what's your prefered pocket knife? + pics!
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if you accept the caution you are accepting you broke the law, when you actually haven't!
Yup and a lesser charge, where as if you were to go to court and weren't 100% in the right, you will get a very bad slap on the wrist.
Not so, many people have been prosecuted with a slippie under 3ins being defined as a 'offensive weapon'. Obviously each case has different merits, but it does happen. You can't control the circumstances surrounding a search, but it will be up to the individual to prove justification. I think our laws are decent, but sadly not every police officer understands them well. See Guyceps thread on his UKPK. It is a very fine line, his 'tactical' looking UKPK was seized, while the locking Leatherman Wave was dismissed as a tool and got a very different response despite bing a locking blade.
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It’s a Kris blade Flick knife. More a collector’s toy since it's illegal to take it out of the house for any reason so get uses as a letter opener as does the butterfly knife.
As for legality I started taking my Openel No7 to work with me for cutting up fruit at lunch time. I presume if I got stopped and didn’t have any fruit with me that would make it illegal to carry it since I would have no probable reason?
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haha not sure if a copper would like that excuse mate, if you pop the locking ring off and make sure the blade length and edge is under 3" you'll be ok though (that's if your boss doesn't mind).
are you liking the opinel? worth buying?
Great little knife the Opnel but way too thin a blade to use as a working knife but it's great for cutting up apples. Put it through the sharpmaker and strop before work so it's now razor sharp with a decent edge on it.
Why is it too thin? Most people use a knife thats way too thick. I could pretty well do any UK bushcrafting task with an opinel.
With a good working knife, you should be able to carve your way out of a downed helicopter.
I love the swiss army spartan but my current favorite is the CRKT M16 01KZ
http://www.crkt.com/M16-01-EDC-Black-ZytelHandle-AutoLAWKS-Razor-Sharp-Edge
Its very light(2.3 ounces) but its very strong
The carson flipper is great and opens very quick but it is not automatic and the autolawks are great and are easy to close with one hand
The only downside is the double edge but its a great little knife
http://www.crkt.com/M16-01-EDC-Black-ZytelHandle-AutoLAWKS-Razor-Sharp-Edge
Its very light(2.3 ounces) but its very strong
The carson flipper is great and opens very quick but it is not automatic and the autolawks are great and are easy to close with one hand
The only downside is the double edge but its a great little knife
The opnel blade seems too flexible and I think it would break quicker than a normal lock knife if put to heavy use.
My thoughts exactly, i have a no6 in my pocket 24/7 and use it for pretty much everything, rabbits, making lunch, work, odd bits of bushcraft even despatched and processed a fair few roe with it. Not always the same one admittedly, i buy five every christmas and slowly lose them throughout the year.
I've been told opinel are not a problem to carry as the law states "self locking" which they are not. Dont know or care whether its true or not, i've been carrying one for most of my life and have no intention of stopping now!
Check out section 139 of the criminal justice act. It'll explain the laws on the locks and to put it simpley it's not sound for edc without a good reason..
