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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: One-Man Roofing Crew
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 23:28:16 -0600
All this knife talk is interesting, but ever since I went on Warfarin, 24 years ago, I've carried only a small Sharp lock-back, whose stainless blade doesn't hold a really sharp edge, but, at least it won't fold up on my fingers and cause excessive bleeding. But, with all of the scanners in use these days, I seldom carry one at all.

I have a well-known custom knife maker living right behind me, Bob Levine. If anyone wants to spend some money on a knife, I'll put you in touch.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 3/5/2017 11:10 PM, Moose wrote:
On 3/5/2017 8:08 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
Love the Benchmade, but well out of my current budget.

That was almost 17 years ago. Seems like more than I would have paid for a knife, but I really don't remember. That may be a collector's price?

My 'good' pocket knife is a CRKT Squid:

https://www.amazon.com/Columbia-River-Knife-Tool-Folding/dp/B00TFY39EQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488772649&sr=8-1&keywords=squid+knife+crkt
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a gift from my younger daughter and her hubby.

Good steel, looks like a good knife.

I tried a CRKT assisted opening knife, as I'd always been curious. <http://www.bladehq.com/item--CRKT-Delegate-EDC-Knife-w--7397>

I like the size and the blade shape. I've always been partial to Warncliffe-ish blade shapes. But the mechanism is overdone, to no good purpose I can find. About one time out of five, my thumb doesn't press correctly on the safety release, and I can't open the darn thing. At about the same time I was trying to get used to it, I had a simple, cheap Kershaw (very different blade), usually in another pair of pants. The Kershaw had no fancy opening assist, but was just as fast any easy to open - and I could do it every time. :-)

My good 'big' knife is a Randall No 5 Bradford Angier Special that I've had
for 40+ years.
(Was my Cascade carry - Still has volcano dust from Mt St Helen in the
sheath.)

Oh, I think we may have been to this rodeo before? My knife of that sort is a Navy aviator's knife from WWII. Well, well worn, furthest tip broken off at some point and resharpened, but both sheath and knife still fully functional. I don't really need such a knife these days.

Openly Assisted Moose


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