Lansky world legal knife?

[kirk13]

Has anybody tried one of these?
http://www.lanskysharpeners.co.uk/store/wordl-legal-Knife.html

[Freaver]

I've seen a few people on danish forums that's got this and they all seem happy about it. Have stil to find any, who has anything negative to say about it.

BTW, it's cheaper at Heinnie's. But of course, everybody is out of stock. -.-

[RT1969]

It has a 4 position pocket clip, but does it also have a nail nick on both sides? Just wondering.

[Freaver]

It has a 4 position pocket clip, but does it also have a nail nick on both sides? Just wondering.

Just checked a review on youtube; the nail nick is only on one side. But I actually think it's just for show - I've seen reviews from SHOT shows, where the Lansky representatives didn't even bother using the nail nick; the blade sticks out so much, when folded, that you just grab the entire blade instead.
Being a lefty, I don't think it's gonna cause any problems for me, whether I'd carry it on my left or right side.

[RT1969]

It is pretty much the same for me, whether I grip the nick with the thumb's nail or the index finger's nail. For example on my Opinel I can't get a good grip without the nick, that's why I am asking.
As you wrote it it seems to be not a problem with this knife. 
And I like the concept of a 'no worries' tourist knife. 

The more you know...

[Freaver]

We can easily agree, it's a good play by Lansky, especially at that price. Everybody who's into knives, would be able to afford this thing.
However, in my opinion it doesn't mean that you shouldn't be paying attention to the knifelaws of the different countries. I believe it is in Sweden, that knife carry without "legal reason" is illegal. This even includes a small SAK. More info here

[Syph007]

Wouldn't a small SAK still be seen as more 'safe' though?  Or is the blade on this that funny shape for a reason maybe?  It's certainly not a stabbing shape.

[kirk13]

Wouldn't a small SAK still be seen as more 'safe' though?  Or is the blade on this that funny shape for a reason maybe?  It's certainly not a stabbing shape.

As Taxi Dad says,if the police want to find an issue,they will!

My interest is simpily that it looks like a handy little work knife

[Syph007]

Wouldn't a small SAK still be seen as more 'safe' though?  Or is the blade on this that funny shape for a reason maybe?  It's certainly not a stabbing shape.

As Taxi Dad says,if the police want to find an issue,they will!

My interest is simpily that it looks like a handy little work knife

Ya good point.  Im all for slip joint options, I like them.  If the police want to find an issue then ya a long sharp fingernail probably isnt legal carry.

[Freaver]

Wouldn't a small SAK still be seen as more 'safe' though?  Or is the blade on this that funny shape for a reason maybe?  It's certainly not a stabbing shape.

More 'safe', yes, but personally I wouldn't risk ruining a vacation, just for the sake of bringing a multitool or a knife with me. There's quite a lot multitools out there, without a blade, so I'd rather carry one of those.
I do wonder, though, how they would react to a OPMT, with a sharpened edge for opening boxes? Technically, it's not a knife, but it still has an edge...

As Taxi Dad says,if the police want to find an issue,they will!

My interest is simpily that it looks like a handy little work knife

It is for exactly that reason I'm gonna buy it; I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a helluvalot better than my HSR with tanto-blade, when it comes to opening boxes and packages.

[Grathr]

 They seem to be sold out everywhere. It must be very popular.


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[RT1969]

Yes, you should check about relevant laws everywhere you go. But there has to be this 156 countries list anywhere, and you would just have to check whether your destination is on it. (Of course you should check from another source, one is none and all that)

[PTRSAK]

Personally I think that a SAK is going to be a much more "inoffensive" option than this knife.
Especially if it is something like a Climber or Traveler with Scissors. It's a red "MacGyver knife, whereas the Lansky is tactical black and whole orders of magnitude more nasty looking, slipjoint or not.

I know that here in sunny Quennsland it would be a lot easier to convince the Boys in Blue that a SAK was for cutting your lunch and trimming your fingernails than the World Legal Knife.

Technically legal maybe (ANY knife carry without genuine reason is illegal here too), but looks too much like a weapon for my liking.

[jacktrades]

Looks like it would easily scary the sheeple, but it's technically legal. Good one.
Maybe there is a joke inside this one 

[kirk13]

Personally I think that a SAK is going to be a much more "inoffensive" option than this knife.
Especially if it is something like a Climber or Traveler with Scissors. It's a red "MacGyver knife, whereas the Lansky is tactical black and whole orders of magnitude more nasty looking, slipjoint or not.

