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best way to open using left hand

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Liquidm1980

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i have an awesome starbenza. however one thing i dont like about is the fact that is it hard to open using my left hand. i am used to knifes with thumb holes, auto's and kershaw's speed-safe torsion bar that are easy to open with both hands. what are the best ways to open this knife? would adding a double lug be the best option?

thanks

liquid
 
I'd say double lug is your friend. I am lefty so all of my CRKs are LH models. It's pretty hard to open my small Sebs (21, Star-Benza) with one-sided lug with right hand. I can open my Mnandi (no lugs, just slits on both sides) and large Seb with double lug no problem because my index finger can support the opening. Still, opening with intended hand is easier on those two because the clip will give me area to grip, especially on small Mnandi.
 
If you mean open a right handed sebbie with your left hand I usually use my left middle finger to push the thumbstud out of the detent then use my thumb on the blade to open
it the rest of the way. On the small sebbies the cut out and clearance is very small on the other side so I personally would not get double lugs.
 
I'm a lefty, and have a left-handed Sebenza, but I find that I can just press on the small bit of exposed tang with my thumb, and that works just fine to open it. No need to even reposition your hand or thumb, just one smooth motion.
 
The best option would to have a double thumb stud if you plan on opening and closing your knife a lot. Only time this is useful is for the sake of opening a knife while doing nothing with it.

Otherwise the above mentioned options work. Except for the index finger *for me* because I can't get a good grip without my index finger holding onto the knife. I only need the thumb and index finger holding the knife while I push with the middle finger and then use my thumb to open the blade fully. Nevermind, I got it to work but unless I practice this way it is very awkward for me.
 
you can actually hold a right hand seb in the left hand, and catch the lug with the nail of the index finger, and if your knife is in proper maintenance (ie. lubed/greased, not run dry) you can flick it open (not a wrist flick, pure finger). the top right corner of the nail should be touching the blade, the flesh of your finger should be lightly pressed against the bottom part of the C cut out under the lug. and the rest of the nail should be pressed against the lug. where the period is on the really bad diagram below is the part that should touch the blade.
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the knife should have the frame lock facing you. try this on an axis lock, the same method will work. it is relatively easy once you get use to it. of course, inlays help with the grip needed to open it this way.

if you can't figure this out, let me know and i can try to take a video of it.
 
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The first thing I did when I received my Small Star-Benza, Small Insingo, and Large Insingo was to send them back to CRK to have silver double thumb lugs installed.
 
What Ken wrote, but even so I find the smalls are a fair bit harder to open with the off-side thumb than the larges...simply a question of access space around the lug, I think.
 
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