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Two of my favorite knives, excellent at keeping an edge and very inexpensive.

Cabinetman said:
I’m not about to test it out but leaving the UK they say you can have a blade up 60mm long in hand luggage. Doesn’t mention anything of the sort when I leave the US though. It’s one of my little fears that I will get to security and I’ve forgotten to put my knife in the suitcase for the hold. Happened once in the us and the guy saw it and deliberately ignored it. I am TSA prechecked so maybe that gave me some leeway.
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This is from https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/personal-items. Copied out just now.

Knife (with a sharp or pointed blade and/or blade longer than 6cm) No

So it can't be sharp. Or pointed. It's an and/or. Goodness knows how they determine pointyness or sharpness. Maybe get Jacob to help.

Mind you I went through Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago, and they had the scanning machines up that mean you don’t have to remove liquids or laptops. Vastly superior. But not much use if the airport to which you are going (and have to return through) doesn’t do that.

Oh, and the non-Schengen gates process at Brussels airport is woeful - been through there dozens of times, but this was the worst. Unless you have an hour or so to spend in the company of increasingly agitated other passengers I wouldn’t go through there. Train to anywhere else in Europe and fly from there might be better. Memo to self: check whether my Irish or Scandi ancestry can allow me to avoid this farce. And it did me out of my usual relaxed airport lunch. Phew, that feels better.
 
AndyP said:
well worth getting the little mini screwdriver that fits inside the corkscrew, probably gets used more than anything else.
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Totally agree. Although I have probably lost more of them than anything else on the planet. Except, of course my moral compass(es). But I stopped trying to replace those a long time ago.
 
Tiresias said:
This is from https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/personal-items. Copied out just now.

Knife (with a sharp or pointed blade and/or blade longer than 6cm) No

So it can't be sharp. Or pointed. It's an and/or. Goodness knows how they determine pointyness or sharpness. Maybe get Jacob to help.

Mind you I went through Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago, and they had the scanning machines up that mean you don’t have to remove liquids or laptops. Vastly superior. But not much use if the airport to which you are going (and have to return through) doesn’t do that.

Oh, and the non-Schengen gates process at Brussels airport is woeful - been through there dozens of times, but this was the worst. Unless you have an hour or so to spend in the company of increasingly agitated other passengers I wouldn’t go through there. Train to anywhere else in Europe and fly from there might be better. Memo to self: check whether my Irish or Scandi ancestry can allow me to avoid this farce. And it did me out of my usual relaxed airport lunch. Phew, that feels better.
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I was very surprised to see that sign at Heathrow, particularly as it shows a sheath type knife, it does seem sensible to not allow any knives on planes though I suppose. I have also seen that nail clippers aren’t allowed either, it’s a sorry state of affairs.
 
Cabinetman said:
I was very surprised to see that sign at Heathrow, particularly as it shows a sheath type knife, it does seem sensible to not allow any knives on planes though I suppose. I have also seen that nail clippers aren’t allowed either, it’s a sorry state of affairs.
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Same website:

Nail clippers/nail fileYes

No, I don’t understand it at all.

Knitting needles are fine too. Pointy metal thing about 300mm long? Do parliamentary draftsmen live in the real world? Actually, I know they don’t. Used to have a flat mate who was clerk at the HoC.

So the knife you can potentially carry would have to be not pointed, not sharp and under 60mm. For opening very small envelopes, perhaps? Or spreading butter?

Sorry for drivelling. Waiting from my partner to arrive back from Spain. I opted out of this one. Mind you, having seen the hotel room, I’m not sure I was right.

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Still a cattle class flight that gets back at midnight in Edinburgh is not my idea of fun.
 
Cabinetman said:
I’m not about to test it out but leaving the UK they say you can have a blade up 60mm long in hand luggage. Doesn’t mention anything of the sort when I leave the US though. It’s one of my little fears that I will get to security and I’ve forgotten to put my knife in the suitcase for the hold. Happened once in the us and the guy saw it and deliberately ignored it. I am TSA prechecked so maybe that gave me some leeway.
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We bought a very beautiful, ornamental paper knife in Japan in 2017 and forgot, as we were so knackered, to pack it into our hold luggage and instead it went into a rucksack for cabin baggage. The journey back to the UK was spilt at Helsinki and the customs folk there spotted it and confiscated the thing. I thought we'd seen the last of it, but I was wrong. They took our name and address in the UK and a week later a package from Finland dropped onto the front door mat - Rob

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Woodbloke said:
We bought a very beautiful, ornamental paper knife in Japan in 2017 and forgot, as we were so knackered, to pack it into our hold luggage and instead it went into a rucksack for cabin baggage. The journey back to the UK was spilt at Helsinki and the customs folk there spotted it and confiscated the thing. I thought we'd seen the last of it, but I was wrong. They took our name and address in the UK and a week later a package from Finland dropped onto the front door mat - Rob

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Now I can guarantee that wouldn’t happen at Heathrow! A more unhelpful and unfriendly (under the veneer) bunch it would be difficult to find.
Nice shape, you were very lucky to see that again.
 
Knives like those shown at the top of this thread are readily available in supermarkets here in France. Not locked away in a cabinet, just on an elasticated board, along with the chocolate and chewing gum, right by the checkout. No questions asked.
I can also buy as much hydrochloric acid as I can shake a stick at, at the same time.
 
Steve Maskery said:
Knives like those shown at the top of this thread are readily available in supermarkets here in France. Not locked away in a cabinet, just on an elasticated board, along with the chocolate and chewing gum, right by the checkout. No questions asked.
I can also buy as much hydrochloric acid as I can shake a stick at, at the same time.
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Most small pocket and clip knives are displayed on a revolving rack similar to sunglasses over here.
 
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