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Whats your Fictitious knife stories and outright lies told by non knife people?
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I died laughing hahahaThis one time, at band camp...
...oh wait, wrong thread.
Here's a knife:
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My favorite knife misnomer, when I was a kid I got stopped by an LEO who asked me to turn my pockets out considering I was 15 and it was past midnight I was stopped while walking home. Back then I carried a Schrade LB8 so when I was asked if I had anything illegal I said no. He asked me to remove the weapon from my belt sheath and set it on the curb.
He then opened the blade, laid it across his four outstretched fingers and declared it illegal because it was bigger than his hand( he was a small cop a Case Peanut would've looked big in his hand).
Anyway he proceeded to explain that I was in possession of an illegal weapon and he was confiscating it and issuing me a verbal warning.
Now I knew my local laws at 15 and the legal limit for a folder was 4" so I became a little bit belligerent which at the moment was probably a bad idea but in the long run I got my knife back.
I told the LEO that you can't measure a knife blade like that because everybody's are different. I told him if he was confiscating my knife I wanted more than a verbal warning, I wanted a receipt for the knife and a report written about the incident.
At that point he told me he was taking me in if I kept insisting on a report and receipt, the last scare tactic was curfew violation, there hadn't been a curfew in place since the Race Riots in Newark in the 60s so I told him to take me in.
Man was my old man pissed when he was called to come get me at 2am, mad at the cop not me. He gave the cop a rash of crap for harassing a good kid who was just on his way home from a friends house a few blocks away.
Long story short(I know, too late already) I got my knife back and that cop made it his mission till I moved 4 years later to continue harassing me every chance he could.
He then opened the blade, laid it across his four outstretched fingers and declared it illegal because it was bigger than his hand( he was a small cop a Case Peanut would've looked big in his hand).
Anyway he proceeded to explain that I was in possession of an illegal weapon and he was confiscating it and issuing me a verbal warning.
Now I knew my local laws at 15 and the legal limit for a folder was 4" so I became a little bit belligerent which at the moment was probably a bad idea but in the long run I got my knife back.
I told the LEO that you can't measure a knife blade like that because everybody's are different. I told him if he was confiscating my knife I wanted more than a verbal warning, I wanted a receipt for the knife and a report written about the incident.
At that point he told me he was taking me in if I kept insisting on a report and receipt, the last scare tactic was curfew violation, there hadn't been a curfew in place since the Race Riots in Newark in the 60s so I told him to take me in.
Man was my old man pissed when he was called to come get me at 2am, mad at the cop not me. He gave the cop a rash of crap for harassing a good kid who was just on his way home from a friends house a few blocks away.
Long story short(I know, too late already) I got my knife back and that cop made it his mission till I moved 4 years later to continue harassing me every chance he could.
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Last week, in Oklahoma:
Trucker: "You're not gonna cut ANYTHING with that!"
I continue to slice easily through the always-challenging medium of industrial stretch wrap with my trusty Kershaw.
Trucker: "Here's a REAL knife!" Holds up a comically oversized truck-stop souvenir of a folder.
I scoff. Continue cutting.
Trucker: "This is made of TITANIUM!"
Me: "I'm afraid the blade material doesn't matter near as much as how sharp the edge is, and I'll bet money that mine's a good deal sharper than whatever you've got there."
I think I hurt his feelings, because he was a lot less chatty for the next few minutes.
Trucker: "You're not gonna cut ANYTHING with that!"
I continue to slice easily through the always-challenging medium of industrial stretch wrap with my trusty Kershaw.
Trucker: "Here's a REAL knife!" Holds up a comically oversized truck-stop souvenir of a folder.
I scoff. Continue cutting.
Trucker: "This is made of TITANIUM!"
Me: "I'm afraid the blade material doesn't matter near as much as how sharp the edge is, and I'll bet money that mine's a good deal sharper than whatever you've got there."
I think I hurt his feelings, because he was a lot less chatty for the next few minutes.
