Anyone ever have an assisted opening knife open accidently?

Sog Ageis tanto opened completely in my pocket. Was one of the scariest thing to ever happen to me. Luckily i didnt get cut but ruined my jeans. Just one of the many reasons Ill never buy a sog again.
 
Had a leek open twice. Never look at auto assist knives anymore. Use and dangerous gimmick IMO.
 
Thanks for all the responses, folks. I think it depends more on the design and quality of a knife than anything else. I'm thinking about getting an assisted opener for my dad, but I'm not sure now. I'll have to give it some more though, and check a few out in person.

~Chris
 
Thalestin said:
Had a leek open twice. Never look at auto assist knives anymore. Use and dangerous gimmick IMO.
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I disagree with your last statement completely. If yours opened somehow (I still don't see how it would unprovoked), the Leek does have a lock on it.

IMO, if someone opens a knife enough to activate the A/O, then they already opened it enough to cut themselves even without the A/O.
 
All it takes is bumping your pant leg against the thumbstud enough. In my case, what I believe occurred was that the pocket material shifted with the thumbstud wrapped around the stud enough where it deployed. The fact is on my Tiny Tighe (albeit CRKT), it deployed in my pocket more than once. I failed to mention that in my first post. It just happened to be that the major occurence cut my thigh and my thumb tip when I reached in to see why my right thigh was feeling wet and cold. Plus it cut a 90 degree in my jeans that was 6" x 6" just below the RFP opening and it basically ruined them and cut me. Adjusting the pivot tension was futile too. It was either too loose or too tight and at the too loose setting, it deployed way too easily. I tested it in my hand. The fact is, there was no way to adjust this danger out of that knife without slowing the AO deployment to the point that the lockbar would not engage . . .

I understand you would like to defend AO and that's fine but that fact that others have indicated it happened to them should not be discounted.

This isn't a dig at Kershaw or ZT - we all respect that company a lot and I have never had a ZT or Kershaw AO open in my pocket and I have owned several.

I think though, this post is asking about AO in general. This can and has happened on manual knives too although there is no spring tension to complete the opening of the blade to a 60-90 degree position or until the pocket stops the final deployement of the blade. With AO's the blade deployment is under tension and helped along once it gets far enough for the AO mechanism to kick in.

Leek_Freak said:
I disagree with your last statement completely. If yours opened somehow (I still don't see how it would unprovoked), the Leek does have a lock on it.

IMO, if someone opens a knife enough to activate the A/O, then they already opened it enough to cut themselves even without the A/O.
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Leek_Freak said:
IMO, if someone opens a knife enough to activate the A/O, then they already opened it enough to cut themselves even without the A/O.
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I agree with this. I feel like it would actually be BETTER for a knife to open 60 to 90 degrees because at least then you would feel it open and therefore not be surprised by it when you stick your hand into your pocket. I don't understand how someone's assisted opening knife could flick open and they don't notice? It just seems to me that I would feel it flick open... But it's never happened to me so I genuinely don't understand. I have been slightly bitten by a manual Gerber EZ-OUT, it was just barely open at the bottom of my pocket. It would be interesting to hear if all these examples of people being bitten by their AOs were due to a slight opening (which could just as well happen with manuals) or a full-assisted-open to 60 or 90 degrees...

I've never had my Kershaw Leek open in my pocket, but for extra safety I usually have ALL my pocket knives facing my pocket lining so they can't come open. My suggestion would be, if your dad is semi-new to pocket-clipped knives like mine was, get him a knife where the blade can be placed facing the pocket seam of a pair of pants. That way, he will never have to worry about any kind of knife being opened accidentally, assisted or manual. After debunking the idea that AOs open in your pocket more often than manuals, I would now suggest that you get the knife that you feel your father would like the most at the price point you were considering.
 
I had a titanium Kershaw Bump open on me as I was running to the car from the rain. Never carried a tip down knife since.
 
I had the Kershaw Chive open up a few times in my pocket. I quit carrying it because of that problem.
 
I converted Damascus Kershaw Leek to tip up carry. I put my hand in my back pocket and ---Deep Cut. Damn near stitches. Switched that knife back to tip down and I use the lock on that baby..
 
Reeek said:
I understand you would like to defend AO and that's fine but that fact that others have indicated it happened to them should not be discounted.
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I guess my post did come off as offensive. What I mean that I disagreed with is that AO is dangerous or a gimmick. I don't think it's more dangerous than any other knife that can be bumped and partially opened (any flipper, etc.). I still think that given all of the scenarios spoken about, if the knife was not AO, the knife would still be partially open and would still most likely cut the person putting their hands in their pocket. I could be wrong, but that is just my thought.
 
That's fair and I wasn't trying to nail you on it either if I came off that way - just speaking what is truth according to my experiences and what others are saying. As I stated, I have reached in and had manual folders partially open too but not far enough to cut because I always carry my tip up folder tight to the rear of the RFP. But I have had a couple of my manual folder partially opened in my pocket too. it happens when you carry every day . . .

Leek_Freak said:
I guess my post did come off as offensive. What I mean that I disagreed with is that AO is dangerous or a gimmick. I don't think it's more dangerous than any other knife that can be bumped and partially opened (any flipper, etc.). I still think that given all of the scenarios spoken about, if the knife was not AO, the knife would still be partially open and would still most likely cut the person putting their hands in their pocket. I could be wrong, but that is just my thought.
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Not in my pocket, but once when I dropped it.

I test dropped it several times and couldn't replicate the jumping opening blade of death.
 
kdaytonh said:
sog cames open sometimes
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The sharpest knife I've ever owned, a SOG Trident tanto, got me good in the thigh one day, bled enough to bleed through jeans. Probably should have been stitched but super glue took care of it. I later broke it off prying a car door open, the only blade I've ever snapped.
 
It really matters if the knife is tip up or tip down ,so the blade would open against the back edge of the pocket or into the open pocket. I had a Timberline open on me once and it cut my leg lightly ,I don`t carry it anymore and I really liked it too:( . Now I only buy assisted knives that are tip up so it would open into the seam and not my pocket.
 
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