Unchained Preppers
General Category => Security & Survival => Topic started by: Alex1992 on February 28, 2013, 07:09:08 PM
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I'm looking to find a great quality knife for EDC and I don't care what it is, give me your best options and NO bias.
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I've been rocking a Kershaw Skyline for years and have found it to be up to par.. don't try to baton wood with it though. Although it did survive it the pivot is now a little sloppier than it had been!
(http://www.knivesplus.com/media/kershaw/KE-1760.jpg)
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Due to draconian state law, the same state that will let me carry a concealed handgun, I've been rocking this little kershaw spring assist as my EDC ( and yes, I do prefer partially serrated for my EDC knife no matter what anyone says... save the plain blades for batoning):
(http://www.frinchillucci.com/open2b/var/catalog/images/1281/0-bde6d685-250.jpg)
http://www.thekershawstore.com/Kershaw-Scallion-Serrated-Knife-p/k1620st.htm (http://www.thekershawstore.com/Kershaw-Scallion-Serrated-Knife-p/k1620st.htm)
But if I was still in Georgia, I would still be carrying this bad boy (which is now a safe queen):
(http://cgwgun.com/images/products/K1670TBLKST.jpg)
http://www.thekershawstore.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=K1670TBLKST (http://www.thekershawstore.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=K1670TBLKST)
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i run a benchmade adamas, love it
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I've been carrying this for the past five years and no complaints other than it's a combo edge. I don't abuse it but I don't baby it either, and it's held up pretty well. The rubber coating has worn off of about two thirds of the side that faces my hip in the last two years do to my keys being pulled out then put back in constantly. But the bare steel on the one side hasn't affected my grip in any measurable way. For under twenty bucks at Walmart it's hard to beat, but I've only seen the orange ones lately.
http://www.amazon.com/Remington-F-A-S-T-Black-Blade-Folder/dp/B0015NBH6M/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1362105370&sr=8-5&keywords=remington+fast+knife (http://www.amazon.com/Remington-F-A-S-T-Black-Blade-Folder/dp/B0015NBH6M/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1362105370&sr=8-5&keywords=remington+fast+knife)
Specail-K, I thought I was only limited to under three inches, until I did a little more digging. I found the law states "... no one shall go armed with a blade over three inches in length, concealed with intent to harm..."
So as long as you don't "GO" with intent to harm your fine.
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Buck Vantage Avid
If your looking for a fixed blade, check out these Bokers; Fitz, Rambler, Gnome
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Specail-K, I thought I was only limited to under three inches, until I did a little more digging. I found the law states "... no one shall go armed with a blade over three inches in length, concealed with intent to harm..."
So as long as you don't "GO" with intent to harm your fine.
Here it's any concealed knife "designed for an offensive or defensive purpose"... yeah pretty vague. So basically any knife that an officer and judge thinks looks menacing. But a folding pocket knife with a blade less than 3 inches is considered "not a deadly weapon" and is deemed ok.
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Vagueness, tyranny's best friend.
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Vagueness, tyranny's best friend.
Ohio enacted state pre-emption (uniformity) for firearms laws a few years back... It took a few years and several costly lawsuits for the cities to finally pay attention to it. They don't just write vague laws around here, they read and enforce them vaguely too.
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For those who don't know where I live I live in Idaho and I checked the laws and they're ok to a certain extent. I love Kershaw I hear the quality is good but I'm new to knives to be honest and I'm open to anything.
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My EDC is a Krenshaw Leek. http://www.knifexx.com/c-797-leek.aspx?gclid=CP-q5p_a27UCFYXc4Aod2RUAJQ (http://www.knifexx.com/c-797-leek.aspx?gclid=CP-q5p_a27UCFYXc4Aod2RUAJQ)
I like it for the "speedsafe assist" one finger opening function. My wife and brother use this knife as their EDC too.
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Awesome knife JohnnyMac thanks for the suggestion [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co
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Once you go spine lock you never go back. Ive had the same cold steel "american lawman" for about 4 years... still snaps into lock up hard and loud and has zero play. and that says a lot being i beat the crap out of it. Those belly lock knives seem so inferior in strength. Rest assured this knife will never close on you.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/gearheadkdr/img-cold-steel-american-lawman-01_zps7aa21e6d.jpg)
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Once you go spine lock you never go back. Ive had the same cold steel "american lawman" for about 4 years... still snaps into lock up hard and loud and has zero play. and that says a lot being i beat the crap out of it. Those belly lock knives seem so inferior in strength. Rest assured this knife will never close on you.
