birch
10-07-2017, 06:01 AM
So, I have to start at the beginning.
When I was in 5th grade I had to ride the bus to and from school. Since we were a very poor school district, there were usually a few families of kids who got off the bus together and went home in different directions. It just so happens that the kid I ended up having to walk home with lived before me.......and he was a bad one. He wouldn't even wait until the bus pulled away before he lit up a Camel (6th grade)--just to show the bus driver he didn't give a ****.
It was a little weird for a few days, but we eventually started talking about things little mischievous kids talk about. Guns, Boobs, Van Halen and fireworks. Soooo...he asked me if I wanted to see his collection.
I walked in his room and I couldnt believe my eyes. He had every bad thing a kid could possibly have!--Penthouse, playboy, cherry bombs, nun chucks, swords and also the one thing I couldnt keep my eyes off. I think he really just wanted to brag about his Penthouse collection, but all I could see was a black and silver swithblade on his bedstand--A real one. He grabbed that baby up, flicked the side lever and that 5 inch handle turned into a 9 inch stiletto faster than my eye could follow. I swore I would have one of those if I had to shovel cow **** for the next month after school. Well, I shoveled and mowed and hauled wood and just about every other thing a 5th grade boy could do to scrape up 20 dollars to order out of the "bad stuff' catalog (at this time, you could order mini thins, survival knifes, ammo, knives and just about anything cool under gods green earth. So i slapped the 2o and shipping in front of my day and had him order my swithblade. I ran to the mailbox every day as fast as I could--no swithblade.
Finally the day came. It was in a black cadboard box all taped to hell. I borrowed my dads jack knife and open it up.........my little heart fell to the floor. That super cool switchblade turned out to be a switchblade allright---however, the only thing it was meant to do was comb some very fine hair. It was a switchblade comb. And, since I had really thick hair, I couldnt even comb my hair.
I still thought it was pretty cool, but not at all as cool as Darwin's real one. So I started saving up for a real one--only, I couldn't legally by one in Michigan. Such super gruesome movies like "westside story" painted the switchblade as a nothing more than a weapon of destruction. So, the powers that be banned them in 1952.
Fastforward to last night! I have been itching for a Benchmade Knife and stumbled upon an article that said they will now be legal in MIchigan on October 1. I got out of work today and drove an hour away to Jay's in Clare, and they had my holy grail knife. I got the Benchmade Phaeton in FDE and coated blade. 35 year dream come true. At first i thought it would be a novelty, but it is actually a very strong and light knife that also happens to be really fun to play with. In fact, I am going to cook a steak this afternoon and cut the thing with my new blade!!!
I was just hoping to get some comments from other OTF or classic switchblade lovers.
Take care
When I was in 5th grade I had to ride the bus to and from school. Since we were a very poor school district, there were usually a few families of kids who got off the bus together and went home in different directions. It just so happens that the kid I ended up having to walk home with lived before me.......and he was a bad one. He wouldn't even wait until the bus pulled away before he lit up a Camel (6th grade)--just to show the bus driver he didn't give a ****.
It was a little weird for a few days, but we eventually started talking about things little mischievous kids talk about. Guns, Boobs, Van Halen and fireworks. Soooo...he asked me if I wanted to see his collection.
I walked in his room and I couldnt believe my eyes. He had every bad thing a kid could possibly have!--Penthouse, playboy, cherry bombs, nun chucks, swords and also the one thing I couldnt keep my eyes off. I think he really just wanted to brag about his Penthouse collection, but all I could see was a black and silver swithblade on his bedstand--A real one. He grabbed that baby up, flicked the side lever and that 5 inch handle turned into a 9 inch stiletto faster than my eye could follow. I swore I would have one of those if I had to shovel cow **** for the next month after school. Well, I shoveled and mowed and hauled wood and just about every other thing a 5th grade boy could do to scrape up 20 dollars to order out of the "bad stuff' catalog (at this time, you could order mini thins, survival knifes, ammo, knives and just about anything cool under gods green earth. So i slapped the 2o and shipping in front of my day and had him order my swithblade. I ran to the mailbox every day as fast as I could--no swithblade.
Finally the day came. It was in a black cadboard box all taped to hell. I borrowed my dads jack knife and open it up.........my little heart fell to the floor. That super cool switchblade turned out to be a switchblade allright---however, the only thing it was meant to do was comb some very fine hair. It was a switchblade comb. And, since I had really thick hair, I couldnt even comb my hair.
I still thought it was pretty cool, but not at all as cool as Darwin's real one. So I started saving up for a real one--only, I couldn't legally by one in Michigan. Such super gruesome movies like "westside story" painted the switchblade as a nothing more than a weapon of destruction. So, the powers that be banned them in 1952.
Fastforward to last night! I have been itching for a Benchmade Knife and stumbled upon an article that said they will now be legal in MIchigan on October 1. I got out of work today and drove an hour away to Jay's in Clare, and they had my holy grail knife. I got the Benchmade Phaeton in FDE and coated blade. 35 year dream come true. At first i thought it would be a novelty, but it is actually a very strong and light knife that also happens to be really fun to play with. In fact, I am going to cook a steak this afternoon and cut the thing with my new blade!!!
I was just hoping to get some comments from other OTF or classic switchblade lovers.
Take care