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A few of my friends carry Stingrays. And when I mean carry, I usually mean they are on their person, but they regularly forget they are on them.
Perhaps one of the lightest and fiercest carbon pocket knives available anywhere, the SOG is at the top of the weight heap and just 3.6 ounces.

Featuring an ambi-Arc Lock, you can hold this puppy in either hand and lock open for an amazingly stealthy and handy pocket knife of the highest caliber.

Normally, when selecting a carbon pocket knife, you’ll find a good portion of the available knives in the lower price range because of carbon metal’s propensity towards rust and stains. Yet, anyone investing in a knife over twenty bucks would hopefully understand basic knife care and be able to keep a carbon knife in tip top sharp shape for a very long time, and with an SOG, you’ll want to start at about one hundred dollars and work your way up until you find the knife that fits you best.

Amazon has an unreal selection of EVERYTHING, as you should already know, and they’ve got a decent price on the new Stingray 2.0. Give the pic a click and check out why SOG’s normally kick more ass then a Taiwanese Crawford CRKT any day.

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Carbon Pocket Knives

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My friends over at eBladeStore.com changed their pocketknife landing page to include the cinematic memory of “Today you are a man.”
I can appreciate that firsthand, and I’m excited to hand down some of the knives I have in my garage drawer to my son (or sons or daughters, I can’t be too sure what because my wife is now pregnant with TWINS, so I could have sons, daughters or one of each by the time 2010 rolls around).

The strange thing about handing down pocketknives is that by itself it’s a traditional form of recycling!

All of these hippies coming out of the woodwork to claim their dedication to the earth with their environmental hibbidydooda and saving of the rain forests, I will stand firm in keeping the knives I’ve received as hand-me-downs continually handing down the food chain. Hopefully one day my spawn will patiently chop down his very first tree with a knife that my father was given when he turned 8 years old.

I can see it now:

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There’s a storm on the horizon, gas has just reached $7.99 a gallon, milk is now tainted with cheese dust from cheetos, Israel and Palestine made up and now live in a country called New New Jersey, and I’m handing my son his very first blade…

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“Son, go rip some crap to shreds, it’s about time you learned to respect your ability to destroy things. Only then can you build a bridge out of this hell hole.”

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Screw an XBox, buy your kid some Pocket Knives

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Making Pocket Knife Memories

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ll over the internet lurk computer generated websites that are as flaky as the adwords you sometimes see on websites that have absolutely nothing to do with the actual content on the page. It’s funny, it’s sad, but it’s also pretty easy to spot.

A week ago I was doing some reading on different ways of sharpening the different knives I have around my house and garage and I kept finding these horrible recommendations on purchasing HUGE and more often than not EXPENSIVE sharpening systems.

Why would I sharpen a $20 knife on a $100 sharpener? Does that make any sense?

Regardless, I typed in KNIFE SHARPENING TIPS and happened upon KnifeSharpeningTips.com – HOLY WOWSERS!

I don’t know the dude, but I read his site quite a bit, and you should too!

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Knife Sharpening Tips: The Blog

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From toothpicks, to tweezers, to scissors, to nail files, to screwdrivers, to vodka gimlets, to the blades themselves, these little bastards can get you out of a jam with ease, or COMING SOON TO AMERICA: GET YOUR ASS THROWN IN JAIL!

But seriously folks, the Swiss Army Knife is an institution on realistic necessity. If you want to borrow everyone else’s, go ahead you mooch, but you really are cheaping out as they are CHEAP AS HELL.

Take Amazon’s batch for instance, starting at $3.20 USD and up to over $100.00 USD, start small and just carry a basic one until your knifeticles (KNIFE TESTICLES!) itch for a larger, more testosterone driven model.

It has been said that “A man without a knife on him is like a little lamb without a cell phone and a set of jumper cables: completely useless.”
Plato said that, right after he told me about HostGator’s amazing web hosting deals!

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Swiss Army Knives

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What's that buldge in your pocket? THE ZILLA IS IT?

If you got sick of your leatherman because it didn’t feel as cool to whip out at parties anymore, go a clickin’ and see if this meets your needs, price range and WOW-thermometer.

I will admit that the black meshes with the gunmetal steel pretty darn well…

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A Multi-Purpose Knife That Will Kick Your Ass.

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Today is no different.

I just used a penknife to pry back the hose clip on an auto siphon while siphoning homebrewed beer into a carboy. I had both hands full and my knife in my mouth and just as I was about to lose the flow on my siphon, I took the knife out of my mouth with my right hand, secured the siphon stick with my left hand inside the primary fermenter, and carefully used the non blade side to lessen the pressure on the hose going into my secondary.

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That might sound confusing to someone who doesn’t brew their own beer from time to time, or isn’t experienced with an auto siphon.  But rather than needing three hands in the future, I slowly and meticulously inserted the non-blade side of my penknife into the clamp and pushed forward giving my hose more room to drain my primary.

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Penknives: your excuse for a third hand.

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Another Awesome Use for My Penknife

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After every election I wait and see which of my freedoms will be challenged next. I didn’t feel like my privacy was being invaded when I was told my phones were tapped and my library activities were being documented. Both of those seemed like good ideas, and since I don’t often plan bombings on the phone or borrow books on explosives or Jihad, I figured those were accpetable means with which to protect our population from doom.

But my penknife?

My beloved pocket knives?

The one in my fifth pocket, the one in my center console, the one clipped to my visor in my truck and the one in my desk drawer – all threats to national security NOW when I’m not allowed to carry a gun in my state either.

If I can’t open a beer bottle with a gun like Homer Simpson, NOW I can’t pop it open with my knife either!

Mister President, do something else with my tax dollars please, or I’ll carve my frustrations into the nearest Oak tree!

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Please visit: KNIFERIGHTS.ORG as soon as possible!

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Know Your Rights! Check out KnifeRights.org ASAP!

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A distinguishing factor in whether a knife would be considered a novelty is how cheap it really is. Cheap construction, chincey hand feel, very light weight and possibly made by the thousands with the name of your local Elks Club printed on it are all good indicators that you are in fact holding a knife not made for actual performance.

Sure a cheapy knife might last you a few years if never used and kept in a safe place, so if you are looking for a knife with those standards, the Dollar Store and gas stations might have what you are looking for. If you are looking for a pocket knife that would be considered useful AND cool, you seriously have to consider going rogue.

Check out TBO’s Self Defense Products section and find the “keychain knife” to see what I’m talking about. A knife that isn’t actually a knife unless used as a knife! It’s a knife undercover! AAHH!

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Novelty Pocket Knives

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The cool thing about actual penknives is that the pen isn’t just for show! Most of the affordable penknives are actual pens with actual knives!

ACTUALLY AWESOME!

Some online vendors also stock the refills for the writing half of the penknife in bulk, so you could buy a penknife with a slim blade, and use it at work and no one will know!

With all of a regular pocketknife’s uses, the penknives that contain both a pen and a knife are actually quite handy around the office. Letter opener, fresh bag of potato chips slicer, banana dicer, loose string on your shirt trimmer, dirty fingernail cleaner or a perfect missle for a foam drop ceiling with no pencil holes; your imagination is your only limiting factor.

While they make better tools than self defense products, they are categorized in general as a self defense item, so defend against boredom!

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The Pen is Mightier…

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