I gonna ask to be buried with a SAK........just in case I need to get out.
I gonna ask to be buried with a SAK........just in case I need to get out.
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
Or open a brewski.
...or take a leak?......
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
Both are Stainless Steel and I am splitting hair here on the Rockwell Scale of hardness. I hope this helps get the message out.
Victorinox Swiss Army knives have a Steel Hardness of 55-56
Leatherman's Wave 420 HC Rockwell 56-59
“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
I've carried pockets knives since the age of 6. Mt great grandmother bought me my first 2 pocket knives and I still have them and I'm 59 now. They were Imperial brand knives about 2 inches long closed and one looks like a little stiletto the other kind of a canoe design. One good thing about them, even though they were cheap kids knives, they took and held a good edge !
59?! That's AARP age. I'll bet you have to check for mold.
Don't like folding knives unless that is the only option available and especially not ones that don't lock open.
I do have a very small round nose serrated river knife I leave on my PFD. mostly for cutting rope and fishing line of illegal trot/limb lines that are hazards on waterways. I.e. get hook stuck in flesh/clothing cut yourself free fast. Most people carry larger knives. When doing water rescue for triathlon and open water swim I remove all knives and sharp objects, only thing attached to kayak or SUP are water bottle and floatation devices, possibly FAK/CPR. People who "think" they are drowning due to minor cramp lack of training etc. Will grab all over your boat and you and pull at every thing tring to climb on board. Irrational people require a calm voice not a sharp knife poking them.
Did any of you watch that knife making contest show on history channel. They were forced to ruin good knives with 4" of sarrations. Also rushed which was interesting but artificial it seemed to me. Most stuff on TV is NOT reality!
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When I was 6 my mother paid us kids 50 cents allowance apiece every week. I would run down to Woolworths and buy the Imperial "fish" pocket knife; 49 cents and a penny sales tax. It even had a lock on it. It was a kind of long, single blade knife that I would play with out in the back yard. I wound up with a bunch of cuts on my hands that would really freak Mom out so she'd take the knife away from me. The next week when I got my allowance I'd go back to Woolworths and buy another one. It'd drive mom crazy!...
SARGE
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
Proud father of a US Marine....SEMPER FI!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
I've found if you let it grow on your butt it's makes nice padding.
Speaking of Imperial Knives....LOL....just picked up one at a flea market.
It's on a old "Imperial" fixed blade knife with pressed metal scales......Made in USA...1960's (?)
This isn't mine, but looks just like it...... but show the sides pretty well
One side....flat
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Other side...you can see where the grind ended next to the hilt...
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Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
LA....paid $3 buck for that one......and remember the folding fishing knives....mine were yellow and another was a like a metallic fish scale that worn mostly off......
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
SARGE
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
Proud father of a US Marine....SEMPER FI!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
In reference to the utility of a saw-back blade I read somewhere that some military knives were equipped with saw teeth so that they could be used to hack through the aluminum skin of an aircraft fuselage if post-crash telescoping or fire made the exits impassable.
Cheap steel is probably the thing I don't like the most...followed by serrations.
I've taken a vow of poverty. To annoy me, send money.
http://www.youtube.com/user/FinallyMe78?feature=mhee
"Surgical stainless." Does it really take that much brainpower to notice that surgical sharps are meant to be used once and thrown away?
If you really need a scalpel, they're dirt cheap on eBay. (I keep a #3 handle and a bunch of #15C blades in the car door pocket for deep splinters.) I like having a pocketknife sharp and clean enough to to do the job, but when it comes down to it, I'd rather open a fresh, sterile scalpel blade than try to sterilize my knife, then have to clean blood off of it.
Two things I don't want in knives:
Over sharpened low angle bevel on a bushcraft multipurpose knife used for wood and cord etc.
Dull high angle bevel on a knife used for cleaning fish. It does not need to please a professional sushi chief and cut ultra Bible paper thin layers of fish but had better not rip the crappie flesh!
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