BAfarmer: I asked why at the boker forum. The response I got was that it was designed for quick deployment, the user would have time to close it later.
Ratfinkelstein: No mention of the double flipper design.
Boker: I have to agree with our critics that the result is getting us very close to the Strider handle design.
I thought we were discussing the design - which is precisely what was copied. I did not express any approval of copying designs, but others have in this thread and admit doing so if you give credit where it is due. After 200 years of ingenuity, if anything is hard to do in making a knife, it's coming up with an original design. That's why I bought the Buck Strider - to find out how it worked in real life.
It's not unusual for two people to see different issues in the same discussion. My comment was based on the obvious overuse of grip grooves to change the visual interpretation and lamely disguise its origins, which is admitted. Grip grooves themselves aren't necessarily bad - grab the closest Kabar. Executed in leather, they are a positive contribution. In titanium, G10, or FRN, they can play hell and cause blistering. I'm disposing the Buck Strider on another forum for less than I paid, NIB because I believe it is a design taken from Kabar and poorly executed in the functional world.
It's NIB because Buck replaced it - the Walker type liner lock had no engagement.
Ratfinkelstein: No mention of the double flipper design.
Boker: I have to agree with our critics that the result is getting us very close to the Strider handle design.
I thought we were discussing the design - which is precisely what was copied. I did not express any approval of copying designs, but others have in this thread and admit doing so if you give credit where it is due. After 200 years of ingenuity, if anything is hard to do in making a knife, it's coming up with an original design. That's why I bought the Buck Strider - to find out how it worked in real life.
It's not unusual for two people to see different issues in the same discussion. My comment was based on the obvious overuse of grip grooves to change the visual interpretation and lamely disguise its origins, which is admitted. Grip grooves themselves aren't necessarily bad - grab the closest Kabar. Executed in leather, they are a positive contribution. In titanium, G10, or FRN, they can play hell and cause blistering. I'm disposing the Buck Strider on another forum for less than I paid, NIB because I believe it is a design taken from Kabar and poorly executed in the functional world.
It's NIB because Buck replaced it - the Walker type liner lock had no engagement.
