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Well, I know that, and YOU know that.
but the friend that "borrowed it" and bent the backspine opening a box
did not use a sawing motion and tried to straight drag it thru cardboard.
I only ever used it to slit tape on a box, never actually cut open a box.

We had mostly peppers, which we seeded, cut up and froze. . . We have about a dozen nice sized Butternut Squash (hard shell, will keep unrefrigerated at least 3 months.) there are still at least 20 still on the vine, but smaller. . ., they are winter squash and will keep on the vine right up until s...

I agree. . .the proportions of an 11 inch look more pleasing to MY eye. 11 inch picklocks are the Iconic 50's knife and your's are wonderful examples. Although a 11 inch has "the look" 9 inch is more practical and more stable.' I've loaned (at work for 60 seconds) an 11 incher to a friend, and they ...

there is an older model that is a genuine Latama . . .that most certainly has Nickel bolsters. these are photos from the other website, of the actual knife on a Sheldon Levy Newsletter. so there is a very high probability some minis are nickel. . . but when they changed. . .I couldn't even guess. I'...

I have a mini mago that's broke. . . .and I stripped the screw socket with the wrong allen wrench.
too lazy to find my multi-point screwdriver set.

it now sits in a box. . . broken. . .

I play with the bigger 11 inch version , , now and then.

military equipment bar codes pre-date. . . . government legislated food and drug bar codes . . . .which pre-date general merchandise bar codes. They are not all the same stripe pattern or size. All readers do not read all bar codes. I moved boxes at a helicopter base for my National Guard duty with ...

I recall the mini switchblades changed, from 4 front pins down to 3 pins.
Here is Benthos's photo. . . . . some have 3 pins. . .some have 4 pins

In the other website, the Rizzuto images covered some 20 pages of variants. the words rizzuto estiletto was sometimes mis-spelled. the words appeared on knives without swing-guards, or were on the oval button wasp-waist My own pieces, on a flat bed scanner, that still are in fair shape and flick dep...

there are instamped Rizzuto's that are not yet the flimsy 2nd generation rizzys.

Notice the black rizzy does not have handle scale pins.

this rizzuto had the word RIZZUTO across the tang. . . . not where the nail nick would be
this is found on a plain blade with a swedge.

The problem is manufacturing. Anyone with a shop these days is looking to pay rent, payroll, insurance, not keep raw material laying about. pinching pennies everywhere they can. . . not spend any time on research and development. Try getting someone to make a replacement tilt bolster with a differen...

My dad was a PFC in WWII , medical discharge just before VJ day. He brought home an all metal Edgemaster single blade with a tail end bail. Looked like a paratrooper issue. But all metal edgemasters were NEVER military issue. He bought it at a PX in Kansas. He was never "issued" an automatic. Anyone...

Fishtail ~ Is there any way to distinguish the (orange) military-issue knives from knives available to civilians? Is there any way to tell whether the knife pictured here was actually issued to a pilot? That is a Big question. . . . . I have a non folding Hook shroud cutter from a real pilot, it's ...

Aaaaagh . . .a coricama mild steel in citric acid. . . you're gonna have to inspect it every week for at least 10 years. I wrecked a stainless 11 inch modern tilt bolster stabbing pickles in a pickle jar. Left it in my camping gear for 2 months. Didn't hurt the blade, the the brass liners kept growi...

I don't think it's that new. . .I had to look and check at mine. see if it was different. Yours has the newer screw heads with the triangles. . . mine are the old style 3 hole wrench. I bought several two years ago, mine favorite is anodized red. . . same surface texture. Mine has a spear blade. it ...