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LongRifle

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Of all the people on this forum I would prefer to get your input on this subject. I am thinking of getting my first custom knife. I wanted something that wasn't too scary so my search took me to Bailey Bradshaw. With the things shaping up the way they have been I am a little aprehensive about carrying my small sebenza :rolleyes: . I am even a little nervous about using my Ang Khola in my own backyard. Anyway, I just wanted to know what you all thought of my, hopefully, next purchase. I was going to go ahead with a cpm3v blade apposed to 52100. And I was going to stick with ivory scales. I think the knife is priced very fairly at $350. Sorry this is so off topic but I would really like to hear your suggestions. Thanks
Matthew

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Sorry, but I live out in rural Nevada and my first custom is and remains a Bauchop Alley Cat 8+" blade fighter with 5" sharpened top swage. That doesn't sound much like you are looking for.
 
I'm more inclined to carry something larger and intimidating. If I could figure out how to hang it under a coat, I'd wear my Chitlangi. I realize the situations in Kentucky and in Ohio are opposites right now, but your's is changing - hopefully for the better. Our groups have been involved in the Ohio effort, and if it takes, you should like the outcome very well. As for the knife you've picked, it is a beauty. Buy it or don't buy it on its' own merits and on how you think it will fullfil your needs. I'm not a fan of ivory on a "user", but that is just one opinion - even an art knife is still a knife, and "user is as user does". Either of the steels would serve very well. The bearing steel had some setbacks early on which might lead some to believe it isn't up to par, but the problem was in the heat-treatment formula and the solution has been passed around among the makers. Properly done, it is a superior steel.
 
Rusty, I live in Ohio (our knife laws are outrageous the blade must be under 3") and I plan on going to law school here in Cincinnati, so I have another 4 years left after this one. I am not crazy about carying a knife on campus, and this really looks pretty shepple friendly, the ivory might set a few people off, but the hell with them.

Matthew
 
Beautiful-looking knife. I'm not familiar with B2' work. But surely you don't expect anybody around here to offer any opinion other than this: Go for it. Of course, it goes without saying that for that kind of dough you could get a couple really nice khuks and still have some change left over, but they aren't something most people would classify as a gent's knife.

Don't be apprehensive about using your AK or carrying your Sebenza, as long as you're behaving yourself. I'm planning to fly with a big villager in my checked luggage next week, a gift for a friend.
 
Walosi, I thought about moving to Kentucky just to get away from the extreme laws here. I am afraid of getting in trouble over the liner lock as a switchblade debate. Ohio is pretty goofy.
Matthew
 
do I know my fellow forumites, or what? I see that the first response to your pix, a response which wasn't up yet while I was writing the above, was Jimmy's, whose exact words were "Go for it!"
 
Matt -

We wrote our CCDW law with an eye toward knives as well as firearms. Our knife laws aren't quite as convoluted as Ohio's, but a simple exception clause in our CCDW allows knife carry - period - no length, type restrictions. This has been suggested by "our gang" to "your gang", but due to differences in the political climate, may well be lost in the trade-offs. No matter how it turns out, your campus policies will be the first thing you will run up against. For all intents and purposes, they have the effect of law, and can actually supercede state law under certain circumstances. Included in the fine print, when you enrolled, is an agreement to accept and abide by their rules, regs, whims and notions. Learn them - you're stuck with them. If your intended carry blade goes against them, and you decide to carry anyway, keep it very, very quiet. For all their liberal ways, modern campi have given their police extraordinary powers of search, seizure and arrest, much like the "workers' paradise" and their KGB.
 
I figured you guys would say that, at least that's what I was hoping for ;) . Sometimes you just need that extra push. But I think I will hang out for the advice from Uncle Bill and Yvsa, no offense to anyone, it's just they are older and wiser :eek: SORRY, just teasing.
Matthew
 
Walosi, the knife "laws" for Xavier are such that you may not have any weapons in your dorm room it applies to those on campus, thankfully I don't. I certainly don't wear the knife on my belt, it stays in my pocket in a pretty G2 sheath which I think gives the knife an air of a "passive" and peaceful existence.
Matthew
 
Matthew -

Kentucky has a much friendlier atmosphere for "non-hoplophbes", and some good schools. School rules, however, don't seem to vary much across the country. The move might not gain much in that respect, but you would be welcome nonetheless. One of the real benefits of higher education is the exercise of your ability to seperate the wheat from the chaff. They supply tons of chaff, like the gal in Amherst who views the flag as a symbol of oppression and terror - the only flag, BTW, that would allow her to make such statements without taking courses in "re-education". Do what you will, but do it with your eyes open.
 
Walosi, that is pretty good advice. I was half serious when I said the ivory handles may set off a few people, you can never tell what you are going to encounter nowadays. Thanks for the advice.
Matthew
 
If it's ivory handled then it belongs under my bed. Please send asap along with a 12 pack of Heineken. Good looking knife and very good pix.
 
Some of the rules/laws there are very restrictive, and you don't want to damage your education becuase of something like this. It's a good knife, and Ivory is only going to become rarer over time, but stay focused on the career and try to get through the degree asap.

Good luck.

n2s
 
Thanks for the input everybody. I am going to go ahead and place my order Monday. I will post pics in a year or so when the knife makes it here ;) . Uncle Bill I would be happy to let you borrow it for a week or two, after I have carried it around for a little while ;).
Matthew
 
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