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Wow, I didn't know how insecure and inexperienced I was until I read this thread.
Thank you Bladeforums!
I used my DPX HEST to pry open a car door when a WW2 vet had been hit. I only had to move the door a half inch but with the engine starting to burn we had little time. His arms were cut up and he couldn't push the door open. I gave that particular knife to a LEO who survived a shooting. I replaced it immediately.
Judging from this post, thin knives make one into someone who psychoanalyzes random folks they don't know, despite a complete lack of credentials.
That's what I'd get from it, if I were the judging sort.
We all love knives! Can we all get along??!!
I used my DPX HEST to pry open a car door when a WW2 vet had been hit. I only had to move the door a half inch but with the engine starting to burn we had little time. His arms were cut up and he couldn't push the door open. I gave that particular knife to a LEO who survived a shooting. I replaced it immediately.
I class myself as a somewhat reluctant yielding traditionalist. If I can see an advantage in something, I'll grudgingly adapt and use it. But I worship at the alter of the God of effectiveness. I demand that whatever I have, function at the peak. I have little patience for style over function, no matter if cars, motorcycles, guns, or knives. In my life, I actually have tried the hyped and stylish, and most often been very disappointed in the performance of the item. I drive a 13 year old truck with real crank windows and spartan equipment. But the better halts car needed to be replaced, and she likes comfort, so we got a Toyota Camry with everything. Back-up camera, built in GPS on the little screen that also shows computer readouts of gas milage at present, gas milage past 15 minutes, range left on this tank of gas and other stuff. Once I learned how to use this stuff, I had to grudgingly admit it made life easier on the road. Now that she's also retired, we travel a lot, and a nice car on the road with the goodies is a nice thing. Even if I initially caught it, I had to admit the better half was right.
Like I said, I can applaud the few Spyderco's I've seen that actually cut well. Cutting well is what a knife is supposed to do. I can see why some people like the one hand opening, it's convenient. And as long as it doesn't interfere with function, okay. But the modern knife market is still busy trying to keep the artificially created demand going by introducing the "new and more uber cool" knife that is a must have. Some of these laughable objects of obsession are just overly hyped more of the same crazy designed that don't work as well as a Spyderco Delica or Kershaw whatever. The outrageous designs are to provide something different looking, and even a touch of sinister dark ops kind of mystique. Never mind they may have a handle that would raise blisters if the knife was used for "Hard Work".
I had the great God given fortune to have had three great mentors to learn from in my life. My old man, a real piece of work, my scoutmaster who was an old WW2 Marine, and Bill Moran, who taught me more about industrial design than I could have ever learned on my own. Bill made camp knives from 1/8 stock, and as a demonstration he'd wang them side on against the anvil in his shop to show they wouldn't break. Then he'd go out back to the woods in back of his shop and in 30 seconds or less, a couple of chops, he'd take down a 2 1/2 inch sapling. Bill made 1/8 stock "Hard Use" knives, so I look a bit sideways at some of the junk I see knife companies selling. Gimmicky design just for the sake of stimulating sales.
I'm a curmudgeonly old grouch sometimes as I know I'm close to the final approach, and slow to accept new stuff, but I don't see why we can't be friends. Worse comes to worse, we can just agree to disagree.
