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Pocket Knives
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People without pocket knives when they want to get into a box:
My mom opens chip bags like she's a wrestler ripping their shirt off for the crowd.
The floor demands her chips!
When all you have is a knife, every problem looks like a wine bottle cork that you should have tried removing using a proper corkscrew first instead of playing mac gyver to impress the room
Well, shit
I suppose you could sabre the neck off with the 25mm blade on your Victorinox Classic to look cool. But if you had a Victorinox Tinker you could just use the cork screw that is on the knife........
If I ain't got a pocket knife on me, you need to tell me to go back in the house and put my pants on....
But I'm old and I grew up on a farm and everyone carried a pocket knife. It's a tool just like any other tool. In fact, it's human's second oldest tool, right after the basic rock. I highly recommend getting one for yourself. A Victorinox Classic is a great EDC. You might not use the little 1"/25mm blade very often, but that nail file and scissors are fantastic to have. And the Classic comes in many handle colors and can hang on your keychain until needed. In fact I highly recommend any Victorinox tool. It might be the greatest urban survival tool ever invented. And Vic's are always acceptable carry in nearly every social situation. People never seem threatened by them.
These days I don't use my pocket knife as much as I used to. But I still carry one every day and it some how feels wrong if I don't. And it's there waiting and ready for when I do need it.
I used to have a knife with me most of the time as a kid. It was cool and useful.
But when I had to store it in security when in festival I more often had to remember to not forget about it than I used it.
There are a few places that knives are not allowed because a few morons can't be trusted and ruin everything for the rest of us. Just have to be smarter and leave you knife at home when you know you are going to those places.
What is truly sad is knowing the general population often thinks a pocket knife is a horrible scary dangerous thing to see in public.
people without pocket knives when they need to cut something ☞
My family always gives me shit for always having my Gerber on my belt, until it's Christmas morning or any of the other times someone needs a knife or pliers.
Your family Christmas morning sounds vicious. You should try getting everyone to sit down and have the youngest child hand the presents out one at a time.
I keep a tiny 1" knife on my keychain. It's incredibly handy, unless I forget to take it off when going through airport security...
Can you not fly with it? In Europe, you can, the limit is 5 or 6 cm of blade. I regularly fly with mine.
If it's sharp or pointy at all you have to check it in the US. I almost got my nice multibit screwdriver confiscated because it was almost too long.
Nope, but they recently loosened the rules so you can bring nail trimmers again.
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I made this for opening boxes.
Throw a qullion (i think thats the term anyway. Reading them fantasy books sometimes i forget that may have made up basic shit too) on that mofo and you could also use it to staby stab... boxes.
Does it work?
I'm way more insufferable:
I actually don't edc it anymore. I have an office job now, and half that giant belt clip doesn't really fit in with the business- casual attire.
But I do keep them in my car, and happened to be using them today in time for those pictures because we're moving offices this week and I was using them to take apart monitor arms, cut boxes, etc.
I was using them to take apart monitor arms, cut boxes, etc.
... disassemble the corporate helicopter fleet, clean the salmon & beef steaks for the team's BBQ lunch, tighten the bolts on the hatchway to the HVAC-access roof, recalibrate our GPS markers for the DST changeover... just the usual.
Yeah, when I carried it all the time I was fixing shit left and right.
What it's really good for is all the little annoyances you notice day to day that aren't worth a trip to the garage in the moment.
Door knob slightly loose in the back bedroom? Fixed next time you walk in. Drawer sticking? Take care of it now instead of forcing it and forgetting about it later. You don't even realize how much of that stuff there is until you have the multitool handy at all times.
And the bit driver really is a game changer. You can get a ratcheting version now too.
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Let me introduce to you the open source and modular multitool
Open source doesn't properly describe the Roxon Flex multi tools. CAD files are available for making custom implements but the drawings for the frames they are used in are not available.
Regardless of this I think the Flex series seem like great tools and I am considering buying a Flex pliers tool. The thing holding me back is the price because in Europe and most of the world you can't buy the frame only and implements are only available in sets.
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maslow's mall ninja
I miss doing iaido. I still have my practice sword though, that shit was expensive
I have this thing for a reason!
You can clean them. You can technically disassemble them but it involves preening over pins and whatnot. It's a hassle. A good soak in warm soapy water and a scrub with an old toothbrush can do wonders. If it's seized by rust WD-40 is your friend.
Mine has been rusted shut for ages. I wish you could disassemble and clean them
I think threeme was supposed to respond to you but replied to the parent comment
Thanks, wouldn't have seen it without your message
The Cybertool really is the best of the Victorinox knives. Unfortunately, I lost mine 😢.
My condolences
I have a tiny Leatherman and use it all the time
"everyday carry" people fantasy: the lights went out but we have to open that box and sign this form. We're doomed!! Who can save us!?!
reality: I guess I will just do it later.
Reality is the box can be opened by hand, everyone in the room has a flashlight on their phone and the form can now be esigned on a phone.
"you just wanted to pull out the knife!"
"yea. i did. so i did."
Can confirm. I once had a letter opener made to look like a tiny katana, with a scabbard and everything. It was fucking awesome.
Okay, if there's ever tape on the box, the box cutter comes out because I ain't got time for that bull.
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