I know that here in sunny Quennsland it would be a lot easier to convince the Boys in Blue that a SAK was for cutting your lunch and trimming your fingernails than the World Legal Knife.

Technically legal maybe (ANY knife carry without genuine reason is illegal here too), but looks too much like a weapon for my liking.

And that,sir,is also very true!

[nate j]

Personally I think that a SAK is going to be a much more "inoffensive" option than this knife.

Agreed, especially if the SAK in question is of the small, non-locking variety.  This Lansky knife seems to be a solution in search of a problem...

[jekostas]

Personally I think that a SAK is going to be a much more "inoffensive" option than this knife.

Agreed, especially if the SAK in question is of the small, non-locking variety.  This Lansky knife seems to be a solution in search of a problem...

Agreed.  It looks "tactical" for as best as I can determine, no reason.  I'd much rather have a SAK or something like the Spyderco Pingo, preferably in orange.  Maybe a pink Squeak (depending on the country).

[ironraven]

Well, "tactical" is a term a lot like "pornographic" or "traditional"- its all in the eye of the beholder. If a cop wants to make a stink, remember that our multis all qualify as "burglers tools".

I like how it looks. It kind of reminds me of the skull of t-rex in profile. Only thing missing is a pair of stubby little arms that can curl a quarter ton each.

[English333]

This thread makes me truly appreciate how lucky I am to live in the US. And in the Southeast at that. Knives are allowed everywhere from school sporting events, libraries, bars, churches; anywhere that isn't a federal government building. I carry 3 knives on my person every day and everywhere I go, one of them 9" tip to tang SOG Seal Pup on my belt. I have close to 10 knives in my EDC bag along with 2 machetes and 2 hatchets. However, I do have a legitimate reason for carrying these bladed items. I work construction/landscaping and use a blade dozens of times a day and the machetes/hatchets a few times a week. I encountered a few police officers earlier this week and they all saw my SOG on my hip and the machetes in the trunk. And no one batted and eye.

[Freaver]

Just to bump this up... Has anyone tried this yet, or am I gonna be the guinea pig on this? :-P

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[kirk13]

Guinea pig away 

[jekostas]

Eh.  It's a slipjoint in 440C with a G10 grip.  If anyone anywhere is messing that up they should probably stop making knives and concentrate on something else.

I do like the double-recurve blade, though.  Very useful profile with such a short blade length.

[Kampfer]

  THIS LITTLE KNIFE WEIGHTS 6 OZ  

[Freaver]

Guinea pig away 

Had a feeling, that you would suggest that.
However, my girlfriend just reminded me of our current financial situation and my abundance of blades, so I might have to sit this one out, until a proper review pops up, somewhere... 

[cbl51]

Personally I think that a SAK is going to be a much more "inoffensive" option than this knife.

Agreed, especially if the SAK in question is of the small, non-locking variety.  This Lansky knife seems to be a solution in search of a problem...

No, it's a lame sales gimmick in search of someone  dumb enough to spend their money on it.

Serioulsy, why?  What does it do that a plain old Vic recruit won't do? But the even the Vic recruit has capabilities that this thing can't even begin to think of. If I want a world legal knife, I'm going to choose one that has world recognition as being a benevolent  low profile tool. Even the Dali Lama carries a little SAK!  I have traveled in other parts of the world that has tight weapons laws, and have never had any problem with a modest SAK. Europe and the UK, Southeast Asia, Central America. The knife I always had with me was a small SAK. Heck, they were for sale in every market place in some of the places I went.

The Lansky thing is a question of something, I'm just not sure what.

[Freaver]

cbl51, I'll agree with you on some points - a small SAK is a great option, if you wanna be 100% sure to stay out of trouble. But personally, I'd never even dream about using a SAK for some of the things I use my blades for. Not that I question the quality of SAK, I just don't want to risk destroying it, due to too much pressure. The Lansky World Legal seems like a beefy knife, that can take some abuse.
It's not meant as a travellers knife or the knife you slip in your pockets, when going to a restaurant or similar; that the advantage of a SAK - it is truly for all scenarios, whether you're at work, shopping or at your own wedding. However, a SAK is not a knife to be abused and put under alot of stress; at least not in my mind. That is where the World Legal comes in. It's cheap, it's beefy, it's sturdy and it looks like it can take a beating.

Bottomline: If you've already got a SAK, but need something for heavy cutting, I'm pretty sure the World Legal is what you're looking for. If you need a small blade for light cutting, that won't make you look like a murderer, due to "tactical design", then stick with a SAK, Case or Rough Rider.

