Whats your Fictitious knife stories and outright lies told by non knife people?

Shorty Mcgee! I had guy at work tell me, in response to examining a freshly sharpened para 2 "o thats sharp, but cant nobody sharpen a knife like shorty mcgee".. so he tells me ol shorty uses some kind of river rocks he found to create edges that will cut you just by looking at them. A few weeks later the same guy starts in telling me some sort hunting story, "one day i was headed over to shorty floyds" I interrupted him, just picking at him and giving him a hard time, i said "he related to shorty mcgee" he looks up at me "I dont know shorty mcgee". I just laughed, i didnt bust his story up, i let him continue his story and go on. Now ol shorty Mcgee has reached legendary inside joke status at work. Ol shorty could do anything and gets credit for anything that needs accrediting
 
I've heard people who claim that to test katanas' sharpness, Japanese swordmakers would stick a sword vertically in a shallow stream with the edge facing upstream, and any leaves that floated downstream into the edge would be sliced cleanly in half.

Jim
 
James Y said:
I've heard people who claim that to test katanas' sharpness, Japanese swordmakers would stick a sword vertically in a shallow stream with the edge facing upstream, and any leaves that floated downstream into the edge would be sliced cleanly in half.

Jim
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This sounds like it came from the same school of BS that Rockstead's marketing uses. Unbelievably people will fall for silly marketing though, from Cold Steel for the poor ninjas to Rockstead for the ninjas who have deeper pockets.
 
Just wanted to bump this.

Anyone have any stories told over the holidays? Anyone heard of someone prepping for the winter by felling a tree with one swing?


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My favorite is from an iron worker I was working with, who after seeing my Contego, told me about his dad's 110 that he used to use to cut rebar with....... REBAR!! According to him, they don't make that steel anymore bcuz the companies like Spycerco and Emerson won't allow it so they can sell us junk steel at a higher price...... Iron workers......... Bless their little hearts........ Lmao!
 
NJBillK said:
Just wanted to bump this.

Anyone have any stories told over the holidays? Anyone heard of someone prepping for the winter by felling a tree with one swing?


Well?
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I took down a tree myself with a single swing!! Of course it was 8-9 feet tall and only about 4" in diameter, but I still get credit for it!

I also have a knife that can cut through literally tens of aluminum cans without becoming an alligator. True story.
 
ATwistedStaple said:
I took down a tree myself with a single swing!! Of course it was 8-9 feet tall and only about 4" in diameter, but I still get credit for it!

I also have a knife that can cut through literally tens of aluminum cans without becoming an alligator. True story.
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Pics or it didn't happen, you know that...
 
“These are absolutely horrific weapons for which there can be no legitimate use. You only have to look at the combination of the pointed and serrated edges to see that any injury would be fatal. The serrations would cause such serious internal damage to anyone that it would be fatal." - Alf Hitchcock, chief constable of the UK Ministry of Defence Police on "zombie knives"
 
James Y said:
I've heard people who claim that to test katanas' sharpness, Japanese swordmakers would stick a sword vertically in a shallow stream with the edge facing upstream, and any leaves that floated downstream into the edge would be sliced cleanly in half.

Jim
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This is actually a story/myth/legend from Japan about two sword makers, Masamune and his student Muramasa. Muramasa challenged his teacher Masamune to a contest to see who could make the sharpest blade. They would make a blade and stick the edge into the current of a small creek. Muramasa's sword cut leaves and fish and twigs. It was so bloodthirsty that all manner of material that floated up to it was cut. His master Masamune's sword however, was so sharp that everything in the creek avoided it out of fear/respect.

There are other versions of this legend.
 
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My uncle used to sharp his knife by stropping it on the back of his hand.... that is a good steel.. japanese he said...
 
I once heard of a katana that was so sharp it could cut through a silk scarf that was dropped on the blade... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::foot:
 
Misanthropia said:
A recurring theme I hear is people's belief that the blade of your folding knife cannot be longer than the width of your palm. I don't know if this is a local thing in RI, but I'm amazed that people would believe that a law could be so subjective that it changes definition for literally everyone carrying a knife.
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Yeah that one is a myth. However subjective laws are real.
If a cop can shake your blade out then in NY that would make this knife illegal.
If they have some guy like Arnold on the force he could probably even turn an SAK into a "gravity knife"
 
Cutting a fly in half in mid air...lengthwise. I once excised a wing...but master said it didn't count, because I called the head. Still working at it. [emoji41]
 
I was once at this party, and it came out that there was this "narc" looking guy (who in the end, was actually narc, first impressions and all) was also knife hobbyist. I was naturally curious and he showed his collection. At that kind moment you concretely see how delusional some - or most - can be when they believe in something rather than making their claims through experience and learning. He had all kinds of "hand made" knives such as cheesy stick tang factory made knife from China or Pakistan with butter dull blade and wooden handles.. and I wasn't sure if it was even wood. Also he asked if he did good on saber that cost 100eur, obvious Chinese junk steel prop wall hanger. I just said "well, I am not sword expert".
 
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I think its funny how these stories are like urban legends, everyone knows about some uncle or brother in law that has some special something or other. Whats the bet that the stories that are re-told got their start from what a real knife knut has done (maybe even a forum member) but the mists of legend have turned it into something unreal?

My favorite response to a guy way back bragging about his pull through sharpener, I put a better edge on his knife using the I-beam of the building as a steel. Shut him up, and he probably stole a wenger from me. I hope it cut him, because it really was sharp.
 
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