Pointless.. a knife that chops but won't stab

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Draven

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Jul 8, 2006
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Honestly :rolleyes: This is not just reinventing the wheel, it's reinventing the wheel slightly different with no added functionality and calling it an "innovation". Kinda like crushing a car into a cube, sprinkling it with cigarette ash and crowning it with a broken JD bottle and calling it "art". Non-stabby knives have been around for yonks, and have been better designed than THAT.

Personally, I don't see why someone would stab someone else with a kitchen knife from their own drawer, first of all. And if someone DID intend to do something like that, then they'd probably have knives that have points. I mean you buy multipacks in shops for a couple quid . . . Secondly, if they do think "Damn un-pointy knives! My plan is foiled!" then they'll probably go and do the aforementioned and buy another knife, or perhaps use a screwdriver, a sharpened stick, a hammer, a pillow, a cast iron frying pan, the bone from a pork chop (they can be pretty sharp!), a cricket bat, a brick, a pipe, or perhaps go "old school" and just beat them to death. Anyone who thinks you can stop people killing each other by saying "You're not allowed to use this, this, this or that." is a fool. People are remarkably innovative when it comes to such things.

I have known two people who have been killed by being stabbed, one of which, just for the record, was with a sharpened spoon. Careful with them spoons folks, and for the love of god don't be caught in public with one without a reasonable excuse.

Pete

PS - BR, that would be ridiculous! People might drown in the soup ;)
 

stijnb

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Mar 11, 2008
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hey that thing can actually be pretty good, off course people will fight each other that's nature. But here comes the fun part: If people don't have weapons evolution wil take place and we'l grow horns or antlers over the next 10,000years just like other animals. Now imagine a scandi with your own antlers as handle material:rolleyes:
 
Did someone mention butter knives?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090617/tuk-sickening-x-ray-of-knife-embedded-in-dba1618.html

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A pointless knife is just that .... pointless.

When I was a kid, mummy told me what to do because I didn't know any different. Now I'm an adult and ... well, you can guess the rest ...
 

Minotaur

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Apr 27, 2005
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Have two pointless blades, on my SAK Huntsman. Tried to remove a magnet from a mobile fasia, did not go well.

Due to forum guidelines, and I prefer not to improve idiots skills, so will not offer advice. I will say the first time you remove the blinders, from someone on how to use a knife as a weapon, is often very interesting. Especially when they are police officers.

Why is there not a rule for this, should have a name. Goes like this, the second they ban something people find a way round it.
 

John Fenna

Lifetime Member & Maker
Oct 7, 2006
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Will these ignorant, do-gooders just butt the hell out of my life please? I neither want nor need their namby pamby, tree hugging, "we know whats best"., "for the sake of the children" socialist clap trap.

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Red
If we ban tree huggers a lot of hammocks will crash to the ground!

Ban the Law makers who have not lived!
 

Pict

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Jan 2, 2005
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The last time I had a knife held up to my face it was made from a broken hacksaw blade that had been ground down to a point on a sidewalk. Knives are stone age technology, so easy a caveman can do it. Mac
 

belzeebob23

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Jun 7, 2009
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Yup Gwhtbushcraft,

I have a 24 inch cast group frying pan with no edge what-so-ever, ( huge) and as my pal Belzeebob says about his le creuset pans, they are excellent for home defence. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, and would have no time for all my knives being pointless as A) some wouldn't do their job, and B) Rolling pins are pretty serious... no matter how long you leave them in a giant pyramid ( Sorry Mr. Pratchett).

Goatboy.

I have to agree in the unplanned domestis situation, the person more likely to grab the first thing to hand weather it be a knife,pot ,rolling pin or even the humble ball point pen.
Lets be honest here almost anything can be used to stabbing weapon as long as their is enough force behind it .
belzeebob
 

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