Your imagination is also doing very well.
Every guy whipped out their knives!
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Your imagination is also doing very well.
Coastie Jimmy: Now I carry a 24" electric chain saw with a really long electric cord as the older I got the more goodlooking and sexy I have became.
Jimmy, it's not for me to suggest your mirrors need a good cleaning, however as a bit of advice, beating yourself on the back will result in a permanent dislocation of your optic nerve. Some people who do so, end up with a permanent cross connection between their optic nerve and their rectal nerve.
Did you ever know a DDC Simmons from Maine. He retired a W4 (MAT) out of Washington, DC area.
Jimmy, it's not for me to suggest your mirrors need a good cleaning, however as a bit of advice, beating yourself on the back will result in a permanent dislocation of your optic nerve. Some people who do so, end up with a permanent cross connection between their optic nerve and their rectal nerve.
Did you ever know a DDC Simmons from Maine. He retired a W4 (MAT) out of Washington, DC area.
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I've had countless Mexican switchblades I carried thru my school years. The blades would always start to creep up after closing them.
My dad gave me this one around 30 years ago. Blade stays down perfect on it.
I take a Leek almost every day.
Kershaw, that is. I have other knives, but that one is just right for pretty much anything I need to cut. It's a tool. I don't think of it as a weapon, but it could be in a pinch.
Kershaw, that is. I have other knives, but that one is just right for pretty much anything I need to cut. It's a tool. I don't think of it as a weapon, but it could be in a pinch.
smoothshooter
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I honestly don't see how a man ( and most women ) can get thru life without a pocket knife of some kind. Even a tiny little Swiss Army Knife that only has one small blade and a pair of scissors.
Watching a knife-less Millennial or Gen Z guy gnawing and struggling at the seal of a bag of chips or a honey bun like an animal trying to get it open is pure entertainment for me, and leaves me shaking my head.
That should be a Man Card Revokable Offense if he ever had one to begin with.
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smithman 10
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Knife crime
Now that citizen firearm ownership has been practically eliminated in Great Britain, I read articles about the scourge of "knife crime" in the old country.
Pretty soon Brits will have to eat all their meals with spoons!
Government to launch new coalition to tackle knife crime - GOV.UK
Now that citizen firearm ownership has been practically eliminated in Great Britain, I read articles about the scourge of "knife crime" in the old country.
Pretty soon Brits will have to eat all their meals with spoons!
Government to launch new coalition to tackle knife crime - GOV.UK
smoothshooter
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I have been carrying a knife of some sort since I was 7 years old. Back then even the school teacher's would not even take notice.
I don't go anywhere without a knife - and not even for defensive purposes - just for cutting things. When I travel I throw one in my luggage for use at my destination.
I have had my knives washed more than a few times. My wife is fully aware of what one sounds like in the washer.A little oil and no harm.
I don't remember exactly when I started carrying a pocket knife every day; probably around 7 years old. Have a hard time remembering when I didn't.
I'm 68 years old now.
C,Mudrock could you tell me the make and model of the folder in your first picture?
Let me put in my usual plug for one of my favorites, the SAK Waiter:
I think they are now up to $19 apiece. Light enough to be unnoticeable in the pocket.
Well made, and the blade is big enough to cut a sandwich in two. I've removed the keyring ring on this one, but easy to add to a key chain if that's your druthers. Bought the little screwdriver that fits into the corkscrew separately — think I bought six for ten bucks or so.. The screwdriver tool, in addition to being a screwdriver, works as a bottle or a can opener. Usual toothpick and tweezers.
At $19, if you forget and it's confiscated at the airport, no great loss. I keep a couple of spares in my toolbox as giveaways.
One helluva deal.
I think they are now up to $19 apiece. Light enough to be unnoticeable in the pocket.
Well made, and the blade is big enough to cut a sandwich in two. I've removed the keyring ring on this one, but easy to add to a key chain if that's your druthers. Bought the little screwdriver that fits into the corkscrew separately — think I bought six for ten bucks or so.. The screwdriver tool, in addition to being a screwdriver, works as a bottle or a can opener. Usual toothpick and tweezers.
At $19, if you forget and it's confiscated at the airport, no great loss. I keep a couple of spares in my toolbox as giveaways.
One helluva deal.
Coastie Jimmy: Now I carry a 24" electric chain saw with a really long electric cord as the older I got the more goodlooking and sexy I have became.
Jimmy, it's not for me to suggest your mirrors need a good cleaning, however as a bit of advice, beating yourself on the back will result in a permanent dislocation of your optic nerve. Some people who do so, end up with a permanent cross connection between their optic nerve and their rectal nerve.
Did you ever know a DDC Simmons from Maine. He retired a W4 (MAT) out of Washington, DC area.
I did not know DDC Simmons. Most of my service was in the Seventh District.
I looked in the mirror this morning and it cracked !
Semper Paratus.
Likely wooden ones until the tree huggers raise a big enough stink...
...BenCMudrock
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Hi Jfreamejoey, I think you mean the one pictured with faux Jigged Bone grip like the Bowie with similar grips next to it.
