Garden tool/knife what is better ?

[Tamzi]

hi everyone

with living in the uk comes strict rules about knifes in general, ebay has stopped the sale of them in the uk too.

im looking for a decent gardeners blade, not one of these multitool billion in one job but a plain gardeners knife.

i would like to know where i can find a decent gardeners blade or if a silver folding fruit knife would do the job ?. i like old style tools and things and have already crafted two nice wooden handles for my trowel and hand fork. but i lack a good cutting tool pruning knife.

so what is the best replacement for a gardeners blade but must not be a multitool.

 

[tip top toker]

http://www.outdoorgb.com/c/gardening_knives_tools/

garden centers, online shops, not hard to come by

 

[bleubeard]

I know you said no multi-tool, but i got this one and its kinda neat, nothing too crazy but still has multiple uses. http://www.fiskars.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10101&categoryId=10269&productId=13406&page=products

 

[KaleoXxX]

you cant get knives in the uk?

 

[akgrown]

a small birds beak paring knife would work im sure they allow kitchen cutlery in the uk

 

[TheFaux]

Is the machete considered a knife in the UK?

 

[tip top toker]

course we have knives in the uk

 

[KaleoXxX]

"living in the uk comes strict rules about knifes in general"

why cant he just go to a store and get a sharp blade

and what kind of rules would restrict a mature adult from ordering a simple knife

 

[satch]

"living in the uk comes strict rules about knifes in general"

why cant he just go to a store and get a sharp blade

and what kind of rules would restrict a mature adult from ordering a simple knife

the same thing that stops us from growing more MJ?

 

[Tamzi]

there are lots of laws now governing the carrying of bladed items. if i travel too friends plot too help and am stop by police its very possible for me too be arrested for carrying a bladed weapon yeah something as stupid as a very small blade can have you behind bars for the night and a record. problem is youths these day are using/carrying any kind of knife for protection from full blown hunting blades too steak knifes there is not bare fists sorting a problem they just kill each other with blades instead.

thats the reason we cant just walk into a shop and buy a knife or purchase from internet in uk or even ship too uk. shop owners can and do have the right too refuse sale.

anyway i decided too save myself some cash and searching and pulled apart an old multitool, i salvaged the blade and will grind it down too a nicer much shorter blade and shall remount into a nice wooden handle.

 

[TheFaux]

pussies

 

[The Warlord]

Note to self: Don't visit the UK! Yikes!

 

[tip top toker]

i can buy knives just fine in shops here.... doesn't take too much looking around

 

[Tamzi]

i gave up. went too town and into a hunting/countryside shop. i dont exactly look my age either. in the end owner wouldnt accept my DL as proof of age and i left empty handed.

BUT i found a website called instructables, and would you believe it a tutorial on knife making, also tutorials on home made hydroponics and the likes. i also found out that 2500 two litre fizzy pop bottles would make a greenhouse , found out how too make cordial silver water and other homemade stuff.

http://www.instructables.com/

linked a very helpful ideas/homebuild site with info on alot of garden/growing ideas

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

knives in the uk are as guns are to the US, any damn fool can have one.

 

[tip top toker]

yeha, i don't know why all the yanks keep jabbing on about "let's ban knifes, spoons, cutlery, selotape"

i'm not sure what source they used to decide how our society works (same with the gun issue, apparently it's our govt not letting us, rather than us being sensible and not wanting them.

if you want a knife in the UK, walk out of your front door, walk into town, you'll find knives for sale in shops. in the past year i've bought butterfly knives, switchblades, big 5" boning knives.

i mean heck, i have a catalogue at work with maybe 5000 knives in it, all i have to do is phone up with my acc number and the code and it'll be at work the following week, anything from liee 1" blades to 16" monsters. it really isn't difficult or even a remote challenge to buy a small, big, shiny, pretty, ugly, scary knife.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

ive always wanted a traditional bowie knife. i have a few sets of throwing knive, im a pretty mean shot.

 

[dr green lung]

If you have some skills with a grinder and access to some old saw blades (carpenters, handymen who dont resharpen) just friggen make your own blade. Cut the saw blade to the shape you want, sharpen, put on a handle and voila! a custom cutting tool (or shank)

 

[dr green lung]

Hey Faux.....you are what you eat......