what kind of knife is this?

[bushcraft.mcf]

hi there i got bought this knife for my birthday by a friend its a good all round purpose knife and i was wonderin what make it was? can annyone help

[CanadianMike]

Any markings on it? Looks like a cheap Chinese made lockblade.

[bushcraft.mcf]

no just a stainless steel sign :( thought i would have been. thanks

[comanighttrain]

be careful with that one...be hard explaining that to the cops

[bushcraft.mcf]

i know i only carry it on weekend camps:D and my swiss army knife for day treks.

[CanadianMike]

Ya, likely crappy Chinese steel, too hard, impossible to sharpen, and won't keep much of an edge if you do get an edge on it. Typical to see at pawn shops, flea markets, etc.

[jbrown14]

Wow, I haven't seen that blade in a few years. It's a cheap Chinese made blade, but when I got one, it was one of my first lock-backs when I was working during my college days. I found the steel to be really soft, very easy to put an edge on it, but loses it immediately upon cutting a piece of paper or packing tape, or just sitting unused in your pocket.

Funny thing about it is, I had it in my pack during a trip to Israel on El Al Airlines back in 1995. The Israeli security agents in NY asked me if I had any weapons, I held up my hand with my thumb and forefinger approximating the length of the knife (almost, but not quite...) and said, "Yeah, I've got a knife about that long." They didn't even look at it and sent me on to board the plane.

I still have that knife somewhere...

[Alba Albion]

I've got a small version of one of those, not sure of make. Got it from a discount store a few years back. It's got a sharp point to it so I used to keep it in my medi kit to sort out my blisters. Pop, splat, job done :-)

[Ben Casey]

I have something similar but it has two blades one is a bit of a saw and has a bottle opener on it :)

[Notredame11211]

Looks like a Buck 110

[fish]

maybe chinese but any knife is better than no knife,also you can pop the scales off and put some nice figured wood on and then round the brass sand polish and then oil the wood then you have a top unique knife!

[Adam Savage]

had one identical, but it said stainless pakistan on it, picked it up for a couple quid from a horse fair

[Sleepy]

I've got a bigger version of the same design, made by a firm called schrade which seems to be a quality knife, was my favourite knife for years until I started making fixed blades for myself. Anyway, the point being they're not all cheap nasty knives. Owing to the legal stuff though, I think you'd do well to get a mora- it's probably a better knife to learn with (if that's something that applies to you of course).

[Jeime_outdoors]

looks llike a buck knife, fairly good knife :D

Jeime

[hellbilly]

be careful with that one...be hard explaining that to the cops
Wow! Are they that hard on knives over their ?

[Adam Savage]

Wow! Are they that hard on knives over their ?

They sure are, All locking blade knives are illegal to carry, unless you have an acceptable reason to have one on you at the time (like a carpet fitter that uses one to trim stock etc.), as is any folding non locking blade over three inches, as well as bailsongs, fixed blades, basically anything with a cutting edge that doesn't fit the description of a non locking pocket knife, of less the three inches lol.