Hello everyone. I have read threads on these forums for years but never as a member. I have used members opinions and have made purchases based on things I have learned from this site. So after reading this thread, and seeing that it is fresh I'd like to share a story. I'll make it short and sweet.
Firstly I love the idea of the slim 110 and now that I've discovered they exist I'll buy a couple but I don't see them replacing the 110LT in my pocket. I work around hundreds of cars, aome costing $100k and I just can't take the risk of the metal pocket clip scratching units I'm responsible for protecting. And I love the original width...
Ive used countless knives, growing up a hillbilly I learnt to use a knife the day I sliced a sliver off the knuckle of my left index finger with my mommas 7" old hickory kitchen knife slicing log bologna. I got scared and ran and hid in the closet and got three whippings, 1 for using the knife, one for bleeding all over everything and one for hiding lol I was about 4 years old according to mom. That day she taught me to use a knife and I received a camilius camping knife with the punch instead of the pen blade. It was confiscated in kindergarten while I was cutting my steak at lunch lol true stories and unrelated but any true knife enthusiast should appreciate my tale of what started my passion with knives. I owe y'all that much fir all the knowledge ive gained from you all on several occasions...
Anyways, now to my point of entering this thread....
Knives without liners.
In about 1995 I bought myself a cold steel voyage at a gun show in Nashville,tn. Zytel, no liners. I truly beat the crap outta that knife and all my cousins ragged me about my "cheap plastic knife" and how "you got ripped off buying that cheap crap" etc etc...over the next few years that knife cleaned, skinned, butchered numbers of every legally obtainable critter in my home state of Kentucky. Built shelters, split wood for fires, pryed, worked and honestly was abused to the point I was tired of it lol time for another knife, it still worked like new too...
Well one day all the family was meeting to eat and such and I said "y'all remember my cheap plastic knife?" (Only by this point they no longer spoke ill of my voyager)...I took it and stabbed it into a root at the base of a tree and walked 15 paces and turned and shot it with my ruger mkii using a cci stinger and the knife flipped off out across the field. Upon retrieving it, I inspected it and all that happened was a little grey circle appeared upon the black handle. My good friend ended up with that knife for free and he later gave it to his dad, over 20 years later that same old non-liner knife is still working, shot and all...
Have a good and blessed one..thanks again.