Ouch !

[scout]

I like rough texture on a handle. I would like to see something in canvas micarta from you Ed.
It's weird that people who are always around knives still can't keep from getting cut every now and then. :) (counting scars again)

[NoFair]

As far as cutting myself, I manage that regularly. Touched a Jumpmster to my finger last night. Sh*t. Took a half hour to stop the bleeding. Thank God for steri-strips.

sal

Didn't a Jumpmaster proto get you in Leeds last year as well

Only :spyder: I've been cut by was my mini Persian and that was because I was careless closing it.

Nearly cut my finger off when catching a falling knife (not a :spyder :) last year though, didn't see it was a knife until I could see a bit too much of bone and tendon.. :o

Sverre

[Knifewing]

I agree wholeheartedly with previous posters about pronounced choils, jimping, and, especially, G-10 handles. Also, I think balance plays a big part, how a knife just settles into the hand and stays there almost as if gravity holds it in place (e.g. Ed's 75mm Persian). I like Boyle dent back locks, too, because they don't put the fingers in front of, or near, a closing blade. Smoothness of opening and closing (and of coming out of the pocklet), along with blade sharpness also are safety factors. (Dull kitchen knives, for example, are especially dangerous.)

The best of all these characteristics, IMHO, are built into the G-10 Caly 3. I've never had an EDC knife that (for better or worse, blood-letting- wise) I've so rarely consciously thought about in use.

knifewing