Knives That Wave Without Being Wave Knives

[jfk1110]

Any DPX gear folder and also Krudo knives can be waved! The Krudo dao on top and the DPX gear heft (hostile environment folding tool) triple black on bottom.
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[sgt1372]

Zt850
Saw it from this video, then told my friend and waved his 850 successfully also.

Interesting. Gotta try this on my 0850 & 0850CF.

 

[Dergyll]

Is the front flipper the Artisan ? What model please ?

I think it's a version of the Proponent

 

[Bob Denman]

This thing just looks silly enough; that it needed to be here...
A bottle opener? I am going to have to try that...

 

[Bigbluefish]

Viper Keeper.

Try NOT to open it from your front jeans pocket.

 

[RokJok]

My Benchmade Volli's thumbstuds will give occasional and spontaneous partial opening on a pocket edge in tight jeans. It's worse if I'm sitting down while extracting it from my pocket. It's the reason I'm going to try out some Spydies with more streamlined profile for EDC. It's also another reason, along with pocket capacity, I usually wear looser fitting BDU pants whose more vertical pocket edge slides knife out more smoothly than jeans' more horizontal orientation. But I will miss the Volli like crazy since over the years I've found it to be a very good general purpose, relatively low maintenance beater EDC.

 

[Barman1]

This one "waves" now.

https://imgur.com/03wLbD4

 

[Bob Denman]

With waves like that: surf's up!!

 

[POCEH KOCEB]

 

[yoko]

I hear the trm shadow can wave open on the thumb studs, but can't say for sure since I don't own one

 

[DocJD]

I don't have a pic of mine , but IIRC this the one : https://www.knifecenter.com/item/SP...e-s30v-plain-blade-polished-black-g10-handles

Out of the box is very smooth and almost wants to wave . One of my best fondlers ! Great fit and finish .

On mine, I added some zip-ties to mod for waving . And yes , seems a bit sacrilegious for such a beautiful folder .

 

[POCEH KOCEB]

It is very hard to wave the Vallotton without mods. I wouldnt do it because the knife is much prettier without it,
but if you put some jimping outside, front end of the round hole, it'll be much easier to wave without zip tie.

One of my most favorite Spydercos, absolutely love this knife.

 

[Too hot to handle]

Viper Magà, very smooth & versatile knife. Waves better than Emersons, because of ball bearings, the cut-out drop before the wave and the less pronounced wave shape that slides better.

 

[Too hot to handle]

Kubey KU159 flipper​

 

[Chainsaw21]

The best one HANDS DOWN is the "Bottle Opener" Kershaw Talon. And NO there is nothing faster. No switchblade, no nothing that beats out for speed. Don't really know how people even have trouble getting it to open. Had one since I was around eleven. NEVER failed on me! That is, until I would LITERALLY wear out the corner of my jeans and then it would sometimes snag on the fray. Have to switch the handle with a different talon, so that it is held in pocket tip up. That, or tap and dye new holes for tip up clip position. I've done both over the years. Last one got Stolen. I would buy one from ANYONE willing to part with it. You'd make my dreams come true. Thank you.

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

Anything with a hole in the blade can receive a ziptie or two that will catch the pocket and open

 

[mitchnola]

I had a buddy back in the day that got pretty good at using the thumb studs on his benchmades to wave open. He was pretty consistent with it. I could make it happen like 1 in 20 tries.

 

[David Mary]

The best one HANDS DOWN is the "Bottle Opener" Kershaw Talon. And NO there is nothing faster.

Amazing! That means you tried LITERALLY thousands of other knives if not more!

 

[norcalAF]

The DPX hest is solid, plus it's a great bottle opener!

 

[DocJD]

Cold Steel knives with thumb plates

Below pic , notice that the top one has space made in front /under the plate .


This helps both to catch the pocket material and cleanly release .