All this knife talk is interesting, but ever since I went on Warfarin,
24 years ago, I've carried only a small Sharp lock-back, whose stainless
blade doesn't hold a really sharp edge, but, at least it won't fold up
on my fingers and cause excessive bleeding. But, with all of the
scanners in use these days, I seldom carry one at all.
I have a well-known custom knife maker living right behind me, Bob
Levine. If anyone wants to spend some money on a knife, I'll put you in
touch.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 3/5/2017 11:10 PM, Moose wrote:
On 3/5/2017 8:08 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
Love the Benchmade, but well out of my current budget.
That was almost 17 years ago. Seems like more than I would have paid
for a knife, but I really don't remember. That may be a collector's
price?
My 'good' pocket knife is a CRKT Squid:
https://www.amazon.com/Columbia-River-Knife-Tool-Folding/dp/B00TFY39EQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488772649&sr=8-1&keywords=squid+knife+crkt
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a gift from my younger daughter and her hubby.
Good steel, looks like a good knife.
I tried a CRKT assisted opening knife, as I'd always been curious.
<http://www.bladehq.com/item--CRKT-Delegate-EDC-Knife-w--7397>
I like the size and the blade shape. I've always been partial to
Warncliffe-ish blade shapes. But the mechanism is overdone, to no good
purpose I can find. About one time out of five, my thumb doesn't press
correctly on the safety release, and I can't open the darn thing. At
about the same time I was trying to get used to it, I had a simple,
cheap Kershaw (very different blade), usually in another pair of
pants. The Kershaw had no fancy opening assist, but was just as fast
any easy to open - and I could do it every time. :-)
My good 'big' knife is a Randall No 5 Bradford Angier Special that
I've had
for 40+ years.
(Was my Cascade carry - Still has volcano dust from Mt St Helen in the
sheath.)
Oh, I think we may have been to this rodeo before? My knife of that
sort is a Navy aviator's knife from WWII. Well, well worn, furthest
tip broken off at some point and resharpened, but both sheath and
knife still fully functional. I don't really need such a knife these
days.
Openly Assisted Moose
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