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Sal, I meant that "I hadn't seen one of your SNAPITS," of course. My girlfriend thinks the best thing would be a lanyard hole through which a special snap or hook is fit. She wants both options.

Matt, a shackle is a line terminal designed to open and attach to something else. Typically, this is a ...

Sal,

When using the knive as a shackle key, I also use the pivot end. Most likely, I'd stab myself if I tried to do this with the blade open. If a knife has a shackle key, it shouldn't require exposing the blade to use it. Some knives have them in the blade, but I wouldn't want to give up the large ...

Aluminum isn't hard enough to make a good knife. It is used a lot in the marine environment because of its light weight and corrosion resistance, in the right alloys. But it's a relatively soft metal. Common aluminum alloys can be cut with normal woodworking tools. Try that on a piece of steel, and ...

Sal, my girlfriend and I sail on the Texas coast. I carried my Delica as an everyday knife. For this, I prefer something not too bulky, with a plain edge less than 2.8", to prevent nasty surprises at airport security gates. Most boats have a larger, fixed-blade knife near the cockpit, and a rigging ...

I wouldn't try the "drop" open on a boat. Water holds a strange attraction for tools, proportional to the tool's expense, the depth of the water, and your resistance to diving in it. You quickly learn every tool, at all times, is either firmly in hand, or tucked into a safe place. Anything else and ...

Sal, thanks for responding. I think you're right: titanium won't work for a working knife. I don't know "Q fog" from a duck's ***, but my experience with a Delica in a warm, marine environment is that stainless stains only a little less. That's no insult to your knife -- I see it on every piece of ...

Without wanting to start a religious debate, what are the advantages of each? I've always preferred tip up because reaching for the knife puts it into your hand oriented correctly. Or to think of it another way, tip up when closed is tip down when opened, and I don't want to open a knife point up ...

Those of us around salt water are big into corrosion proof materials. Plus, I hear these materials develop microserrations that help with cutting rope, time and time again. They don't hold a razor edge, and aren't as tough as steel, but everything's a trade-off.