Legal Folder?

[Zammo]

Just bought this knife off ebay:

Hoping that it would be ok as a legal knife to carry around with me to work. However when it arrived it was alot bigger than I thought it was going to be, both blades are under 3" but the normal knife is a tad over 3" if you include the part under the blade (that has the manafacturers name stamped on it). Does this make it an illegal knife to carry?

 

[benp1]

still legal mate

the law is the sharp part must be less than 3 inches

 

[BorderReiver]

From BB in 2004

Originally Posted by David Morgan
There have been various opinions expressed on this subject, in various threads. This is based on my reading of these various opinions;

If you want to be absolutely sure, measure from the pivot to the tip.
If you want to be reasonably sure, measure from the start of the cutting edge to the tip of the blade (from the choil to the tip).
If you want to be a bit pedantic measure along the belly of the knife from the choil to the tip.
If you want to be very pedantic, adopt the principles of fractal geometry and accept that, for all practical purposes, all blades are very, very long indeed, virtually infinite.
If you want to be not arrested, don't flash your blade around, don't act irresponsibly, and don't be rude to coppers, and a few millimetres either way won't make much difference!
Don't worry, be happy!


This should help.