Back in 1996 or thereabout, during Ernie's first effort to make a production knife he developed/designed the Raven which most all of you know. One time when I was visiting, Ernie showed me a fully developed prototype that was a flipper but due to the state of hysteria about one-handed knives Mary and Ernie decided to not risk their investment in this knife by having it outlawed so they never mentioned that it was a flipper and had me swear not to discuss it-a few weeks later he gave me this one (in video).
Fast forward 18 years and when I asked Ernie about that incident he had long forgotten it and we had a good laugh-I told him I couldn't keep the "secret" anymore and I would make a video- he agreed it was a tiny bit of history that is so quaint and needed to be out of the shadows.
in reality Ernie put a lot of his time in making the best knife possible and he did spend a lot of time researching flipper technology for that time and he even mentioned back then a ball bearing was probably a clear direction but his resources were already strained and he couldn't afford to go further with it.
so here it is sorry in advance about the crappy focus
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Emerson+Raven+flipper
Fast forward 18 years and when I asked Ernie about that incident he had long forgotten it and we had a good laugh-I told him I couldn't keep the "secret" anymore and I would make a video- he agreed it was a tiny bit of history that is so quaint and needed to be out of the shadows.
in reality Ernie put a lot of his time in making the best knife possible and he did spend a lot of time researching flipper technology for that time and he even mentioned back then a ball bearing was probably a clear direction but his resources were already strained and he couldn't afford to go further with it.
so here it is sorry in advance about the crappy focus
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Emerson+Raven+flipper
