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SnikPlosskin
06-18-2011, 8:59pm
What say you? He is 10. I'm thinking a knife that locks would be safer. Although I'm not even sure a 10 year old needs a knife anyway.
Datawiz
06-18-2011, 9:01pm
He's paying for everything lately, right? Give him what he wants. :D
nhlgopens
06-18-2011, 9:01pm
This was my first pocket knife - I was around 8. I still have it.
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JRD77VET
06-18-2011, 9:05pm
Just a reminder they come from the factory very sharp :yesnod:
Is he responsible? Level headed? If so, let him get one. Better yet, it would extremely cool if Dad got him his first pocket knife.
Sea Six
06-18-2011, 9:06pm
10yo and he doesn't have his own knife?
Give him a knife safety course, and then the knife.
Let him know that if you ever find out that he was being careless or not following knife safety rules, you'll watch him throw it away in such a manner that he'll never be able to retrieve it. :yesnod: That, and he'll never own another one until he's an adult.
When I was 10, my Mom bought me a pellet/BB gun just because I was 10 years old and didn't already have my own gun.
GRN ENVY
06-18-2011, 9:18pm
I got my first knife when I entered boy scouts, I was taught proper use, and safety. I was about 10 or 11. Did me good. If not I know I would have cut myself.
SnikPlosskin
06-18-2011, 9:26pm
He's paying for everything lately, right? Give him what he wants. :D
I wish.
You are the Dad. Err on the side of safety (and make sure he understands it).
Datawiz
06-18-2011, 9:28pm
I wish.
I thought the TV show was in the stratosphere.
SnikPlosskin
06-18-2011, 9:32pm
I thought the TV show was in the stratosphere.
We keep saying no to the vultures. Super tough biz. We are forming a 501c3 to make our curriculum available to any teacher who needs it.
That way we protect kids IP rights, turn kids on to science and help teachers do the job. Win/win.
We will be hitting up the Dells, Microsofts, Samsungs, IBMs of the world to support it.
Datawiz
06-18-2011, 9:37pm
We keep saying no to the vultures. Super tough biz. We are forming a 501c3 to make our curriculum available to any teacher who needs it.
That way we protect kids IP rights, turn kids on to science and help teachers do the job. Win/win.
We will be hitting up the Dells, Microsofts, Samsungs, IBMs of the world to support it.
At the end of the day, it's all about the kids. :cheers:
My daughter is deep into replicating a TI-30XA calculator in software as her summer project.
SnikPlosskin
06-18-2011, 9:39pm
At the end of the day, it's all about the kids. :cheers:
My daughter is deep into replicating a TI-30XA calculator in software as her summer project.
Wow! That is cool. Just my kind of kid. :dance:
It would be so easy to sell his soul out from under him, but we just don't work that way. I don't even answer the phone anymore if the area code is LA.
LisaJohn
06-18-2011, 9:44pm
Get him the knife. Does he have a brother? It's fun to go to the emergency room on New Year's Eve at 11:30pm and explain to the doc how younger son got his finger cut by his own pocket knife that older brother was using and younger son reached for. 5 stitches for the index finger! He was the first official injury for New Year's!
SnikPlosskin
06-18-2011, 9:49pm
Get him the knife. Does he have a brother? It's fun to go to the emergency room on New Year's Eve at 11:30pm and explain to the doc how younger son got his finger cut by his own pocket knife that older brother was using and younger son reached for. 5 stitches for the index finger! He was the first official injury for New Year's!
That's Thrakk's fear right there. He's an only child but I'm sure he can find a way.
Get him the knife. Does he have a brother? It's fun to go to the emergency room on New Year's Eve at 11:30pm and explain to the doc how younger son got his finger cut by his own pocket knife that older brother was using and younger son reached for. 5 stitches for the index finger! He was the first official injury for New Year's!
The hospital should have at least bought the kid a set of steak knives, you know, like the way the first baby of the new year gets sent home with a years supply of diapers.
Uncle Pervey
06-18-2011, 10:10pm
Get him the knife, my grandson was 8 and in the Cub Scouts when we got him a knife. He's nearly 10 now and has always followed all the rules for carrying and using his knife.
He is a very well behaved boy and a straight A student. Now my next grandson is nearly 6 and I wouldn't give him a knife until he was 21, he's wild as a March Hare and will try anything.
So it depends on the kid. :yesnod:
This was my first pocket knife - I was around 8. I still have it.
