Anyone into Knives?

moribundman · Nov 13, 2006

Shannow, you gotta drag your dinner into your garage while it's kicking and off it there?

Are toothpicks okay downunder? Can you defend yourself with a toothpick against a rabid wombat or against a razorback in heat?

Shannow · Nov 13, 2006

mori...it's interesting.

They recently (two years ago) gave us the right to lethal self defence, e.g. for home invasion. Then if you do, the first problem is "you mean that you had time to get the keys to the gun safe, and get out the firearm. Then the keys to the ammo safe, get out the bolt and ammunition, assemble the lot, and use it. Why didn't you run away ?"...at which point it becomes an act of premeditation.

I think dragging a feral goat to the garage would probably raise the ire of the law as well.

I HAVE seen tootpicks on open display in places of eating such that they are readily at hand for staff feeling threatened. Not sure if it is a breach of our "safe storage" legislation or not.

moribundman · Nov 13, 2006

You could always defend yourself with really big nail clippers.

Shannow · Nov 13, 2006

hmmmm..."They're not nail clippers...THESE ARE NAIL CLIPPERS".

Nice ring to it.

moribundman · Nov 13, 2006

You were also thinking of Paul Hogan and his pig sticker??

Shannow · Nov 13, 2006

mori, it's almost like a fifth sense sometimes.

tdi-rick · Nov 13, 2006

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Carrying a pocket knife down here is an offence (even a leatherman can get a cop to point his gun at you, as a guy in the rifle club found soon after the laws were enacted).

I used to have quite a few cheap chinese knives that did a great job skinning rabbits and whatnot. This time last year I purchased a hand forged Kukri (out of a spring). Took a bit of sharpening, but last year's Christmas tree needed to fit in the bin, and didn't stand a chance against the Kukri.

Not sure how I can legally tansport any of my knives to anywhere where they can be any use.

remember that you can legally carry a knife (I have for years, SOG power pliers [till I lost them

] and pocket knife) if it's a tool of trade or used for "legitimate" activities.

Crazy thing is that thing's like Victorinox's 'Swiss Card' were banned as a concealed weapon, so Victorinox came out with an opaque version which was deemed OK....

Talk about a nanny state.

tdi-rick · Nov 13, 2006

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mori, it's almost like a fifth sense sometimes.

msparks · Nov 14, 2006

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Looking for my 'one knife to rule them all', the one knife that I could press into service for utility, hunting, bush craft, etc,. I ended up with a Bark River Gameskeeper. It's about 4.5in, has a pretty thick spine, a nice convex grind for a fine edge, is full tang, and from what I could see has what might be the best heat treating available in a production knife, better than lots of (most ?) custom knives too. Being A2 it's a very tough knife that takes a keen edge. When I called the company to ask about differences between the Forager (hidden tang) and Gameskeeper (full tang), the owner answered. After chatting a bit I complimented him on his product, saying that I was looking for a tough hunting knife that could be pressed into service as a field knife, and he related a story about some Marines.

The Gameskeeper is a popular one for sure. I think it might be one of the most popular.

If you really want to learn more about Bark River knives they have their own thread on knifeforums.

http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showforum.php?fid/59/

Mike Stewart the company CEO is on there everyday and answer a lot of questions, as well as takes recommendations from memebers on new knife designs.

If anyone remembers BlackJack knives he was the CEO of that company until the company went under, he also was at Marbles for a while until he started his own company Bark River.

Bark River has a cult like following really.

jmacmaster · Nov 14, 2006

"Carrying a pocket knife down here is an offence."

Good lord! What has become of Oz? It sounds almost as bad as Canada. In the U.S., carrying a pocket knife used to be, and in those parts of the country not controlled by the citified yuppies, still is, a part of growing up, and most men, at least outside of the big cities, still carry one. I have more knives than I can count, all over the place. The house, garage, shed, vehicles, tackle boxes, one on my person, etc. I'd be lost without a good knife at hand. Its one of the all-time handiest tools around.

Shannow · Nov 14, 2006

jmacmaster, 30 years ago, we all had pocket knives at school. We whittled and all the stuff kids did.

I'll post another thread on some other illegal activities downunder.

TheTanSedan · Nov 14, 2006

My pocket knife the past dozen or so years has been the SPYDERCO Police model.

http://www.1sks.com/images/spyderco/sc-07_sm.jpg

I have the fully serrated version. It's a bit heavy, but, as it is very slim, I find it all but unnoticeable when clipped to trouser or jeans pocket.

I needed a knife that would rip into boxes or pallet straps quickly when I was doing an acrobat imitation in a warehouse or tractor-trailer.

Sharpening is a bear, but this is not a knife to do thin slicing anyway. I've misused it more than I care to admit, and have had to re-cut the tip once.

With my old LEATHERMAN belt tool, and a small one on the keychain, I'm well set for several smaller, delicate blades, so the SPYDERCO is always there.

I do feel a bit of security with it, as I've been disabled the past few years and one cannot carry a pistol everywhere.

Opens quickly enough when kept lubed with LC-20/SCHAEFFERS 204-Supreme.

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