My Insight on Automatic (Switchblade) Knives

[Sgtusmc]

This one is nice!!! i'll have it in my pocket the day its legal. love it

Looks like a Gerber? Ive come to not like having serrations on my blade. I love tanto blades without serrations.

 

[Sgtusmc]

Wow

J.A. Harkins Custom Knives

 

[Revopop]

Wow

J.A. Harkins Custom Knives

Dang.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Anyone else foresee ND's of OTF autos resulting in self inflicted stab wounds? Kinda like the butt dialing phenomenon.

You mean like Louis Awerbuck?

 

[lovemachine]

You mean like Louis Awerbuck?

What happened to Louis Awerbuck?

 

[walleyepw]

Why would any one want a automatic knife? I want throwing stars!!!

 

[Limpy88]

it was more like this...ol chuck norris circa 1980 that was about 10 b.b.(before beard)
http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081259/?ref_=sr_1

damn ninjas, back in the 80's they were a dime a dozen, couldnt walk 10 feet without getting a ninja star thrown at you, i tell you it was a epidemic....then poof all that changed, it was like they were all gone....about the time the mall's opened up.....then all the sudden them ninjas got jobs....AS MALL SECURITY!

did they used to look like this

or this

and now look like this

I want a auto just cause i can. maybe a weekhand carry thing. still trying to decide on the brand and model. thinking some thin, and from the side.

 

[shootersix]

did they used to look like this

I want a auto just cause i can. maybe a weekhand carry thing. still trying to decide on the brand and model. thinking some thin, and from the side.

lol omg did chumlee get fired from pawn stars!

if you want thin look at the kershaw breakout, really thin, fires fast! but kind hard to find
Kershaw Breakout for sale - Blade HQ

 

[Bradsknives]

lol omg did chumlee get fired from pawn stars!

if you want thin look at the kershaw breakout, really thin, fires fast! but kind hard to find
Kershaw Breakout for sale - Blade HQ

The Breakout is a discontinued model. Kershaw is totally out of the auto business for now. You would have to find one on the secondary market and expect to pay a premium.

 

[Expatriated]

Good write up, Brad. I agree with everything you said. I've carried different autos off and on through the years. (Didn't realize they were illegal here, oops No one ever said anything to me). I found the OTF ones to be too gimmicky for me, even the Microtech ones.

I did carry a decent Benchmade auto for awhile but lost it in S. America.

Overall, I found them slower--A LOT slower than say, an Emerson with the wave feature.

 

[shootersix]

The Breakout is a discontinued model. Kershaw is totally out of the auto business for now. You would have to find one on the secondary market and expect to pay a premium.

for sale on july 1st one kershaw breakout!...nib...checked to make sure it works...1000.00 lol..
but that sucks, it was a great knife, think i [STRIKE]paid [/STRIKE] saw one for about 60.00

dammit looks like ill never [STRIKE]take that one out of the safe[/STRIKE] own one of those

 

[LPPOsecurity]

What do you think of paragon knives, I like some of theirs, price ain't bad either

 

[tradertator]

Wow

J.A. Harkins Custom Knives

I had a production version of a Harkins Triton by M.O.D., bad ass knife. If you watch for it in Quantum of Solace, one of the bad guys uses one.