Swan's Knife

[Ninth Delegate]

Yep, over here, a stiletto knife is a long blade and usually double sided edge.

[turnbull gbr]

Yep, over here, a stiletto knife is a long blade and usually double sided edge.

Ninth Do you know the answer to the Flick knife/Switchblade puzzle?

[wargod]

indiana is full of flea markets and they sell em left and right, even though they are against the law here but i will buy one soon and take some pics

[Ninth Delegate]

Yep, over here, a stiletto knife is a long blade and usually double sided edge.

Ninth Do you know the answer to the Flick knife/Switchblade puzzle?

When I was a teen, both type were refered to as flick knives. I have one of the otf type and they're rubbish. The mechanism goes faulty after a short while and the blade doesn't fully extend. Also if you try to stab anything with it, the blade unhooks from the spring and becomes loose, making it useless.
They had already been banned when I was a kid. We used to convert the flick combs and put a couple of razor blades in them. I had a fun childhood.

[4nik8]

and don't even think of holding the handle of the otf against a, um, target, and then releasing the mechanism

It simply does not have enough force to penetrate anything...

[turnbull gbr]

Yep, over here, a stiletto knife is a long blade and usually double sided edge.

Ninth Do you know the answer to the Flick knife/Switchblade puzzle?

When I was a teen, both type were refered to as flick knives. I have one of the otf type and they're rubbish. The mechanism goes faulty after a short while and the blade doesn't fully extend. Also if you try to stab anything with it, the blade unhooks from the spring and becomes loose, making it useless.
They had already been banned when I was a kid. We used to convert the flick combs and put a couple of razor blades in them. I had a fun childhood.

I've got one of each type and the one like swans is a lot better, feels a lot more heavy duty, although the other can stab stuff without unhooking it sometimes fails to come out.
And yes 4nik8 i've held it against my leg and pressed it and it didn't really do much stabbing.

[Suburban Warlord]

And then there is the wonderful "Flying Dutchman". That's like a stiletto, where the blade shoots straight
forward from the handle. Except with this type, the blade leaves the handle and becomes a short range
projectile. I would imagine a well-crafted one with a proper spring could stick that blade into it's target
at 10 paces perhaps. Maybe into Luther's wrist at the end?

[turnbull gbr]

And then there is the wonderful "Flying Dutchman". That's like a stiletto, where the blade shoots straight
forward from the handle. Except with this type, the blade leaves the handle and becomes a short range
projectile. I would imagine a well-crafted one with a proper spring could stick that blade into it's target
at 10 paces perhaps. Maybe into Luther's wrist at the end?

Wow never heard of one of them before, i'll have to try and track one down for my collection.

[Suburban Warlord]

Ya, 'ballistic knives' are extremely rare, and highly illegal. Still, I would love to own a good one, just
for the uniquness of it. If you ever did find one tho, just remember how dangerous they are! (to the
user/loader more than anything!)

[4nik8]

I would be a regular viewer of America's Funniest Ballistic Knife Bloopers, were such a show produced...

[Suburban Warlord]

I heard they were going to try and get that out this season, but it somehow got STUCK in production.

[4nik8]

ouch - we need to CUT that last post