flicking open your knife

The question was not about whether to flick or not to flick, it was if flicking as described wears things down faster than opening carefully.

It will.

Many knives can have a good lifespan even with obsessive/compulsive levels of flicking, but that is not what was being asked.
 
Planterz said:
There's makers who say flicking damages the knife prematurely.

Then there's ones that make assisteds and autos, and still warranty their stuff.

How is OK to fire my linerlock Microtech LCC D/A time after time after time, but if I flick a Sebenza once, I'm abusing it? :confused: :confused: :confused:

I'm not really bothered either way. They give me the warranty terms, and it's up to me to decide if I follow them. But it seems silly that 2 different high quality knives are supposed to be able to take different types of use/abuse.
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Flicking the Sebenza once, or even occasionally is not abuse, how can it be since CRK tells you to flick it open hard after reassembly to seat the washers?
 
One of the things that piss me off to no end is that the blade is so light on my Boker Helios Ceratitan that it difficult to flick. It's tough to flick my infinity as well.

My scallion doesn't really flick, neither does my brand spankin new shiny emerson combat kerambit. (but the wave makes up for that)

I love flicking, why else own a linerlock.

"BORN TO FLICK"
 
It's fine to flick every once in a while, but I try not to do it all of the time. It's not "abusing" the knife. It's like a car: you try to treat it nicely most of the time, but sometimes she's gotta get some redline duty :cool: ;)
 
Flicking any quality knife shouldn't hurt it. It'll wear, sooner or later, but judging from the rate of wear on my knives, I'm going to die first....the contact doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to stop the tang or blade. Furthermore, wear should actually decrease exponentially with use as the contact surface gets flatter and thus offers more area. I flick a single knife probably in excess of 50 times a day, if it's in my EDC rotation. My minigrip probably has been flicked on the scale of tens of thousands of times.
 
All use wears a knife, flicking gets warned simply because it is easier for the user to do it over and over and some people do it as recreation. I have carried a Vapor for the past few months, no flicking, just EDC use and watched the lock bar move right across the tang and now due to some compression there is significant up/down blade play. No heavy batoning, no impact work, just a lot of heavy cutting of difficult materials. In general this is much harder on a knife than flicking but a maker/manufacturer would look pretty bad warning about not to do that with their knife.

-Cliff
 
Myself, i just cringe when someone wrist flicks a knife open.

The movement coupled with inertial forces and the final thwack makes my skin crawl for the knife.

As far as flicking via the thumbstud without the wrist snapping is fine by me, low forces and torque, just enough to open and engage the lock are required.

Also, i imagine, different styled locking knives have pro an cons against flicking, like a liner Vrs a Axis or a lockback, i could see where a liner lock may develope problems around the lock tang area, where as a lock back or axis may not suffer the same fate, or improper engagement.



This makes me think, if anyone has actually broken their stop pin from doing this?


WR
 
my first caly ZDP has developed some vert play (very little but not really enough to be annoying) and i think it was from flicking too much...yea your right cliff it can be kind of recreational!!
 
I really think these fears are unfounded. My m16 liner lock has been flicked at least 10 thousand times with no play whatsoever, and no visible wear. Same as my minigrip. And the M16 has a flipper.

Wrist opening, as you guys know it, doesn't even have much power.

I have techniques that probably double the impact, and the waves are so subtle you'll think I converted my knives to assisted openers.

The thing to remember here is that the stop pin hits the tang--not the end of the blade. The leverage is insignificant.

If your knife begins to fail from constant flicking, then you bought a knife of poor quality. None of my knives suffer from this, and I honestly feel I flick them open as least as much as most of you, and I'm almost certain I can open them with much more force.

Furthermore, we bali folks know just how much those sort of things can take. None of us are flicking our folders like the bali people flip teir balis, but the impact is more or less the same--and there IS wear. But even with 10x the impact and those impacts are constant, it takes a long time to wear a good bali out. You visibly see the swapping of metal on my spyderfly, for instance, but you can't feel it--much less than an eigth of mm has been removed.
 
i got a microtech cmtx5 or what theyre called and it has this crisp break really first there is nothing then u push the thumbstud harder and there is nothing, and then bam and it snaps open like a stiletto. is that flicking?? i have a problem seeing this knife breaking because of that, but if it happens i will "pimp" it as i like it. got 2 lb of titanium to play with just for that :D
 
Wrist opening, as you guys know it, doesn't even have much power
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AM, I meant when used with the stud or hole an snapping your wrist at same time.

The forces are quite brutal, try it.

Want further proof, try some plasti-gauge on the stop pin an measure how far it smears.

Not just flicking your damned wrist about lol


WR
 
My pure wrist openings have more power than thumbstud/spyderhole. I'd say at least 125%. Wish I had a webcam to show you. Never seen anyone else open knives like these techniques. Learn a new sort of wave to put into it every month or so.

But thumb stud flicking w/t wrist has got nothing comparable, I think you'd agree, to flipper opening + wrist. Which I do all the time with my M16. Like hundreds of times some days.

But I can open knives with just my wrist with a lot more power than I can with flipper and my wrist. I've made thumbstuds and spyderholes completely obsolete, in my opinion.

Axis lock flicks should have more power than the conventional thumbstud sort of flicks also, which I do constantly. Spyderdrops also, I'd think.

Can't blame you for not understanding what I'm talking about in the flicking area here....I've really been wanting to make a new knife tricks video but lack the equipment. Have a lot of cool stuff (to me) I'd like to share.
 
I don't flick 'em with any wrist action. But I often open them "briskly" or firmly using the thumb stud or hole just for fun or as a nervous past time. I find it to be theraputic. I doubt that a quality knife would be harmed by this.
 
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