Thread: New Knife for the Collection

It is Mark. Everyone I show is just captivated by it. Just tonight at a potluck dinner one friend asked me where she could get a deal on it. Here it is for 50 bucks:

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Do you use it much? How does the steel hold up for you?
I bought a Kershaw with AUS8 steel and found the edge does not hold up long. I tend to be hard on my knives, but all of my regular users hold up much better!

Originally Posted by JMS

Do you use it much?

Naaa, I don't use it at all. I carry a Benchmade 940. This little CRKT Fulcrum is just so pretty I only pull it out to show it off. It's very small and I'm a big guy so it's too small for me as an EDC. I was considering getting one for 10 year old Elliott across the street for Xmas. I can say it came about as sharp as any razor I've ever bought.


I have alot of great knives I don't use for one reason or another, such as the first knife in this thread. Although the stealthy double action would let me fool a cop, she is so beautiful I don't want to F her up. Like you, I am hard on a knife I carry. Look at this line-up and see if you can pick out my EDC:


I also own a Kabar I picked up from the Pier Master at the New London Sub Base. I don't carry that big bastard anymore either.

Originally Posted by Bruno

The blade can be openend by a spring. You are not allowed to have those in the UK if the folks of britishblades.com are to be believed.
They also lock, which makes it a double whammy. Locking knives are not allowed either.
And the blade length is > 3", which makes it a three pointer. No can do either if I recall correctly

I asked their advice before I visited the UK a couple of months ago.
I had to resort to carrying a swiss 2" blade, non-locking penkife if I wanted to carry one.
My regular carry (locking spyderco delica) would have me thrown in jail as soon as I went through customs.

Really sad huh. Locking isn't a combat feature, it is a safety feature to keep the blade open under pressure when in use, yet the idiots have assumed its a combat feature because all folders of the type they think looks evil do this. Never mind that all modern folders have some type of locking mechanism for safety (even the folding garden saw I own locks open).

Spring assisted knives are illegal in my home state too. Though once again for no good reason, that thumb stud works just as fast and sometimes more reliably than a spring action.

Welcome to the world of being robbed of your rights in the name of safety, and when you look at the logic of it it is easy to see how this type of thing doesn't contribute to your safety either.

Fun Fact:

In the UK it is illegal to carry a rock, if your intent is to use it in self-defense.

Originally Posted by Wildtim

Really sad huh. Locking isn't a combat feature, it is a safety feature to keep the blade open under pressure when in use, yet the idiots have assumed its a combat feature because all folders of the type they think looks evil do this. Never mind that all modern folders have some type of locking mechanism for safety (even the folding garden saw I own locks open).

Spring assisted knives are illegal in my home state too. Though once again for no good reason, that thumb stud works just as fast and sometimes more reliably than a spring action.

Yea Tim, you're right. The lock is purely a safety feature. The first lock blade knife I owned was a Boy Scouts of America Whittling Knife. I had the BSA logo and a liner type lock on one of the blades so it wouldn't accidentally close down on the little scout's fingers.

To your second point, although I love a good switchblade (and I own more than a few), the Axis Lock on my Benchmade EDC gives me such control over the blade I can open and close it faster, much faster than the Foster automatic I opened this thread with.

Originally Posted by icedog

Yea Tim, you're right. The lock is purely a safety feature. The first lock blade knife I owned was a Boy Scouts of America Whittling Knife. I had the BSA logo and a liner type lock on one of the blades so it wouldn't accidentally close down on the little scout's fingers.

To your second point, although I love a good switchblade (and I own more than a few), the Axis Lock on my Benchmade EDC gives me such control over the blade I can open and close it faster, much faster than the Foster automatic I opened this thread with.

Definitely a safety feature. My second pocket knife was a 2" lockblade, as my first pocketknife left a red bloody line across the back of my fingers when I tried to cut a rope with it and slipped closing the blade on my hand.

And I believe the Benchmade you reference is legal here while the knife n your thread isn't. All about image over substance.

My everyday carry is a Spyderco P'Kal - an unusual knife with a special technique for its use.

Check it out at Southnarc.com and MDTactical.com.

There is a cd available on how to apply this knive.

It is not a utility knife but for certain needs in some situations it is without peer.

I really like the Emerson opening feature.

Originally Posted by Wildtim

I really like the Emerson opening feature.

I looked at the mdtactical website but I didn't see what is special other than the reverse edged blade. What means "Emerson opening feature"?

I looked at spydercos website:

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