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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo is my beloved Camillus camp knife now carry-on, measured from where?
Does the blade length go from the non-blade base part or only the blade? The sharp/blade part is 2 3/8" but the whole is 2 5/8" and the width is 5/8". Whoopi said these things were always allowable INSIDE the luggage, not on-person, correct?
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The illustrated Camillus Knife is the Camillus Camp Knife that features a 2 3/8" spear blade, can opener, punch and screwdriver/cap lifter made of stainless steel. The stainless steel handle of this Camillus knife, 3 3/4" closed, has U.S. embossing and a shackle.
Camillus Knives: Camillus Camp Knife, US Embossed, CM-1760
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This item is discontinued and out of stock - it is left for reference only.
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Rex
(65,616 posts)'Whoopi said...' as in Goldberg? Maybe you should contact TSA and ask them, who here would even begin to know that kind of information?
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)I shall await for an expert to chime in then!
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)to it after cleaning/"sanding" it with fine-grade/synthetic auto-body "sanding" material.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)you measure it. My regular pocket knife is too. I'm ordering a smaller version, just for when I travel. Right now, I put my current knife in checked baggage, where it has always been allowed, but I'll start carrying a smaller version from now on.
Shrade Old Timer Stockman 850-T
REP
(21,691 posts)It's slightly smaller than an Old Timer.
Buck Companion
(Mine is an older one, from when they were still made in the US)
Because I never know when I'll have defend myself against paper, string or a cuticle.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)But if I had to guess I'd say it was from the hilt (extreme end of the handle in the absence of a fixed hilt) to the blade point.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)at the handle to the tip. That's how the TSA photo shows it. That would include the unsharpened part of the blade near the handle after unfolding the blade.
rsdsharp
(9,042 posts)portion of the blade, it's too big, two ways. The length can't exceed 2.36 inches. At 2 3/8 inches, your blade is 2.375 inches long. The width can't exceed .5 inches. At 5/8 of an inch, the width is .625 inches.
At that, it wouldn't surprise me if TSA intended to include the bolster in the blade length, or as someone else suggest, try to go all the way back to the hinge point.
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)allowed packed away in luggage.
jsr
(7,712 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Good to know, I can now have my wedge and a puter! Need that wedge for when the ball gets lodged in an air condition vent.
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)The wedge and putter should be plenty. No need to be a big hitter like the Lama.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Might shank it and put a hole in the fuselage. Then they would probably get all mad and stuff, probably take my clubs away from me.
librechik
(30,663 posts)through a small rip. I had completely forgotten about both.
What a jolly time we had at the TSA security station trying to find it! So tiny it had to be terribly dangerous, right? So large they couldn't find it, even with an X-ray telling them where it was!
How I wish I had that knife back . I was going to give it to the ants in my backyard to play with.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)The blade conforms with the max dimensions, but because it locks in place it is prohibited.
Only unsafe knives (e.g. non-locking) are allowed to be carried-on apparently.
Rex
(65,616 posts)and I am intimidated already just over the Internets. What about toe nail clippers? Mine can cut through my thick ass big toenail and could, therefore, be used to cut through the titanium superstructure.
EDIT - Ain't talking about the cutter you use with your thumb...no sir, these are the ones that look like wire clippers!
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)But yeah. I like to look badass. It's an assault letter-opener.
Rex
(65,616 posts)cuz that means it is closer to being invisible, then Jim Bowie-sized. Got to watch those well-nigh-invisible knives. Yep, those are the ones.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)UTUSN
(70,497 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)The handle would act as a hilt and limit the depth of a stab wound.
ETA I used to carry a Buck model 110 lock-blade folder on airplanes, in my pocket. I'd put it in the tray along with my keys, loose change, etc. and it was always waved right through, until one day in 1987 when I was told at Little Rock, AR that I couldn't have it in my carry-on possessions. I managed to get it into my checked bag, and that was the end of that.
Jersey Devil
(9,863 posts)Every time I go to the court house I have to remove it from my key chain, so ridiculous.
Once when I flew to Florida I had fingernail clippers in my bag and they made me toss them before getting on the plane. Like you could kill someone with nail clippers.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and they of course mark when someone has one of the above items
Therefore there is a permanent record on file.
Thank God for security. Thank God for Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano and prior and soon again in 2016, Janet Reno.
I expect it impossible for another 9-11 on the airplanes.
Thank God and Barack Obama for that.
Now I can't wait til they make the streets free from bullets in short time.
Amazing that going to the supermarket now is more terrifying than Flying.
because someone might have a gun with bullets.
Guns can remain legal but not bullets.