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ok if you remember the movie, the main caracter had made a holster which strapped to his forearm and when he moved his arm in a certain direction his pistol would come out and into his hand.

I was wondering if anybody could make one for a knife? or even how it was made.

something similar was used in the movie Alien Resurection
 
GREAT FLICK!!!! I've never tried making one, but I remember that in the movie Deniro used a drawer slide for the mechanism. For a lock, all you would have to do is have a tab of sheet metal on the bottom of the front end of the slide that would catch the sliding part and lock it in the closed position. If you remember, he would move his harm upward in a quick jerking motion to release the slide from the lock and a spring propelled it outward. Shouldn't be that tough to make.Don't know if I would want a knife to come flying out of my sleeve though. If you don't have your hand positioned right, you'll be the one bleeding. Take care! Michael

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Check out "The Marathon Man" with Dustin Hoffman and Lawrence Olivia. Olivia plays a nazi in 1974 or so. He has a knife in a sleeve rig. I saw an out take of when he was supposed to trip the rig and release the blade. He did and it didn't. Here's an old man flapping his arms like a chicken in downtown manhatten. very funny.
overall a good flick by the way.

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LMAO TOM!!!!!!!!!!!That was a good movie, also. I forgot about the guy having a fly out knife up his sleeve. Wasn't it more of a spike though, and he was the one that ended up bleeding, right????? Lol!
 
There was a thread about this recently in rec.knives. Apparently, these devices were made and occasionally used in the old west days, although they're hard to find now. It's one of those things where the time it takes to make it is not worth whatever benefits it brings. It seems like the device would be much more dangerous than useful.
 
Check out the "killer butler" in Hudson Hawk. I've seen it a few times and my guess is that it's more camera tricks than a real device - at least, he may have a real device that puts the knives in his hands, but it's later removed in scenes where he's using them.

I dunno, it's cool-looking but just for the movies. I'd rather trust to a good rig or carry system and plenty of practice.

-Drew
 
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