- Joined
- Thursday August 8, 2013
- Location
- Silly Suffolk
The Opinels are great knives. Although it's a wicked thing to do with a first-rate knife, it is quite easy to remove the locking collar, which results in something akin to the Higonokami knives that @hotmetal describes. It is of course necessary to have one of the legal blade length Opinels.
I have several locking knives of the Gerber and other makes, the purchase of which predate the draconian UK knife laws. It was difficult to find any sort of quality locking knife in the UK until perhaps 30 years or so ago, as most sold were the usual traditional penknives, yachting knives and so forth, and even the military versions didn't lock. If you wanted a fixed blade, you got a sheath knife, which were, as I recall, allowed in scouting about 60 years ago. In my previous line of work, it was a boon to have a good strong sharp knife, which could fold up for the pocket, but wouldn't close or slip shut when in use. I did carry one from home to work and back, and it wouldn't have been challenged, but had I forgotten to leave it at home if I went to the nearest town, I could have been in deep trouble.
Another + for Heinnie Haynes, although the website is as tempting a sweet shop as the shaving ones.
I have several locking knives of the Gerber and other makes, the purchase of which predate the draconian UK knife laws. It was difficult to find any sort of quality locking knife in the UK until perhaps 30 years or so ago, as most sold were the usual traditional penknives, yachting knives and so forth, and even the military versions didn't lock. If you wanted a fixed blade, you got a sheath knife, which were, as I recall, allowed in scouting about 60 years ago. In my previous line of work, it was a boon to have a good strong sharp knife, which could fold up for the pocket, but wouldn't close or slip shut when in use. I did carry one from home to work and back, and it wouldn't have been challenged, but had I forgotten to leave it at home if I went to the nearest town, I could have been in deep trouble.
Another + for Heinnie Haynes, although the website is as tempting a sweet shop as the shaving ones.