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While I admire your notion of staying within the wider framework of the law, you are exempt for a reason and a reason you have already identified. You are going to need to have a serrated tool that is both sharp enough to cut people down and that does so under some extremely stressful moments... and...

Robert Peel's take on this was that the police are there, "to prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment" and that "the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidenc...

Traditionally, all this legislation was dealt with in a pragmatic, discretionary manner. The police had a series of laws designed to arrest miscreants, which they never applied to regular humans. If you were acting like an idiot, they could pull you in and educate you as to why your idiot ways are n...

Acknowledged, agreed, and completely understood, Kristi. Thank you. Everyone, explain this to me using a practical example, please. Let's say there is a Spyderco collector, user, and enthusiast whom makes his or her home in the heart of London, England, United Kingdom. Let's say this person browses...

All I know is what I read in the British tabloids. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4282510/Terrorism-UK-trebles-five-years.html Yeah, the trouble with the British tabloids is they taught the world everything they ever needed to know about fake news long before there was fake news. The Daily...

It seems that hoplophobes who fear guns and knives are also opposed to self defense. The Surrender Your Knife article ignores the fact that most of the knife attacks in the UK are committed by Muslims against non-Muslims. "Strike the necks of the unbelievers," it says in the Quran. Is the...

Yep, depending on what they class as 'updating the definition of a flick knife' and how the government looks to deal with such items, I may be a criminal. Opinions vary from banning flipper tabs and assisted openers to outlawing every single type OHO knife, even the UKPK. They'll bring this in quick...

You could buy the entire contents of a knife store with a single bitcoin. Actually, right now you could buy half the contents of a knife store with a single bitcoin. Oh no, I was wrong... a third of the contents of a knife store. Better to trade in tulip bulbs. They've been bumping along the bottom ...

The U.K. Now has more of a violent Muslim problem than it's own citizen knifing each other. If I was U.K. Based, I would spend as much time and money as I could afford on BJJ or Krav Maga. No one can take those skills from you. No, it really doesn't. It has more of a surly teenager with a 'borrowed...

If you’re off by 3° On the edge it is going to make a big difference. I seriously have no further desire to be part of this forum. Lightbulb specs definitely do have minimum settings that they better match. If your receiver spec is for 100 W is that per channel is that continuous is that peak let’s...

So, let me make sure I've got this straight. A tool exists which most everyone is able to use to great success except for you and WE are then ones who don't know any better? A'ight. If I'm on a carpentry forum and 100 other carpenters are able to cut a straight line with a skilsaw and I'm not, shou...

Every sharpening system has its shortcomings, no doubt, and so has detractors. The Sharpmaker could be manufactured with a precision milled base and hand lapped stones. It might possibly work better for someone already very skilled with it, but would have little or no benefit for the majority for s...

Germinalphrase wrote:Never used it on knives - but the firearms lubricant Froglube is supposedly edible.

Maybe, but it makes a lousy sandwich filling. An FLT (Froglube, lettuce, and tomato) is particularly disgusting.

The cheap option... buy a bottle of pharma-grade white mineral oil used on chopping boards and butcher's blocks. And a watch oiler.
The expensive option... buy a watch oiler pre-loaded with pharma-grade white mineral oil used on chopping boards and butcher's blocks.

I only used the sharp maker one time I’m sorry I ever bought it That's a shame, but I can kind of relate because I didn't like beer the first time I tried it. :rolleyes: It’s true I didn’t like beer the first time I tried it. To me the sharpmaker does not feel natural. With a bench stone I can sort...

There isn't a locking mechanism on the UKPK. It is a slip joint design. The metal spacer that separates the two FRN scales is a back-spring.

It's designed that way because UK law views a locking knife as a fixed-blade knife, making it illegal to carry without good reason.

I would say the Coarse or Xtra-Coarse would handle most anything that the medium 302 stone doesn't (not that it wont do the job, it will just take alot longer). As for for finishing, the Spyderco F & UF are head and shoulders above DMT for quality of finished edge. YMMV. My thoughts exactly! Th...

In order of importance: Spyderco Benchstones (M,F,UF) Spyderco 701 profiles (M,F) Spyderco double-sided pocketstone DMT benchstones DMT aligner Thanks. If you don't mind me asking, what grades of DMT stones, and do you use them when the Spyderco stones just won't, er, cut it? I go all the way from ...

xceptnl wrote:In order of importance:
Spyderco Benchstones (M,F,UF)
Spyderco 701 profiles (M,F)
Spyderco double-sided pocketstone
DMT benchstones
DMT aligner

Thanks.

If you don't mind me asking, what grades of DMT stones, and do you use them when the Spyderco stones just won't, er, cut it?

Thanks everyone... keep 'em coming!