I have a Frank B thats about 13 inches deployed and let me tell you. The larger they get the more obvious the imperfections are. Definitely a status symbol or art piece.
I personally always felt the button was halfway down because you were meant to press it with your thumb. That guard is not much to keep your fingers from sliding up the blade so the way to keep your fingers from sliding up the Blade is to bury the pommel of the knife in the meat of your hand when you do this you find the button is naturally where your thumb comes to.
I always wanted one of those, but unfortunately it's illegal here in Germany. What I used to have was a version that you had to open manually (and yes, I had to get a permit to carry it with me, lol). I think the scare factor is very high with this type of knife. When I was being harassed by a couple of thugs on the subway one evening, I took it out and they immediately ran away. It may not be ideal as a weapon itself, but the scary lock makes up for it.
You can get the beltrame in germany. I just bought one in Kleve. But the blade is shorters due to German regulations. You only can get a minus 9inch in Germany which is legal.
They are not for slicing but for stabbing. Be prepared to get "flamed or corrected" correctly because there are real experts on these that know a lot about these knives..history, knife makers from maniago italy, current knife makers, materials, opening and closing mechanisms, blade styles, tang stamps, knife era, 1958 ban, transitional era, length etc etc... Anyway, a Lot of history. Nice review so far..❤👍🏻✌🏻
Dude. At 3:48 a woman says what sounds like “bird” loudly from back-left perspective and, sounding real enough, it caught me so off guard that I woke my wife at 5:40 AM shouting “huh?! What?!” Somehow I didn’t wake her and, after a small period of confusion and a quick rewind, I’m now in bed literally laughing to myself. So, uh.. thanks 😂
Damn bro. Thats beautiful. And my only issue with it as a fighter is that it’s clearly much better at stabbing than slashing and stabbing deep is in fact extremely lethal as I’m sure you know, so it kinda encourages a deadly method instead of just focusing on the defensive maneuvers that done along with wide, sweeping slashes. Let me put it this way, it’s not hard to be lethal with a pointy stick. But I get that as being capable of lots of maneuvering goes, yes it may be very limited! Thing is though the human brain recognizes pointy objects as basically horns, fangs etc and knows how easy poking is as a killing method. I think it’s more instinctual at that point. As opposed to a bludgeon for example just registering as something large.
Great points- I made some of the same in my writing gig about them. They're really more offensive in nature as weapons than a lot of other knife types.
I had to check it, but one of thugs getting battered by terminator in titular film might have opened his switchblade with exact middle-of-thumb grip as shown here. Of course it is very quick edit so it is hard to see. That thing is menacing and definitely good enough for stabbing someone to death. Weapon always is compromise between many things and switchblade is obviously one on which portability and style were placed first and lethality was second. Utility and durability were way below. Interestingly one of most unambiguously good characters of cinema (Somerset of Se7en) carries a switchblade and uses it several times during the film in utilitarian context. Except when he practices throwing it.
Nothing else makes a sound like a swivel bolster with its pick-lock. Modern aluminum button locks are always a little disappointing in that regard. You need to get yourself a nice 13 inch version. 🙂
@@ObjectHistoryif you really want a nicer mechanical switchblade sound, get a swinguard switchblade those make a distingtive souns and are a backlock for closing. Some are leverlock opening and closing or: "bo/ bc" button open button close just like a Rizutto switchblade
Exactly. Indeed thanks to hollywood they were banned in 1958 but in the early 60s they were made as a transitional and some with the same thick and strong quality of the picklocks before oh and a nice flat grind blade👍🏻✌🏻
@@ObjectHistory That's just disingenuous. I have a collection of these, some relatively expensive. They would barely survive a single confrontation This are single use "stab in the back" weapons, at best.
@@ziggarillo It's not disingenuous in any way to say something used in countless fights has a fighting history, LOL. Your point seems to be that they are poor weapons, which I agree with in the video. Those are two different points.
