Skin Safe serration (blade that doesn't cut skin)

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pixelb

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Hello everyone,

I was linked to a review on YouTube and want to hear peoples opinions on it. I couldn't find any discussion on it so far, and the video itself has only about a hundred views.

Apparently these serrations allow for cutting (in the video it tears through rope quite easily) without being able to cause damage to skin. Even when applying quite a bit of force to the wrist, no cuts are received.

So I was wondering, is this a completely new concept or has it been done before? Could this type of edge be useful for any task other than what's shown in the video? What do you think about it?
 
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I guess if Hipsters want play-skool knives more power to them, but zero appeal for me. Looks like normal serrations with the tips ground/polished off...

Also, as this is your first post here and you used it to bring attention to a product...are you affiliated with it?
 
The best safety feature for guns or knives resides in the cranial cavity.
I buy knives to cut. Anything that keeps them from doing that is not an improvement.

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Link is kind of spammy. There's enough description in the opening post for discussion purposes, so the actual link has been removed.
 
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As was said seems the serrations cut but the tips dont. Wonder what would happen when someone who thinks it won't cut get a piece of skin pinched between the serrations.
 
Bill3152 said:
As was said seems the serrations cut but the tips dont. Wonder what would happen when someone who thinks it won't cut get a piece of skin pinched between the serrations.
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Right? Stick that thing on the webbing between your fingers and give a yank...
 
I found it linked in a comment under Lugermongers "Knives you don't hand to people", I got nothing to do with the uploader.
Simply had never seen something like it before.
 
pixelb said:
I found it linked in a comment under Lugermongers "Knives you don't hand to people", I got nothing to do with the uploader.
Simply had never seen something like it before.
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Well, hopefully that's the case, because it seems suspicious being your very first post. Welcome to BF though! Carry on...
 
pixelb said:
I found it linked in a comment under Lugermongers "Knives you don't hand to people", I got nothing to do with the uploader.
Simply had never seen something like it before.
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No worries. Your description is adequate to get responses.
I think that on a knife site it will be hard to find people in favor of this.

I don't think I'm familiar with smoothing the serrations to make a knife that won't cut skin. Problem is that once you do that, there are only a few things that it will cut. So it becomes fairly useless.
 
knarfeng said:
No worries. Your description is adequate to get responses.
I think that on a knife site it will be hard to find people in favor of this.

I don't think I'm familiar with smoothing the serrations to make a knife that won't cut skin. Problem is that once you do that, there are only a few things that it will cut. So it becomes fairly useless.
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:thumbsup:
 
If something has the capacity to cut at all, it will cut skin, with the proper motion/force. I've worked EMS, and I can't see any use for it, unless you're the guy everyone sends back to the truck for equipment...3 or 4 times...because there is absolutely nothing else you can do to be remotely helpful...and every trip but the first is unnecessary.
 
Not entirely new in principle . Gut hooks , belt cutters , etc . Cut what you need to cut but nothing else .

Trouble is that this particular product sounds to be nearly useless IMO . :thumbsdown:
 
Thanks for the replies.

It's what I expected, a kind of one trick pony. Thats probably the reason we only saw rope being cut. Everything else likely wouldn't work well.
 
They make like dull scalloped knives so kids can carve jackolanterns.
 
If a knife doesn’t cut skin, what good is it, really? Not much good, in my view. That isn’t a prac tac comment, but more relating even to the skin of an onion. Knives need to cut. Full stop. If some lame serrations are present, rounded off, then it is intended for some powder puff idiot. Simple as that. We have to accept a certain truth, surely, that knives are sharp and they are designed to cut stuff. If somebody can’t cope with that, then perhaps they just need to wrap themselves in cotton wool and forget about living life. It is slightly pathetic, and rather sad.
 
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