02-26-2024, 05:33 PM | #11 | |
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If I did have to use one, it would be very carefully, careful cuts, no accidental backswings or parries, no stabby-stabby. And I own some very high quality "combat" folders that hold up exceedingly well to stress, but I still wouldn't want to test them with my fingees on the line. * And even then, it would have to be from a knife maker I trusted as most balisong I've seen were cheap pieces of trash whose blade would snap if you look at them hard enough. |
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02-26-2024, 10:18 PM | #12 | |
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Although I admit I have three kubatons, and a tasar in-case-of-burglar and all have the same objection. Though in large part I bought them because they are kinda cool anyway.
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02-27-2024, 05:42 AM | #13 | |
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Re: The Classic Swutchblade
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Paratroopers need knifes to to cut themselves free if they get tangled in their parachute lines. But falling over and rolling around with a blade on you risks cutting or stabbing yourself. A solid enough sheath prevents that, but adds cost and weight. So German WWII paratroops carried a "gravity knife" - hold it the right way, push the button and gravity deploys the blade. Let go and it locks. The inner fourteen-year-old might have had something to do with it too.
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02-27-2024, 08:12 AM | #14 |
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Re: The Classic Swutchblade
Even a really short knife can parry, it's just really bad at it, and you're probably more reliant on luck than skill to pull it off. And yeah, knives are really bad weapons - better than bare hands, of course, but there's a reason behind the joke of identifying the winner of a knife fight as the one who bleeds out in the hospital.
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02-27-2024, 11:54 AM | #15 | |
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* Apparently a Scottish corruption of the name of French knifemaker Jaques de Liège, at one time famous for his clasp knives |
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02-27-2024, 01:12 PM | #16 | |
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02-28-2024, 04:36 AM | #17 |
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Re: The Classic Swutchblade
Nah. More that it was the routine and dramatic weapon used in cinematic portrayals of 1950s-60s street gangsters; a switchblade is no tougher to conceal than a Boy Scout knife. Having once owned one (illegally, given my state), I agree that its utility as a weapon is limited to fights between switchblade wielders. "That's not a knife ... THAT's a knife" remains one of the better quotes for a reason.
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02-28-2024, 04:56 AM | #18 | |
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He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way.
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02-28-2024, 11:05 AM | #19 | |
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Tactical folders offer the same combination of compact, one-handed opening, and gee whiz (and you can get them in matte colours which are tacticool today, like a switchblade with chromed furniture was cool in the 1950s).
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