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What is the scariest, nastiest looking folder ?
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Hmmmmmmmm, I'd have to go with the Pocket Hobbit and the Sifu a close second.
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rickmos,
Excuse me, but why would you enjoy shocking the "sheeple"? Are you looking to speed up the political process of taking away knife rights, as they have done with gun rights?
By all means, use and enjoy your knives, but do so in a safe and responsible manner.
Nuff said.
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Excuse me, but why would you enjoy shocking the "sheeple"? Are you looking to speed up the political process of taking away knife rights, as they have done with gun rights?
By all means, use and enjoy your knives, but do so in a safe and responsible manner.
Nuff said.
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Those cheap spyderco,benchmade,and buck knock offs...They make me head for the hills everytime I seen them!! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!
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This one always makes them pucker up!
Called the Civilian, but I nicknamed it
The Evilian....just because..
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Called the Civilian, but I nicknamed it
The Evilian....just because..
G2
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Rickmos - Welcome to the Blade forums.
The Civilian was not designed with looks in mind. But we do go out of our way NOT to show it to general public that might be offended or intimidated by its appearance.
I must agree with Jailhack. As a knife junky (if you are going to be a knife junky), you owe it to yourself and the rest of us (knife junkies) to avoid "skeering" folks.
sal
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The Civilian was not designed with looks in mind. But we do go out of our way NOT to show it to general public that might be offended or intimidated by its appearance.
I must agree with Jailhack. As a knife junky (if you are going to be a knife junky), you owe it to yourself and the rest of us (knife junkies) to avoid "skeering" folks.
sal
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Not for the sake of scaring the Hell out of the little Sheeple, but purely for Academic reasons, I wholeheartedly believe that the Sifu and the Spyderco Civilian are the winners of the Award for "Scariest Looking Folders".
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Picture from the March 97 issue of Blade Magazine.
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I think anything by Steve Ryan would fit this category.
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I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the Pocket Hobbit yet.
Then I meet people who go "Eeewww!" at a Benchmade 640 Mini-Spike, at least until I explain how it's a fine folding paring knife, and how that precise little point can cut one thread without cutting the other thread next to it.
What's better than scaring non-knife people with eeeeevil looking knives is gently introducing non-knife people to nasssty looking knives in their capacity as useful tools, and maybe mention that they might also come in handy if you have to make somebody let go of you. No need to talk killing.
For instance, the folks at my congregation now see a six-inch S-curved serrated Cold Steel Vaquero Grande as one dynamite bread knife. When you show somebody a Civilian, mention that one of Spyderco's larger customers for it has been a commercial mushroom farm.
That Emerson "Rhino" pictured above is not just an Orcish-looking sentry-removal tool (meaning murder-one in any civil context). That left-side chisel grind combined with an incurved serrated edge suggests one fine upscale combined grafting and pruning knife, when they've beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and folks can lay back and relax unafraid in their orchards and vinyards, and nobody needs to post a sentry!
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What's better than scaring non-knife people with eeeeevil looking knives is gently introducing non-knife people to nasssty looking knives in their capacity as useful tools, and maybe mention that they might also come in handy if you have to make somebody let go of you. No need to talk killing.
For instance, the folks at my congregation now see a six-inch S-curved serrated Cold Steel Vaquero Grande as one dynamite bread knife. When you show somebody a Civilian, mention that one of Spyderco's larger customers for it has been a commercial mushroom farm.
That Emerson "Rhino" pictured above is not just an Orcish-looking sentry-removal tool (meaning murder-one in any civil context). That left-side chisel grind combined with an incurved serrated edge suggests one fine upscale combined grafting and pruning knife, when they've beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and folks can lay back and relax unafraid in their orchards and vinyards, and nobody needs to post a sentry!
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I also most vehemently agree with Jailhack and Sal on the point of not Flashing around any knife, let alone one with Pucker Power, will only be more incentive for the Sheeple to outlaw ALL knives.
I only show that knife to close friends and and only those that care about knives or at least always expect me to bring something interesting to the party, and that knife really sets them back a bit, unlike anyother, I let them open it and their eyes grow to saucer size and you can almost hear the fabric of their jeans stretch as they pucker up!
G2
I only show that knife to close friends and and only those that care about knives or at least always expect me to bring something interesting to the party, and that knife really sets them back a bit, unlike anyother, I let them open it and their eyes grow to saucer size and you can almost hear the fabric of their jeans stretch as they pucker up!
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IMHO,
Emerson Rhino or Ryan Mod. 1 or 2.
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Emerson Rhino or Ryan Mod. 1 or 2.
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"WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE ROOTS OF COMBAT, YOU REALIZE THERE IS NO STYLE"
"This is the law:
There is no possible victory in defense, The Sword is more important than the shield, And skill is more important than either, The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental."
Civilian, Pocket hobbet , or Sifu all fit the bill in my mind. Sifu is the biggest of coarse and so maybe its the scariest. Yes, one doesnt want to scare sheeple when pulling out a scary knife. I have been carrying the scary looking Militia but noone around where I live GETS Scared! That is good. People around here carry all kinds of knives and no one seems to mind.I think if one pulls a knife out slowly not even the rare sheeple around here will get scared!