Compression Lock - I'm decompressed. Great knife but ...

[BJE]

It's telling that after being a knife enthusiast for decades and decades, owning many (too many) knives and having owned (then sold, traded, gifted) hundreds of knives that I have to go to YTU (You Tube University) to operate a folder. ??

Must be a Floridian phenomenon, wouldn’t be the first, I had no issues using the compression lock for the first time without a video, neither did my nine year old son….simply use your index finger and squeeze.

That said, I don’t own a caribbean because I find it to be fugly.

 

[Another Shepherd]

Must be a Floridian phenomenon, wouldn’t be the first, I had no issues using the compression lock for the first time without a video, neither did my nine year old son….simply use your index finger and squeeze.

The notorious "Florida Man" is not typical of Floridians.

Almost every man in rural Florida carries a pocket knife or two (I did a survey). There are no Spyderco dealers nearby, and I don't know anybody else locally who carries Spydercos. But I have shown several of my Spydercos to friends, and nobody had trouble with the compression locks.

 

[DrHarmony]

The worst part about the Caribbean I find is not the lock, it is forgetting it has no choil and closing it like a Chaparral :0

 

[Another Shepherd]

The worst part about the Caribbean I find is not the lock, it is forgetting it has no choil and closing it like a Chaparral :0

Or like a PM2 or Para 3 or Endura or various other models. Yeah, I have been known to do that with the Caribbean, too. But there was just barely enough ricasso to keep it from doing any serious damage.

 

[SALTY]

UPDATE:

With more and more cycles (and lube) I can now flick it closed - watershed moment in the relationship!
I still have to accept repositioning the knife then holding it with the tips of my fingers before flicking it - but I can tolerate those inconveniences for a knife that I, otherwise, really like.