need help for flying with knives.

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pollo

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Hello.

I'll be flying to italy tomorrow morning. I planned to bring there a large sebenza, a spyderco streetbeat, and my kitchen knives.
I don't think i'll have a problem with the custom (i'm an italian citizen and that helps, plus all those knives are legal to purchase there.

I planned to put my the Shun knives just laying at the bottom of the suitcase.
Instead i was planning to carry the handle of the sebbie on board and zip tie the sebbie blade and the streat beat to the frame of the suitcase or to a nylon strap.

Do you guys think i'm going to get in trouble for tieing stuff so that it can't be taken out? about the sebenza handle on board? do you think it will be ok?

will it work also on the way back to USA?

thanks for the opinions.
 
If you try to carry it on, and they find it. At the least you will lose your knife. Check your baggage.

Have a Safe trip,

A.T.
 
pollo said:
Hello.

I'll be flying to italy tomorrow morning. I planned to bring there a large sebenza, a spyderco streetbeat, and my kitchen knives.
I don't think i'll have a problem with the custom (i'm an italian citizen and that helps, plus all those knives are legal to purchase there.

I planned to put my the Shun knives just laying at the bottom of the suitcase.
Instead i was planning to carry the handle of the sebbie on board and zip tie the sebbie blade and the streat beat to the frame of the suitcase or to a nylon strap.

Do you guys think i'm going to get in trouble for tieing stuff so that it can't be taken out? about the sebenza handle on board? do you think it will be ok?

will it work also on the way back to USA?

thanks for the opinions.
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I think the handle in your carryon will be OK.

I think putting the fixed blades in your checked luggage will also be fine as long as they are wrapped or boxed so that an inspector reaching in to check your luggage will not cut their hand. I think you are right to put them at the very bottom of the bag so that a random search for "goodies" by miscreants will not reveal them.

I don't think zip tying the sebbie blades to your checked suitcase will get you in trouble.
 
Just make sure the knives are sheathed and secured. Sharp unsheathed kitchen knives will quickly slice their way through the suitcase that may cause serious injury/damage to the baggage handlers and the knives.

Sheaths can be quickly made from cardboard and lots of duct tape. Have a great trip.
 
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oh! sorry for posting in the wrong forum.

i have edge guards for the kitchen knives and i was planning to sheat both the sebenza blade and the perrin with cardboard. My idea was to pierce the cardboard sheath right over the blade pivot hole and ziptie the blade to a strap so that it can be handled but not taken out without cutting the strap. same thing with the perrin using the hole that sits on the blade itself....

that way the cardoboard sheath would also be impossible to remove without cutting the ziptie.

thanks for the inputs
 
I think that is a bit overkill. I have carried probably a total of 50 knifes in my suitcases in the last 10 years (pre and post 9/11) and I have never had a problem. I usually put them in a sock, so that they don't bang around and kitchen knives I put in between my jeans at the bottom of my suitcase (make sure they don't slide around even if you stand the suitcase up. As long as your knives are legal, custom is only in so far a problem that you have to stay below the import limit, which is for Europe only 185 Euros. This does not apply to any knives that you take back with you.
 
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