RUSSIAN "Prison" knives

[TazmanTom18]

Approximately 8" each. Function properly, they are what they are. $225 for the pair plus shipping. USPS M.O. or check only. Larger knife is tan scales. One is slide button, the other push button.

[1967redrider]

I have noticed knives like this on eBay lately. Do you sell there as well? Thanks!

[edge213]

[OLDE CUTLER]

Curious as to why they are called "Russian prison knives".

[kootenay joe]

Curious as to why they are called "Russian prison knives".

The story is they are made by prisoners in Russia who are allowed to sell them and make some money. Presumably they have access to a machine shop and tools.
Seems hard to believe. If you allowed inmates in USA or Canadian prisons to make knives there would be a lot of stabbing going on.
kj

[edge213]

I don't buy the story.

[Working Edge]

I don't buy the story.

Agreed.

[danno50]

Here is another thread with some discussion of Russian "prison" knives

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kn ... fe#p892694

[eveled]

There is an expression “An armed society is a polite one”.
This has been true in my experience spend a week at an old school bike show and bump into someone you say excuse me and if someone bumps you they do the same.

Spend a week at Disney World and get trampled and pushed around nobody even cares.

Maybe arming the prisoners keeps things “polite”

[TazmanTom18]

Buy them and make up your own story...LOL. Taz

[TazmanTom18]

Bump

[TazmanTom18]

PRICE DROP $100 plus $10 shipping. PRICE DROP

BUMP

[Maddogfl]

Russian, or Soviet, prisoners, making knives, while behind bars makes for a good story. I have never been to prison, although I have worked in one and I have never been to Russia, but I have seen it on a map, so I am certainly not an expert on the matter.

The notion of prisoners making knives for fun and profit, with the blessing of the staff, in the gulag, during the 60s sounds like bovine fecal matter to me. I have read Solzhenitsyn describing the Soviet prison system in the 60s, and he didn't say crap about having leisure time in prison to make blades to swap for cookies or cigarettes. I promise you that Ivan Denisovich didn't make any switchblades in his off time...

Like I say, I am not an expert, but I am very skeptical. Buy the knife, not the story.

[just bob]

In Indiana they allow prisoners to make license plates, but not knives. Though there are home made sharp weapons in all correctional institutions. For a short while I worked in one.