Will neck knives ever be accepted?

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I wore a neck knife in ALASKA of all places and when I walked into a bar with it hanging outside of my rain gear most people in the bar ACTUALLY gave me stange looks! In ALASKA for God sakes! And this was in a little fishing town in ALASKA! What's up with THAT!

Even up THERE people thought neck knives were strange.

JUST ONCE, I walked into a LITTLE gift shop at Brooks Falls (it's where you see all the photos of the Bears catching fish in the falls. It's actually in the middle of NOWHERE and you have to charter a sea plane to take you there.) and the guy behind the counter thought it was cool and wanted to check it out. Cool!

Outside of that I've never met anyone outside these forums who thinks a neck knife (even worn inside the shirt) isn't "creepy".

Pocket clips caught on. Thumb studs caught on.

When will neck knives "catch on"?

Let's skip all the legal schit and talk about public perception.
Knife lovers have obviously latched on to this concept quickly (as they should because they're HANDY), but how long until it doesn't seem so "freaky" to everyone else?

I want to wear a neck knife above my shirt every day and not be a freak. BUT, I'd settle for carrying one under my shirt every day and not be a freak at work when I whip it out (the knife;) ) and use it.
 
I wear a neck carry as pretty much my only extra. I don't wear a ring(used to wear 2, haven't for about a year), chain, watch(July 02 was the last watch I wore. still have an old classic pocketwatch, my grandfather's sitting aside.), etc... no piercings(nor will there be).

It's on me 24/7, and even if I leave the house without getting dressed, I have a knife on me. Currently a stainless spyderco dragonfly plain edge, in a normark rig... soon to be replaced with a stainless serrated cricket (in one of eric's rigs too).

About 10-15% of the time, it's outside my shirt, usually next to my skin though. Occasionally I'll take the rig off and clip the knife, though sweat has no effect on the knife(I was sick with a fever and 20hrs with it inside my shirt getting soaked didn't harm it). It's sized for a small tek-lock, which lets me carry it many ways, and added to that is a g-clip. Infinate possibilities.

I have yet to get an odd look (that I notice at least, but then again I don't have eyes in the back of my head) for the neck carry. It rotates in and out, and the cord it's on has it sitting right over my solar plexus(the pivot sits on the indent, tip down).
 
around my neck, it's on my keychain. Any odd looks I get I tend to attribute to my bald head and tattoos. Go figure.

Frank
 
I frequently wear a neck knife. I only pull it out when I need it for a task immidiately at hand. Most people have thought that it was incredibly cool. The knife I carry most is a dressy damasteel blade with elephant ivory handles that I made, so that might have something to do with the reactions, but I have literally had all kinds of people ask where they can get one from little old ladies to 15 year old kids. Most of the people I work with have asked me to show my neck knife to people they know just because they like the idea so much. I have found older(60+) people accept knives of all types very readily around here, and younger people(-20) have no problem with knives, middle aged people tend to be the only ones who think it is weird that I carry a knife. I also live in North Dakota where everyone is a little more rural in their ideas than some other areas of the country.
Kyle Fuglesten
 
I frequently wear a neck knife, outside my shirt, without getting strange looks. It's an RW Clark wharncliffe mini (~4 1/2" overall). In fact, only a couple of people have asked if it was a knife and they were just curious (one turned out to be a fellow knifeknut).

I also wear a Dozier Razorback or a Tomey Thumb-tac from time to time, and have only received the rare strange look; in fact, comments of "cool" well outnumber the strange looks. :cool:
 
It's my opinion that knives will never be accepted. I make knives part time so you think people would be used to me with a knife, but when my own wife sees me cleaning a knife or polishing one she gives me this look and asks "What are you doing with THAT?" Like she's never seen one.

This woman I work with has seen pictures of some of my utility knives and her first impression is always that knives are vicious weapons. And unfortunatley, people like her are the majority. Those narrow minded people who think our society is so advanced that we are beyond knives as tools.

I have friends and family who accept me, but they don't understand me. No, I don't think knives will ever be accepted en masse.
 
I often say that I have only one 'fighting knife,' and that's a small 3-inch Cold Steel Culloden. I wear it on a neck chain ONLY when I'm on a bicycle.

