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Check out the Viper Dan, Finch Knives, Real Steel Luna and the Spyderco Brouwer, Lil Nilakka and Chaparral.
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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
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Man that's nice, I think I'm going to have to try and get one.We are aligned
Great price on that Mini Recon, blade a bit thick though perhaps? Bulldog is nice too, the pivot really sets it off.
Digging that VIper Dan, really nice. Oy, this was supposed to make this easier lol
Ahh Ok, I seen one Native 5 Ti for ~$300 cad, it's the only one I've seen actually. Just noticed that knife was in Cruwear, don't see that too often on Spyderco's, very nice steel.
Edit: Darn it, that Ti Native 5 wasn't actually for sale, don't know why the store still had the listing. THere's a fluted carbon fiber, not nearly as nice though, and it's in s90v which is a little chippy for me.
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I like that knife, kinda like it more in black G10 than the Ti, not sure what it is. But then you get N690 which I'm not sure about, don't have any experience with that steel, some people say it's descent some people don't care for it.
Solid looking knife.
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Viper Turn, around 3” of m390, ball bearings, titanium/micarta. A pretty sweet little knife.
Darn it, why did you have to show me that? Now I want one but they're $500 lol
Viper Turn, around 3” of m390, ball bearings, titanium/micarta. A pretty sweet little knife.
So, what I need you guys to do is all write letters to my wife explaining why I need all these knives.
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I paid $209 shipped from GP knives. You may want to ask if they’ll ship to Canada.
With the stupid import laws on knives here now it's a little sketchy ordering from outside Canada. I've read many instances of knives getting confiscated or turned back, not sure I want to deal with that.
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It’s posts like these that give “the powers that be” more ammo to change our laws.
All knives can be turned into “gravity” knives if you remove certain components or make adjustments to the pivot. The Manix is not intended to be a gravity knife. Not even close.
Shipping from the USA is not a problem. It’s whether or not you try to deceive on the form.
I think a slipjoint is your best option.
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It's posts like this that misinform people and get them into trouble.
...... I mean.... Did you know if you take enough parts off of a car, make some adjustments and add a blade you can turn it into a lawnmower?
Canadian Criminal Code, Section 84 - Prohibited weapons
(a) a knife that has a blade that opens automatically by gravity or centrifugal force or by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the handle of the knife…
Yes, that includes button locks and crossbar locks. Sure you can over-tighten the pivot and claim it's not but that just kinda ruins the knife.
Shipping from the US, or anywhere outside Canada, is most definitely a problem. Customs can and regularly does confiscate flippers and anything it deems to be a centrifugal or gravity knife. Hard to tighten up the pivot before you get it. eh. bud.
Customs notice 18-01
Ottawa, January 5, 2018
Revised date – Ottawa, January 10, 2018
1. This Notice is to advise interested parties that the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has rendered a decision in Appeal No. AP-2017-012, T. LaPlante v. President of the Canada Border Services Agency regarding knives which open automatically by centrifugal force (centrifugal knives).
2. In accordance with subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code and the CITT's recent decision in T. LaPlante, the CBSA resolves that centrifugal knives will be classified as prohibited weapons if the following conditions are met:
- a knife has a blade that opens by centrifugal force, when the blade is released from the handle into the fully ejected and locked position with a simple and brisk outwardly flick of the wrist; and
- it includes knives that require some preliminary or simultaneous minimal manipulation of either a flipper or other non-edged parts of the blade.
Thanks, chief.
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Based on your evidence of the importation laws in Canada (which I am well aware of), almost all knives are illegal for import.
Almost all knives can be flicked open with a wrist action. Exceptions to this would be lockbacks and the like, slipjoints, and buttonlocks (which you don’t want). So I guess those are your options.
You are taking the laws out of context and putting a spin on them.
I have been bringing knives into Canada for over 20 years. Shirogorovs, Non-illegal Microtechs, Benchmades, knives with flipper tabs, front flippers, and even button locks. I have yet to have one confiscated. I’ve had my packages opened and inspected, and all packages have arrived safe and sound. I’ve gotten knives from the USA, Germany, France, South Africa, New Zealand and other countries with no problems.
