What Makes A Folder A Fighting Folder?

Using a knife in a fight does not make it a fighting knife. Like using a crowbar in a fight does not make it a fighting crowbar - right? The same goes for sticks, bats and bricks... :)
If a folder is uncomfortable and inconvenient for every day utilitarian use - it must be a fighting folder... So it is like with crowbars: if it is useless as a tool then what... :D
 
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RevDevil said:
It's all about the mall ninja attitude, unrealistic scenarios held by the owner which the blade might come into use, and the jimping.
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Also, writing on the blade helps. The more writing, the more "fighter." (A drawing of skull on the blade? Totally "fighter.")

Also having things like "ops", "spec", and "tac" in the knife's name makes it "fighter."

And, as has been noted before, the three most important things are coating, coating, and coating.
 
marcinek said:
Also, writing on the blade helps. The more writing, the more "fighter." (A drawing of skull on the blade? Totally "fighter.")

Also having things like "ops", "spec", and "tac" in the knife's name makes it "fighter."

And, as has been noted before, the three most important things are coating, coating, and coating.
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I think we also forgot the skull beads in the lanyards. :D
 
singularity35 said:
I think we also forgot the skull beads in the lanyards. :D
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As usual, an excellent point - and one that brings up a whole other line of discussion: What is more "fighter": Skull lanyard bead or skull picture on the blade?

I say "skull picture." Especially if the skull is wearing a baseball cap, or sunglasses, or smoking a cigar.
 
marcinek said:
As usual, an excellent point - and one that brings up a whole other line of discussion: What is more "fighter": Skull lanyard bead or skull picture on the blade?

I say "skull picture." Especially if the skull is wearing a baseball cap, or sunglasses, or smoking a cigar.
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I'd say skull bead with tritium eye inserts. ;)
 
"What Makes A Folder A Fighting Folder?"

I can think of a few things:
Idiocy
Delusions of adequacy
Thinking Chuck Norris movies are documentaries
Being 12 years old
Generous dose of PCP
Whiskey
10 years of ninja training in medieval japan
Living inside a G.I. Joe comic book
 
axtalan0 said:
"What Makes A Folder A Fighting Folder?"

I can think of a few things:
Idiocy
Delusions of adequacy
Thinking Chuck Norris movies are documentaries
Being 12 years old
Generous dose of PCP
Whiskey
10 years of ninja training in medieval japan
Living inside a G.I. Joe comic book
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Gotta like a guy who says what he really thinks!
 
Looks like you've gotten very few real answers so here are my criteria:
1. Reach
2. Traction
3. Speed/Ease of deployment
4. Strength of Construction

I think that does it for me. I am not really overly concerned with blade steel because I don't imagine I will be using often enough for it to be an issue.
 
Its not the knife so much as the intent of the person holding it. a roll of penny's can get you charged with carrying a dangerous wepon depending on use.
 
Edwood7 said:
I think blade shape and length is what makes a folder or a fixed blade a fighter.

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Nice bedlam there Edwood.

To answer it, generally the grip is more positive and makes it so during a stab your fingers don't slide to the blade. Also, the skill to use it comes into play, because if you don't have the skill, its just a pointy piece of metal.
 
Let's start by seperating "a knife used in violence" or a "deadly knife" from a "fighting knife". The first two apply to anything sharp used in an attempt to injure another party. As many have pointed out, this could be anything, including a kitchen knife.

The "fighting knife," on theother hand, is a knife designed for fighting, primarily. Then the answer would consist of a list: what features define a "fighting knife," just like we can ask, "what features define a skinning knife"; in either case, what features make this kind of knife distinctive?

This is hardly my area of knowledge, but just by the way of starting:

the only true fighting knife I know of is the Fairbairn-Sykes, designed for killing and not for general utility. Double-edged, thin and with a fine, sharp point, it works for slitting throats in the dark, but the taper makes it too fragile for a general purpose or as a camping knife.
 
Decapitated in 14 seconds with a Cold Steel Recon-1. Cost $59 last year. If you ask me it's a trained operator. ;)

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Fighting knife is a weapon - if you have it that's just it! You do not have to know anything, train, work hard - none of that crap. That is why they should cost... Cheap fighting knife would not work as well as a knife designed for special task superforce commandos - for that is what makes them so commandos...
But all that does not mean you can get sloppy. As they say, mind over matter... You have to keep developing your own mind - look for new knife moves and tricks in yuo tube, all kind of cool movies and computer games... It is all in matrix documentary - you can do whatever your mind can do... This computer training programs are no joke! You can not get one because you are not super task special commando, but it does not stop you from using PSP3 and WII - that is essentially the same technology, it just requires more time to get to the same level...
For one day you may meet somebody with a fighting folder in the same pricerange. So then it all be a matter of which mind is stronger... :D
 
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