([url]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/gearheadkdr/img-cold-steel-american-lawman-01_zps7aa21e6d.jpg[/url])
axis lock is the toughest on earth fyi
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Hmm Kershaw or Lawmen I love em already :)
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Once you go spine lock you never go back. Ive had the same cold steel "american lawman" for about 4 years... still snaps into lock up hard and loud and has zero play. and that says a lot being i beat the crap out of it. Those belly lock knives seem so inferior in strength. Rest assured this knife will never close on you.
([url]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/gearheadkdr/img-cold-steel-american-lawman-01_zps7aa21e6d.jpg[/url])
axis lock is the toughest on earth fyi
It seems like that whole locks strength relies on that moving pins strength. Im not saying its not strong but it is a moving part. Really all these types of locks are plenty stronge enough, my fued is with the belly locks. You could potentially release the lock within your grip on the knife. But the Cold Steel Triad lock self adjusts as the parts wear to solve any wear related play. The axis might do this too i have no idea. But i know one thing. That cold steel knife is good to go. Hammer tool, Prying tool, Flat head screw driver, and beyond. Its by no means a light knife, you can feel the heft in your hand. And i wouldnt have it any other way.
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Ken and Mntn,
The knives look great however do they have speedsafe assist? With speedsafe assist its like having a switch blade.
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I do love switchblades but I don't care what it is I'm looking for info on a EDC knife, and I'm new to knives so I gotta ask but whats a speedsafe assist?
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I do love switchblades but I don't care what it is I'm looking for info on a EDC knife, and I'm new to knives so I gotta ask but whats a speedsafe assist?
just means the blade is spring loaded
its legal because you have to push on the blade for it to deploy rather than the illegal switch blade that uses a button to deploy the spring loaded blade
yes the laws really are that gay
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... whats a speedsafe assist?
Kershaw SpeedSafe Knives (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmlSfQCuvA#ws)
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I have quite the collection of medium-to-high quality knives, but my EDC is simply whatever cheap bullshit I don't mind fucking up.
I've been through about 4 Buck-light knives in the last few years (although, I don't run them until they're literally dead. i usually end up breaking the tip off and retiring it. i know it's still functional without a tip but I'm OCD about some things and it annoys me)
the only time I ever use any of my good knives is when I'm camping. the Buck 110 stays on my hip at all times when I'm camping, and it's either a standard KaBar, or a Sog Seal Pup Elite for batonning and other heavy fieldcraft.
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My mom carries a spyderco and a S & W Bodyguard .38+p! And she's 65! [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co
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My mom carries a spyderco and a S & W Bodyguard .38+p! And she's 65!
my mom carries a S&W shield and keeps her ar15 in her yukon
i think she's 56?
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While were on the subject, i was at the swapmeet the other day and i went over to the knives booth which is all chinese garbage of course. But i blew the dudes mind when i explained half the knives on his table were illegal because they had zero bias towards closing.
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my mom doesn't like it when I leave my glock out in the open, so she holds it with her thumb and index finger, like a dirty diaper, and prances across the room to toss it in with the rest of my "scary stuff"...
not joking.
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That sucks, NOLA! :-X
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Huh maybe the switchblades I see are not like the old school ones, well thats a fucking bummer :(
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1KM your Mom sounds awesome, we should get her to go educate NOLA's mom.
Alex, you keep saying you aren't into knives so we should talk about what knives do and how they do it instead of airing personal preference like it mattered.
Check out Wikipedia's article on blades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade), don't pay attention to any of it but the section on "Knife Blade Profiles (Patterns)"
Notice that most dudes are recommending a 'regular' blade profile while some are with the very similar 'drop point' style, the one outlier being 1KM who's Mom prefers the radical inverse curve of the Spiderco. Also notice the lack of ninja bullshit, I am proud that no one railed about how awesome the tanto profile is.. it isn't, get over it.