We've had many muggings in the Madison area on bike paths. I can grab the neck knife with either hand, and even my wife could grab it if need be. She carries cap-spray, however.

Since this knife is never used for mundane daily chores, I cannot define it as a 'tool,' nor was it purchased for that use. However, among my friends, when I explain its purchase, they always say something like, "good choice," or "good thinking."

Of course, who knows what they say behind my back.
 
Originally posted by kile
I have found older(60+) people accept knives of all types very readily around here, and younger people(-20) have no problem with knives, middle aged people tend to be the only ones who think it is weird that I carry a knife.
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Hmm. Now that you mention it, I agree with that assessment.

Odd that the people who are OK with knives are the opposite of the people who can drive worth a crap.;)
 
I can't drive worth a crap and I am 25. Usually because I am playing with a balisong. :) :) :)
 
Walking around with a knife hanging out in an obvious 'defense' type place IS a bit creepy. Under the shirt is better. Then again, I guess it really depends on how you present yourself and what the knife looks like. A black tactical razor thingy with lots of spikes carried by a guy with a green mohawk and nose rings is going to freak people out (even some knife guys) whereas a damascus blade with pearl and ivory handles carried by your grandma is going to incite conversations. Any way you go at it, the proper response to a weird look is another weird look. :D
 
Repeat after me:

Neck knives are good enough, they are smart enough, and doggonit people like them...

Carry on.

:D
 
Who needs "acceptance" of neck knives? I don't think they are supposed to be worn outside the shirt, anyway, so if you are getting strange looks from people, it's no wonder. It's kinda weird to wear a neck knife outside the clothes. If you wear the knife concealed, who is gonna know it's there?

With that said, I do think that the general populace frowns unnecessarily on knives and guns, two things that when used by good people can actually save lives and do good. But there is a reason for that: MOST OF THE POPULACE IS STUPID. Most of them can't think their way out of a refrigerator box. Most of them lack basic analytical and logic skills. Most of them believe anything Dan friggin' Rather tells them. Most of them believe that the police will swoop in and save their lives if they but press three keys on their cellular phones, no matter how immediate the threat to their lives -- and if you just TRY to demonstrate how fallacious their thinking is on such a subject, they cocoon-up like mummies and will not listen to a thing you have to say. They don't want to. They're afraid to! It would render them petrified and terrified if their illusions of safety were stripped away. They are masters at doublethink.

One idiot of a woman at work (we were kinda friends until later on) was sitting at her desk, and for whatever reason one day I had occasion to show here the CRKT Neck Peck that I was wearing (duh, on my neck). Suddenly, out of nowhere, she starts this shrill, idiotic shrieking, "That's a deadly weapon!! What are you wearing a deadly weapon like that for?!" Wouldn't stop saying, "Deadly weapon" -- but it never crossed this moron's mind that if I didn't have this "weapon" on me, but I wanted to kill someone in my office, I could go get any of the 6"+ bladed kitchen knives that are left in a general use bin next to the sink in our break room.

This is what we're up against, people. I think, sometimes, that the best we can hope for is a scenario not unlike in Stephen King's The Stand, in which most of the population is killed off. Hopefully, this would leave the strong, the smart, the prone-to-survival behind, exclusively. The milquetoast faggots who count on paid others to guarantee them safety would be the first to die in a world where Evian stopped bottling water for them, and McDonald's no longer filled their guts full of pre-cooked burgers. These are people who don't know how to sharpen knives, put on spare tires, pump gas, tie knots, sail boats, pitch tents, build lean-tos, collect water, start fire... you name it. And SOMEHOW, they have ended up with a large say in what WE may carry or wear or do...

We gotta turn this around, somehow.

---Jeffrey
 
Hi,

Here in my town everybody knows that I am a collector so its no problem to wear my neckknife out of my clothes. But mostly , wen I go shopping or to school or to anyother public place I wear it close to my body so no one sees it.
I think, people have problems with neckknifes because of their tacticle or military looks.

Originally posted by kile
I have found older(60+) people accept knives of all types very readily around here, and younger people(-20) have no problem with knives, middle aged people tend to be the only ones who think it is weird that I carry a knife.
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And I can also agree with this statement !

I heard that in some states of the USA you have to carry your knife/weapon for everybody to see. Is that right ?

Greetings
Olli
 
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