tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976334216965295921.post8431169946900257411..comments2024-03-14T18:08:58.528-04:00Comments on I aim to misbehave.: A personal experimentCaptain Tightpantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13776345884480352979noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976334216965295921.post-34167462279761377692023-01-01T15:33:24.918-05:002023-01-01T15:33:24.918-05:00I am not former military or police. Just worked i...I am not former military or police. Just worked in a steel melt facility for the investment casting industry and aerospace supply industry for over 35 years, plus worked since age 11, from typical jobs like mowing lawns, to hauling hay to pumping gas for the last 2 years of high school. But I started carrying a pocketknife at about age 9 and have done so pretty much ever since. <br />I can't begin to count the number of knives I own, but the other day, I tried to get them together, and had to get a bigger box to hold them. I finally gave up, after I filled THAT box, and was still not done finding the odd knife here and there. The problem is that my wife knows about my love of decent knives at low cost. So she keeps buying me knives for gifts. She unfortunately doesn't know that in Michigan, you can only carry large fixed bladed knives for use as hunting knives. So I probably have 5 or 6 of them, that just stay sitting in a box that I don't carry. <br />I do have my favorites, and usually change up the one I carry as my primary knife on a clip on my right-hand pocket every 6 months or so, between 3 different ones. I also have a small pocketknife that I keep in my right-hand pocket that I can keep razor sharp, for the odd use that I need a super sharp blade, but not a long one. <br />I never did like the serrated edges. I usually keep my knives sharp enough that they cut things like rope as well as the serrated ones. <br />I know that I could just spend a few hundred dollars and get one really nice, custom-made blade, but where is the fun in that? And in working in a melt shop, doing the type of things that I did, knives often took a beating. I often saw other guys sharpening their knives on the grinders we had. I never did that, as the wheels on the stand grinders were all super coarse and left the knives much too worn after just a few weeks of such treatment. But they did work well for cutting cardboard and such.<br />Michigan does have some weird knife laws. There is no limit on the length of blade, just that you cannot carry a blade with the intent to harm someone. I am not sure how the powers that be can figure intent, unless you actually use the knife to cause harm, but that is how it reads. I have a couple of Mora knives that have about a 3" blade, that might be useful for a lot of the things that I do with my knives, but the pocketknives with a clip and a stud on the back makes my primary knife not only easy to open, but it stays out of the way and doesn't stab me in the ribs when I sit down. <br />pigpen51https://www.blogger.com/profile/01109289010634715497noreply@blogger.com