Pocket knife

[Beest]

Re post from one of the paintball boards I frequent, this directly from a user there, not a cousins friends uncle bob so I'm fairly confident it's not a 'shop.

Anyway I LOL'd so hoepfully most here will too.

Originally Posted by Narsil

I've seen quite a few ridiculous pocket knives before but this one takes the cake. Every person I've shown it to has burst out laughing and insisted on holding it. I picked it up for free as a "pick-anything-you-want-from-the-box" raffle prize at the Kel-Tec Owners Group shoot this Tuesday near Lake Okechobee, FL. As soon as I saw this pocket knife, it was a no-brainer choice; I had to have it.
On to the pictures.
The box:

The knife inside the box:
Closeup
image of the nifty bee on the lock:



What? What do you mean, "what is so ridiculous about that knife?"



Well, yes, I suppose it does look like ten million other traditional pocket knives made over the past hundred years.



I stand by my original statement.



It is the most ridiculous pocket knife I've ever seen.



The problem is how to explain why it is so ridiculous.



Is it because it was made in Pakistan?



No.



Is it because the blade is rather dull and made from crappy "surgical" steel?



No.



How to explain it so you'll understand?



I know!!



All you need is the proper perspective!



How about a little scale to the image?






You simply cannot see this knife in person without cracking up; it is hilarious to pull this thing out and claim it is a "pocket" knife.

[xoxoxoBruce]

[footfootfoot]

Yours for a mere $12.99 Though the finish on the website's knife looks much better than that on your friend's knife.

http://budk.com/Knives/Timber-Rattle...-Folding-Knife

[jimhelm]

Pocket Scimitar

•spoken in to my phone

[Spexxvet]

Gotta have big pockets!

[BigV]

Now *that's* a knife!

[Clodfobble]

You know that's not a bee on the lock, right? It's a rattlesnake's head.

[Happy Monkey]

It's a hybrid! Rattlesnakes with fangs in their rattles and a hive mentality!

Sounds like a xenomorph...

[wolf]

I have a similarly comical cigarette lighter that a former cow orker gave me.

It is so incredibly huge that the former boss and the HR director commented on it when they were handing me my bag of belongings when I got shitcanned.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

You know that's not a bee on the lock, right? It's a rattlesnake's head.

It's the "forged bee" symbol, derived from French heraldry (Napoleonic era), used by the originator of that knife style in France. The "royal bee" also appears on coinage of the era. Today the symbol is used worldwide in the manufacture of knives even remotely similar to the original as a marketing gimmick.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguiol...oduction_sites

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by BigV

Now *that's* a knife!

First two-handed pocket knife I've ever seen.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by sexobon

It's the "forged bee" symbol, derived from French heraldry (Napoleonic era), used by the originator of that knife style in France. The "royal bee" also appears on coinage of the era. Today the symbol is used worldwide in the manufacture of knives even remotely similar to the original as a marketing gimmick.

Hmmph. Most of the ones I see on Google Image search ("Laguiole bee") look a hell of a lot more like a bee than that. I bet that it only got named the "Timber Rattler" because someone in marketing thought it looked like a rattlesnake head too.

[sexobon]

:-))) Supposedly, the bee was stylized and so unpopular that the design itself was the reason the French started referring to it as the Laguiole "fly"; until, the design was later made more natural looking. At least that's a story I've heard at national knife collectors shows since I started attending them back in the '80s. I haven't researched it myself as it isn't an area of interest for me. It does remind me of when Mexico changed its national emblem of the eagle with serpent on a cactus to a stylized design on its coinage in the '70s. Some there were calling it treason.

The same knife is probably sold in numerous countries. The bee symbol is widely recognized; so, they need only change the less expensive packaging rather than the manufactured design to have appeal in each marketplace. It could very well be though that the image styling on the package (fanged snakes being a repeated theme in this marketplace) was influenced by the style of the image on the knife.

[footfootfoot]

You're both wrong, according to the people who make the damn knife, it's a scarab:

Originally Posted by The People Who Make the Damn Knife in the First Place

You just thought you had a lockback, THIS IS A LOCKBACK. This monstrous Timber Rattler Scarab Back lockback features a 8" stainless steel blade housed inside grey pakkawood handle scales and stainless bolsters. A scarab medallion acts as the lock release button and offers character to the back of the knife. 9 3/4" closed, 17 3/4" overall

[sexobon]

It's a dolphin!

You may as well believe that as much as believing it's a scarab. Calling it a scarab is just a way around the deceptive practice of using a well known French symbol of higher quality products. Compare the image below to the one Beest provided. Click on the image for the background story and more images of the bee symbol on French made knives.: