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The story of a missing icon: the butterfly knife [1]

['Jason Weisberger']

Date: 2025-01-20  

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 traitor,) I acquired a golden butterfly knife somewhere in Manhattan. I spun, swung, and twirled that knife for weeks until a police officer spotted me back home in Southern California and confiscated it. I never saw another one for sale.

Previously:

• Butterfly knife multitool

• Flip open a butterfly knife like a gentleman bastard

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