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linzoy

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I like knives a lot, but all I own is my uncle's old hunting knife that has a bent tip and a very dull edge, and my swiss army knife. It's really just a decoration. I love my swiss army knife but I can't help being worried about it closing and slicing into my fingers, which has already happened once. I also think it would be nice to have something more modern. So I decided I was going to buy a pocket knife.

I made the mistake of talking to my mom about this and she seemed fine with it. She mentioned that she didn't want me to use it for self defense, but she never said I shouldn't buy a knife at all. She seemed perfectly logical and normal. But today, I came home from school, wanting bread. I noticed that all the kitchen knives where missing. This made it unnessicarily difficult to eat the bread, because I had to cut a peice of it and put butter on it... It turns out my mom hid all my knives, my bow and arrow, and all the kitchen knives, which I never used for anything except cooking. She also complained to the teachers at my school who called DSS. (???) I don't have a history of violence, and I've only used the bow and arrow once or twice in my life. I don't go around robbing banks with my friggin swiss army knife. It makes no sense.

Anyway, I'm hoping people can give me some advice about what a good friendly looking knife is. I'm going to keep it hidden but I don't want my mom to throw me in the insane asylum if she finds out I have it. I was thinking about getting a pink delica but I can't find any cheap ones. I'm looking for something around the $50 or less price range, maybe more if it's good enough.

I also want a knife that can be used for self defense if it's nessicary, even though most likely I won't end up needing a knife as a weapon. I know how to fence so a knife that can stab appeals more to me than a slashing knife like the karambit.

Thanks for any advice anybody has.
 
There's a lot of options really--the Spyderco Native you can get as cheap as $40 or so I've heard. You should also check out the pacific or atlantic salt, although you might pay over $50 for em, depends on where you look. As for your concern with self defense you may want to get a knife with an easy open mechanism, like the Benchmade mini-griptilian, or some of the kershaws (I wouldn't recommend using a kershaw for self-defense though).
 
Reminds me of me back when I first joined... (thanks to all you guys who backed me up) Talk to them or something and they'll get it..eventually.. (took me stealing mine back to get my mom to allow them and now I just used my Spyderco PMillie to open her package of insulin)
 
Reminds me of GarageBoy when he first joined! :) Those were good times eh pal!

My advice? Stick it out and talk with your mom. I'd talk with her and let her know she need not hide knives and such from you. Try to educate her at her own pace. If you try to hide a knife from your mother, and she finds out, it will then become a huge lying/trust issue.

Welcome to the forums!
 
linzoy said:
I made the mistake of talking to my mom about this and she seemed fine with it. She mentioned that she didn't want me to use it for self defense, but she never said I shouldn't buy a knife at all. She seemed perfectly logical and normal.
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So you had the SAK then you got something else? What did you get?

That would be quite unusual if your mother got upset over a multitool, my first was a LM Wave so I did really show my parents I liked knives for utility purposes.

The first time I bought myself a knife, and second and third time :D , I talked to my mom about it and did a lot of extra chores and she took me to the local gun shop to get my picks. The people were really nice there, maybe that's why she didn't mind going back.

Edit: I also got asked my mother what she thought about the knives in question when I picked them up. She never said no to any but I think it showed her that I did value her input and opinions.
 
Feel for you linzoy- I come from a hunting family so there were always knives around- and not once did I ever do anything appropriate with one. Has your mom talked to you at all about the issue. Maybe letting her read some of this forum might help- that might show her that there are many legitamate users/ collectors out there and it might even show her the artsy side of knives. Good luck with your knife collection and hold on- patience is the key, logic and calmness will help you a lot.
 
Spyderco Salt, it's bright yellow and a good knife to boot. Yellow is so not scary :)
 
Some of the nicer Swiss Army Knives have locking blades. Since your mom was OK when you had the SAK before, that's where I'd start. You gotta start small and work your way up.

Best luck with the Mom issue, we all had moms too.
-Bob
 
is your mom really crazy, or just worried?

if the latter, i'd try to deal with it. figuring out what pocket knife to carry is not the priority here.
 
seriously is your mom taking any kind of medication? this sounds like a paranoid thing to do really, hide the knives.. first and foremost i think you should talk with your mother about what the hell is going on
 
Try and find a purple handle minigrip. Awesome knife, and as we knife experts know, "feminine" colored knives are much, much less dangerous than black or steel handled knives.
 
Guys, she hid the kitchen knives. Pink plastic handles with lace for a lanyard and a rounded tip on the blade won't mollify her. This is just going to take time for her to recover from the shock. Her baby is growing up and preparing himself to go out into the world.
 
yellow frn tasman salt.

it's what I carry daily. your blade won't rust. the sheeple rarely freak about a yellow handled knife. lastly, that hawkbill blade can do things to really bad people that I just shouldn't mention here.
 
DSS = Department of Social Services. Which usually looks into the welfare of children in abuse cases and in foster care.
Are you sure you are telling us the whole story here? How old of a person are you? First thing , as Crayola stated , is don't go against your mom. That will only justify her actions and make it worse for you. My advice would be to talk to another adult about the situation. Can you enlist the help of an adult male family member or friend of the family? If you can handle this situation in a calm, rational and mature manner it will work in your favor even if takes awhile for your mom to come around to the idea of your owning and using knives etc. Trust is everything in a parent/ child relationship!
 
I think you need this:

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Then your mom will move out and leave you alone :eek:
 
lol that would be great. hey ma... look what I got!

side note: why don't you help her out in the kitchen and take care of the chopping and slicing. show her your proficiency in knife handling and maybe then she will be more inclined to allow you a knife of your choice. just a thought.
 
Work it out with you mother. Once you destroy trust it takes forever to get back, if ever.

You cut yourself with your sak?

it sounds like you should stay with the slip joint action and learn good knife handling skills. A lock on a blade is false confidence as sometimes locks will fail if the knife is being used in an abusive or improper manner. Saftey devices are not a replacement for skill.
 
jackknife said:
Work it out with you mother. Once you destroy trust it takes forever to get back, if ever.

You cut yourself with your sak?

it sounds like you should stay with the slip joint action and learn good knife handling skills. A lock on a blade is false confidence as sometimes locks will fail if the knife is being used in an abusive or improper manner. Saftey devices are not a replacement for skill.
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Quoted for emphasis. This is good advice.
 
M Wadel said:
first and foremost i think you should talk with your mother about what the hell is going on
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Seconded.

Her reaction is a little whacked. There's either got to be something else going on, or she thinks there is something else going on. And when you do get a knife, stick with something pretty. (conventionally pretty, not knifenut pretty)
 
All moms are insane. You try being normal after pushing a 10 pound smoked ham out your womb.
 
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