The only brand on it is an image of a slinking Cat over the word "stainless" - but no country of origin marking. It IS Chinese. It has a coiled spring around the blade pivot - like assisted knives - but tighter wound & opens smartly when front located button is pushed. The blade lock is a small lever close to the release button.
I have 2 of these, the one pictured & another with gloss russet wooden grips. They are certainly a new design of switchblade. Both mine are 13" overall. Like them alot & they were inexpensive. My personal favorites are My AKC Italian made switchblades of higher quality & workmanship. Both types are viable knives.
The GOOD NEWS IS, I bought the ALL off "WWW.WISH.COM" , the one you inquired about was $12. The ROMAS selling elsewhere for $200.+ were all under $30. All were shipped from CHINA. The Romas came with a leather belt pouch. No idea if Romas were made in italy (as marked) or if assembled in China - or just shipped via China. Look under "switch blade", "spring knife" & "folding hunting knife" on WISH. They take several weeks to arrive, but good, reliable service, & an excellent buy - It's why I compromised my principals & gave China my business. No Regrets, C.
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When I was in school almost all the boys had a pocket knife and some of the girls. If the teacher forgot or didn't have one they would borrow one of ours. Nowadays a picture of one will get you suspended.
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I can't remember the time I didn't carry a pocketknife everywhere every day.
Heck, we even carried our pocket knives to school and nobody raised an eyebrow, but those were different times I suppose.
These days it's a Benchmade 9100SBK AutoStryker.
Heck, we even carried our pocket knives to school and nobody raised an eyebrow, but those were different times I suppose.
These days it's a Benchmade 9100SBK AutoStryker.
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I got caught with a pocket knife in school in the 9th grade. I was suspended for 19 days. They actually made a plea bargain with me. Suspension for 19 days but they would cut it to 10 if I agreed to a drug evaluation. Then they sent me to the ISC (Individual Study Center School for "Juvenile Delinquents) for a year.
CMudrock
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That WAS HARSH. When I graduated from high school in 1965, The Principal found me after the ceremony, & shook my hand - in it was my 8" Italian Stiletto Being returned, that he had confiscated. He said he had enjoyed playing with it, & wished me well. Maybe dating his daughter had helped. They don't make Principles or attitudes like that any more. He really was quite a guy.
I had one of those cheap key ring knives with the bottle opener, file and single straight blade. Showed it to another student in kindergarten and he told the teacher. She held it up in front of the class and told the whole class not to bring to school. Gave back to me at the end of the day. This would have been 1980. I learned that day, don't ask don't tell. Not sure when I started but before middle school, I started carrying a pocket knife and have done so ever since. I just learned to not tell anyone.
Now in high school, I had a teacher that knew I carried and would ask to borrow it now and again.
I feel naked without my pocket knife. It is a tool I use everyday.
Rosewood
Now in high school, I had a teacher that knew I carried and would ask to borrow it now and again.
I feel naked without my pocket knife. It is a tool I use everyday.
Rosewood
My father carried one of these every day of his life that I was part of... and expected his kids to do the same, at about7 years old.. it was a tool, not a weapon, and if we EVER got that wrong... well I am not sure what would have happened, we never found out.. it's a Christy knife, and if you know, you know... I now carry a Kershaw Leek edc...
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Flattop5
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I've had countless Mexican switchblades I carried thru my school years. The blades would always start to creep up after closing them.
My dad gave me this one around 30 years ago. Blade stays down perfect on it.
Hence the reason I always urge people, "store your switchblades open." There are, sadly, tons of switchblades that have significant "blade peek" and if it gets bad enough, the blade point can snag on your clothes.
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just before I was deployed for a year in IV Corps, as a MACV infantry captain, I was over at the small PX on Smoke Bomb Hill at Bragg, and bought other useful items, a Puma White Hunter, and left it with my parents when I left for my first war. Towards the end of my tour, I had my parents send the Puma to me so I could give it as parting gift to my counterpart, a Vietnamese LTC. As the years passed, I began to want to replace it, so about a decade ago, stopped at the Smoky Mountain Knife Works, off I 40, and bought another one.
We moved two years ago to near Columbia SC, to be near our son and his wife and their now 10 and 7 year old sons. Those two lads are just the best kids ever, and I have a wonderful relationship with them. I have begun to have a need to give them "guy things" for them to someday remember me, and perhaps pass down to their own kids. So I have since given these two Puma's to their dad, to pass someday to the lads. I have also given my son other knives, a Randall, a SF "sterile' sheath knife, and others, for the same reason and someday giving to his two great lads. Here, the to Puma's, with another Buck 110.
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We moved two years ago to near Columbia SC, to be near our son and his wife and their now 10 and 7 year old sons. Those two lads are just the best kids ever, and I have a wonderful relationship with them. I have begun to have a need to give them "guy things" for them to someday remember me, and perhaps pass down to their own kids. So I have since given these two Puma's to their dad, to pass someday to the lads. I have also given my son other knives, a Randall, a SF "sterile' sheath knife, and others, for the same reason and someday giving to his two great lads. Here, the to Puma's, with another Buck 110.
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