Amazon.com: Victorinox Swiss Army Classic Pocket Knife: Sports & Outdoors (http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-Classic-Pocket-Knife/dp/B00004YVB2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1308448866&sr=8-2)
I still have one of those as well. :cheers:
10yo and he doesn't have his own knife?
the kid is gonna be gay.
Zidane
06-18-2011, 10:23pm
10yo and he doesn't have his own knife?
Give him a knife safety course, and then the knife.
Let him know that if you ever find out that he was being careless or not following knife safety rules, you'll watch him throw it away in such a manner that he'll never be able to retrieve it. :yesnod: That, and he'll never own another one until he's an adult.
When I was 10, my Mom bought me a pellet/BB gun just because I was 10 years old and didn't already have my own gun.
Word. Teach him the "rules" and he will be fine. I had my first knife at 7....and the scars to prove it. Closed the ole swiss army knife on my thumb once. Gotta learn somehow.
69camfrk
06-18-2011, 10:27pm
He will cut himself like the rest of us have and then it will be all ok. I prefer American made knives, but Swiss Army knives are great.
Eh. Get him a Leatherman tool instead. Way cooler, for mischief.
Jeff '79
06-18-2011, 10:50pm
eh....knives are boring.....Welding pellets, sugar, some 3/4" pipe, a pipe threader, and some end caps.......Waaayyyy more fun....oh, and some wick...:explode:
polarbear
06-18-2011, 11:37pm
I got my first knife when I entered boy scouts, I was taught proper use, and safety. I was about 10 or 11. Did me good. If not I know I would have cut myself.
My son had the safety course, and still cut himself within hours of getting it. (A Gerber, as I recall). Should've just made a reservation at the ER when we gave him the knife.
Petew1971
06-19-2011, 4:04am
What say you? He is 10. I'm thinking a knife that locks would be safer. Although I'm not even sure a 10 year old needs a knife anyway.
buy him one you over protective faggot..what are you some kind of bible thumpin baby coddling parent??
You trying to raise a girl or a boy with a vagina?
My son had the safety course, and still cut himself within hours of getting it. (A Gerber, as I recall). Should've just made a reservation at the ER when we gave him the knife.
Of course.
Get him the knife anyway.
SnikPlosskin
06-19-2011, 8:09am
Eh. Get him a Leatherman tool instead. Way cooler, for mischief.
I offered him a Leatherman - he didn't want it. Has a thing for the Swiss army knife.
It's not like he wants a .45.
He's a bright kid, he'll be fine.
You are over-thinking this.
I offered him a Leatherman - he didn't want it. Has a thing for the Swiss army knife.
yes, he's gay :D
SnikPlosskin
06-19-2011, 8:51am
It's not like he wants a .45.
He's a bright kid, he'll be fine.
You are over-thinking this.
He wants a .45 too. That kid is like a gun historian. :confused5:
Blademaker
06-19-2011, 8:55am
It's not like he wants a .45.
He's a bright kid, he'll be fine.
You are over-thinking this.
:iagree:
I got my 1st pocket knife at 6. Promptly cut myself. Parents took the knife away for a month. BFD
Got the knife back, then turned slasher. Took out 3 cats and a hamster. Parents took away my pocket knife for good.
So I began making them.
And talking to them.
And they talk back.
:rofl:
J/K...........get the kid a Swiss Army knife, if he cuts himself, it'll be a learning experience.
Jeff '79
06-19-2011, 9:31am
buy him one you over protective faggot..what are you some kind of bible thumpin baby coddling parent??
You trying to raise a girl or a boy with a vagina?
For real.:rofl:.....Get him a keep sake....If he cuts himself, he sure won't do it again.....Just be sure to tell him not to take it to school.....
TooManyIDs
06-19-2011, 9:37am
Depends on his disposition. And if he is responsible now ... he may not be later.
My two boys have had various pocket knives for years.
I did keep them for a while, when they weren't out camping or doing something they really needed a knife for ... because they were "play" threatening their sister.
Years later, when the oldest was 16, decides he is Rambo, tossing knife in the air, comes down on arm, artery, off to the hospital. :kick: Dumb ass.
carlton_fritz
06-19-2011, 9:44am
Don't you have some weird alien weapons he can trade for a knife? I have one he might like, for the proper weird alien weapon.
He wants a .45 too. That kid is like a gun historian. :confused5:
Sounds like a good kid to me.
khblair
06-19-2011, 9:54am
m 9 yr old has 2 swiss army knives. i keep them put up unless he "needs" them for something and he is being supervised.
BADRACR1
06-19-2011, 10:25am
I gave 'em to my kids and step kids about that age.
just give 'em a little training.
