Next generation of knife knuts-squashed

I grew up in a very weapons-unfriendly house too.

A few months after I graduated from college I went out and liquidated my "special savings account" and bought a H&K USP and a CRKT M16 and about 200 rounds of practice ammo.

When my folks found out about the pistol (the hard way) they were shocked, to say the least. But what could they do -- I'd already moved out.

Now, about 4 years later, bizarrely, I get looked at as the defender of their house whenever I visit.

Pretty cool.

-j
 
Originally posted by The Tourist
When people ask about the clip, I answer it's just a cell-phone. I don't think anybody really believes this answer, but to up the ante he has to call me a liar.
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That is brilliant! I'm gonna do that, and if somebody calls bull$#!t, I'll just flip open my 806D2 and start talking into the handle.
 
Originally posted by knifedaddy84
So today I'm in an outdoor store picking up a compass, so of course I go over to the counter to check out the blades. My view is blocked, however, by a father and teenage son having a discussion.

Father: What are you looking at here?
Son: I like these knives, dad. (Benchmades, Spydies, CRKT, Buck)
Father: Look at these things. What the hell are they for?
Son: You know, cutting.
Father: I don't like them, no one needs a knife like this.
Son: I do, for scouts and stuff.
Father: No you don't, I don't like how they look. They look too dangerous. And they're too expensive. You'll get a scout knife and that's it.

As I shook my head ruefully the father proceeded to buy the son a cheap SAK knockoff in a bubble pack. I thought about trying to say something educational but the father seemed like such an ornery bastid.
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Hey, the little boy was ME !!! Man this is EXACTLY my situation. ;) :D Jason.
 
Originally posted by TorzJohnson
That is brilliant! I'm gonna do that, and if somebody calls bull$#!t, I'll just flip open my 806D2 and start talking into the handle.
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and then, when you slice your ear off, just look down at it and say, "oh. that's my pager."

abe m.
 
Like most young hunters/gun enthusiasts, I was able to shoot some guns occasionally with my Dad, before my teens. But I also had some bladed tools I liked to play around with. Starting at about 10 or 12, I used to buy knives from those paper catalogs of really cheap ass stuff. Does anyone remember those? I ordered that Imperial knock-off of the Gerber Mark II. Let me tell you, that is one impressive blade and I still have it. It is a solid slab of 440 at .28" thick at the spine. I remember thinking how impressive that was when I opened the mail. Of course, being just a kid, I could only send cash through the mail to order these things, but I was desperate. I also got one of those cheap, plastic handled machetes and I used to cut stuff in the backyard with it. My parents never gave two sh!ts about it.

Just recently, I acquired a brand new Chris Reeve Project 1 and upon opening the package I felt the exact same sense of awe and appreciation that I did with that Imperial, 22 yrs ago. It doesn't go away.
 
Sadly this is all too common. I've taught my kids how to use a blade (or anything else) responsibly. Anytime my knife is called in to question I try to explain how useful it is as rationally as I can. Some people still just don't get it.

Paul
 
Have faith.
Every boy in my son's cub scout den has a knife. They got their first knife lesson a couple of months ago and have used their knives to whittle soap.
They are learning proper knife handling from the DEN MOTHERS!
 
Originally posted by knifedaddy84
Father: Look at these things. What the hell are they for?
Son: You know, cutting.
Father: I don't like them, no one needs a knife like this.
Son: I do, for scouts and stuff.
Father: No you don't, I don't like how they look. They look too dangerous. And they're too expensive. You'll get a scout knife and that's it.
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Hopefully the kid won't lose a finger when the knockoff folds on him if he tries to use the poorly sharpened blade to cut something (actually USE it?), or before someone knowledgable shows him proper care with a slipjoint.
 
My mom doesn't give a second look. My dad..ughh... He brought me on to this hobby, but he won't let me have one. I brought a few knives that i hide all over the place. (I hate the "where did you get that?" question, duh, I brought it)
 
Scouting, as a national organization, does not have a policy against fixed-blade knives. In fact, a Scout cannot earn his "Tot'n'Chip" (license to handle any type of knife or edged tool) without demonstrating how to safely pass a fixed-blade knife. Despite these facts, many local Scout Councils and Scout units say they prohibit fixed-blade knives --- then issue cooking kits with, you guessed it, fixed-blade knives. But who said PC had to make sense?

To counter this nonsense, I have deliberately purchased several folding knives that are clearly weapons (example: original Al Mar SERE), to compare with a "prohibited" 3" puukko, for example.

Meanwhile, the greatest source of serious injuries of Scouts by edged tools -- and this will come as no surprise to most here -- is the axe, a tool banned by absolutely no Council or Scout unit that I can locate. PC "logic" again.
 
Axes and saws were banned this summer at the East Fork of the Bear camps in Utah. Fires were banned and with no productive use for them, well, keeping them away from the boys was probably for the best this year.

Phil
 
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