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I guess I'll be the one to cop to the fact that I have occasionally broken certain laws -- sometimes knowingly, other times ignorantly. In particular, I have broken certain laws concerning intoxication. If I should ever, ever find myself in a serious conversation with LEOs, for any legal violation, ...

My answer is yes and no, oddly enough. The reason for this is that California's laws are incredibly vague (that's putting it very lightly). (insert summary of statutes/ordinances...) Yes, all that's true. But I know that if I'm carrying a folder under 3" in length, that will not add up to big troub...

I just don't see the purpose of a big knife, too expensive and you never really need a knife that big in real life. If I need to cut up an apple (hardly some crazy, esoteric need), I much prefer a 4" blade to 3". Not even close; any kind of food prep benefits from a longer blade, since the blade ca...

I have no frame-locking knives. But this seems like a significant advancement in the state of the art. Are there any shops -- custom or production -- that are doing this beside ?

I live in CA -- no blade length limit. But I also live in Los Angeles -- blade length limit.

If you're EVER going to get pulled over by the LAPD, you'd really rather have no knife at all. But if you want an EDC in a place where the cops are that aggressive about making arrests, it should be legal.

I've only seen a prototype, and the blade was all bent. Maybe I'll be more excited once I see one that's not bent.

ryanandty wrote: Edit: my spyder is already super sharp- not gonna mess with it juuuust yet.

Don't think of it as messing with it. Think of it as an ongoing conversation with the knife's edge. Learning to get your tools really sharp is worth messing up that Spyderco factory edge.

If you are doing kitchen knives, the reason it may be taking off so much is that kitchen knives tend to have a much more shallow angle [like 12.5? correct me if im wrong about this pls] I'm pretty sure this is wrong. I think many knives are sharpened to between 40 and 45 degrees. Certainly, my chef...

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Thanks for you compassion, Vassili. Thanks for MY compassion? You've been hassling people because they don't systematize their results. You've built a system, but have treated wrist pain as a static quantity, rather than a variable! How the hell is that going to help anybody try to reproduce your r...

P.S. I start testing end of 2005 1. Since that time, would you say: [ ] Your wrists can perform more repetitions with the same amount of pain? [ ] Your wrists can perform more repetitions with a lesser amount of pain? [ ] Your wrists cannot tolerate the same number of repetitions? 2. Please quantif...

There are certainly people who could "crunch the numbers" and yield some chart that supposedly clears up all the decision-making around knives if we all just described our methods, and recorded our results. But before we got any stable methodologies that would let us standardize results, we would ge...

You have "a lot of opportunity to use knives in high stress situations and to cut things that most people do not get to cut" you test environment set up for you already, you just need to record this. You may not have noticed, but some of the activities that contribute to the "high stress" environme...

Unfortunately, our sample size is small. However, we can at least take the anecdotes in this thread as data points re: the original question of whether H1's superior rust resistance justifies giving up on other superior aspects of VG-10. That's really all the OP has to go on, and in fact was the typ...

Unless you have actually handled a Flash 1, I recommend that you reconsider. The ergonomics require one to hold the Flash 1 in a very particular grip, one which I am not fond of. The index finger choil location is dictated not by human factors, but by the need to have some extra plastic to reinforce...

I am not nice to my knives. Ride 'em hard, put 'em away wet. VG-10 handles it fine. Assuming you don't actually STORE the blade in salty conditions (i.e., if you wipe down the blade every few times you use it), I don't see VG-10 giving any trouble. Unless rust resistance is your primary consideratio...

Ken, I want to view your videos---they look great. For some reason, I can't get sound on any at present, so I need figure out if something's gone haywire on my laptop. I don't have the seed money, so somebody else needs to fund what clearly MUST happen: an angle-adjustable jig that holds DMT stones...

The kiwi, if you want a knife w/o clip. It's sweet. There's a non-locking version in the works; the current version is lockback.

The Sharpmaker is a nice, simple system with some limitations. Yes, you could ameliorate some of the limitations, but all of a sudden, your system is not so simple. Indeed, it doesn't even fit in its box anymore with all these extra rods. Reprofile on a DMT stone, or a belt sander, or a concrete blo...

Interior mammoth ivory is about as "pre-ban" as one can get.

And is A-OK in my book. Just out of my price range...