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You're less likely to lose your grip or hurt your wrist when you're driving it into a human body. It's a more natural movement, kind of like punching.

You know, for all those times you have to stab somebody to death.

It goes with a particular style of deployment (fighting style) that comes from the Philippines, loosely based on their Karambit knives, i.e., they are a Westernized version of the Karambit.

My nephew is a cop in a large Southwestern city, and carries one in uniform on his utility belt. It's a fixed blade.

I'm not personally convinced of its superiority over traditional knives as fighting implements.

This picture is ridiculous without an expensive cigar and some krugerrands.

Why yes....yes it is. It turns and plays when you wind it up. LOL.

Raider Red is a bobble head. The monkey is a neck massager. The furry critters jump up and down when you wind them up.

Come on.....what do you think......I'm plain?

I carry mine to cut stuff. They really come in handy on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Oh.....and when I bring the mail in. Or when my fingernails are dirty.

MichiganRoadKill has made me several world class small fixed blades.

Plus you can stab somebody to death if you're ever in a pinch.

Always a plus!

Well......yea. I carry everything in the pic....so I can hypnotize them with the bobble head, sprinkle some Japanese Whisky in their eyes, knock the knife and/or gun out of their hand with the vibrating monkey.......do the deed......then wind up the furry critters and set them out to distract the children's eyes when they're walking by.

The mommy and baby elephant music box is just for my personal enjoyment when I'm out and about.

Solid advice.

An Esee Izula makes a pretty handy fixed blade EDC. I always carry a small SAK + a bigger knife. In office attire, the bigger knife is a folder with pocket clip like a Benchmade mini-griptilian. In jeans and a t-shirt, it's usually the Izula in a horizontal sheath on my belt.

I stopped carrying folders when a liner lock folded up on me and laid my finger to the bone. Then I still had to haul 200# of deer out a couple miles, giving me time and cause to ruminate on the wisdom of fixed blades.

Full size knives fit on your belt if carried horizontally. Favorite is Spyderco Bill Moran. I have carried it most days for about ten years.Georgia ditched the racist laws limiting knife length, but 3" is about all that interests me anyway.

If I need something smaller or have to tuck my shirt in when in an office, the Benchmade Hidden Canyon Hunter does not alarm anyone. Benchmade got controversial after I got that one, but it is an example of how the knife does not have to be tiny if you carry it appropriately.

Have Bill Bagwell make you a five inch Damascus skinner, mine rides on my belt daily, have a little Case Lockhorn folder in a front pocket.

Tactical teddy bears are NOT douchery. Just my dos centavos...

Damn. Color me envious! Of course, you're of a size to make a 5" knife look like a toothpick, Jerry!

Yeah. That was the concept the Ka-Bar guys brought it out with. I bought mine at a LE conference about 15 years ago, at which time they recommended mounting the knife inside your pants belt on the non-gun side behind your magazine carrier on your duty belt. That way you could reach it with your off hand if you were grappling with a bad guy who's trying to get your gun out of your strong hand. The tactic they demo'd with training knives was to draw the TDI with the left hand, insert the blade into your opponent's forearm at or above the wrist, and then rip it back toward the elbow.

But you could also use it in your fist in a series of short, sharp stabbing motions, a la Pulp Fiction, as Travis has suggested. I expect that works pretty well too, and doesn't require a whole lot of thinking about it.

As for selecting a knife that could be a good defense tool,....A North American Arms mini revolver is about the same size and weight as a medium size pocket knife. They're not a great fighting tool,,...but if the fight gets up close and personal I'll take one over a knife.

LOL, it's clean and lays flat Doc, don't even know it's there unless you need it, that Master Blade Smith talent is even enough for a dummy like me to realize, haven't even got to the 11.5 inch bladed Damascus Bowie he made me, went to his place and shot Sharps rifles all weekend, trying not to founder on all the good eats his Wife was putting on the table, then got measured for the knife, i'll bring it if we ever wind up on another pig shoot or hunt.

I've talked with Bill on the phone a couple times, but never got around to traveling up there to shoot with him. He is a fount of knowledge when it comes to BP and Sharps rifles! Didn't know he was a knife maker, too. A man of many talents.