Need your help

[rhs1776]

1. Blade length 2 3/4" to 3 3/4"
2. Any normal cutting task, ie opening envelopes, cutting fruit, opening boxes, cutting wire and media on the job, stripping wire insulation, opening prepackages coffee, the list could go on for a long time.
3. I was 8 years old and have carried a knife almost daily ever since.

[Burt Porter]

Hi Sal,

Carry a 3 to 4 inch blade every day.

Use for all tasks in a retail store.

Began carrying a knife when I was a Cub Scout.

That was in the fifties.

[ajnova]

Hey Sal,

1. Usually my main knife is around 3.75"

2. Open mail, open UPS/Fedex boxes, string, paper for fun, and almost anything that a sharp edge is needed for.

3. Probably around 10 or so year olds. Started with Swiss Army knives and worked on up.

Hope everything works out!

[delicrazy]

1. 3.5 to 4"

2.depends on what needs to be cut. rope, paper, tiedowns, making walking sticks when hiking, prettymuch everything that comes up day to day

3. i got my first SAK at 8 years old

let me know if theres anything else i can do

[dawkind]

Hello Sal,

1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry?

I have 3 knives on my person as I type this....the blades range in length from 1.5 inches to 2.9 inches but the actual cutting edges are shorter than that.

2. What do you use your knife for?

I use my knives every day for opening mail, opening boxes/packages, gathering vegetables from my garden, cleaning my fingernails, digging dandylions, etc... One of man's earliest and most useful tools.

3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife?

I have been carrying a knife for as long as I can remember......probably 5 or 6 years old. I gave my son his first knife when he was 4 years old, at the Blade Show in Atlanta, 1991.



Edited by - dawkind on 9/1/2004 2:35:51 PM

[COS]

3-4" (closer to 4)
Everyday chores, cutting rope, boxes, opening Anti Theft Devices on CDs, Cleaning my finger nails, taking out splinters, Unscrewing things if I am really desperate like your car battery connectors?
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Wilfred Todd Smith
Symrna, TN

[Steelgaze]

1. 3.25 inch blade

2. I use my knife for everything and anything that wont break it and that it will be usefull for

3. I started carrying a knife at the age of 7

[DB]

1. 3.5"
2. myriad cutting tasks - opening packages, mail, cutting articles out of the paper, food prep, etc. - basically any task in daily knife that can be made easier through having a cutting instrument
3. 7

[CKE]

Size> 2 to 4 inches
Use it for everything, cutting hydraulic seals at work to spreading peanut butter on my toast. Cutting boxes, cleaning game.
I got my first knife when I was 10, started to regularly carry a knife when I was 14 or 15.
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"everything else is just a jeep"

[jyork]

Good luck Sal - hope we all helped with this.


I’m involved in a court case. I’m sorry, I cannot give detailed information. I would like to know:

1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry? Anywhere from a 2 to 4 inch blade.

2. What do you use your knife for? Everything from opening mail to camping.

3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife? 15 or 16

Thanx much for your help.

sal

[philuk44]

Hi Sal
Normally carry a 3-4" blade
Use a knife for lots of chores like opening packages, sharpening pencils, food prep etc along with outdoor/shooting tasks on weekend. Been carrying daily since I was about 16 - almost 30 years.
Hope things are OK with you.

Phil



Edited by - philuk44 on 9/1/2004 4:33:35 PM

[Jimmy_Dean]

I can't believe so few people actually carry a knife for protection. Thanks God, I never had to use any of my knives for that purpose but it does make me feel safer when I come back from school(downtown) past midnight sometimes. If you do carry one for SD and are not mentionning it for stats, it might not be a good idea. Just my 2 cents.
-Dean

[Mike Searson]

1. Between 1 and 6 inches; I carry anywhere from 5 to 9 knives on a daily basis.

2. Cutting chores from packages to rope to food, etc.

3. 6 years old

[Entoxica]

1) 4 inch blade
2)cut packing straps and slice fruit everyday
3) 10 years old

[mr.fb04]

Sal,
same as most here 2-5” office, home utility and from about 12 years old.

[Fozzy]

3-4" carried daily. Occaisionally a fixed-blade up to an 8" blade for work and up to about 6" blade for camping.

I use a blade to cut things... Such as packing tape, line, cardboard, paper- even the famous seat-belt a few times.

I began carrying a knife at about age 12. Of course that isn't PC anymore...



Ben "No good deed goes unpunished"

Edited by - Fozzy on 9/1/2004 7:48:34 PM

[usmcgrunt]

1) 3-4 inches
2) everyday cutting chores (cutting rope,opening mail)
3) 12 years old!

Grunt Out!

0311 Semper Fi!

[patogordo]

1 daily 2" ocassionaly 3 or 4"
2 opening packages, triming
3 from my scout years maybe 12 or less

[pvr4]

1. 2 - 4 inches
2. food prep, boxes, packages, gardening
3. around 7, my grandfather gave me a small folder. the first knife i ever bought was a buck 110 at 12 or 13.