Chris Reeve's no-flick policy

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Ankerson said:
To me listening to it is like someone who clicks a pen over and over or running their nails across a chalkboard.

I also stop videos with that going on......
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I'm rarely annoyed by the noise of flicking my knife.

Whenever I'm tactically deploying my knife, I can't hear it over the sounds of swords whoosing, shurikens whizzing, and loud rejoicing of swooning women.

Maybe you're usage is more mundane than mine.

I'm not judging you to be less of a man, or anything like that. ;)
 
Nullity said:
I'm rarely annoyed by the noise of flicking my knife.

Whenever I'm tactically deploying my knife, I can't hear it over the sounds of swords whoosing, shurikens whizzing, and loud rejoicing of swooning women.

Maybe you're usage is more mundane than mine.

I'm not judging you to be less of a man, or anything like that. ;)
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Now that's funny. ROFL :D
 
I bet you guys $100 that Chris Reeve is a closet flicker. The guys who are the most adamant about strict society norms - in this case the slow and careful opening of a knife - are usually the ones deviating from those norms behind closed doors. Its all starting to make sense now. I can just see him standing there, wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and dark socks, flicking like a madman and laughing hysterically - an Unnumzaan in one hand and a 25 proto in the other.

What he does behind closed doors is his business, and I'm not judging. Just making an observation.
 
strick284 said:
Is this guy serious? You have to open and close the knife to use it. Simply using the knife too often can void the warranty??? You might as well never take the sucker out of the box.
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To be fair, most of the secondhand CRKs that get sold on these forums are safe queens.
 
Its pretty simple. If you don't like the no flicking policy, don't buy a crk or don't flick it. I will stick to my sage 2. Its settled in at 50% and not going anywhere.
 
i think its because of the bushing that the pivot screw sits in. im not entirely sure, but i dont think the sebenza, or the umnumzaans bushing can support flicking it open. tolerances need to be kept tight on these knives and as such theres not alot of room for these things to wobble around. when you flick a knife open, all that force has to go somewhere. usually that would be that pivot screw, and the stop pin. but in the case of the umnumzan its the thumb studs that serve as the stop pin, and they require two O rings to handle that force. with the sebenza all the energy is going into the pin, and the pivot, but because the pivot screw is inside a bushing, its going into the bushing instead. so i supose that the bushing can be damages if it takes too impact. if this is the case it would be easier for CRK to just tell you not to do it, then to have to replace sebenza and umnumzaan parts all day long.

just an observation. i could be wrong.
 
You might (or might not, I don't know) be right about the Sebenza pivot. The Umnumzaan is a totally different story. Different arrangement, much larger pivot.

PitbullShogun said:
i think its because of the bushing that the pivot screw sits in. im not entirely sure, but i dont think the sebenza, or the umnumzaans bushing can support flicking it open. tolerances need to be kept tight on these knives and as such theres not alot of room for these things to wobble around. when you flick a knife open, all that force has to go somewhere. usually that would be that pivot screw, and the stop pin. but in the case of the umnumzan its the thumb studs that serve as the stop pin, and they require two O rings to handle that force. with the sebenza all the energy is going into the pin, and the pivot, but because the pivot screw is inside a bushing, its going into the bushing instead. so i supose that the bushing can be damages if it takes too impact. if this is the case it would be easier for CRK to just tell you not to do it, then to have to replace sebenza and umnumzaan parts all day long.

just an observation. i could be wrong.
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The sebenzas that get flicked open repeatedly seem to suffer damage only to the lock bar surface and nothing else.
 
RevDevil said:
I own a small group of CRKs, 3 large Sebenzas and 1 Umnumzaan. I just don't flick the knives open. When I first got into knives years ago, sure. Bu I find a slow deliberate opening of the knife is just fine. I'm not all into the flashy attention get ting that flicking can bring.

The Umnumzaan is tougher to flick, but I wouldn't advise it. No need to.
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Ugh, I hate handing a nice knife to someone just so they can see if they can flick the shit out of it and it opens fast, makes me cringe.
 
apintandafight said:
Ugh, I hate handing a nice knife to someone just so they can see if they can flick the shit out of it and it opens fast, makes me cringe.
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Similarly, I don't want to own an expensive knife that I can't hand to someone without fearing they will "misuse" it.
(Of course, not loaning a knife to stupid people is a given.)

I know it's not popular, but I enjoy loaning/sharing my knives.
 
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