I have been reading through all the fors and against regarding carrying knives I enjoy knives and find it hard to be without one ,living in the countryside cutting branches fishing filleting and so forth sensibly, have made a few as well, So what alternatives have we got if someone could come up with a hard carborumban waterproof paper that would be legal to carry in its paper state but then when arriving at camp could be glued to a hard surface and used as a cutting tool suitable for carving slicing etc most camp duties and then disposed of before returning to civilisation. Failing that glass bottles can be fashioned into sharp edges, as can flint, wire saws can be used for a lot of cutting smaller branches I would personally not mind paying a small license fee that would allow me to carry a knife legally and be registered as a responsible user ,whats the chance of that ever happening
alternative to knives ?
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SimonM
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Noooooo, please dont even joke about a licence to carry a knife. A knife is a tool...no more, no less and there are already enough laws relating to their use / carry.
i put it to you, if you couldn't take a knife out camping, how long would it be before you got sick of drinking cup a soups...lets face it, that's all you could prepare without a knife !
Simon
i put it to you, if you couldn't take a knife out camping, how long would it be before you got sick of drinking cup a soups...lets face it, that's all you could prepare without a knife !
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I think there are literally hundreds of knives that are perfectly legal to carry already, unless you're talking about a Hokey-Cokey 14 inch Dragon slaying saw back 'Special Forces' (almost missed that out)...knife..
All the alternatives you suggest would be covered by existing knife laws - so just carry a knife and be done with it. Take a saw, an axe and a gun while you are it - there is no law against having these things for their intended purpose in permissibale places
SimonM
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
SimonM
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
would flint tools be covered by the knife laws? I have spent many hours playing on the south downs trying to replicate stone age tools
SimonM
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Im curious regards battle reinactment societies do they have a special pass to be able to transport swords pikes and weapons without being challenged bye the forces of darkness
Nope they use the current laws... valid reason.
If you stick to paper and glueing it to sticks you will be a master of bushcraft,
I will continue to persevere with a knife.
SimonM
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Congratulations , you just created an item which is illegal in terms of S.49 of the Criminal Law ( Consolidation ) Scotland Act 1995 , when carried in a public place. And if it's not in a public place or you have good reason, then why are you not legally using a knife instead of faffing about?
Would you be happy to pay a fee for a licence to post on the internet, because that's something else like carrying a knife that you can currently do perfectly legally. Or do you mean to carry a knife all the time, even when you don't actually need one, in which case it sort of sounds like you have a problem ....
