"Drop Shutty" - Can We Have the Conversation?

I was out of the "knife game" for a few years. Just happily using my knives. I cruise around the knife Reddits too, and recently came back to seeing this drop shutty stuff all around. I had to dig into to see what it was. I just like my knives to open and close smoothly and lock up tight. Reminds me of the "Brownie pop" stuff that was going around back in the day lol.
 
tknife said:
I was out of the "knife game" for a few years. Just happily using my knives. I cruise around the knife Reddits too, and recently came back to seeing this drop shutty stuff all around. I had to dig into to see what it was. I just like my knives to open and close smoothly and lock up tight. Reminds me of the "Brownie pop" stuff that was going around back in the day lol.
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Yeah, but like caged bearings, I imagine this trend is here to stay.
 
RugerNurse said:
My only knife that "drop shuts" is my Spyderco PM2 but it takes a fair amount of force to flick open which I like. The compression lock makes it easy to close. My bugout axis doesn't drop close which is fine with me. I'd rather control that one.
I have a feeling this "fidget factor" was made up by online stores/YouTube channels to either get more interest in knives or sell more. People lived with a slipjoints that don't fidget just fine. Every single review I watch of a knife people talk about how fidgety it is. 20 minute review and they never cut a single thing, makes no sense.
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Yes, very good! I hear you. I think humans are getting more nervous by the day. Anything to fidget.
 
goldie said:
Does anyone know who coined the phrase drop shutty,or fidget factor ? gotta be a youtube dork,sure wasnt a distinguished member of our society :D
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Absolutely youtube knife reviewers, no doubt about it.
 
cmfkdragoon said:
There is "drop shut" action and "controlled drop" action. To me, drop such action is the less predictable form and requires additional safety precautions - which is something I would rather not have to worry over. I do not like when the blade seems to close unarrested.

I much the prefer "controlled drop", but have only experienced it with a few high quality production knives on bearings in which the detent and pivot are so well-tuned as to allow the blade to close with controlled smoothness. Koenig and Shirogorov do this well.
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I'd agree with this. My Arius, Shiros, and several of my Hinderers and ZT's have this action (with the ZT's very close to it).

I'm not a big fan of the "hydraulic" action on knives, but I do like the Controlled drop or slow drop action you describe above.
 
Got an AD20.5 and was like "Oh, that must be a taste of the action of all those expensive midtechs and customs".

Comes in handy and I do not like to slam my backlocks shut for some reason - also only like drop shut on knives where you can have a choil to use your finger like a lock, and the fingers are not in the way when closing. The comp lock and shark lock are as drop-shutty and slick as I need, otherwise, give me a backlock or a slipjoint, you know?

Crazy, I have a Spyderco Military that's as old as me and it is very drop-shutty, feels smooth as heck, but that isn't a good thing on a no-choil liner-lock.
 
I'm more of a knife fondler than a fidget flicker. I feel that there's a difference between wearing out your kit using it and wearing out your kit playing with it. Drop shutting with a frame lock just sounds like you're asking for trouble. I can easily do that with my Axis locks, but I don't, because it doesn't feel like a good way to treat your expensive Benchmade knives. The only knife I treated that way was my SOG Terminus XR, with its XR bar lock.
 
I only like drop shutty action if the blade is heavy enough to guarantee I lose my fingers. I don't want just a cut, I want complete dismemberment!

I really don't like drop shut action on my fixed blades.
 
I blame millennials, the group that invented this fidget business. (*_*) They want knives to operate like toys. But I'm old; soon I'll die and they can inherit the earth, and lots of fidget spinners and flipper knives, for better or worse.
 
sharp_edge said:
It should be "drop shitty" not "drop shutty." Turn on the auto correction feature on your device and you'll get the phrase right. ;)
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Sometimes, hearing the responses here on this forum, it makes me wish my brain was as creative and sharp as many of you! Very creative and funny. Thanks!
 
LimpCroissant said:
I've got a couple knives that are literal drop shut monsters. I'm not sure how I feel about them. One's a Kizer Begleiter and one's a Reel Steel G3 Pukko. The Begleiter is one of my heavy work knives and I'm constantly blown away by the quality and apparent tolerances of that pretty inexpensive knife. Absolute drop shutty, yet zero blade play, no blade lash, and no pivot lash. It's pretty crazy. However I'm not really sure how much I like it. When I get done sharpening it, I WILL cut my finger if I don't get it out of the way before the blade swings closed. I love how it's almost impossible to get a failed smooth full opening, however I like having a little more control of the blade when opening and closing.
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The Kizer Begleiter Mini is MY only drop shut knife and for $140 is by far the best value of all my knives, and one of the highest quality regardless of price, and I have lots of customs. I like the actions of CRKS AND MY STRIDER PT.
 
I never really gave it much thought. All my framelocks are probably considered drop shut, but my fingers are always out of the way by the time the blade begins to close. But the knife is usually horizontal when I close it.
 
I don’t do bearings in folders. My “drop shut” knives are a PM2 and benchmade tagged out. For those lock types, it’s great.

Pretty much everything else is a back lock except my Spyderco Military (which is the best liner lock ever produced - fight me!)

It depends on the lock type for me… I want my compression lock or axis lock to fall predictably. Other locks not so much.
 
I like the drop shut feel but I've also been guillotined a few times by larger lockbacks. Just this morning, a Police 4 got me right behind my right index fingernail.
I'll be snugging the pivots of some of my more risky folders to make them more predictable.
Interesting discussion.
 
Crashbutch said:
I like the drop shut feel but I've also been guillotined a few times by larger lockbacks. Just this morning, a Police 4 got me right behind my right index fingernail.
I'll be snugging the pivots of some of my more risky folders to make them more predictable.
Interesting discussion.
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Such a great knife!

Haven’t had an issue with my p4 LW. But I’m very well acquainted with Spyderco lock backs.
 
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