The story of a missing icon: the butterfly knife
In the days of my youth, all the cool kids had butterfly knives, and then we didn't.
This video shares the history of the balisong, a fantastic knife from the Philippines that was briefly hugely popular in the US. When I was young, and on my way to the 1985 Boy Scout Jamboree at Fort Ambrose P. Hill (named for a trait…
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