Talk:Gravity knife

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Contents 1 Break out a new article on "Sliding knife", "Telescoping Knife", or "OTF Knife"? 2 Anon edit 3 Article needs attention 4 Images

[edit] Break out a new article on "Sliding knife", "Telescoping Knife", or "OTF Knife"?

The article has strayed a fair bit from covering just paratrooper gravity knives and their direct descendants. For example, the roll-lock knife, etc.

There is currently no article covering OTF knives (contrasted with fixed-blade or folding knives); just portions of this article and a sub-section under Knife.

OTF knives, by whatever name (with redirects for said extra names) could easily fill their own article, with a subsection and link to this article, and coverage of roll-locks, trick knives, Chinese police telescoping knives, OTF auto-knives, etc.

EDIT: I went ahead and created the Sliding knife article. I'm totally open to folks re-naming it to OTF or whatever. I cut-n-pasted a goodly chunk of the Gravity Knife article over there. The legal section of this article still needs lots of work though.

MatthewVanitas (talk) 11:44, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anon edit

To the anonymous user who made the edit before mine: please use this discussion page for comments addressed to the author.

I edited the article to include your comment about paratroopers, because I think it's always useful to provide some context. I left in the bit about the spring mechanism which you dispute: feel free to use this talk page if you want to discuss this with the original author(s).

I have no knowledge about the subject, I just came across the page and cleaned it up :) --Last Malthusian 12:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article needs attention

Some sections, e.g. Legal Caution, are messy and in need of attention; if anyone can help, please do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.97.233.157 (talk) 00:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Do the images really have to be so big? --Muna (talk) 19:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

The first image is okay I think, the exploded parts is supposed to be 1=1scale, the gentlemans pair has been resized smaller. last image is a thumbnail, should be okay. Also, My writing is sort of drafting/technical, and not prose. so the legal part could be broken into rulings and hypothetical flawed theory Jerryk50 (talk) 02:16, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

this article has been split into the beginnings of the OTF knife, some images still have to be sorted, Jerryk50 11 April 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.23.219 (talk) 03:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)