Fastest knife you can deploy W/O a wave?

Fastest to deploy would have to be a plungelock auto. Fastest to deploy, cut, and replace would be my Scarab. Don't own any fixed blades.
 
AFCK - love the oval hole even more than a round one, and closes very fast one handed too.

Nimravus - carried handle down at a 45 degree angle on the right side.
 
There is a company called Phantom knives that make a rip cord knife. The knife hangs on a chain around your neck with the blade in the handle. When you pull on the handle the chain or rip cord pulls the blade out of the handle and locks in place. It's like an OTF with no spring.
http://www.1sks.com/store/phantom-rip-cord-medallion.html

I cant think of anything faster especialy if the knife is worn over your shirt.
 
will22 said:
There is a company called Phantom knives that make a rip cord knife. The knife hangs on a chain around your neck with the blade in the handle. When you pull on the handle the chain or rip cord pulls the blade out of the handle and locks in place. It's like an OTF with no spring.
http://www.1sks.com/store/phantom-rip-cord-medallion.html

I cant think of anything faster especialy if the knife is worn over your shirt.
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IMHO, it's slightly heavy (5.4 oz) for a neck knife.
 
will22 said:
There is a company called Phantom knives that make a rip cord knife. The knife hangs on a chain around your neck with the blade in the handle. When you pull on the handle the chain or rip cord pulls the blade out of the handle and locks in place. It's like an OTF with no spring.
http://www.1sks.com/store/phantom-rip-cord-medallion.html

I cant think of anything faster especialy if the knife is worn over your shirt.
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Why not use a fixed blade on you neck? Or better yet, on your belt or under the arm?
 
My Benchmade 806D2 and 805 comes out of my pocket and snaps open to attention pretty darn quicky...As long as I do my part and remember not to let it go flying across the room.:D.
 
I take it by wave you mean without flicking your wrist? In that case I'm going to say either my Kershaw Avalanche or Microtech min-socom elite. The Kershaw because of speedsafe and the microtech because the ball that holds it closed is extra large, so since it takes a lot of force to break the catch, when it breaks it goes flying.
Richard
 
Folder, that's easy.

A Buck Strider (Large). A simple two flips action (first down and then flip up) will do. Less than a sec.

Fixed... well let's say if I simply put it on a table out of sheath... that adds up to less than a sec as well, maybe? :D
 
Probably my Spyderco Military. I can deploy all of my knives quickly; it would be hard to pick which one is the fastest...especially if I were to use an inertia opening. I guess they are all about the same.
 
I was going to ask the same thing . I guess the wave is the fastest . I made a junker ka bar knife into wave design , its as fast as the wave! Other than the wave i have no idea!
 
My MkI Ritter Griptilians open extremely fast. And close nearly as fast. God bless the AXIS lock!
 
My Cold Steel recon1. Just pull back those 2 lock knobs and give it a gentle flick. Comes open in a fraction of a second. Also pulling back on them allows the knife to be closed one handed by just flicking it the other direction and letting the locking spring seat the blade home. I just wish my Spear point model worked like my tanto. The tanto I'll never sell just because it works so perfect. The SP is going to a friend that wants to tinker with it.

And the newer model Recon 1s just feel too sticky. So if you plan on getting one make sure it's the old AUS-8 steel model.
 
My waved Emerson is my FASTEST method of deployment for a blade.

If I didn't have it (unlikely!!!) then I guess a Stiff KISS IWB is what I'm next fastest with. I don't carry or even practice with this much as carrying a fixed blade concealed is a no-no (AFAIK) in NC. To be faster with this that a waved knife, I have to lift up my shirt enough to clear the handle, grasp the handle, and still keep the material of my shirt clear enough to keep my draw from being impeded.

OTOH with a waved knife it is always in the same spot, always grasped the same way (index the web of the right hand along the spine of the knife/ back seam of pocket) and I have practiced with it that the draw is 100% (slight rotation of the knife counter-clockwise and pull towards the back seam of the pocket).

My speedsafed knives are pretty fast too by the fact that they are always in the same spot if I have one on me inside seam of watch pocket or right seam of right rear pocket) but they're pretty small, so I don't count those. :D :D

- Jon -
 
CQC7 (non-waved version).

A slight wrist flick and this babys ready for action!

Only thing quicker is the waved version, naturally.
 
Probably the quickest knife that i can draw and deploy is my Livesay Woo all I have to do is reach under my shirt and pull it out. It is difficult to beat a fixed blade for speed and ease of deployment. My quickest folder is a Benchmade 805 TSEK; all it takes is a pull from the pocket a flick of the wrist and it is open.
 
Just found this out not 5 min ago! I carry a SOG twitch 1 between the first and second buttons on my shirt (Not counting the colar because I don't button it.) If I pull the knife downwards, the thumbstud catches on right breast of the shirt and pushes out the torsion bar just far enough to kick out the blade. This damn knife only gets better and better!
-KC
I don't consider this to be wave related, because it must occur on a 3D plain where a wave only needs 2 D's.
 
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