I’ve got two stories for you from good knife collecting friends of mine, and a story of my own.
One friend had a Microtech Sigil confiscated at the border. I asked what was claimed on the customs form. They claimed it as “cutlery” and value of $100. The item was inspected and confiscated. It is illegal to falsify a customs form...and confiscation will most likely happen. All this because they didn’t want to pay the taxes and duties. Don’t forget that customs has google.
Another good friend of mine was sitting at a red light in Toronto flipping his Olamic Wayfarer. He did not realize that an officer had pulled up beside him and he just kept flipping away. The officer motioned for him to roll down the window. My buddy did so, and the officer said “Nice Wayfarer!” A quick conversation ensued and when the light turned green, they went on their separate ways.
This same friend and I met up in a parking lot outside a starbucks to see each others collections and catch up. (We live a number of hours away from each other now)
Not even 30 mins later, we were rolled up on by 6 cruisers and two undercover units. I had 3 knives on me and countless knives on my dashboard and in a roll case on the seat. We had to get out of the truck, and they asked what we were doing. We told them straight up. Meeting up to share knife collections. Neither of us were frisked, they looked through the windows of the truck and saw all the knives. Not one question about the knives. We were ID’d and after answering a couple question, they came to the conclusion that we were not bank robbers. They had gotten a tip that someone was casing the bank across the street. Was an unexpected but pleasant experience with LEO. Good on them, I was impressed with the way we were treated.
Also, I was not talking about over tightening the pivot so much you can’t open the knife, but enough to make it non-flickable.
It seems to me that you have this irrational fear of confiscation that you want to hold on to.
Like I stated before, a slipjoint or lockback is probably best for you. But please stop implying that customs will take almost all knives imported, it just isn’t true.
In Canada it is also illegal to carry a knife as a weapon. That would mean that any LEO could take ANY knife based on whether he thinks it’s a weapon or not. So if I had a fear of that, I wouldn’t carry any knife I guess.
Oh, and I’m not your bud.
Almost all knives can be flicked open with a wrist action. Exceptions to this would be lockbacks and the like, slipjoints, and buttonlocks (which you don’t want). So I guess those are your options.
You are taking the laws out of context and putting a spin on them.
I have been bringing knives into Canada for over 20 years. Shirogorovs, Non-illegal Microtechs, Benchmades, knives with flipper tabs, front flippers, and even button locks. I have yet to have one confiscated. I’ve had my packages opened and inspected, and all packages have arrived safe and sound. I’ve gotten knives from the USA, Germany, France, South Africa, New Zealand and other countries with no problems.
I’ve got two stories for you from good knife collecting friends of mine, and a story of my own.
One friend had a Microtech Sigil confiscated at the border. I asked what was claimed on the customs form. They claimed it as “cutlery” and value of $100. The item was inspected and confiscated. It is illegal to falsify a customs form...and confiscation will most likely happen. All this because they didn’t want to pay the taxes and duties. Don’t forget that customs has google.
Another good friend of mine was sitting at a red light in Toronto flipping his Olamic Wayfarer. He did not realize that an officer had pulled up beside him and he just kept flipping away. The officer motioned for him to roll down the window. My buddy did so, and the officer said “Nice Wayfarer!” A quick conversation ensued and when the light turned green, they went on their separate ways.
This same friend and I met up in a parking lot outside a starbucks to see each others collections and catch up. (We live a number of hours away from each other now)
Not even 30 mins later, we were rolled up on by 6 cruisers and two undercover units. I had 3 knives on me and countless knives on my dashboard and in a roll case on the seat. We had to get out of the truck, and they asked what we were doing. We told them straight up. Meeting up to share knife collections. Neither of us were frisked, they looked through the windows of the truck and saw all the knives. Not one question about the knives. We were ID’d and after answering a couple question, they came to the conclusion that we were not bank robbers. They had gotten a tip that someone was casing the bank across the street. Was an unexpected but pleasant experience with LEO. Good on them, I was impressed with the way we were treated.
