Traveling with a knife

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I'm flying out of state and I want to bring my endura with me and I was wondering if I will be fine putting it into my checked luggage?
 
should be fine, i've traveled with a camping axe before.
put it in a sock or something to be safe.
 
I have done it a million times...I have even flown with guns and ammunition. The guns/ammo you need to declare but the knives will be OK if you just pack and go.
 
i always put at least one knife in my checked luggage. i have flown about a ten times in the last two years.

i also travel with a firearm, so normally lock my knives in my gun box. but i've also forgotten about one in my pocket and just stuck it in my checked bag.

never a problem.
 
If I have a knife that comes apart, I turn it into a knife kit. Seperate the blade from the handle. Put them in two different suitcases if you can. Take all the small parts like screws, clips, rockers, bushings, spacers, liners, etc. and put them in a sandwich bag. Carry the small parts in your carry on. A project knife greatly reduces the interest of lightfingered TSA agents. I know many people who have had their knives stolen out of their checked bags. Bring enough tools to reassemble the knife when you get to your destination. They can travel in the bag with the small parts. Also consider travelling with a knife that is not expensive or one of your "favorites".
 
tiguy7 said:
If I have a knife that comes apart, I turn it into a knife kit. Seperate the blade from the handle. Put them in two different suitcases if you can. Take all the small parts like screws, clips, rockers, bushings, spacers, liners, etc. and put them in a sandwich bag. Carry the small parts in your carry on. A project knife greatly reduces the interest of lightfingered TSA agents. I know many people who have had their knives stolen out of their checked bags. Bring enough tools to reassemble the knife when you get to your destination. They can travel in the bag with the small parts. Also consider travelling with a knife that is not expensive or one of your "favorites".
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Being that the OP is taking an Endura:

Somewhere here on BF, there was a thread about the many uses of the 'Spyderco Hole' on the blade. One suggestion that was interesting, was to use a zip-tie or split ring, or something similar, to run it through the hole and attach the blade to the inner frame of a suitcase when flying. Makes it a little more work for those 'light-fingered TSA agents' to make your Spyderco 'disappear'. ;)
 
I usually try to at least hide mine a little bit so if they want to put their hands on it they have to go digging. I always pick a pocket deep down in my suitcase. I also don't carry expensive knives when I travel really.
 
I fly about 4 to 6 times a year. So far, even with bag being completely searched, never had a knife lifted. I do not bring my best, but I always bring my Griptilian, a slipjoint, and my Leatherman. I had to pack some GPRS signal reading devices, and if if my luggage was not searched, I would never fly again, because my work stuff, electrical components, parts, batteries, and transformers, would pass for components of an IED. They taped up all my stuff with security tape, and left a note that my stuff was searched and passed inspection, it was kinda cool. Great tip that I do and learned here on BF, get an old pair of tighty whiteys, do not even have to be yours, and then get a brown sharpie, and make a nice skidmark where your butt crack would be. Make sure it is not too defined, it has to look real. You may want to smear it abit if you can. Now, wrap your precious's up in that, and NTSA will probably will leave anything in there alone. I love the ziptie the spydie hole idea. Infact, many folders have a lanyard hole, I am gonna use that one! Thanks!
 
Obsessed with Edges said:
Being that the OP is taking an Endura:

Somewhere here on BF, there was a thread about the many uses of the 'Spyderco Hole' on the blade. One suggestion that was interesting, was to use a zip-tie or split ring, or something similar, to run it through the hole and attach the blade to the inner frame of a suitcase when flying. Makes it a little more work for those 'light-fingered TSA agents' to make your Spyderco 'disappear'. ;)
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What he said but slip some fingernail clippers in your carry-on so you can clip the zip tie when you get there.--KV
 
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