Flick open? Knife newbie...

Turbo Tension

Turbo Tension

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Is wrist flicking open OK to do to any knives? Does frame lock, liner lock, back lock etc... make a difference?

I've done with my emerson for a long time but when I searched I found a thread by Chris Reeve mentioning that he did not appreciate people doing it to his knives.
 
I consider flicking abuse. There just so much more that the stop pin, locking bar, or any other metal to metal contact surface has to take. I think that wear is accelerated by flicking. However, flicking is fun and you may decide that whatever decrease(if any) of the knife's useful life is worth what you get in enjoying your knife.

Your knife is yours to use and to have fun with it. Flick or not it's up to you. :D
 
I've seen people wrist flick knives open. You shouldn't do it. Opening the blade a bit (past the dedent) and then flipping it open is pointless.

If you can "flick" it with your thumb you should be fine. Common sense is better then any set of hard and fast rules.
 
I don't mind flicking my knives open with my thumb; the forces are the same as with a "flipper" designed knife. I don't, however, wrist flick them open. It's a really excessive way to open a knife.
 
I don't recommend putting your wrist into it, but snapping it open with your thumb is fine.
 
Flick users all you like, but don't do it with safe queens or collectibles. The amount of force is trivial vs. what a semiautomatic handgun deals with for 10,000s of shots without damage.
 
I'm pretty hard on my stuff
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Turbo Tension said:
Is wrist flicking open OK to do to any knives? Does frame lock, liner lock, back lock etc... make a difference?

I've done with my emerson for a long time but when I searched I found a thread by Chris Reeve mentioning that he did not appreciate people doing it to his knives.
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i wouldnt flick one of Chris Reeves knives either

but i wouldnt mind doing it to my beaters, if i felt so inclined

think about it this way though: spring assisted knives has the same effect that flicking does on a stop pin
 
res1cue said:
i wouldnt flick one of Chris Reeves knives either

but i wouldnt mind doing it to my beaters, if i felt so inclined

think about it this way though: spring assisted knives has the same effect that flicking does on a stop pin
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No they don't. Flicking (wrist) is much harder then any spring assisted force.
 
GenericJohn said:
The amount of force is trivial vs. what a semiautomatic handgun deals with for 10,000s of shots without damage.
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This. The blade steels, pins, and lockbars are often from industrial use like stamping dies, drill bits, industrial shears, etc.
 
thumb flicking is fine.but wrist flicking can be pretty damaging to the mechanism.this comes from personal experience
 
i never wrist flick any of my knives,just thumb flick'em,its alot easier on your knife
 
Wrist flicking will speed up the wear on the knife and will likely damage it over time.
 
I never noticed wear on my axis locks, and some of them I would wrist flick with authority. It probably accelerates wear, but we're talking about mechanisms that wear pretty slowly. There are 50+ year old folding knives out there that work just fine. Some designs wear faster than others, and QC/design issues on individual knives may reduce working life even more. But on a good one, you might be reducing the useful life to just a decade or two, as opposed to five or six.
 
It's not even legal to flick a knife open where I live...it'll be a gravity knife lol.
It does seem like it would be excessive force on the stop pin.
I've also noticed when I flick open my Griptilian the axis lock kinda sticks forward and isn't very smooth to unlock. Is that normal? When I open it gently I have no problem with it.
 
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