VatorMan
06-19-2011, 10:30am
A 10 YO should be ready for the responsibility of a knife.
Burro (He/Haw)
06-19-2011, 11:04am
It aint only kids that cut themselves. Everytime this knife comes outta my pocket, someone says, "Hey that's cool, lemme see"
So I flick the blade open via the toggle, and pretty much everyone closes it on their finger.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412B1C5T9QL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Rotorhead
06-19-2011, 11:17am
Had knives since I was four years old, and even took my pocket knife to school. Times have sure changed.
BuckyThreadkiller
06-19-2011, 12:50pm
Had knives since I was four years old, and even took my pocket knife to school. Times have sure changed.
I'll say. Back in the day the Cub Scout knife had a retainer on it so you could clip it to your belt and everyone at school could see it.
I'd say 10 years old is ready.
Had knives since I was four years old, and even took my pocket knife to school. Times have sure changed.
:yesnod:
I was thinking of this because of this thread...
I remember my wood shop teacher telling us to use our pocket knife to clean off the burrs on wood sometimes left after cutting.
back then...it was assumed 10-12 y/o boys had a pocket knife with them.
We are fu@ked as a society & a country. Political correctness is killing us from the inside out.
It aint only kids that cut themselves. Everytime this knife comes outta my pocket, someone says, "Hey that's cool, lemme see"
So I flick the blade open via the toggle, and pretty much everyone closes it on their finger.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412B1C5T9QL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
TRON called. They want their knife back.
65 Hardnoks
06-19-2011, 3:17pm
You should get your boy a fixed blade knife. He can't sneak around with it as easily and it'll do much more KNIFE work than those ghey Swiss army knives.
SnikPlosskin
06-19-2011, 4:58pm
Got him one of these at Cabela's - has a locking blade.
http://www.wengerna.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/0/dffa953159542fe9a1f76c39bdc18659/image/evolution_18_sku.png
Doesn't get to use without supervision for a while. Plus we will do some training. He's a good kid. I will post from hospital.
Sea Six
06-19-2011, 5:01pm
Got him one of these at Cabela's - has a locking blade.
http://www.wengerna.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/0/dffa953159542fe9a1f76c39bdc18659/image/evolution_18_sku.png
Doesn't get to use without supervision for a while. Plus we will do some training. He's a good kid. I will post from hospital.
Have him provide a pint of his own blood to the clinic, in case he needs it.
SnikPlosskin
06-19-2011, 5:04pm
I also told him if he cuts himself, he also gets a beating. :leaving:
I also told him if he cuts himself, he also gets a beating. :leaving:
he should have said: "dad, go get the belt" :lol:
Good job. He'll be way ahead of his classmates in Mumbly Peg now:D
Sea Six
06-19-2011, 5:37pm
I also told him if he cuts himself, he also gets a beating. :leaving:
What if he tricks you into cutting him? :yesnod:
Burro (He/Haw)
06-19-2011, 5:39pm
TRON called. They want their knife back.
Hey sperm dump. Kershaw makes a good knife!:D
American Made
06-19-2011, 6:15pm
Kid needs the knife. I bought one at 8 years old and cut myself a couple times having the blade fold back onto the finger unaware of the proper way to hold a folding knife when stabbing it into dirt. I have since never had another blade related injury. :D
SnikPlosskin
06-19-2011, 6:21pm
What if he tricks you into cutting him? :yesnod:
Hmmm. I guess I'd have to beat him twice.
(kidding - no beatings around here)
Kid needs the knife. I bought one at 8 years old and cut myself a couple times having the blade fold back onto the finger unaware of the proper way to hold a folding knife when stabbing it into dirt. I have since never had another blade related injury. :D
STABBING DIRT. I rest my case. I have made a terrible mistake.
American Made
06-19-2011, 6:24pm
Hmmm. I guess I'd have to beat him twice.
(kidding - no beatings around here)
STABBING DIRT. I rest my case. I have made a terrible mistake.
:lol: Don't be frightened parent.
JRD77VET
06-19-2011, 9:14pm
STABBING DIRT. I rest my case. I have made a terrible mistake.
As much as you want to shelter your son from making the same stupid mistakes you did, some things he will have to learn himself.
Teach him proper techiques, encourage him and keep "911" on speed dial :D
:leaving:
As my Dad said, "I'm glad you made it to adulthood. It's been trying for both of us"
Hey sperm dump. Kershaw makes a good knife!:D
I am sure they do.
But the purpose of a pocketknife is to actually get it out of your pocket.
With all those hooks, angles, and clips, what does it take, 15-20 minutes to get it out of your pocket?:D
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