Tactical Straight Razor???

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lonestar1979

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I am surprised CS hasn't come up with one of these, with high hollow grind and any type of steel(theyre all good)!This knife would be a blast for shaving, for cutting boxes, utility, self defense etc...
 
Razors that are good for shaving aren't good for other tasks. They would be to fragile for other cutting tasks.
 
the market can do everything tactical style , tactical razor / Kitchen knife/ Chopsticks /spoon .tactical knife is a big sh*its like those things , but the buyers has been received as natural conception for over 20 years .
 
lonestar1979 said:
Well, utility tactical razor or whatever......you can shave with any knife if you prepare the edge.....
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In honesty [and I'm actually going to bat for CS in this particular instance], I've never held a CS knife that wasn't already shaving sharp right out of the box. I had a TM Bowie that out of the package, shaved the thick beard hair off my face [yes, I was stupid enough to try this]. Simply honing [polishing the edge] any of their blades with a strop or extremely fine grit surface will make them more easily glide over skin.

DocT said:
Razors are often illegal to carry outside the home.
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That is subjective to the person's jurisdiction.
 
Back when most manufacturers expected you to sharpen your knife before using it, Cold Steel making the effort to send out their knives shaving sharp (I assume they use a continuous leather belt as the strop in the factory) would have set them apart. Hence their tag "the world's strongest sharpest knives" was probably fairly accurate, at least in regards to the factory edge. Of course now more manufacturers also sharpen their knives before sending them out, so the tag doesn't work like it used to.
 
Well there's always this one from Extrema Ratio:

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DocT said:
Razors are often illegal to carry outside the home.
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Offhand, do you know which states? I've seen a lot of knife laws for diff states(by no means every state though) and I don't recall ever seeing any laws about it being illegal to carry razors, at least, as long as they fall under the blade length allowed by the state. I see automatic knifes specifically banned a lot of places, balisongs, switchblades, "gravity knives", "daggers, dirks, push knives" are banned in a lot of places, but I've never seen anything banning carry of a razor specifically.
 
DShiflet said:
Offhand, do you know which states? I've seen a lot of knife laws for diff states(by no means every state though) and I don't recall ever seeing any laws about it being illegal to carry razors, at least, as long as they fall under the blade length allowed by the state. I see automatic knifes specifically banned a lot of places, balisongs, switchblades, "gravity knives", "daggers, dirks, push knives" are banned in a lot of places, but I've never seen anything banning carry of a razor specifically.
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Philadelphia PA bans all edged weapons/knives in public
 
Back in the early 20th century the straight razor was so popular among African Americans that it was dubbed the black man's Bowie.

Eventually they passed laws saying that if you carried a razor you also had to carry a shaving brush, probably because the brush is harder to conceal.

As a utility blade it's pretty useful, and you can use it as a weapon although the techniques involved holding the back edge between thumb and finger in a pinch grip and slashing with the edge. Razors are a little too brittle for anything that could lead to an impact. On the plus side, used like that it's hard to drive the blade deep enough to kill.
 
G. Scott H. said:
Strange for the place that was home to both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.:grumpy::(
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no kidding. Philly is a City of the First Class and under that classification, has more than one million known residents. It's actually about 1.5M residents...I personally believe there are at least 2M.....

Philly itself makes its own rules based upon its population and demographics. It's [City] government officials think they are above the State in most cases and is why I avoid it like the plague. There have been several lawsuits regarding firearms laws vs preemption statutes instilled by the State. Those lawsuits have won on several fronts and are stalled in others. Challenges to their laws on knives are some of those that are stalled.

Pennsylvania is a "shall issue" CCW State. The Law is that with the exception of a City of the First Class, anyone applying for a CCW must go to the County Sheriff. In Philly, you must go to he police chief and there in lies the problem. The police chief has, in many people's opinion, arbitrarily denied applications or purposely stalled the issue. The Chief also holds a lot of power in their legislative arena. The Chief is more of a bureaucrat than the leading LE official...but that's fairly true of all Chiefs...

Philly also has [what I believe to be] one of the two or three highest crime rates in the State. That is natural considering the census....the higher a population, the higher the percentage of crime. It is my belief that this is reason alone for the anti-knife laws they have...fueled by political aspirations of the leading law enforcement officials...
 
druid189 said:
Philadelphia PA bans all edged weapons/knives in public
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But that's not specifically a law against straight razors, it's a law against all blades. Person I was responding to said razors specifically were often forbidden to be carried.
 
DShiflet said:
But that's not specifically a law against straight razors, it's a law against all blades. Person I was responding to said razors specifically were often forbidden to be carried.
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true......but Philly PD? they don't care. If it has a cutting edge they consider it a knife and you will be arrested.
 
druid189 said:
true......but Philly PD? they don't care. If it has a cutting edge they consider it a knife and you will be arrested.
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Yes, I got that, and it sucks for Philly people. But the point was, places were ALL blades are banned were not what was being discussed. What was being discussed was the person's post that seemed to imply straight razors were often not allowed to be carried where other knives WERE allowed. I wanted to know what places banned razors specifically(like DocT said), not what places forbid carrying anything with an edge...
 
DShiflet said:
Yes, I got that, and it sucks for Philly people. But the point was, places were ALL blades are banned were not what was being discussed. What was being discussed was the person's post that seemed to imply straight razors were often not allowed to be carried where other knives WERE allowed. I wanted to know what places banned razors specifically(like DocT said), not what places forbid carrying anything with an edge...
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PA State Law does not ban the carry of razors. It does not [for the most part] ban the carry of knives. Daggers [double edge blades], switchblade/gravity knives and swords are regulated.

Using Killadelphia as the example of "local/jurisdictional laws" - Philly makes no distinction between a knife or a grooming appliance. Anything that cuts [to them] is synonymous to 'knife' - and the law applies. To that end, you and I agree.

My response was to DocT's response [post #7]. Doc asserted that carrying a razor outside the home was illegal and I simply replied that's up to the jurisdiction. That still holds true...and is up to the individual to seek out the appropriate laws for their area. That's all I said and all I meant...nothing more or less.
 
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