Who wants to hear a funny story?

[Leatherman123]

If you do, hear it goes... When I was three or four years old I collected tools. I didn't like the "toy" type tools, I liked the real thing. So, on my third or fourth Birthday I got a tool box filed with all sorts of tools.  My mother told me it weighed at the least twenty five pounds. I took this tool box everywhere. I even took it to Church! I have also been told that one of my arms used to be longer than the other from carrying the box everywhere! Then, I collected watches for awhile. While in NYC, I saw my first SAK. Mind you, I was about 6 or 7! I had to have it! I carried it everywhere. My mother used to have to "frisk" me before I went to school. I just always wanted to have it with me. = I guess it was because the SAK combined all the tools I used to carry in my tool box in one easy to carry package! Who knows!

There's my funny story!

[minnesnowtah]

i was the same way when i was a kid except the frisking part. i have had a few SAKs confiscated from teachers but that was before zero tolrance and what not. i got a lecture about how dangerous they were but that's it.

[donvito]

Heh liked the read. Me and my brother growing up had similar experiences. Him walking around with a hammer and knocking nails in, me pulling em out or vise-versa. These days a kid will bring a sak to school, the parents are labeled terrorists, homeland security knocks on everyone's door, and child psychologists discuss the "incident", but at the same time kids are very different these days, and I have a teacher friend of mine who's student was stabbed outside of school in front of her eyes. 

[Whoey]

a SAK is not a boxcutter... and any well trained terrorist/assassin/evildoer/whatever will know how to use just about anything at hand to cause lethal results...

Gotta love the state of fear they impose on you... and the false sense of "security" they give you at airports and such...

My prime example of stupidity: I flew last summer to Canada from Spain via London... On the way there we flew Bilbao (Spain) to Heathrow, then went to a hotel in London for the night, and left via Gatwick to Halifax (Canada). All the security was normal, put you carryon bags/coat etc thru the xray scanner...

On the way back it was about the same, except we had a different airline that was leaving from Gatwick to Spain so we actually never left the airport... we only had to change terminals... our Transatlantic/Intercontental/International/nonEU flight had regular security checks (except for the Canadian Customs being confused as to what I was carrying in my new Wenger backpack... they couldn't find the compartment, and I wasn't allowed to touch it while they searched it to show them what they were looking for... turns out it was the coiled cables of my mp3 player/minidisc)

Any ways, on the UK side we breeze through customs (EU residents), get our bags, and head to the other checkin, hand over our non carry on luggage and head to the other terminal... this time, besides the normal xray, they're making people take off their shoes and put them through an xray machine... FOR AN EU FLIGHT... which they don't do for a transatlantic flight in a different terminal of the same airport... not to mention the incredible backlog of queues (what is it with massive queues in the UK??) that this causes cause they only have one shoe xray machine for every 3 regular ones...

I also don't agree with the not being able to take drinks through the security gate so they can nail you for triple priced drinks once you pass security. Of course they always provide a water fountain of horrid city water for free... but that's not the point.

I never really used to like traveling abroad, but now I find it even more inconvenient thanks to false security... aside from the fuel prices soaring, no wonder a bunch of airlines are going bankrupt...

[duckman1975]

The zero tolerance on schools are getting bad and I understand why, stabbing among the youths are increasing in everywhere. But I wouldn't want my boy to have no experience carrying an EDC tool, planning to buy him a atwood type non bladed tool. A pry bar, philips, screw, bottle opener type atwood like tool would be okay in school I guess.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

The zero tolerance on schools are getting bad and I understand why, stabbing among the youths are increasing in everywhere. But I wouldn't want my boy to have no experience carrying an EDC tool, planning to buy him a atwood type non bladed tool. A pry bar, philips, screw, bottle opener type atwood like tool would be okay in school I guess.

Not a bad idea that mate

[Freudian Frog]

I was thinking about modding a SAK into a SAG, that is, to remove any blade/saw type part.

So, what would I put in there? What's an ideal SAG?

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I was thinking about modding a SAK into a SAG, that is, to remove any blade/saw type part.

So, what would I put in there? What's an ideal SAG?

Speak to Neil he's aready got a few prototypes

[gafftapegreenia]

Trying to make a school friendly SAK is tough. You can't just cut out knife blades. I'm sure things like the awl (pointy weapon) and saw blade (destructive potential-and along those lines the file blade) would also be questionable. At least, the high school I went to would have likely had a problem with it.

[american lockpicker]

The zero tolerance on schools are getting bad and I understand why, stabbing among the youths are increasing in everywhere. But I wouldn't want my boy to have no experience carrying an EDC tool, planning to buy him a atwood type non bladed tool. A pry bar, philips, screw, bottle opener type atwood like tool would be okay in school I guess.

Get him a bladeless fuse.

[duckman1975]

A mod SAK isn't a bad idea just grid the knives in to a spatula. A sawless my fist Vic will do and just dull the knife.

[minnesnowtah]

anything pointy or sharp is a no no, i.e. awl, bottle opener. i can think of a few "non-constructive" yet "highly lethal" uses for a bottle opener.