Carrying a Multi-Tool?

Originally Posted by anna

It probably isnt as much as a problem for those who travel around in a company car or van for example.

I was travelling to and from venues by metro with a metal toolbox, to get to those places meant travelling via underground and temporary metal detectors set up. That meant pretty much being stopped every time by those that were using them, and because they were temporary you could never tell which metro station would have them up to avoid the hastle.

Of course, metal detectors are great, if you were carrying one of these...
edit: ok, bad example that one has a metal handle, but you can get knives with ceramic blades and non-metalic handles

[TamSV]

My time in London was before 7/7 so I guess that's been the motivation for increased security. But really, metal detectors and emptying your pockets to use public transport? What have we come to?

i have one of these on my keyring...



pro'lly makes me a crim...

[TamSV]

Originally Posted by Razor

pro'lly makes me a crim...

Yep. Someone call the cops. We need to be protected from these things.

And yet, if I've got a kilt on, I can shove a fixed blade in my sock and it's not a problem. Makes no sense to me.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

So is a lock defined as a detent or does it have to be a separate lock lever or something?
I.e is one which has a detent, but can be closed by pushing the blade back the same way, a lock knife?


(not trying to be awkward, sorry)

It doesn't matter by what means it locks, basically, if it locks by any means it is a lock knife. Certainly according to our laws, but believe these are pretty much the same.

My Leatherman Wave (which has locking blades) usually lives in a textile pouch on my textile jacket's belt, and there's a leather pouch on the adjuster belt of my leather jacket for it - I keep the supplementary bits in another textile pouch on the other side of my waterproof jacket. I won't leave home on the bike without it, and I'm f*cked if some pathetic law brought in by an incompetent government is going to stop me doing so.

I always use a sheath

[JamesMio]

So my carrying a stanley knife under the seat (genuinely as part of my toolkit, for cutting cable ties/tape etc) probably isn't the best idea then?

Originally Posted by JamesMio

So my carrying a stanley knife under the seat (genuinely as part of my toolkit, for cutting cable ties/tape etc) probably isn't the best idea then?

not unless you're looking for people whose mothers can sew...

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by JamesMio

So my carrying a stanley knife under the seat (genuinely as part of my toolkit, for cutting cable ties/tape etc) probably isn't the best idea then?

As the law stands at the moment, thats probably the case.

As was mentioned above, its a lazy law to make it easier to hassle innocent people, while the people its aimed at just laugh at it.