Traveling with your knife..or not.

eveled said:
There should be a knife store on the way out of every airport. Then a donation drop box for local Boy/Girl Scouts on the way back in.

I don’t travel often, but leave my knives at home. I don’t recall ever buying one once I was there either.

The last airb&b we stayed in had something in the kitchen drawer I could carry.
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Every airport should have an area set aside for boarding passengers to sell/swap knives etc with arriving passengers ! 🤔
 
While traveling to Montreal I went into a bathroom in a gas station close to the border.

There were footprints on the rim of the toilet. Being the curious type. I stepped up on the toilet and moved the ceiling tile aside and found a bag of weed.

I imagine the same thing happens at airports.
 
This past weekend I was visiting a good friend just outside of Dallas. I only took my Smock and was in my checked bag flying out. On my return flight home, I had put the knife inside a jacket pocket back in the checked bag. With some locally purchased food products the bag was heavier, so I removed the jacket (forgetting the Smock) along with a few other items to lighten the checked bag without getting hit with a $69 charge. Somehow I made it through TSA with the Smock in my inner chest pocket, figured this out once I was waiting at my gate to baord. There was a lot of stuff to sort though with my carry on messenger bag. But still.. I would have figured it would have been an automatic "disqualification". Not sure if the guy looking at the X-Ray just missed it, didn't recognize it, or if it was because I was in TX.

Glad to still have it....
 
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P.C.E. said:
This past weekend I was visiting a good friend just outside of Dallas. I only took my Smock and was in my checked bag flying out. On my return flight home, I had put the knife inside a jacket pocket back in the checked bag. With some locally purchased food products the bag was heavier, so I removed the jacket (forgetting the Smock) along with a few other items to lighten the checked bag without getting hit with a $69 charge. Somehow I made it through TSA with the Smock in my inner chest pocket, figured this out once I was waiting at my gate to baord. There was a lot of stuff to sort though with my carry on messenger bag. But still.. I would have figured it would have been an automatic "disqualification". Not sure if the guy looking at the X-Ray just missed it, didn't recognize it, or if it was because I was in TX.

Glad to still have it....
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You were very lucky... 👍
Go buy a PowerBall ticket!
 
P.C.E. said:
This past weekend I was visiting a good friend just outside of Dallas. I only took my Smock and was in my checked bag flying out. On my return flight home, I had put the knife inside a jacket pocket back in the checked bag. With some locally purchased food products the bag was heavier, so I removed the jacket (forgetting the Smock) along with a few other items to lighten the checked bag without getting hit with a $69 charge. Somehow I made it through TSA with the Smock in my inner chest pocket, figured this out once I was waiting at my gate to baord. There was a lot of stuff to sort though with my carry on messenger bag. But still.. I would have figured it would have been an automatic "disqualification". Not sure if the guy looking at the X-Ray just missed it, didn't recognize it, or if it was because I was in TX.

Glad to still have it....
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Wow. TSA found a tiny Case mini copperhead in a backpack that was in a pair of shorts. I hadn't worn those shorts in a year, thought I had lost that knife.
 
I was in New Zealand recently. When I got off the plane in the beautiful and rugged land, I felt silly not having a knife. We had three domestic flights ahead of us, so I didn't bother picking up a cheapie, but it turns out they allow blades up to 2.5" (6.5 cm) on domestic flights there. I even got on a flight from Christchurch to Auckland without any security screening! I got through my trip just fine... modern packaging can usually be tackled without a blade. As soon as I got home, I fondled my knives, though 😁
 
Had to drive over to New Mexico last month. Checked the laws beforehand. Turns out I could/did carry a concealed handgun with TX license but could not carry an automatic knife under any conditions…….that would have been a misdemeanor.
 
elde66 said:
Had to drive over to New Mexico last month. Checked the laws beforehand. Turns out I could/did carry a concealed handgun with TX license but could not carry an automatic knife under any conditions…….that would have been a misdemeanor.
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If you can carry a sidearm: you probably can do without a knife...
 
Bob Denman said:
YES!!! And then mail it home! 👍
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. . . depending on what it costs to buy and costs to send home.

Most likely I'd buy something cheap, toss it before I leave and treat it as just another travel cost.

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OBTW, when flying, I NEVER check my bags and only take carry. So, putting a knife in a checked bag is not a possiblility for me.
 
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Depends on where you're traveling, means of travel (E.G. Fly, Bus, private vehicle; to include two and 3 wheeled) and to some extent the knife in question, and your behavior.

If you're flying, put it in your checked bag, not your carry-on. Same for the bus, but don't tell the bus ticket agent you have a knife in your checked luggage (That you have no access to.) Why? They will have you take it out of the bag and confiscate it or refuse to load that bag. Blade length does not matter; 0.5 inch or 20 inch, fixed blade or folding, locking blade or not.
I lost my CRKT Guppie multitool the last time I took the bus. The ticket agent saw it on my belt loop, saw it had a blade (1.25" slipjoint) and told me I couldn't have a knife on the bus. I offered to put it in my checked bag, but that was forbidden, too. I told the queen B when I handed it to her "I hope you enjoy using it as much as I have. (she was the manager, so no one to appeal to) I thought I'd just buy another, but I wasn't aware it had been dropped a few months earlier, and wasn't available anymore.
(and yet I saw a several guys on the bus with knives on their belt ... Guy with the metal detector lettum on anyway. This was shortly after some guy supposedly cut the head off the guy sitting next to him, and was supposedly cutting bite size pieces off and eating him. 🤢
I don't know if that story is true.)

At least in the USA, Private vehicle, no problem. Commercial vehicle (truck) follow whatever the company's policy is.
Company I drove for had a reasonable written policy: "We don't care what knife you carry, so long as it can't be mistaken for a "weapon".
I had a Buck 110 or Old Timer 7OT in a sheath in plain sight on my belt, a stockman and another knife in my pocket.
No one ever said a word to me about what was on my belt, not even in the NYC metro area, D.C., Chicago, Texas (before the laws were reformed) California, or military bases, nuke plants, etc. and shipping docks with "No Weapons" signs on the entry door. They didn't know about the two or three laying loose in the bottom of my RFP, since they were not clipped to my pocket.
(Avatar picture is from my driving days.) As long as you don't act the fool with it, even if you ugly and scary looking like me, you shouldn't have issues.
 
I put knives into my checked luggage, but nothing too expensive or not easily replaced. The other condition I'll put a knife in my checked luggage is if it's a knife I want to get an upgraded/different version of that blade.
 
Quite a few options to buy a decent knife in phoenix. From the airport, the bass pro in Mesa is a pretty easy straight shot where you can grab something as simple as an ontario Rat or nicer...

Big reason why I love road trips. Went on a mountain cabin retreat with my wife for our anniversary this weekend, and couldn't decide which knife to bring, so along with my truck machete, glovebox mora, center console S&W, and key chain SAK, I brought 6.... lol
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jfk1110 said:
Buy A good one n then mail it home!
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EngrSorenson said:
Classic problem and it bothers me, too. I like the “buy a new knife there and ship it home” option.
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Lesknife said:
When I fly, I buy a decent knife to use while ther and then gift it to family or friend when I leave . Makes it memorable for me and them.
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Exactly this!!!!! I buy a decent knife every time I take a trip. It helps me remember what I did there. Better than fridge magnets. They will mean something to you.
 
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