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I think the same thing was said in the Sword of Truth books.
This just happened to me the other day. A guy at work saw me looking at knives online and asked if I like knives. We talk knives for a few minutes and then this happened...
Him: "You know where you can get the best knives? That show on TV...Cutlery Corner. Best place for knives."
Me: "Those are the worst knives, pretty much ever."
Him: "You know where you can get the best knives? That show on TV...Cutlery Corner. Best place for knives."
Me: "Those are the worst knives, pretty much ever."
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Over here on the west coast we hear that a lot too. I've had a few conversations with people (on occasion showed I was carrying a 4.5" bladed folder) and they say something like "well isn't that Illegal?" "aren't you worried you'll get arrested?" to which I inform them of the laws as I know them from whenever I last read them. They usually look surprised and confused haha
yeah....lots of people seem to know where the "best" stuff is....I always hear cutco or wally world but gerber is a growing answer
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The best I've about sharpness was from my old, dear uncle. A drunk if there ever was one, but by far my favorite. I loaned him an old Case right after I got out of the Navy and he proceeded to let one of his buddies sharpen it. He came back home with it and told me, " it's sharp, it'll split a floatin' dog turd and never ripple the water!" Still got the knife...still use the line!
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well he's not completely wrong. a gerber will probably do 70% of what a Seb or a Para 2 will do. but then you haft to use a gerber...
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the lock on a ( newer ) opinel will fly off if you stress it ... OK , thats not a total lie .. if you intentionally lock it wrongly .. it will fail if you abuse the snot out of it .. if you lock it correctly , and really it doesnt take a genius to work it out , its a different story . The older models , had no lock close function , and didnt have this " problem"
kid from up the road watching me sharpen my axe ..
" My dad has a lanksy thing that makes his blades so sharp you can near shave with them .. much better than that thing youre using "
Sharp like this ? .. shaved a bald strip on my arm ...
"Well no , but thats an axe ... axes are always sharp "
" My uncle cut a truck axle clear thru with a ginsu knife " this from a 40yr old guy ... it may be true tho ... his uncle may be into building models .
kid from up the road watching me sharpen my axe ..
" My dad has a lanksy thing that makes his blades so sharp you can near shave with them .. much better than that thing youre using "
Sharp like this ? .. shaved a bald strip on my arm ...
"Well no , but thats an axe ... axes are always sharp "
" My uncle cut a truck axle clear thru with a ginsu knife " this from a 40yr old guy ... it may be true tho ... his uncle may be into building models .
It's amazing how much people automatically assume regardless of whether they've tested various equipment. Chances are the kid had no idea what thing you were using or how it would fare against another sharpening product.
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I am low tech . freehand sharpen with a very old " fine" stone , strop on glossy paper .. it gets stuff sharp . it doesnt come with promotional CDs and instructions tho .. so yeah .. to kids these days its not going to work I guess
apparently in my country your knife is regarded a nice knife if you can cut a iron nail with it.... without any pressure applied. and the blade would steel keeps it's scary sharpness after then.
that's why a lot of ex WWII Japanese Gunto/katanas here are broken pretty bad, I guess many of them tested against nails... and when chipped they use grinders to sharpen it back
that's why a lot of ex WWII Japanese Gunto/katanas here are broken pretty bad, I guess many of them tested against nails... and when chipped they use grinders to sharpen it back
Earlier this week I was telling a coworker than when we traveled to Boston I had to dig out an old cheap very small slipjoint to take with us because their laws are very restrictive. (Under 2.5" blade IIRC, according to my internet research.) He proceded to pull out his small Kershaw (that I gave him) and lay it across his palm to measure. I told him that some jurisdictions are very much more restrictive than others.
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I worked at a factory where among my necessary eqipment, safety razor knife(or whatever they're called) and regular sized scissors as well as other cutting implements. I had to open a box but didn't have my safety knife with me, so I pulled out my SAK Tinker Deluxe and the lady I was working with told me it was a weapon. Go figure.
