The Knife Thread

[threedogs]

My leatherman finally arrived this is my 3rd attempt to buy one. two others were confiscated by customs.
It's bigger than I thought, about 4" closed Great sharp saw and seatbelt ripper plus window breaker,
This one goes straight in the Patrol, very happy with it,
Also just won a 3" folder with abalone shell scales, very nice Columbian knife

[oncedisturbed]

Nice leatherman, were the other 2 the same as this 1?

[threedogs]

yes the letter from customs said the screw holding the blade was loose allowing the blade to flick open, which is against the law [flick knives]
Must be 2 custom officers with two very handy "Leatherman" knives, at least I got a refund from the seller

[growler2058]

yes the letter from customs said the screw holding the blade was loose allowing the blade to flick open, which is against the law [flick knives]
Must be 2 custom officers with two very handy "Leatherman" knives, at least I got a refund from the seller

What C0ckheads its clearly not a flick knife. A flick knife is spring loaded. I would have been asking questions there. We can buy pocket knives here with a nib on the blade to allow for one handed opening. I'd be saying that's close to theft on customs behalf

[oncedisturbed]

It will also come under semi assisted via force eg flick of wrist or single handed opening.

Same happened to me with 2 rescue knives with a straight blade because a thumb stud on the blade to allow single handed opening but the rescue knives with a curved blade and a thumb stud was allowed.

[threedogs]

Must be a grey area, spent all morning putting a decent edge to it,
and didn't cut myself, finished it on some wet/dry 2000. Now I need to wait
until I go away next to try it. I purchased what I thought was an Arkansas whet stone
But ended up only being the box with a normal grey aluminium oxide stone,
but it did come in a very nice cypress pine box, those Japanese stones are way too pricey for me
Here's two more I found big one is a tramotina the other was to replace one my father had, great for splicing larger rope


@ Kallen heres an idea for your knife

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/UNITED-CU...item4176d0ee49

[growler2058]

Here's a little Excalibur of mine
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[oncedisturbed]

Must be a grey area, spent all morning putting a decent edge to it,
and didn't cut myself, finished it on some wet/dry 2000. Now I need to wait
until I go away next to try it. I purchased what I thought was an Arkansas whet stone
But ended up only being the box with a normal grey aluminium oxide stone,
but it did come in a very nice cypress pine box, those Japanese stones are way too pricey for me
Here's two more I found big one is a tramotina the other was to replace one my father had, great for splicing larger rope


@ Kallen heres an idea for your knife

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/UNITED-CU...item4176d0ee49

That boot knife is similar to the hunting knives that were seized as they were deemed to be a throwing knife

[threedogs]

Nice knife Growler , I think I have a blank knife in that shape I need to finish

[threedogs]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AWESOME-C...item3cda43cfa7

This looks like a heap of work has gone into it, very nice BTW



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/261357012...84.m1423.l2648
And this one