I don't know if all of you guys know this but the benchmade axis locks can be manipulated with the fingers while flicking the wrist to open and close the knife without ever touching the blade. if you pull down the axis L. and flick the wrist letting the axis L. return to normal position just as the blade snaps out the knife will lock. opening the knife this way takes signifigantly less force than just flicking the wrist. once you learn that you can close the knife by pulling the lock and reverseing the motion to open it. This style of open/closeing the knife works on the griptillian and the osborn, I don't know if it works on any others. if you have other axis locks and would like to try this I would like to hear the results. also if any of you already does this let me know cause so far i haven't seen anyone who does this. Oh yeah be carefull as you can easyly slice yourself on the close.