What will the sheeple think up next?

mnblade

mnblade

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Check out this link. I wonder if you'd get kicked out of school for this?
http://www.acimex.com/victorinox_swiss_army_knives_AB-19.htm

God, I can just see the committee meeting now ...

"Well, we'd like to be able to give our convention guests a nice Swiss pocketknife with our company's logo embossed on it. But knives are so, uhh, ICKY and pointy. Any suggestions?"

"Yeah, if we give out knives, they'll think we're like, you know, killers or something."

"I've got it, Bob! How about a knife with no knife?"

"Brilliant, Jim. It's both proactive and results oriented!"
 
Hey, people drink decaffinated coffee, don't they?

Seriously ... are they serious? Is this a joke? Victorinox has just become the Smith & Wesson of the knife world.
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Actually, the swiss army Bladeless Knife has been around for a year or more. There was a editorial feature in Blade magazine about this new development in the 'knife' world.

How can a knife be without a blade?

This is really amazing. It's really a dumb idea to let the sheeple think that a knife needs no blade. It's bad enough that so many folks think any knife used outside of the kitchen is a Weapon. Of course from many of the threads I've seen here in the general forum, a lot of knife lovers seem to think that too.

Paracelsus
 
A few of the favorite pieces in my collection are several butterfly knives made as advertising specialties. I have one with an insurance agency's name and phone number engraved on it. An insurance company giving away balisongs as sales promotions, and in Des Moines, Iowa! BTW, the telephone number given on the knife has an exchange name instead of a prefix. That exchange was taken out of service in Des Moines in 1946. So, this knive probably was given away by this insurance company in the 1940s.

Times sure have changed.

I have a friend who works for the marketing department of a company that sells advertising specialties. She markets marketing. Anyway, they offer pens and callendar books, and note pads, and baseball caps and golf balls, and just about anything else you can imagine with your company's logo printed on it. They do have a couple of small knives in their catalog, but she says they just don't get many orders for them anymore. Even those moulded plastic letter opener devices with the little blade in them are not popular because customers are afraid that someone will cut themselves somehow and end up suing.

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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.balisongcollector.com

[This message has been edited by Gollnick (edited 08-02-2000).]
 
I like the idea. I usually have a couple of knives clipped to my pockets. I don't need a redundant blade on my multitools or SAK. I could use the space the knife blade takes for another useful tool.

Now if they would do this with some of the other models…
 
I'll bet the Bladeless Victorinox would still cause an impromptu conference at the metal detector in really fearful places like a big city courthouse.

Now, would "knife people" who carry a serious one-hand folder or a fixed blade for cutting things, and hardly ever use the blade in a mulititool or "Swiss Army" knife, buy a pocket toolkit that didn't have a knife blade, but had something else useful in its place?


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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
 
Now was it an omen or something that Howard posted his message while I was typing mine, or are we the only two people who would want a full-size bladeless "Swiss Army Non-Knife"?

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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
 
I dunno, that toothpick looks like it could be pretty vicious in the wrong hands.
 
I'm afraid that some school "zero tolerance" policies would ban the scissors in this little knifeless.
 
I'd buy a multi-tool without a knife blade. Maybe that way I could get an awl AND scissors.

The bladeless SAK is not for sheeple; it's for 4-year-old knife nuts like by daughter. She has one called the "manicurist". It has scissors, a cuticle pusher (don't laugh, I use a cuticle pusher for making crisp origami folds), a nail file, and a cute little ball point pen.

Disclaimer: Small parts could cause choking. Do not ingest.

David Rock

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AKTI Member # A000846
Stop when you get to bone.
 
Now, if it only had a file, so I could do my nails...

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It is not the fall that kills you. It is the realization that "yes, you did something that stupid."
 
You can get a SAK with an awl and scissors, my victorinox "officer suisse" has both.

James

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The beast we are, lest the beast we become.
 
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