Belt Fed
Emissary
What is that?
US Ban on Switchblades Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
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OldGrunt
Hellcat
OldGrunt
Hellcat
I thought you would have known that the pegs and golf ball are sex toys!
Belt Fed
Emissary
I can't even imagine how they would be used for that purpose.
OldGrunt
Hellcat
Dang! And I was all excited for the wife to take some pics!and please, No pics of you demonstrating it.
Belt Fed
Emissary
Uh Huh! Sure, She probably bust yer head for even suggesting it.
bc22wm
Professional
Thanks OldGrunt.
Not counting the decorative toys made today The Monkey Fist has a long history from the days of sail. Frequently they had a musket ball or a smooth rock inside the knot to give them more authority. Laws restricting "knotted rope" were some of the first probations on weapons. Knives were a common tool, knotted rope was the equipment of thugs and press gangs.
OldGrunt
Hellcat
Years ago I used to make them. I would weigh them down with big heavy nuts (fasteners, for those with dirty minds!). I still have a few around here. I even have one on my keychain, a mini one. I might start making a few again. A lot of people asked me to make them for them back when I used to work offshore as a commercial diver.
OldGrunt
Hellcat
They are meant to be attached to a heaving line to throw towards a dock from a ship, or vice versa, from the dock to a ship. Then the heaving line would be attached to a heavier mooring line, to be pulled onto a ship from the dock, or vice versa. Sailors over time figured out a monkey's fist could make a good weapon.
Retired Bum
Professional
So did certain MC clubs. You can sometimes see them hanging off the end of the handle bars of bikes and are easily disconnected with one hand and swung into windows and windshields
meistermash
Elite
I thought that stupid law was already gone.
Last year because a mazon doesn't sell auto magic knives, I purchased 6 or 8 Chinese made clones off of, you guessed it, a mazons.
Their prohibition means only that US made automatic knives are not on their site.
Most were bitchmade clones.
No I don't care one bit about bitchmade due to their anti gun stance.
In the Navy, they still hold Boatswains mate Olympics where heaving lines are flung using monkey fist for distance.
Last year because a mazon doesn't sell auto magic knives, I purchased 6 or 8 Chinese made clones off of, you guessed it, a mazons.
Their prohibition means only that US made automatic knives are not on their site.
Most were bitchmade clones.
No I don't care one bit about bitchmade due to their anti gun stance.
In the Navy, they still hold Boatswains mate Olympics where heaving lines are flung using monkey fist for distance.
Story time:
Father had a 10 3/4" long, carbon steel, Fishtail pick lock, Italian automatic he carried in a hand-crafted holster alongside a marlinspike with an adjustable-end wrench he had silver-soldered onto the head. (He crafted the holster/scabbard by hand.)
While working at the Bremerton Navy Shipyards, Father had a line passed around his arm and between the planks of the dock. The line was secured to a pair of bitts on a ship. Another ship passed in the lane next to his ship. The ship's draft began to pull the ship to which the line was lashed. This, in turn, pulled the line passed around dad's arm down between the planks on the dock. Dad quickly drew his knife, snapped it open, and cut the line, saving his arm, and life.
Since dad told us this story, automatic knives have held a special place in my heart.
Tools are just that... tools.
Father had a 10 3/4" long, carbon steel, Fishtail pick lock, Italian automatic he carried in a hand-crafted holster alongside a marlinspike with an adjustable-end wrench he had silver-soldered onto the head. (He crafted the holster/scabbard by hand.)
While working at the Bremerton Navy Shipyards, Father had a line passed around his arm and between the planks of the dock. The line was secured to a pair of bitts on a ship. Another ship passed in the lane next to his ship. The ship's draft began to pull the ship to which the line was lashed. This, in turn, pulled the line passed around dad's arm down between the planks on the dock. Dad quickly drew his knife, snapped it open, and cut the line, saving his arm, and life.
Since dad told us this story, automatic knives have held a special place in my heart.
Tools are just that... tools.