Everyone and his brother has a plastic or glass shank that they knocked off in wood shop or somesuch, but I'll bet you've never seen one of these before.



This is my latest creation: The world's only plexiglass folding knife, complete with a liner lock. It's held together with nylon bolts instead of metal, so it's also completely invisible to metal detectors.

It was a fun little project. All told it took me about two hours to make with a Dremel and some hand tools.

Opinions?

~Zero the Inestimable

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I hold the opinion that youre a nerd. thats just cause of the magic cards though.

can you buy that on late night shows?
do they accept checks?

I have just one Q,
- How well does it hold its edge?

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we've got a knive comopany here
Puma you can cut basicly anything without damageing it can yours do that?

I like it!! It reminds of this shank made from polycarbonate sold in the delta press catalog. they also sell an ice scraper that they claims can put 20 sitches in one's scalp. Both are invisble to metal detectors by the way.

I used the Magic cards as a background simply for their value of being colorful, so you could tell that the knife was transparent. If I am such a nerd, why did you instantly recognize the cards? You could have saved much face by keeping your mouth shut about it.

The knife holds a good edge, and it is easily capable of cutting cardboard with a single slice, as well as nylon straps and hemp rope.

~Zero the Inestimable

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I like it a lot, it would seem to be a fun and challenging project. But where did u get hemp rope?

Who knows? I had a length of it in my garage. It looked like a nice candidate to test the knife out on. You can buy the stuff at hardware stores if you look in the right places. No, you can't smoke it, if that's what you're wondering.

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i think its fucking sweet. id love to have one. do you collect knives or just make them?

ill try to put up some shots of my cool knives if i get the time

Im just joking with ya, calm down.

I both make and collect knives (as illustrated here). I've been into collecting for some time now, but I've just recently become interested in making my own.

I have more projects in the works, some of which I think you will find very interesting once I compltete them.

~Zero the Inestimable

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wow!
that puts my collection to shame. you have a ton of sweet knives i really like the black butterfly is that teflon of just steel?

I got a Knive and the handle is a crazy dragon and the tail is the blade, its pretty cool.

This is all well and good, but I don't go for looks in a knife, I go for functionality. My knife does what it's supposed to do, cut shit

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The black butterfly knife, sixth from the left, top row? It's regular stainless steel with a steel handle and rubber grip inserts.

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Nice knife! You ever think about making one like a switchblade? I got into switchblades when I found some sites on the web dealing with them. I've bought several now. My favorite so far is the Colt M-16. It operates like a switchblade AND a regular folding knife with a hidden lever switch in the handle. If someone looked at this knife they wouldn't be able to tell it was a swithblade. It would be fun to make a switchblade and a good challenge to see how good you are.

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hey zero can 'I buy that offa you?

Necromancer wants the knife, does he?

Make me an offer.

~Zero the Inestimable

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yes, or rather novice merc using necromancer's nick and pass.
The offer's $5, but I'm willing to negotiate.

Don't make me laugh. It's worth ten times that much to me just sitting in my collection. For five dollars plus shipping you could go make your own, you know.

~Zero the Inestimable

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what about 14? It's quite difficult to find materials here. can't you make a second one?

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even the reverse side has its reverse side

could you email me out the basic design for a knife like that? I have worked with that stuff before and its pretty strong

I think this is simple enough for you to figure out on your own. It's just a blade and two handles, with one edge of one of the handles bent to catch the blade and lock it in place.

I am interested in testing your ingenuity. Let me know how your version of the knife turns out.

~Zero the Inestimable

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yeah ill take apart one of my old knives to get some ideas, the stuffs not hard to get so i can afford to test and correct a few times, how big is yours, and what thickness plexiglass did you use?

[This message has been edited by maknfckaos (edited 11-08-2001).]

The blade is 3 and 3/4 inches long in total and the handles are exactly four inches. The plexiglass is 1/8 inch thickness.

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zero Im guessing you bought the bulk of your collection on QVC I say this because of the multiple small knifes of the same make.

No, I buy them all in person at various shops. Some of them are all the same brand, I will grant you that. I have an affinity for Fury brand knives because they are inexpensive and usually of much higer quality than the rest of the Chinese import dregs. At least five of my folders are Furies, as well as several of the fixed blades and most of the throwing knives.

What I am stumped on is who makes the brass sheathed knives you see in the middle. I buy them at the local farmer's market for a song, and they're nice knives, but they bear no maker's mark. The packaging is equally as cryptic. I've seen them around and various stores before and I know the line is fairly widespread, so does anyone know?

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there fairly nice but the grips are impracticle and the blades stain easily.

I have perhaps the only good pakistani knife in existance. Its a folder with an anler or bone handle, brass body, high quality 3.75" steel blade. Its handle heavy so you can open it with a flick of the wrist holding onto the blade. Best part is the mechanism is solid, when it locks in place it doesnt have the hint of a wobble.

I have some nice Pakistani fixed-blades, but only one folder. That one folder has turned me off of Pakistani folding knives for good, more than likely. At least it only cost me a dollar.

I've found that the brass knives' blades do rust a little, but a good refinishing and a little oil solves that problem. I've yet to break or bend one, and I use two of them as general purpose knives when I get bored of using my spring folder. They also hold a very good edge, even with those brass sheaths scraping against it when you draw the knife carelessly. Of course, the first thing to go an all of those knives was that irritating locking mechanism...

I've never actually bought a knife from QVC, but I've been toying with the idea of picking up one of their 200 knife sets or somesuch and peddling the extras off for a profit. The only reason I haven't is that I don't trust QVC in the least, especially watching the way they try to trick people into buying their computers.

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very good work!i'm sure you will be sourght after by the towel heads for trade negotiations.

Damn smokey you stole that post right ought from under me.

yeah thats general why I dont buy them zero. the machanism and the tasle; when Im looking for a knife I dont like to buy whores trinkets. I bought one It rust and dulled fairly quickly.

That is one cool knife there Zero, make a fully functional balisong that is not detectable by metal detectors with a handle latch and I will be very highly impressed.

I don't know if it could be made out of plexiglass unless you forged a round piece for the handles by pouring a mold. That butterfly action might be pretty hard to get w/ plexiglass.

dude...that knife is the dog's bollocks!!! (i.e. excellent).
but why carry a knife?
every cunt around here carries a knife so i do the next best thing...i carry a hatchet!!!

watch the fucker pull out a knife with a facial look of superiority but watch their faces drop like a sack of shit when i pull this hatchet out!!!

if you do do this...always carry it under a long jacket or coat!

A hatchet? That's certainly original.

~Zero the Inestimable

You could fuck someone up if you were proficient with it.

Throw it and nail em' from like 10 feet also.

just carrie a bat or a maglight, depending on your local laws they aren't considered offensive weapons.

aye, a nice big fat 6 D cell maglite.