ARmy Rumour SErvice

**jumpinjarhead** · 19-06-2012, 01:02

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

Stab Tony Blair to death with it on his next visit to the US. It would then be sent back to the UK as part of the evidence.

This may not work, but it might be worth a pop.

Erm...I think there may be a less convoluted way to go about it but thanks awfully old chap for the suggestion.

**jumpinjarhead** · 19-06-2012, 01:06

Thanks for the tips--much appreciated .

**jumpinjarhead** · 19-06-2012, 05:10

This is the fellow, a neighbor, who will make the knives to be donated:

Lonewolf

**Pebbles015** · 19-06-2012, 05:27

Frosts Mora Carbon

Sharpest and easiest to hone knife I've ever come across, cheap as chips too

**MostlyHarmless** · 26-06-2012, 15:12

Mine...

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A Wlikinson Sword lock knife (first proper knife I ever owned - had it since my teens). This has done a hell of a lot of work over the years, and consequently the blade is slightly shorter than it's meant to be

A Victorinox Explorer SAK

A William Rodgers hunting knife that I acquired from my Dad...not sure if he's noticed yet that it's gone....

**Drlligaf** · 11-08-2012, 18:09

And now for my bobs worth, the older Arrsers may well recognise items one and two, the third one although not a knife is never the less interesting, I bought it in Eton many many years ago.

**plaster** · 11-08-2012, 18:41

would the last be a walking or swagger ?

**Cutaway** · 12-08-2012, 14:34

Originally Posted by jumpinjarhead

This is the fellow, a neighbor, who will make the knives to be donated:

Lonewolf

He does some nice work there JJH, too fancy for my pocket I reckon, but they should make very good prices on the auctions.

**Stonker** · 05-09-2012, 13:16

From R - L, in descending order of seniority:
Dad's little old Scout knife - sharpest one I own. Then some scabby Scandinavian fishing job I bought when I was young and foolish. It taught me about locking blades, tho'. If you look reeaally close, you'll see the edge has been rubbished beyond redemption, from using it when pissed, to open oysters at a party on the DZ in Zephyrhills FLA, back in the days before the space shuttle. I opened up an index finger as well, and pissed blood into the ice and oysters in the coolbox . . . . It went into retirement after that.

There's a G10 pocketknife I was given (by a Sapper, IIRC) and hardly ever used, then a size 9 Opinel carbon the like of which I have carried for yonks, with a natty looking french-made pouch that doesn't function half as well as its looks would have you believe, and a Bundeswehr pattern pocketknife, purchased in Cologne for its useful array of corkscrew and bottle opener*, tho' I don't recall using the main blade for anything more than sharpening pencils, and which lives in the black pouch made Price Western Leather, which is a very solid bit of kit, going strong after 20+ years.

The yellow job and the curved thing next to it are a hook knife and a Crab loadies knife, that used to live on my parachute harness in case of dire emergency, and next to them the dinky li'l thing that follows me to work, so I avoid being in breach of Jethro's 9th Rule.

Then there's a stainless Mora clipper £10.00 cheapie for scouting type events, and my most recent acquisition, a really nice stainless-but-really-sharp olivewood-handled locknife by a Spanish firm called Joker that I took a fancy to as soon as I saw it. It only cost £35.00 and they could have put £20 more on that price, without it being a bad deal.

Lastly, the black and white object is another best buy - it is a ceramic sharpening rod (like a butcher's steel, but much, much kinder to the edges, being closer to polishing than to scraping them) from IKEA, for under a tenner. Excellent for keeping up the edges of all them knives, as well as the ones from the kitchen.

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*Stonkernote: The jocks have published the blueprints for a knife of their own, based on that fine example of Herman stahlarbeit: