There was a thread on /k/ yesterday about knives, someone mentioned that the Karambit is used to gut fish but I don't understand how it can be more useful than a regular one. Any fish bros here? Please advise, is this just a knife for cs:go larpers?

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Anonymous Thu Jul 22 12:44:51 2021 No.16455343 [Reply] [Original]

There was a thread on /k/ yesterday about knives, someone mentioned that the Karambit is used to gut fish but I don't understand how it can be more useful than a regular one. Any fish bros here? Please advise, is this just a knife for cs:go larpers?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 12:46:09 2021 No.16455348 you could but why would you

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 12:46:26 2021 No.16455350 >>16455343 Huh?

Anonymous Thu Jul 22 12:47:30 2021 No.16455353

>>16455343
No, a karambit was always intended as a weapon.
They were designed to look like claws.

Just because some tard in /k/ says HE uses it to gut fish doesn't mean that's the intention.
You COULD use a fucking machete to do it too, doesn't mean you should

Anonymous Thu Jul 22 12:48:43 2021 No.16455360

I don't know about fish, but it is handy as fuck for dressing a deer or elk. It gives you really good leverage when open the body cavity, and the angle of the blade makes it less likely to cut the guts. However I definitely switch to a hunting knife when I reach the genitals and anus.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 13:21:50 2021 No.16455475 >>16455343 You don't understand how something shaped like a hook would be more useful for an action where you need to pierce and then rip?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 13:41:55 2021 No.16455566 karambits are weapons, just use fish or hutning knives to process fish like a normal person

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 13:45:18 2021 No.16455580 >>16455475 Rip and tear, until it is done.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 13:48:01 2021 No.16455592 >>16455343 >And... other warm blooded creatures.

Anonymous Thu Jul 22 14:26:12 2021 No.16455764

>>16455353
>No, a karambit was always intended as a weapon.
How the fuck do you even use that as a weapon without literally looking like a bitch trying to scratch someones face.
It looks like the result of scythe-Cletus raping his retarded inbred midget knife-cousin.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 15:43:41 2021 No.16456082 >>16455764 Go back to Indonesia in the 14th century and tell them

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 16:46:54 2021 No.16456321 File: 35 KB, 547x542, 1543609234444.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16455343 it's just and edgy meme shape for EDC redditards to feel special about having. no advantage to the shape.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 16:54:32 2021 No.16456358 >>16455343 CS:GO larpers. Bet they saw it here: https://www.karambit-knife.com/n/what-are-the-uses-of-karambit-knives

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 17:22:11 2021 No.16456493 File: 41 KB, 750x539, M9 Phrobis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16455343 A fellow US Army Infantry friend of mine likes these karambit knives. I don't know why. I prefer an M9 Phrobis.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 17:25:13 2021 No.16456508 >>16455343 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYwd0Wus5Ik

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 17:38:08 2021 No.16456558 >>16455592 But are you familiar with the mexican sacatripe

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 17:50:17 2021 No.16456592 >>16455764 I believe they used slashes and a lot of tendon-cutting?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 17:57:47 2021 No.16456606 >>16455592 Wrong knife, but I respect the effort.

Anonymous Thu Jul 22 18:40:00 2021 No.16456747
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Look at all the /k/aytards seething on how their "weapon" is used as a cooking implement.

But using it to gut a fish? Must be smaller than this one I guess?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODDUy-yxRqI

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 00:50:01 2021 No.16458193 >>16455592 Woof woof How many edged weapons do you see here?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:05:12 2021 No.16458227 >>16455353 >No, a karambit was always intended as a weapon. lol no they started as farm tools

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:12:53 2021 No.16458241

>>16456747
They're not gutting the fish in that video, they're cutting it into parts to sell. The big straight knife is fine here because it's a controlled setting and it allows even cuts.
You gut the fish as soon as you catch it so that the guts contents don't cause the whole fish to spoil quickly. You would do this on the boat, likely in a confined space, where a small blade would be much more practical.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:12:56 2021 No.16458242 >>16458227 Damn near everything started as a farm tool. Some of the deadliest weapons to ever exist were farm tools

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:13:56 2021 No.16458244 >>16458242 >the atomic bomb was initially a farm tool I don't think so...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:24:20 2021 No.16458270 File: 94 KB, 502x688, 1250a48489e00a8c1708cc573f21a979.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16458244 >city boy's never heard of a fission crop duster Anon, I...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:25:45 2021 No.16458272 >>16455360 fuck i half expected it to turn into one of those ram it up your ass posts

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 01:27:26 2021 No.16458277 File: 4 KB, 164x152, 1544498528864.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16458244 >he doesn't know about oppenheimer's "corn plan" i'd avoid talking about topics you don't know about next time anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 02:53:03 2021 No.16458477 oh look another neckbeard larp knife with zero utility over a normal blade

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 03:47:12 2021 No.16458579

>>16455343
I could see the reasoning but being transparent and saying "I just think it's a cool knife" would garner a lot more respect from me.
I use a regular filet knife.
Because it's made specifically for fish it does all of the jobs needed to prepare a fish.
I wouldn't use a marlinspike to cross-stitch.
I wouldn't use a pike spear to pitch hay.
Just use the right tool for the job.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:00:22 2021 No.16458609 >that lil thing being designed for combat you gotta be mentally ill or American to believe that

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:24:27 2021 No.16458673

>>16458609
It was a farm tool for threshing and rice harvesting.
It was later used as a weapon of convenience.
The reasoning is that a subsistence farmer can't afford to buy or make proper weapons, and you can't take away farming implements to disarm them because you'd grind agriculture to a halt.
For more weapons of opportunity see:
Sgian-dubh
Kama

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 04:32:23 2021 No.16458694 >>16458609 someone never had their tendon slashed

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:39:20 2021 No.16459141

>>16455764
>How the fuck do you even use that as a weapon without literally looking like a bitch trying to scratch someones face.

So if some lil asian nigga rushed you and drove his fist, holding a karambit, into your abdominal region, and then ripped his hand straight up into your guts, completely disemboweling you, you'd call him a bitch?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 08:45:25 2021 No.16459149 >>16455343 But are you familiar with the Mexican sacatripe? Used for gutting sheep, and other warm-blooded animals. https://youtu.be/MYwd0Wus5Ik

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 09:48:14 2021 No.16459250 >>16459141 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 10:12:42 2021 No.16459305 >>16459149 >They posted it again. I always have to watch my HARDCORE FEELINGS

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 11:08:12 2021 No.16459442 >>16455360 > However I definitely switch to a hunting knife when I reach the genitals and anus. this guy fucks

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:23:52 2021 No.16459629

>>16455343
That sounds like bullshit.

>>16455475
Karambits are made to hook and then tear the flesh by pulling it rather than cutting it by doing a straight smooth cut. You'd completely destroy the fish. The entire point of karambit knives is to create a wound that is difficult to heal.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:26:24 2021 No.16459634 >>16456321 >>16458477 >>16458609 Retards detected. They're meant to be held in a reverse grip.

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:43:34 2021 No.16459685

>>16455343
>someone mentioned that the Karambit is used to gut fish but I don't understand how it can be more useful than a regular one.
kerambit is a "regular one" in its homeland. they use it for everything.

is it the best knife for any given task? idk probably not, but it is the knife at hand.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:45:11 2021 No.16459692 >Cannot batonny chop-chop with it Shit knife.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:47:21 2021 No.16459698 >>16455343 If I saw someone using a karambit to gut a fish I'd laugh my ass off.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 12:47:27 2021 No.16459699 >>16458277 I like you

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 13:15:19 2021 No.16459791

>>16455343
>I don't understand how it can be more useful than a regular one
How many times do you need to be told that they used them for everything because they were common knives that everyone had and not because they were particularly good at anything but agricultural work?

Also what do you think LARP means?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 14:08:40 2021 No.16459982 >>16458241 >implying you need a knife to gut a fish on the boat lol okay nerd

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 15:24:43 2021 No.16460283 >>16458694 >tendon slashed If I could choose between that or a dagger to the heart, I know which I'd choose. God, non-Europeans were shit at making bladed weapons.

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 15:36:02 2021 No.16460310
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>>16460283
>dagger to the heart
Also an option. Unsurprising that someone who fell for that mystical ninja tendonslayer Hollywood bullshit would know dick about weaponry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 16:16:17 2021 No.16460411 >>16460310 I'm not the guy you we're talking to earlier. I'm Dutch, so I know what a kris is. Calling a kris a dagger is like calling a katana an arming sword. It's an inferior version of the same concept.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 16:26:39 2021 No.16460457 >>16460411 so you're autistic enough to have inflammatory opinions about swords but not autistic enough to actually know what a dagger is? Unfortunate.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 23 16:32:40 2021 No.16460471 >>16459634 it goes well with your trench coat and fingerless gloves eh?

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 17:03:31 2021 No.16460583

>>16455353
>You COULD use a fucking machete to do it too, doesn't mean you should

I use a samurai sword to peel fruit. Apples, pears, bananas, blueberries. I also peel milk with a samurai sword. I don't care for the cardboard. I also once peeled a kilo of salt with a samurai sword. End of the day I was WRECKED, but then I finally noticed the true flavor of salt.

Anonymous Fri Jul 23 17:28:49 2021 No.16460684

>>16460411
>I'm not the guy you we're talking to earlier.
?
That was my 2nd post ITT and my first was directed at OP. Are you saying you're not the person I just replied to or do you think I was active earlier ITT? Either way you've pretty much cemented that you have no clue what you're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 00:28:54 2021 No.16462167 >>16455343 Basically a bird's beak knife. A skilled cook or chef will never notice the difference between it and a normal knife, other than the fact that it's more of a pain in the ass to sharpen and can do less tasks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 00:36:39 2021 No.16462183 >>16455343 the karambit was created to kill humans, it is not a fish gutting knife.

Anonymous Sat Jul 24 00:48:43 2021 No.16462208
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I work on a sea packing factory trawler in the north sea.
These are the knives we use. Nothing better for it than a cheap Radavaad or loewen messer carbon steel knife

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 02:09:46 2021 No.16462387 >>16458244 It's called project plowshare

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 06:59:48 2021 No.16462941 File: 6 KB, 285x177, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16459149 >pigs are so mental that they think people put razor blades in their hats fuck oinkers. they deserve to live in fear. you can always choose to quit and get a real job

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 13:07:48 2021 No.16463879 >>16462941 Dont call them pigs Pigs are cool unlike cops

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 14:00:49 2021 No.16464081 >>16459305 i miss old EDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuyV6G6atoQ

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 14:32:00 2021 No.16464187 >>16456493 i found like 20 of these in a police station once but weirdos kept attacking me and they would break instantly if you used them

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 14:52:21 2021 No.16464233 >>16462941 yeah they should deliver pizzas ordered on international food sharing applications like you do lol. that would be better than indexed salaries with pensions and a gun

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 24 16:25:26 2021 No.16464620 File: 9 KB, 256x197, index.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464233 oh I forgot all cops are selected to be low IQ so the only possible alternatives for you are menial e-gigs

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