The reason that most of us carry the same blade profile is that it does the most for us. Whether it be scrapping, cutting, picking, prying, slashing or cutting the regular and drop point profiles do it all. One area where there is some difference is picking, like pulling splinters, a well maintained drop point is better because it maintains a smaller sharper tip.
Truth be told most of us didn't grow up with lock blade knives though and I don't think you should either. I think you should have to put up with the bullshit we did!
(http://www.knivesplus.com/media/SC-34OT.jpg)
I remember the Old Timers, Shrades, Case and Bucks I've owned very well, they had a blade that matched the task no matter what the task was and they instilled the inherent usefulness of a knife to me. They also taught me to slash not stab. You see the old ones didn't lock open, you had to be careful with that or you would cut the fuck out of yourself! But it taught lessions that you can't learn without doing. To this day I don't trust a locking knife to stay open and if I need a knife that won't fold I get my sheath knife for it.
What none of these guys will tell you is that a locking blade is only useful for stabbing tires and remember to always stab the tire on the side wall on the side of the rim not over and never under.
Eitherway I would recommend that you go spend $10-$15 on an Old Timer and then cut the fuck out of yourself a couple of times. Once you've spent some time with those three blade profiles you will be in a better spot to decide for yourself what you do and don't like and you will have a legit old man's pocket knife too! [url=http://www.freesmileys.or
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Also notice the lack of ninja bullshit, I am proud that no one railed about how awesome the tanto profile is.. it isn't, get over it.
Well, there's goes that article I titled, "Tanto: You're Ghey If You Don't Have One For Mall Patrol"
;D
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Also notice the lack of ninja bullshit, I am proud that no one railed about how awesome the tanto profile is.. it isn't, get over it.
Well, there's goes that article I titled, "Tanto: You're Ghey If You Don't Have One For Mall Patrol"
;D
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lol, mall patrol, those were good times. :)
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ghey: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghey (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghey)
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ghey: [url]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghey[/url] ([url]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghey[/url])
Urban dictionary? Do they have one for us country guys? At any rate, I'm finding humor in what this one says about anyone who uses the before unkown term "Ghey". No offense Crudos, but this is pretty funny.
a way to take the guilt out of offending homosexuals by calling something unfavorable gay.
since verbally, the new spelling is virtually unnoticeable, this rationale is rendered a waste of time, but as mentioned, it serves its purpose in the mind of the homophobe-in-denial.
homophobe 945 up, 147 down
Someone who repeatedly whines that homosexuals endanger family values and the sanctity of marriage, until outed as a closet case, desperately afraid of the gay person looking back in the mirror.
Someone who calls homosexuality a "lifestyle choice" but their own biology disagrees. Think about it: did you CHOOSE to be straight? As a teenager did you sit down one day and decide whether to be attracted to boys or girls?
It isn't surprising that stories about homophobes (like Bob Allen, Roy Ashburn, Bruce Barclay, Larry Craig, John Curtin, Mark Foley, Matthew Glavin, Ted Haggard, Phillip Hinkle, Glenn Murphy, Brent Parker, George Rekers, Ed Schrock, etc) often end with "was caught behind the restroom with a cock in his mouth".
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After reading TG's post I took a moment to reflect on all of the knives I have owned. My first was a Boy Scout Special.
Once I was old enough I bought a Buck knife that was way to big for any practical use but it did look pretty cool hanging from my belt in it's sheath.
Of the deer I have shot and then gutted my usual knife of choice was my Krenshaw and a tomahawk. The knife is kept scary sharp and the the hawk is used with a rock to crack the pelvis.
The deer my nephew shot I used a short fixed blade knife with rubber grips and my brothers Krenshaw (Didn't want to get my Krenshaw all gored up). It was the best knife I had ever used performing this task as it didn't slip once your hands were bloody.
So my tools evolve and I learn....Yours will too.
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i had a tanto blade once, i cut my finger half off [img]http://www.arrse.co.uk/at
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I have a shoe box full of "regular" profile blades that have broken tips. I sorta figured if they are all going to end up as quasi-tantos anyway, I might as well......
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You might as well... quit using your knife like a chisel?
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Or TG throwing it into a piece of wood! Most knives (Except K-Bars right Sledge) are not designed to be flicked into a piece of wood.