Best manual open knife action?

[Wowbagger]

When someone says manual open, via thumb stud, are washers a given? Or does it matter?

judging by all the hole openers and even nonthumbstud/nothing else/no hole examples I would have to say anything goes . . . but I'm not making the rules the OP is.

 

[Wowbagger]

Hardest during = Cold Steel To Lite 4. The detent is so strong but once you build enough pressure to overcome it, the blade slams open even if you try not to

A little oil on the detent, a little use. They become a favorite companion. Just tried mine = easily controlable.

 

[ToneGrail]

A little oil on the detent, a little use. They become a favorite companion. Just tried mine = easily controlable.

I actually meant to say "hardest firing", not "hardest during". I corrected my original post. Damn autocorrect.

Anyhow I actually like the fact that the detent is strong and it fires hard. If I want to slowly open mine then I just use my thumb to grab the quillion to gently break the detent and then guide it the rest of the way with the thumbstud.

 

[Wowbagger]

Oh one more.
While I had my Buck 110 out I realized I had never measured the blade thickness behind the edge. How can this be ? I guess I always have thought of the blade as a pig dog thick thing. I'm always banging the table about the capabilities of thin blades and grinding stock knives down sometimes to half of the factory thickness.
hmmmmmm
lets see what we have here :
Buck 110 (purchased new in ~1982)

• thickness behind the edge 0.017"
• thickness at the spine 3mm

my eyes open slightly wider and my jaw drops a little

Now as a control (a modern knife that has been preforming surprisingly well for me (for a stock(ish) not reground thinner)) :
Spyderco Para 2 S110V (brand new purchased a couple weeks ago)

• thickness behind the edge (after I made the bevel shallower (there is a pretty wide bevel now) 0.024"
• thickness at spine (and fudging down a little into the usable cutting area not way up at the jimping) 3.2 mm

eyes narrow and jaw tightens . . . a little teeth grinding

I like the grip and the wide platform for my fingers near the pivot . . . hmmmm
could it be ?
Should I ?
EDC the old 110 from time to time ?
but . . . but . . . but . . .

 

[Wowbagger]

Damn autocorrect.

TOTALLY !
It's a full time battle for sanity and grace.
Dambed thing.
I cut and pasted the correct word like three times in a text last night before it gave up. It was getting comical.
Comical in the sense I am going to stick my Holdout one through the monitor if it happens again.
Reminds me of a scene in a favorite story of mine. The human in the story is having a verbal exchange with the computer and the computer won't let him open the door of the space craft unless he promises to do something or other that the computer has come up with as the best course of action.
Finally after several exchanges the human offers to go down to the computer bay and gently do some reprograming of the computer files with a fire axe.
Guess who gets the upper hand ?

 

[rexbo]

For knives opened with thumbstuds:

Smoothest? Rockstead

Fastest/hardest? Kirby Lambert's (pick your model)