[nate j]

I'm curious what "heavy cutting" needs you have that you don't feel a SAK could handle.  SAKs, especially 91 mm and larger, are tougher than they might look.  See http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,46255.0.html .

I also have some Case knives (sodbuster, large stockman, folding hunter) which I believe would be at least the equal of this Lansky, or any other non-locking folder, with regard to ability to stand up to heavy use.

[Freaver]

Well, I can't remember which sizes SAKs I've handled, but none of them has seemed sturdy/beefy enough, to easily go through an 8mm fuel line. Admittedly, I've never tried, but I'd rather save a SAK for going out, and then using a dedicated folder, when I know that I'm gonna cut something that might damage a blade or dull it. As I said earlier, a SAK is, in my mind, what you would call a gentlemans knife, where the World Legal is a work-knife.

However, I do agree with you on the Case knives. And some of the older Boker, for that matter. The special thing about the World Legal, for knife-enthusiasts, is the fact that it is designed by Mikkel Willumsen. Already at that point, it's a viable collectors item, for some. Personally, I just think it would be fun to have a knife designed by a man from my own country.

[cbl51]

Well, I can't remember which sizes SAKs I've handled, but none of them has seemed sturdy/beefy enough, to easily go through an 8mm fuel line. Admittedly, I've never tried, but I'd rather save a SAK for going out, and then using a dedicated folder, when I know that I'm gonna cut something that might damage a blade or dull it. As I said earlier, a SAK is, in my mind, what you would call a gentlemans knife, where the World Legal is a work-knife.

However, I do agree with you on the Case knives. And some of the older Boker, for that matter. The special thing about the World Legal, for knife-enthusiasts, is the fact that it is designed by Mikkel Willumsen. Already at that point, it's a viable collectors item, for some. Personally, I just think it would be fun to have a knife designed by a man from my own country.

I'll try to explain why I feel this is a gimmick knife for the tactical crowd.

1. With a blade that about a quarter inch thick, it has lousy geometry for slicing. And slicing is what a knife does, cut. I don't know what 8mm fuel lines like, but if a SAK like a soldier, recruit, tinker, or any other regular size SAK can't cut it, I doubt a knife with a blade less than three inches with a thick quarter inch stock profile is going to cut it either. Size has nothing to do with cutting ability. Look at the construction sites and see what real construction guys are using all over from stripping cable to opening bags of cement. It's the old sliding blade Stanley utility knife or a knock off. Those have a blade that is less than a small fraction of the thickness of a world legal knife. IN fact the standard blade on a utility knife is about what a single edge razor blade is. Maybe about .090 thousands of steel, about an inch long on the cutting edge.

I'm a retired worker in the trades, just a blue collar guy who has spent a life working on construction sites and in the machine shop, where a great many materials had to be cut. Most times the utility knife was cutting anything from air hose line to tar paper and trimming roofing shingle.

2. As for a SAK not being able to take abuse, these things are riveted together in such a manner to withstand heavy duty use in a wide range of circumstances. For a traveler or resident of any country where you can't have a locking blade or over a 3 inch blade, A SAK will stand up to most anything you run into in your day to day life. If you are in a building trade or other job that you need to cut that fuel line on a regular basis, I would guess that a real tool in a tool kit would be on hand. Nippers, tin snipes, utility knife with replaceable blade.  I doubt that the world legal knife is a much better cutting on anything than a Victorinox pioneer. And having used a pioneer in very hard use, I can vouch for it being able to take hard use, plus it can tighten a loose cooling system hose clamp, make a hole with the awl for a screw, remove screws to access inner workings of something, and a host of other  things the world legal knife can not do.

 Since the world legal knife is close to the price of a Victorinox pioneer or electrician model, and the SAK is so much more capable, it's a no brainer. Too many people have jumped on the designer band wagon making the short thick knives for the tactical crown that thinks the knife they have on them is going to help them save the world in some Walter Mitty fantasy, that we end up with a bunch of fat hard use knives that not only don;t make a very good knife, but are ugly as well. I don't know what the blade on that world legal knife is supposed to be, but it looks like it would be clumsy in any real world cutting job.

[Gareth]

I've got to say that it's not my cup of tea at all, but I'm also not going to knock anyone who wants to own it either.  Yes, a SAK offers more usefulness and is much less likely to get a second look from non-knife people, but that wouldn't stop me from owning one of these if I liked the look of it.

I've got loads of knives, in many different shapes, sizes, locks, materials.....and I actually carry very few of them 'cos most of the time I've got a SAK in my pocket.  Doesn't mean I don't like owning all the others though.