Favorite spyderco with liner lock?

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stonproject

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ive been really wanting to get a millie for a while. all the blades I usually carry have flipper studs. My main question is , whats your favorite liner lock spydie? Also, how easy is it to open a millie? Can you just "flick" it open? Or do you have to follow the blade all the way open with your thumb?
 
I don't own a milli but I had one as part of the last pass-around, it opens alsmost like its A/O, they've got it right (infact all my spyderco's, even my dragonfly's, flip open but the milli really flys out). You won't have any issue at all being use to studs, its really natural with the hole.


As for my favorite liner lock- no doubt its the sage1.
 
Yes, you can flick a Millie open. I don't have a Millie (yet) but the liner lock on my Sage 1 is the best liner lock I've had the pleasure of using so far.
 
Only one that ever winds up in my pocket is a Centofante Memory. It's about as lefty unfriendly as they come, but it slices like a demon and is just too damn pretty not to carry.

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As for the Military, think it will depend on what kind of "flick" you're talking about. The older ones would open with just a simple flick of the wrist, without you ever touching the blade. The newer ones won't open that way unless you use your whole arm like you were cracking a bullwhip. A "thumb flick" using the Spyderhole would probably work.
 
Concerning the opening of the Military, my one and only is a CRUWEAR Military. It is able to be be thumb flicked opened. It did come quite stiff (always smooth) but has really broken in as of late. It is fun to flick it open esp. middle finger flip, but when I actually use the thing, I open it slowly and deliberately:rolleyes: I would say it is my favorite or second favorite Spyderco liner lock. The Gayle Bradley is an awesome knife, and probably would prefer to carry that than the Military. The Sage is a great little knife, but I typically want more knife that that. The Zulu is an awesome unique knife, but I find myself not carrying it often. I was forgetting one, the Tenacious. It is fine, it stays in my car as a just in case I forget knife.
 
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As of now as the Sage1 has not arrived... The only one I got.. CAT!!! John
 
In my experience the Military was not very easy to flick out with my thumb, but the middle finger flick worked really well. I ended up usually opening it with a controlled thumb. My favorite liner lock would be the Gayle Bradley as many have said. I love how strong it is/seems compared to other liner locks.
 
My favorite liner lock from Spyderco is the original run of the Spyderco C22 Walker. The subsequent sprint run with ZDP-189 is also nice.
 
I have a left handed Millie which can be easily thumb flicked with the most minimal of wrist action; forefinger flicked with more wrist involvement. Middle finger...hmm, not so good for me. Ease of disengaging liner lock...smooth and fluid.
 
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Are we considering the compression lock a liner lock? If so my old school Gunting is my favorite. The only other liner lock Spydie I have a a early run Military in 440V.
 
The Military is liner lock perfection (Imho)

All of mine pop open like they're assisted when thumb flicked at about 2 o'clock on the spydie hole.

And they jump open just as easy when flicked with the middle finger from the other side :thumbup:
 
Military, C22 Michael Walker, PPT, Sage1, Starmate and SpyKer. I love the C42 Viele, but it has Spydercos worst liner lock (AUS8 version) :o
 
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