Your Best SOUNDING Springblade

Vagrant · Post by **Vagrant** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 5:23 am

First there's the TINK sound, then there's the YOWWWWW! noise I make when I realize the size of the gash in my thumb and finally the obligatory "sonofabitch!" as I try to avoid bleeding all over the

You learn the length of these quickly.

Teddy · Post by **Teddy** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:42 pm

the spotlight kid wrote:For me there is nothing like the satisfying sound of a swinguard opening! So distinct!Or the 15" and 18" Falcons,but they are in another league! Cheers the spotlight kid.

Hallelujah, I am converted.......just recieved my first (working!) 11 inch swinguard (2 rivet job, plain blade, bufallo scales) from that nice young man in Germany,
and it sounds Soooooooooo nice. Bestest sound yet (not including the biggies from Falcon of course).

Best wishes
Teddy

mr_edge · Post by **mr_edge** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:03 am

Teddy,
Now get yourself a 9" swing. Same amazing acoustics in a much more solid knife.

Teddy · Post by **Teddy** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:15 am

Mr_Edge,

They have been on my shopping list since first seen on KS

but I'm trying to aquire any old model 11s first (2 rivet bayos or plain) while I can get them.

Best wishes
Teddy

Landsurveyor · Post by **Landsurveyor** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:20 am

Leaf springs

1. My 13" swivel bolster

2. My custom spring Mikov from the nice young man in Prauge

3. My LCC D/A clone

Coil springs, etc...

1. My MOD Mark II

2. My Boker Speed Lock Blackout

3. My OTF Dalton Border Patrol Clone

Skorpion · Post by **Skorpion** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:26 am

Best sounding knife has got to be my old 11" Rizzuto Swinguard. Cheap junky knife I know, but what a sound!!! Been listening to it for over 40 years and never got tired of it yet.

Skorpion

Teddy · Post by **Teddy** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:29 am

Mr. Landsurveyor,

I would be most interested to know where to locate a 13 inch swinger.
please do tell.

Best wishes Teddy

Landsurveyor · Post by **Landsurveyor** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:40 am

Teddy,
Just to make sure that I know what I'm talking about, a swing gaurd stilletto is one that unlocks by slightly rotating the gaurd, right? If that is really what I have then you can find the same knife at this link http://bladeauction.com/cgi-bin/osa/Vie ... ber=667533 . I bought mine from Julie at Zaback, however.

Post by **jim d,** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:50 am

Landsurveyer,

You are confusing swivel bolster with swing guard. Cruise some of the auctons or the KS site for a photo of a swing guard. A Hubertus Guardian is an example of a swing guard.

With a swing guard, the guard only, not the entire bolster, rotates when the knife is opened or closed. In the closed position, the guards rest against the scales PARALLEL to the blade.

Jim

Landsurveyor · Post by **Landsurveyor** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:53 am

Thanks for clearing that up Jim. I've seen what you're talking about and that's not what I have. Sorry to tease you Teddy.

mypetelvis · Post by **mypetelvis** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 3:14 am

My favorite sounding knife? Boy, that's a tough one. I'll narrow it down:
My 11" white micarta swing (little blade play so it opens really hard),
13" rosewood stiletto, and my Halo III copy (if these are so rare, why does everyone sell 50 of them at a time for $20 a pop?

) The Halo clone opens with such a loud thud that I like to scare the cat with it. But, then again, the cat might just be scared of the fact that I spent money on such a p.o.s!

beartrap · Post by **beartrap** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 6:45 am

I can't open any of mine without that ear-to-ear grin on my face with the sound of that clack, but I think my favorite knife is the pearl handled 9" stilleto that I bought in a sporting goods store in Italy myself when I was in the Navy. It stayed rolled up in plastic and stuffed up in my tooth paste tube in my shower kit for six months when I made a med. cruse on the USS Saratoga in 1980.

Beartrap

Razor_54 · Post by **Razor_54** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:15 am

A 13" horn, which i just received and a 7" swing guard with the red dot safety running close second. Wow..