Bring out your old Swiss Army Knife !

Told yer earlier in me post!!
China' their still knocking out snide ones 50years later...
Rob

 

I've carried on now for the last 40 years, mind you not the same one although the one I carry daily now was given to me by my father-in-law 30 years ago.

Cheers
Paul

 

When I took this snap of my old knife I was instantly reminded of the last time the main blade was used to cut anything. In this instance, straight through a live wire !

I hasten to explain

About 35 years ago, I was managing a factory in London and a young lad asked me if he could borrow a knife.

He didn't bother to explain what he was about to cut and I didn't think any more about it until there was a bloody great flash/bang and half the lights went out.

It seems that he had used the blade to cut through a tangled cable without checking to see if it led anywhere. Then, with slightly singed hair and an apologetic grin on his face he gave me back my knife and if you now look carefully, you can see the bloody hole that ruined a perfectly good blade.

 

Owen as any copper will tell you...There is more to that story than is being reported in the paper.

You can carry any size knife in public if you have good reason. Chefs knives is a classic example and I carried a bayonet on my webbing when travelling to and from my unit before deploying on exercises.

I wonder if his pen knife was actually a lock knife-They are illegal regardless of blade length I believe. A good innocent example of these are Gerbers and Leatherman multi-tools as the blades lock in place once deployed.

 

World gone mad !

 

What a great thread so much interesting chat Elsie

 

Great thread, that has prompted me to sit here with it in hand appreciating it once again. They are wonderfully tactile pieces of kit which acquire great patina and can really take a kicking and shrug it off. My dad bought me one as soon as "deemed trustworthy" like others, and it has been a great companion in the 20 years+ since.

It doesn't get carried as standard any more as i don't want some over zealous rozzer trying to confiscate it. Not going to happen, so i thought it best to avoid the possibility of that cropping up in our hysterical times

I accidentally left it in my pocket trying to get through airport security and had to mail it home to save it from consignment to the huge, plexiglass cube of confiscated pointy objects they had. Freaked the missus of the moment out though as i didn't have time to write an explanatory note. She thought it was some kind of mafia "sleeps with the fishes" type message.

The one thing i would save in a house fire is my Victorinox. Saying that it is probably the only thing that would survive the fire intact. The knife for life.

 

I've got ALL sorts of folding multitool thingies for the bike - from el cheapo ones' to an expensive Gerber one I found laying in the road in the little of a set of traffic lights a few months back! I've got a small hammer with an adjustable wrench that folds into the shaft, even got a miniature fire axe thingy with hex holes cut in it giving a full set of metric hex sizes.....and a "Swiss Card" made by Victorinox that is credit-card sized and has lots of little tools hidden in it....but the one thing I DON'T have is a Swiss Army knife!

 

always carry one of these
perfectly legal

 

for fishing