a threat).
End scenario.
*snip*

Or the mugger might think "hey, why take the chance?" and shoot the one with the visible pocket sword dead on the spot. No warnings, no mercy, a corpse does not resist and is easy to loot. Just saying... Things won't necessarily follow the course you predicted.

I don't think I would pull out a 2 inch folder either in a mugging scenario. A mugger wants whatever money you have on you at the time. For that petty amount of cash I will not risk getting injured. I'd much rather throw them the 20 or 50 bucks I have in a money clip and be done with it. YMMV.

 

[idaho]

Fully serrated spydercos. Civilian would be best, but it is not an EDC.
So SS serrated police must suffice.
There is a reason why most sick bad guys in movies use it

 

[mr_anderson]

The DKW Sandshark is pretty intimidating. It freaked my family members out