I'm in the UK and the knife laws are crazy. You can only carry non-locking blades with a cutting edge less than 3 inches. There is lots of knife crime around the big cities like London and Birmingham. However, if you see CCTV footage of the crimes they mainly use massive 12 inch hunting knives or long kitchen knives which they dispose of shortly after the crime. I get really jealous seeing the cool flipper knives and spring assisted knives available in other parts of the world.
@@SuburbanPathfinder The silly thing is that non locking knives are far more dangerous for the user as the blade could close on your fingers. If you were a criminal looking to do some damage with a knife, you would just find something substantial, not a locking 2 incher. At least let us have locking blades even if they keep the 3 inch limit.
Exactly! It’s worse than silly, in truth. How a government can convince itself that it’s looking after “public safety” by prohibiting a safety device on an inherently dangerous tool is beyond me.
@@SuburbanPathfinder I think it's mostly because it's harder to stab someone with a non-locking blade. Thus, UK carry knives retain most of the practical functionality but with less potential to be used as a stabbing weapon.
Mine has 8cr13mov steel and has been carried for several years. Good knife! Just to clarify, in the UK a lock knife counts as a fixed blade. Neither lock-knives nor fixed blades are illegal to carry in public IF you have a reasonable excuse ie.for work, fishing etc. As EDC they are definitely not allowed.
I got the honeybee and I don't think it's a useless compromise. I would say that it being as small as it is, the bug might be the obsolete one as there really shouldn't be a knife that small. I want to get the grasshopper as I need something a little bigger but not too big. Where I live, it's illegal to carry any knife with a blade over 3 inches whether it's a locking knife or not and even then you had better need it for work and even then it better not be the kind of work that can be done using a simple utility knife.
I am eyeing the Grasshopper especially because it has 12C27 steel. 3Cr13MoV is indeed worse than 420, and I absolutely hate AISI 420 now, because as a young lad all my cheap knives had that steel and I am still sick of it like 20 years later. lol I only got one blade in 420, and that's for the "blaze it" memes. At least give me 440C, or even 440A. And I love 12C27, great knife steel! Takes such a nice edge too!
I own the honeybee. I would have rathered the Grasshopper but I'm not sure if customs would let it through in my country. The honeybee is a good backup knife and apart from minor use I haven't used it much so it's still razor sharp. I like it enough that I'm getting 2 more just to have the around in different bags and what not.
Mark Szarszewski, the handle on this and my other stainless handle Spydercos do pick up fingerprints but they aren’t terribly noticeable because of the satin finish. This knife is so small, I just give it a quick wipe every so often and fingerprints aren’t much of a problem. Thanks for watching!
