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clv101 · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:07 pm Post subject: Recomend me a knife?

What's a good general purpose knife? I've been looking at the French Opinel knives (Wiki, Corporate), has their quality survived into the 21stC.? If not, what's better?
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revdode · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 316 Location: Hungary

I have an opinel, very basic but it seems to keep it's edge pretty well. What they save on the mechanics I think goes into marketing then steel in that order. No complaints - but it only cost around 8 Euro. Take care where you buy them as I seem to remember the prices being higher in the UK than I typically see here and ridiculous on some of the green shop type websites.

featherstick · Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 1221

Mora Clipper if you don't want a street-legal EDC knife. Otherwise a Swiss Army Knife if you do want street-legal.
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kenneal - lagger · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:58 am Post subject:

I've had quite a few Opinels over the years, but only because I keep losing them. I always go back for another. I drilled a hole in the end of the handle of my most recent one so that I could put a ring through with a clip on.

Good blades and a range of sizes. I've got a four inch one so that I can use it for skinning animals as well as cutting vegetable tops off and opening bales.
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featherstick · Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 1221

Be aware an Opinel is not legal for everyday carry in the UK.
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adam2 · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:38 am Post subject:

There is some doubt as to the legality of carrying ANY knife in the UK.
At one time, a small pocket knife with a non-locking blade of less than a certain size was considered legal, providing of course that it was not used to threaten or injure.

These days however the police seem to regard the carrying of ANY knife or blade as illegal unless one has a very good reason for so doing.

Leatherman tools with a locking blade are looked on with even more disfavour than Swiss Army knives, but some police officers regard even the latter as illegal.

I generally carry a Swiss Army knife and hope to get away with so doing on the grounds that I am a maintenance engineer and liable to be called out at short notice. I would argue that carrying a full tool kit is unreasonable, but that a small knife and a few other tools is reasonable.
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eatyourveg · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 1101 Location: uk

Further proof that we are insane as a nation:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/171104
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snow hope · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:44 pm Post subject:

FFS, I thought judges were supposed to be intelligent people, unlike the stupid policemen that obviously couldn't use their common sense in this case. He should have thrown that case out of the court!

Maybe add this to the "It's a Crazy Old World" thread?
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RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 10688 Location: York

This is Devon. There's hardly any crime there. The Polis probably had a quota to fill by the end of the month or something.
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jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 1856 Location: weston super mare

its nonsense like this that makes me want to leave the country, the man had a penknife for peeling apples kept in his glove compartment, he was 61 with no criminal record Shocked

we are not talking about AL Capone and now the poor bastard has a criminal record

Shocked

the bloke was a 61 year old caravan enthusiast

well if he turns to crime I'd blame the magistrate and the police
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jonny2mad · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 1856 Location: weston super mare

And as for knives I like my leatherman wave , but it depends what you want a knife for,
for penknives swiss army knives are nice or a camillus American boy scout knife

for a survival knife theres the ex British army survival knives their good and pretty cheap, but if I was going to carry that much weight I would carry a light hatchet or tomahawk instead of a large knife .

all my knives I haven't paid much for some Ive found, knives aren't that hard to make or repair
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