Fastest opening...

Peroni1973

Peroni1973

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I have several cracking Spydies but despite owning a Para 2, a Sage 1, the Junior and many others...

...my Tenacious seems to fly out ahead of them all.

Any other fast opening Spydies that I need to watch for?

Ben
 
Emerson Delica/Endura ought to be up there for fast deployments! Also the most entertaining deployments too!
 
Military (liner not frame) is fastest for me. Spyderco does a good job at making their liner locks seem frictionless.
 
Its big but my XL Manix now that its broken in is pretty freaking fast, fast as any other I've seen and its bigger than most spydies out there.

I still want a Yo 2 though.
 
Does your Tenacious have a strong detent?

I've noticed that some of my knives have a stronger detent than others, and by the time you put enough force on the blade to overcome the detent you have a good amount of force involved and the causes the blade to come out fast. Something like my PM2 opens very easily so I don't have time to get a good amount of force built up before it is mostly open. It opens pretty fast even at that.

I have a couple of the really big CRKT knives with flippers. It takes a good amount of force on the flipper to overcome the detent and once that happens the force accelerates the blade to good opening speed pretty fast.
 
Right now I feel like my Vallotton is my fastest. Although I have an Emerson Endura, so if we count the nifty wave feature then it wins.
 
Thanks Guys for all the comments. BDMicarta, your thoughts on the detent may be spot on. I also think that there is a mass factor in there as the larger blade of the Tenacious has greater inertia once the opening has started.

I've recently ordered the Gayle Bradley, and whilst the Spydie hole isn't the biggest and there isn't complete access to it - it seems to be reasonably fast to the practiced hand from what I can tell. (I should get mine in a day or two!) We drill handgun drawing, etc. so my thinking is to drill blade opening and to groove a consistent approach. So I guess I'm rather focused on using the hole as opposed to a flipper/wave option, although there is no denying that they work well. (My ZT's assisted or not, fly open).

I have several other makes of knives but my Spydies just seem to fit the bill in terms of carry and as a result feature in my EDC far more often than anything else.

Cheers all!

Ben
 
Hands down the P'kal, the larger "wave" has the most consistent opening of any of my waved knives, including Emerson's. Although some don't like the ergos for EDC... I love it.
 
Aside from pivot/detent friction, the rest is a matter of inertia. The human thumb can only exert so much force and only move so fast. In all cases, I've found my lighter/shorter blades to deploy quickest. My Benchmade 840 is super quick with a light blade and a thumb stud relatively close to the pivot. My ZT0560 is relatively slow with its large and heavy blade.

If your concern is a defensive situation, practicing deployment is most crucial. No matter how fast your knife can be, fumbling for the thumb stud or Spydie hole isn't going to get the knife open. A reliable opening is more important than a faster opening that can only be achieved sometimes.

I've played around with a variety of brands and deployment systems. None are infallible. Even waving open an Emerson can be done wrong. I find that knives that fit my hand well while being removed from my pocket are easiest to open quickly.

In terms of Spydies, my Para 2 is quick and the giant hole is hard to miss :-) My ZT flippers are also pretty easy to open quickly.
 
I don't have a lot of Spyderco's but I just got my second one, the Techno and it deploys pretty dang fast.
 
I dont get the whole "fastest opening" knife thing... Every single knife I've ever seen or handled opens at about the same speed except for slipjoints and knives with a nail nick.. I mean, some have stiffer detents than others, but the speed difference when opening them is negligible.. We're talking less than miliseconds; infinitesimal amounts not even worth mentioning in my opinion..

I can understand discussing "ease of opening" (due to a nice stiff detent), but speed:jerkit:? They're ALL fast!
Am I missing something here because I sure dont understand
 
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