Safety of non-locking folders like Boy Scout & SAK

[pinnah]

My gawd.... this is still raging on? Does anyone remember the kid involved in this discussion?

I know, right? From the OP....

I want to get a folder for my 11 year old nephew who is also in the Boy Scouts.

Well, people keep repeating their objections to a locking knife as a first knife as if their repetition will make the assumption conclusive.

And yet again...

Because locking folders with springs are harder to close safely for children because they have smaller, weaker hands.

This is something you've actually agreed with and yet here we are, on page 10 (really, 10) still debating the pros and cons of locks as if the guy's nephew was 16. He's 11. The pros and cons of locks is an interesting discussion but it's really a different, unrelated question. Wait a couple of years until the kids hands are strong and he's learned how close a simpler knife safely. Or stick to a small bird & trout fixed blade. Or, keep going on and on and debating the issue of locks as if they kid wasn't 11.

 

[SCWillson]

I wonder what part of that makes you think I am picking a fight(or determined to take insult)...

I think we're just talking past each other. So I'll end my participation in this thread here.

 

[redsquid2]

My gawd.... this is still raging on? Does anyone remember the kid involved in this discussion?

If this thread represents the fathers of knife carrying boys, I would buy him anything but a knife. A whiffle bat, a Parcheesi board, a bag of marbles... anything to keep him from having to go through all of this redundant discussion with other parents or his buddies. This is a lot more painful than any cuts he would get from a knife.

Better yet... a big club and a dead horse might fit the bill more closely... then he could join right in.

Robert

He would be more traumatized by all the arguing and pontificating than he would a few cuts

Page after page after page. Some people really like to jack.

 

[stabman]

Because locking folders with springs are harder to close safely for children because they have smaller, weaker hands.

No they aren't.
As a child, it was only the slip-joints I got cut on...when closing them, due to the spring which handily snaps the blade shut like a guillotine.

My smaller, weaker hands did just fine with standard lock-back knives.

 

[singularity35]

Page after page after page. Some people really like to jack.

Yeh, and that's a really good input for this here thread.