Have you ever had to watch a Youtube vid or ask someone about how to close a newly purchased knife?

I guess that’s another Cold Steel “borrowed” design.

Looks like this old German made Okapi I found on a hiking trail some years back.

You know owning that makes you a “rude boy”, at least in Jamaica.


I have a Microtech LCC Lightfoot double action auto that took me a while to figure out how to get it open, at least automatically, with its hidden release.

rust collector said:

I had been looking for a traveling steak knife, so went ahead and picked one of these up. For $7.99 I will have a piece of knife history and mystery.

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Cool knife. For $8 shipped on amazon. I have one coming. No idea what I will do with it but for $8, can't go wrong.

My kudu knife arrived today. That is one cool and very very sharp knife. I can't believe somebody can make something like that and sell it for $8 shipped.

Solomonson said:

Did yours also come in an oversized box like mine did? I am very impressed with it. Flat enough and light (!) enough to carry when I jog. I should have bought two!

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Mine came in an envelope

Yup.

I bought what turned out to be an original Barry Wood swing-open knife some years back.

It was sitting sad and forlorn at an estate sale.

I picked it up and even though I couldn't open it - the quality outshined the cost by far.

It sat forgotten for a very long time until one day, I decided to look into it again. I didn't want to force anything and even though there's a small cut-out for opening, I didn't want to risk messing it up. So tight was the fit.

Finally, I found an article on a Colt knock-off version that explained the concept and turned me on to finding out about the designer.

Sold/traded that rascal for obscene profit to a knife dealer years later.

Todd.

I do custom leatherwork,,,
I have made 100's of sheaths.

One day at work a kid asked me if I could make him a sheath for his knife,,,
It turned out to be an heirloom inheritance from his grandfather.

It seemed funny to me that when he brought it in it was open and wrapped in a cloth,,,
He asked for nothing fancy, just something so he could wear it on his belt.

A week later I had it and delivered it to him,,,
He was amazed that it was closed.

He didn't know it was a folder.

This is no joke my friends,,,
Absolutely true story.

Aarond

P.S. It was that classic Buck folding hunter (Model 110?)

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Solomonson said:

Have you ever had to watch a Youtube vid, or ask someone about how to open or close a newly purchased knife? I have twice now.

This morning when GSMO/CS delivered my Kudu (what a cool knife for $6.99!) and years ago when I bought a Frank Beltrame automatic Italian stiletto

Watch LCT open the Kudu:



And to think I had planned to remove the "key ring" from the Kudu!

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Does yours say "COLO STEEL" on it like mine does? Pretty sure that's why they had to sell them for pennies. Pretty good knife IMO. Weird opening/locking mechanism.

I bought a 'paper knife' that i couldn't figure out...
It is a utility knife blade(stanley) on one end, caplifter on the other.
After seeing the utube video, you slide out the blade by prying the locking lugs that engage with the corresponding notches in the utlity blade. Ingenious once you figure it out. It locks open and locks closed.
I dont have a pic, and i gave it away.

Now on sale $6.29