Kabar TDI

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    Just another thought or two before sleep on a Sunday night.

    This is what I've learned in my life about SD weapons .. so far.
    • 12 ga trumps 20 ga ... in a lot, but not all, situtations.
    • Dagger or fighting knife beats a skinning or fish filleting knife
    • Short, concealable knives are for last ditch, hope-you-live situations
    This video (see below) seems relevant somehow.

    Yeah, I know, it's not about a knife -- let alone the TDI.

    But the basic principle still seems to apply.

    No assertion of truth here. Just a hypothesis worthy of consideration.

    Maybe I'll get back to why. Maybe not. But you can probly figure it out. :oops:

     
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    Da'yum.

    You guys are hard core.

    The best story I got is the donut shop
    in the university district in Memphis, circa '73.

    What do I remember of that time?

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    The donuts were tasty.
     
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    Just to be clear. I wasnt drunk. He was.
     
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    Completely unrelated (but isn't that how this thread works?) A pick axe handle by the front door is handy for SD. I've, so far, resisted the temptation to drive a couple of 6" nails though the top of it.
     
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    Cricket bat mate. Unless you are a lumberjack you won't have an axe handle laying around, some wanker breaks in every red blooded man has a cricket bat around the house....so in fear and desperation you grabbed your sporting product and swung !!!
     
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    I went and got a pick axe handle to keep by the front door.
     
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    What's that saying, different strokes for different folks. Lots of weird fetishes out there fo sure.
     
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    He's saying when the cops show up you have an excuse to have a baseball bat laying around, not an axe handle. Idk what cricket is so baseball it is.
     
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    I am pretty sure as the pee eee, um, recipient, you do not have any explaining to do.
     
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    I have axe handles all over the house. And me and both my older sons play baseball. You are never far from a skullcracker in my house.
     
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    @Stone I haven't asked yet because I was trying to figure it out myself. What does the TDI offer you over something like the Iz2? Seems like something way more useful in utility tasks would be worth carrying in place of something that's only good for SD.
     
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    Interesting posts made while I slept. Thanks.

    And yes, non-linearities are us in this thread (and most others, it seems, especially in mine. I'm a systems student/teacher, so I tend to see a lot of links.

    As most of you know, I'm a big fan of sticks for SD. I've got everything from 6" kubotans (one metal) to 16" 'drum sticks' (actually 1"+ dowels, but when I use them it looks like playing drums on a body -- collar bones, femurs, wrists and skulls all make different sounds -- to my shoulder height monster 'walking stick'/staff, my personal favorite. All sit closer to my bedroom than the door, and at least one -- usually the walking staff -- goes with me when I leave the building. Of course, the dagger and 9 sit on the window sill by the bed ... just in case.
    An excellent and relevant question, MoS. I have work things pressing for most of the day -- but including a walk in this sunshine on a spectacularly beautiful Maine day -- but I'll think about this today, how to most clearly and succinctly answer that question which is screaming to be answered. It's sort of the very heart of this thread, isn't is?

    This'll be a fun exercise. Thanks for the challenge. ;)

    Oh, and to be clear right up front: for me, it's not TDI vs Izula, it's TDI plus Izula (in town) or RB3 (woods). One of the latter rides in a tool pocket on my right (although the RB3 in that position is also attached to my belt by a make-shift dangler using a small biner). The TDI will ride in its new sheath at 10:30 or so. Options. Redundancy.

    More later ...
     
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    In the UK you don't deed an excuse to own a Pick Axe handle. You can just buy one.
     
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    I hear that. Same here. I just think that's what he was saying. A baseball bat is just an item. An axe handle by the door being self defense is hard to explain away. Personally, I'll be shooting long before grabbing a bat.
     
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    I'm quite interested in making a stick for SD. What length and diameter would you recommend? I see a woodworking project coming on.
     
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    That's the exact opposite to how it is here in the UK. We don't play baseball here at all, but the bats are used as weapons every now and then. A baseball bat by the front door would automatically raise the suspicions the police . The pick axe handle would go unnoticed 90% of the time.
     
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    I have one of those. Mine has a 12" spiked gauntlet wrist band tacked to it
     
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