Also, I was not talking about over tightening the pivot so much you can’t open the knife, but enough to make it non-flickable.
It seems to me that you have this irrational fear of confiscation that you want to hold on to.
Like I stated before, a slipjoint or lockback is probably best for you. But please stop implying that customs will take almost all knives imported, it just isn’t true.
In Canada it is also illegal to carry a knife as a weapon. That would mean that any LEO could take ANY knife based on whether he thinks it’s a weapon or not. So if I had a fear of that, I wouldn’t carry any knife I guess.
Oh, and I’m not your bud.
The CBSA policy has only been in place for the past 3 years and I am most certainly not taking it out of context, the law specifically states flippers. I'm glad that you've gotten lucky but I've known of several people who have had their knives turned away.Based on your evidence of the importation laws in Canada (which I am well aware of), almost all knives are illegal for import.
Almost all knives can be flicked open with a wrist action. Exceptions to this would be lockbacks and the like, slipjoints, and buttonlocks (which you don’t want). So I guess those are your options.
You are taking the laws out of context and putting a spin on them.
I have been bringing knives into Canada for over 20 years. Shirogorovs, Non-illegal Microtechs, Benchmades, knives with flipper tabs, front flippers, and even button locks. I have yet to have one confiscated. I’ve had my packages opened and inspected, and all packages have arrived safe and sound. I’ve gotten knives from the USA, Germany, France, South Africa, New Zealand and other countries with no problems.
I’ve got two stories for you from good knife collecting friends of mine, and a story of my own.
One friend had a Microtech Sigil confiscated at the border. I asked what was claimed on the customs form. They claimed it as “cutlery” and value of $100. The item was inspected and confiscated. It is illegal to falsify a customs form...and confiscation will most likely happen. All this because they didn’t want to pay the taxes and duties. Don’t forget that customs has google.
Another good friend of mine was sitting at a red light in Toronto flipping his Olamic Wayfarer. He did not realize that an officer had pulled up beside him and he just kept flipping away. The officer motioned for him to roll down the window. My buddy did so, and the officer said “Nice Wayfarer!” A quick conversation ensued and when the light turned green, they went on their separate ways.
This same friend and I met up in a parking lot outside a starbucks to see each others collections and catch up. (We live a number of hours away from each other now)
Not even 30 mins later, we were rolled up on by 6 cruisers and two undercover units. I had 3 knives on me and countless knives on my dashboard and in a roll case on the seat. We had to get out of the truck, and they asked what we were doing. We told them straight up. Meeting up to share knife collections. Neither of us were frisked, they looked through the windows of the truck and saw all the knives. Not one question about the knives. We were ID’d and after answering a couple question, they came to the conclusion that we were not bank robbers. They had gotten a tip that someone was casing the bank across the street. Was an unexpected but pleasant experience with LEO. Good on them, I was impressed with the way we were treated.
Also, I was not talking about over tightening the pivot so much you can’t open the knife, but enough to make it non-flickable.
It seems to me that you have this irrational fear of confiscation that you want to hold on to.
Like I stated before, a slipjoint or lockback is probably best for you. But please stop implying that customs will take almost all knives imported, it just isn’t true.
In Canada it is also illegal to carry a knife as a weapon. That would mean that any LEO could take ANY knife based on whether he thinks it’s a weapon or not. So if I had a fear of that, I wouldn’t carry any knife I guess.
Oh, and I’m not your bud.
There is a difference between carrying a knife as a weapon and carrying e prohibited item. You can carry a knife as a tool but if that knife is prohibited then you can't carry it at all.
Knives are tuned by the manufacturer, when you go over-tightening the pivot to the point where you can't wrist flick with the lock released it ruins that tuning and just takes the joy out of the knife.
Seems to me wherever you have that horseshoe lodged (I think I know where) it's definitely working for you.
You're darn right I'm not your bud.
