daman wrote:Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please be informed that my spring-assisted knife (occasionally used for letter opening) has now had its spring removed and has been returned to the desk drawer where it has been for the past several years.
No need to panic, the world is a safer place now.
Best wishes
-daman
I would be very careful about this, remember these knives are now the equivalent of sec5 guns in the knife world, it is an absolute offence to possess one.In one email back and forth with HO about gravity knives etc, they said it depends how it was manufactured. so you can't mod a knife into a gravity knife in their eyes (ie its not just a case of no backspring in a folder) and so by extension, if it was manufactured as a assisted opener - henceforth referred to as a flick knife - then it would still be classed as that if someone were to ever find it and try to prosecute you for it. Another thing I asked was if I could just grind the edge flat, so it's not bladed, again, no. I was told it is still now classed as a flick knife.
just do yourself a favour, look up the knife online, get a price off a website, print it off and hand the thing in. I got £110 for my SOG AO knife, and £50 for a volcan corando. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE £20!