What got you into Switchblades?
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What got you into Switchblades?
Was it a personal experience? Was it the movies? After reading whats written in this forum I started wondering what everybody else thought about this. Just what was it that started your interest in automatic knives?
- Dan-o The Ritalin Kid
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As a kid in the 60's, switchblades were the proverbial forbidden fruit. I had knives, even some fake switchblades, but never a real one. On very rare occasions I would get an opportunity to hold and fire a real one. Through the years I had always wanted a real switchblade but never managed to acquire even one.
Then one night last November while drinking beer and surfing the internet I was inspired to do a search for "switchblade", and I found the SKM site! Nothing else need to be said.
Jim
Then one night last November while drinking beer and surfing the internet I was inspired to do a search for "switchblade", and I found the SKM site! Nothing else need to be said.
Jim
- slappy / psychoticsumo
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my dad had one i used to sneak it out of the drawer and flick it i thought it was so cool, but most of my life since highschool ive carried an old golden dragon bayo blade butterfly that i had the top bayo part sharpend on it in a machine shop.... i still have that knife but its all banged up looks like crap now and been through hell was my main work knife but it lasted all these years
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- the spotlight kid
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I have been buying knives since the very early 60's.I got a good collection of handmade Bowie's,12" blades the smallest.Bought my first switch at school when I was 12,lost it there aswell when the headmaster took it and mashed it in a vice in the metalwork class! It was a beauty made out of a solid aluminium block with black scales and 4" blade.I have never seen another anywhere.I never did like school!Cheers the spotlight kid.
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Strange as this might sound ,after watching a movie called "The Hitcher" with Rutger Hauer. I always pictured a switchblade as the traditional stilleto. I didn't know about OTF's but after seeing the movie I knew Ijust had to have one of these magical marvels! A few years later I stumbled accross the Edge Company ads in Guns and Ammo and have been hooked ever since.
- Dan-o The Ritalin Kid
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Seriously, My church youth group.
No not really. Jr. high I bough an old Rizzuto for $10.00 then bought and sold a few more then my first Italian was a 10 3/4" Mauro Mario Black horn scales (I thought they were some kind of dark wood) and sold it 2 years later. Then started collecting a few years ago. Internet ya know.
No not really. Jr. high I bough an old Rizzuto for $10.00 then bought and sold a few more then my first Italian was a 10 3/4" Mauro Mario Black horn scales (I thought they were some kind of dark wood) and sold it 2 years later. Then started collecting a few years ago. Internet ya know.
- Pushbutton
- King of Switchbladeland
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I have been into knives since I was about 5 or 6 in the mid 50's. Don't know the reason but they just fascinated me from my first pocket knife. About 8 years old or so I discovered switchblades and the rest is history. Although I have close to 300 knives from factory to custom switches are but a small part of my collection. I love all knives passionatly but switches hold that special place in my heart of all of them. If I leave my house in the morning and I don't have a knife with me then it means I completley forgot to put my pants on.
PB
PB
- Dan-o The Ritalin Kid
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- Pushbutton
- King of Switchbladeland
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- Doofus Emeritus
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Mr. Rocco,
James Coburn in the Magnificent Seven. Still my favorite switchblade scene's.
Mr. Dan-O,
Tydy gave me one of those lighters at the show. I put it in my pocket and forgot about it until I got back to the motel. I gave it to Mrs. Bonzo, cause I don't smoke either. (cant stand it, watched it kill my Dad) I did have Tydy send me 4 more. They make good gifts.
Best Regards,
Bonz
James Coburn in the Magnificent Seven. Still my favorite switchblade scene's.
Mr. Dan-O,
Tydy gave me one of those lighters at the show. I put it in my pocket and forgot about it until I got back to the motel. I gave it to Mrs. Bonzo, cause I don't smoke either. (cant stand it, watched it kill my Dad) I did have Tydy send me 4 more. They make good gifts.
Best Regards,
Bonz
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