Which of your knives would you hand the EMT

Chinook

Chinook

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After the thread on removing a sliver with a Toad, I thought which of my knives was best suited for fine delicate, precise incisions on my most prized possession.....My skin.

Given the scenario of choking on an unchopped piece of goose liver pate or your sashimi chef having failed blow-fish prep and you requiring an emergency tracheotomy.... Which of your blades do you hand the one who will perforate your throat?

I think I'd opt for my 3/4 Jess Horn white micarta with flat ground blade. A thin, pointy little piece which would do the least collateral damage.


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hmmm... either my Gerber silver knight, or my benchmade Mel Pardue 330. Both are slender, pointy, and sharp. but I hope that the EMT will have the appropriate tools at hand.
Dave

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If it has to be a Spyderco, I don't think you could beat the Ladybug, second choice a pointy Delica. But you might just happen to have your trusty X-acto knife in your pocket right? Ouch.
Dave Jung
 
The Smith is my pointiest Spyder by miles, but one slip and it may as well be the Military!
 
Calypso Jr. Liteweight. Flat ground supersharp VG-10 blade.

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Dale Richmond
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Calypso Jr. Lightweight. No question.

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Dave

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of More Knives
 
My Busse! NOT!
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Probably my Dragonfly or ask my wife for her Calypso Jr. Wouldn't want to get my Sebenza gooped up, at least not anymore than it already is these days...

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Don LeHue

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Actually, I was just checking the humorous suggestion in the other thread of a Civilian for extracting the splinter, and find that my Matriarch has much the pointier tip of any of my blades. So the Civilian may not be a bad choice for an incision 'just' big enough for a Bic tube to be inserted.

Again, it's not the gun/knife/tool butt how it is used that proves its worth.


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My Victorinox Executive. It always has at least one razor sharp blade. And it has scissors (FWTW!).

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Chinook
In Georgia only Para's can do a that and then only a "needle trach". That is sticking a BIG IV cath, largest one in the IV box, into your windpipe below your adam's apple. Then using the Ambu bag to breath for you or help you breath on 100% O2.

Lots less fun than using a nice sharp shiny knife to make a hole. But you don't have all that blood to worry about getting into the lungs.
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Dwight

It's a fine line between "a hobby" and "mental illness".
 
Oh, poo, Dwight. You gotta get serious?
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I suppose cataract surgery, breast augmentation and self-vasectomy are out too?


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I'd use a Blackhawk!
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The only problem is that my wife is threatening a Cold Steel Master Tanto vasectomy if I purchase one more knife before the end of this month!
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I told her......"We're only discussing an emergency tracheotomy!"
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She got pissed! "I can also perform your vasectomy via an emergency tracheotomy!"
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Sorry guys......I've got to put my knives away.....
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But, I'll sneak them out later tonight and whiff some freshly cut whittlin's scraps....
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Definetely Calypso Jr Lightweight.

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I have real life experience about this topic.

My father almost made me one!

We were driving trough Sweden to Norway for a skiing vacation in mid 80's. We stopped in a Swedish town Karlstad (you remember places where your father almost cut your throat) for lunch. We talked something and my not always so funny father told a wery good joke. I was eating french fries and started laughing fries in my mouth. BAAAD mistake. I inhaled the fries in my mouth! I started coughing but fries were wery tightly jammed in my trachea. It was weird: I was lauging hysterically but couldn't breath.
My father (surgeon by profession) only looked at me a while but when my color started to change he started to examine table knifes edge (after he noticed that he didn't have a pen). It was horrifying. My big sister beated my back without success. Father started moving to me with knife in his hand when finallyed the beating worked and fries bursted out of my trachea. It was close!

I'd choose any knife by spyderco instead that table knife. You guys are too picky.

Of knifes that I own now (and carry) large Calypso would be my choise for throat puncturing.
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Chinook
Self-made vasectomy's are allowed as long as a 12gauge shot-gun is used. A knife can be used to clean up the "rough edges" later.
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That kinda reminds me of the country girl that found her husband cheating on her. She was going to use a 12 gauge to turn a bull into a stear. When hubby complained that it just wasn't fair because she was too close her reply was to "start 'em swinging!"
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Dwight

It's a fine line between "a hobby" and "mental illness".
 
Dwight....

Looking at your sig, I'd say it was a fine line 'tween hubby and insanity at that point.

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