Lansky The Knife

[Noa Isumi]

"The Knife"
This is one of the earliest plastic knives to see comercial sucess. While many companies make non-metalic knives in all shapes and sizes; if you wanted one in the 90s this was it. Ironicly I first heard the Lansky name for these not thier sharpeners.

Its construction is one piece of molded fiberglass reinforced nylon with a 3.25in triangular dagger blade. The edge is not really sharp and is close to what you find on a plastic lettuce knife. It is non metallic, and does not register on my Zircon wall scaner's metal detector mode. The grip is shaped well and has good texture.

  In cut testing the small section of serrations could be worked through the card it came on, but not easily. Cutting the apple was more of an excersize in chunking. While the edge is just sharp enough the triangular blade is too thick. As a letter opener it cut clean on normal paper. Light stabbing into cardboard passed 2layers with minor tip deformation, though honestly I was just pushing not swinging all out. Even with the defomation it pushed through some pepperoni with ease.
While this is not a work or use "knife" by any means that is not its intended function. In its designed purpose as a self defense weapon I have no doubt that it would work

[Noa Isumi]

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[SolomonKane79]

I came to the same conclusions with a Cold Steel plastic knife i owned years ago... Probably quite efficient as a self defense knife but sucked at almost everything else. I got the tip bent, too.

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[ThePeacent]

I came to the same conclusions with a Cold Steel plastic knife i owned years ago... Probably quite efficient as a self defense knife but sucked at almost everything else. I got the tip bent, too.

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a good substitute if you don't have a bread/nutella knife or spreading. Safe for the kids too

[cbl51]

I've always thought to these things as sort of novelty toys for certain adults who have a phobia about being armed at ALL times. They are not worth a tinkers darn for any cutting, and are mostly for the stealthily stab attack in ninja mode. Back in my younger days I actually tried one when they first campout, was not impressed and discarded it. Too easy to just keep a small, sharp, but real penknife in a pocket. If I am flying, I can go without a knife for three hours.

There's too many things on the market place that have no real value except for the maker/seller, and that is getting your money out of your pocket and into theirs.

[Zhenchok]

I saw one for sale the other day for like 12 bucks and thought that it was a toy.  Can't imagine anyone using it.


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[SolomonKane79]

I've always thought to these things as sort of novelty toys for certain adults who have a phobia about being armed at ALL times. They are not worth a tinkers darn for any cutting, and are mostly for the stealthily stab attack in ninja mode. Back in my younger days I actually tried one when they first campout, was not impressed and discarded it. Too easy to just keep a small, sharp, but real penknife in a pocket. If I am flying, I can go without a knife for three hours.

There's too many things on the market place that have no real value except for the maker/seller, and that is getting your money out of your pocket and into theirs.

Amen

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