Spyderco Vallotton Sub-Hilt Knife Discussions | Drop

Sep 25, 2017

I have one of these, this is no way a pocket knife, it's a big heavy knife suitable as a replacement for a fixed blade hunting knife. And it isn't an automatic knife.
It's a very knife, it's just not a pocket knife at least with your average pockets.
This description for this item is odd.

Oct 24, 2017

DavidPMight not work with tight jeans, but I wear slacks and EDC it with no problem at all.
And thanks to Butch, mine's a full-on switchblade. ;)

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Nov 21, 2017

WigdaddyYou do indeed have superior pockets. It's still odd... stiletto? A aren't those light blades?
I'd ask about the switchblade conversion except I would probably get arrested for having that word in my vocabulary.

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Nov 21, 2017

DavidPPerfectly legal now, in my state and many others. Google “Knife Rights.”
A stiletto is an Italian knife type often associated with switchblades in the United States, and you’re right, they’re not generally very sturdy. But any folding knife can be made into a switchblade, given proper skill and motivation. When you make something like the Vallotton into a switchblade, the end result is a beast.

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Nov 21, 2017

WigdaddyYou could just scare someone to death...

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Nov 21, 2017

DavidPMaybe, but that's about the only difference where using it as a weapon is concerned — psychological.
Switchblades might be cool as hell, but the point of them is not to do harm to people, any more than any other knife. Being able to open a folding knife one-handed doesn't make it more deadly — it just makes it easier to use, and putting a button on the side is just one of many ways to do that. The switchblade was invented to add functionality to an existing tool, and that's exactly what I use that functionality for, every day.
Early ones looked like this — they were just ordinary pocket knives with buttons:

It wasn't until West Side Story came out (with its fictional young criminals obsessed with the things) that people started freaking out about them. It was all really dumb, and now people are finally starting to realize it.

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Nov 21, 2017

WigdaddyWe're talking about a knife that's eight and there quarters inch long here, right?
I live in NY City, a land where everything is illegal,. I sent a CRKT M16 knife back to them for a repair and they wouldn't return it!!! Seems the city has been warning vendors not to ship knives they don't approve of.
I bought the M16 for ~$60 and they credited me for the full cost of knife, which was ~$120 (Titanium).
There used to be a knife show every year in midtown Manhattan, now it's New Jersey. It's just silly.

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