Spine whacking? WHY????

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It would be fun to know how many pissed off drunk posts have been thrown in.
I guess the best indications would be posted time, and content.

This is getting quite entertaining.
 
Akcir said:
It would be fun to know how many pissed off drunk posts have been thrown in.
I guess the best indications would be posted time, and content.

This is getting quite entertaining.
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Wild turkey. Thought it was appropriate for thanksgiving. Anyway, I think its worth repeating.

I love the argument that if you want a good locking knife then you should forget the locking knife and get a fixed blade. I just don't get why everyone buys all these locking knives then. No one cares about them and even fewer care about them being good. After all, no one should carry anything but a slip joint and/or a fixed blade all the time. But that really begs the question. Who keeps buying these damned locking knives? And why? They obviously serve no purpose. People care more about sharpness out of the box than whether a lock works. I don't personally understand that but I guess I'm one of a very few.

I mean, people obsess over lock travel, lock up percentage, lock stick, steel lock faces, carbidized lock faces, carbeurized lock faces, custom overtravel lock stops, what type of lock, who invented the lock, who's copying which lock. Just not whether the locks work in any capacity that actually demands a lock. The amount of cognitive dissonance truly dumbfounds me. The absolute demand of lock perfection with absolutely zero care if the locks actually work for anything but the least demanding tasks.
 
Buy an Opinel and your life just becomes so much more simpler; with the added bonus you can spend more on beer.
 
I would be surprised if anyone has changed their views due to this thread. However it has made me want a nice custom slip joint-life circles back again.
 
Lycosa said:
14 and still going strong!! :D
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^ I just noticed this in my newsfeed- thanks Rolf. I don't know where I would be without 14 pages of such excellent information! :thumbup:

Peter Hartwig said:
I would be surprised if anyone has changed their views due to this thread. However it has made me want a nice custom slip joint-life circles back again.
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After speed reading through these 14 pages in about 3 minutes; I must admit, I've changed my mind Peter...you can now add me to the enlightened whacker group!
 
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bt93 said:
If you use a knife as a knife, you don't have to rely on the lock. I always look at my knife as a tool. I don't carry a knife for self defense. If I needed a self defense implement, there are lots of better tools than a knife.
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And that is precisely why some people test their locks. So they can rely on it.
 
bt93 said:
If you use a knife as a knife, you don't have to rely on the lock. I always look at my knife as a tool. I don't carry a knife for self defense. If I needed a self defense implement, there are lots of better tools than a knife.
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Like a chainsaw!
 
Cold steel should make some running shoes because running away is the preferred way to deal with an attacker.
 
Sosa said:
Cold steel should make some running shoes because running away is the preferred way to deal with an attacker.
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Not for me.
If I try to run, I often get a major back spasm and fall on the ground...that would not help things very much. ;)

I've found that a 4 foot long Hawthorne walking stick works pretty well though. :)
I can bash things just fine, but running ain't in the plan anymore.

If someone attacks me, they are the one who should run. :D
 
But a walking stick is supposed to be made for walking. If a particular stick were to fail when being abused a bunch of butthurt walking stick enthusiasts would chime in defending their inferior walking sticks haha.
 
For the "mobility challenged" , including old gimpy guys like me , running isn't really an option ---unless the attackers are even slower !

My first line of SD is a stout crooked stockman's cane which is adequate to deliver a smart "spine whacking" .
 
Sosa said:
But a walking stick is supposed to be made for walking. If a particular stick were to fail when being abused a bunch of butthurt walking stick enthusiasts would chime in defending their inferior walking sticks haha.
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And God forbid someone tests a walking stick by hitting something with it.

Story time.

I was in the military and hung out with a rough crew. We were always fighting. We'd purposefully go to the roughest bars to find the right marks. Multiple times there was just two of us and we'd walk into a group of @$$holes and just started throwing punches. Anyway, I knew at some point we'd wade into the wrong group of guys and they wouldn't bitch out and maybe we'd end up dead. So I went to a woodworking shop and made a walking stick made of ash. I carried that stick everywhere. Never used it, never needed it, until I saw a really gnarly looking guy punch a woman right in the kidney. Dropped her liked a bag of rocks. I hit him right across the dome. Crushed his grape. Spurting blood from his head. Found out later he wound up in intensive care and almost died. I felt kind of bad but he shouldn't have hit her. When I jacked him up I'm glad I basically had a thin baseball bat with me as he had about 8 friends looking to jump me and my buddy. They saw that we were ready and willing to go down fighting and they let it go. Their buddy went to the hospital and hopefully learned to not hit a woman.

Long story short, I had something that was ready for the fight and it worked. Didn't matter if it was the nicest looking thing. It worked when it was needed and I like to think it stopped some other bad dudes from coming at me. Had it failed (broke) I'm sure I'd have seen some bad days right after that. But it didn't. And I was just crazy enough to keep going with it. And they saw it. And they didn't pursue it. I'm willing to bet had that stupid walking stick broke I'd have wound up dead or seriously hurt.

I'd be willing to bet the same thing COULD hold true for a good knife.
 
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bodog said:
And God forbid someone tests a walking stick by hitting something with it.

Story time.

I was in the military and hung out with a rough crew. We were always fighting. We'd purposefully go to the roughest bars to find the right marks. Multiple times there was just two of us and we'd walk into a group of @$$holes and just started throwing punches. Anyway, I knew at some point we'd wade into the wrong group of guys and they wouldn't bitch out and maybe we'd end up dead. So I went to a woodworking shop and made a walking stick made of ash. I carried that stick everywhere. Never used it, never needed it, until I saw a really gnarly looking guy punch a woman right in the kidney. Dropped her liked a bag of rocks. I hit him right across the dome. Crushed his grape. Spurting blood from his head. Found out later he wound up in intensive care and almost died. I felt kind of bad but he shouldn't have hit her. When I jacked him up I'm glad I basically had a thin baseball bat with me as he had about 8 friends looking to jump me and my buddy. They saw that we were ready and willing to go down fighting and they let it go. Their buddy went to the hospital and hopefully learned to not hit a woman.

Long story short, I had something that was ready for the fight and it worked. Didn't matter if it was the nicest looking thing. It worked when it was needed and I like to think it stopped some other bad dudes from coming at me. Had it failed (broke) I'm sure I'd have seen some bad days right after that. But it didn't. And I was just crazy enough to keep going with it. And they saw it. And they didn't pursue it. I'm willing to bet had that stupid walking stick broke I'd have wound up dead or seriously hurt.

I'd be willing to bet the same thing COULD hold true for a good knife.
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Quoted for toughness.
 
A thread that goes from "testing" knives all the way to assault with a deadly weapon (that almost became 2nd degree murder)....wow.
 
Jsega51 said:
A thread that goes from "testing" knives all the way to assault with a deadly weapon (that almost became 2nd degree murder)....wow.
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Self defense and defense of others is definitely not assault with a deadly weapon as a criminal act or almost 2nd degree murder. It's defense of others. That's a justified use of force. People need to learn the law and how it applies to them. There's a reason why what's his nuts didn't get convicted of killing trayvon martin. Justifiable use of force. Personally I'm glad I was able to stop the woman from getting hurt even more than she was. Truth be told that story is one of the reasons I'm in the line of work I'm in. It was a defining moment in my life and where I decided that I needed to do something that took my personality and ballsiness and stupidity and "white knight" mentality and used it for something worthwhile.
 
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