Picture and Story time 
I said I would be posting better pics of individual knives along with their stories when I got the chance...and I got one.
This is my custom Police Recruit. I recieved it for my 18th(19th?) birthday. It has been shortened to a 2.4 inch blade length, so as to be legal to carry on a University of California Campus, with the factory kydex sheath;
Bead blasted handle;
Satin finished double hollow grind blade;
I don't remember what was done to the spine...but it was something cool
After recieving this it became my new best friend. I carried it everywhere, and mostly quit using my pocket knives.
One day I had a close call that changed all of that though, and this blade became one of my first Safe Queens. My wife, (then girlfriend) and I were heading back home after picking up some pizzas, with her driving, when we were struck on the rear passenger side of my stepmother's station wagon by a car doing 40 or 50. Our vehicle spun around and ended up off the road in a parking lot...my knife was flung out of the neck sheath, past my wife's face and throat, out her window into the middle of the street we were struck on.
I didn't initially notice, but once I had the basics, (no one was hurt) out of the way, I tracked the knife down and logiced out how it had gotten there. I thanked god for giving me that particular lesson at such a cheap price, and figured I was done with neck knives.
Fortunately, PapaThud was on the job, and after the Skeleton Keys were released, he called me and told me he had a solution to the neck knife problem, and to buy a Skeleton Key or four.
We left a tail on the handle after wrapping it with paracord, drilled a hole through the kydex sheath that corresponded with....I lost the word...the choil?...the hole just before the blade, and then used the tail to lock the blade...like so:
Once you slip the tail through the hole, you pull the blade tight...which pinches the paracord, and completes the locking procedure:
Once we got it to where we liked it, we spent an hour or so outside, swinging the neck knives around like nuts, bashing them into things, trying to draw the knife without unlocking it in various manners, and were eventually satisfied as to the safety of the new setup. And thus I still get to wear neck knives today.
Edit:: The dings and scratches you can see in the Police Recruit are scars from the accident and being flung out the window into traffic....retrieving that sucker was exciting.
--BubbaThud
I said I would be posting better pics of individual knives along with their stories when I got the chance...and I got one.
This is my custom Police Recruit. I recieved it for my 18th(19th?) birthday. It has been shortened to a 2.4 inch blade length, so as to be legal to carry on a University of California Campus, with the factory kydex sheath;
Bead blasted handle;
Satin finished double hollow grind blade;
I don't remember what was done to the spine...but it was something cool
After recieving this it became my new best friend. I carried it everywhere, and mostly quit using my pocket knives.
One day I had a close call that changed all of that though, and this blade became one of my first Safe Queens. My wife, (then girlfriend) and I were heading back home after picking up some pizzas, with her driving, when we were struck on the rear passenger side of my stepmother's station wagon by a car doing 40 or 50. Our vehicle spun around and ended up off the road in a parking lot...my knife was flung out of the neck sheath, past my wife's face and throat, out her window into the middle of the street we were struck on.
I didn't initially notice, but once I had the basics, (no one was hurt) out of the way, I tracked the knife down and logiced out how it had gotten there. I thanked god for giving me that particular lesson at such a cheap price, and figured I was done with neck knives.
Fortunately, PapaThud was on the job, and after the Skeleton Keys were released, he called me and told me he had a solution to the neck knife problem, and to buy a Skeleton Key or four.
We left a tail on the handle after wrapping it with paracord, drilled a hole through the kydex sheath that corresponded with....I lost the word...the choil?...the hole just before the blade, and then used the tail to lock the blade...like so:
Once you slip the tail through the hole, you pull the blade tight...which pinches the paracord, and completes the locking procedure:
Once we got it to where we liked it, we spent an hour or so outside, swinging the neck knives around like nuts, bashing them into things, trying to draw the knife without unlocking it in various manners, and were eventually satisfied as to the safety of the new setup. And thus I still get to wear neck knives today.
Edit:: The dings and scratches you can see in the Police Recruit are scars from the accident and being flung out the window into traffic....retrieving that sucker was exciting.
--BubbaThud
