"Flip-It" (??) device

[Phil Elmore]

Doesn't matter; there's no new way to open a knife, and to claim to have invented one at any time in the last two decades or so just simply isn't believable.

The previously super-secret technique is apparently now unclassified -- I found a thread where Robin describes it and posts photos.

http://www.threatfocused.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139

 

[thombrogan]

Unclassified? I'm taking this secret to my grave for naught? Fiddlesticks!

 

[Phil Elmore]

I'll bet your cyanide capsule is expired, too. I know mine is. Drat!

 

[Mainspring]

Brick and Mortar. A store you can touch, enter, smell, lick the counter if you're so disposed.

Ahhhhh....I get it. Thanks.

 

[tirod3]

I remember those. I also remember that the knives of yesteryear weren't as easy to open as they are today, with a few exceptions. Not sure if those gadgets worked well or not, never tried them.

They were an improvement. I put mine together long after getting used to liner locks with ball detents. The backspring on most lock backs had a lot more pressure, so thumbing open a stud against that leverage required a lot more force. Slick handled knives of the day didn't offer much of a grip.

That Explorer Boot Knife was a nice folder - but the average clipped and thumbholed liner lock just blows it's doors off. And they open a lot quieter than popping your knife around in public just to show off how tactical you are.

Call it whatever, it's dangerous - most practioners report sticking knives in the immediate surroundings just learning how to do it - as did I - and it can certainly happen just when you don't need it to. High dexterity motions that require a lot of practice don't rank high in high stress, low motor control confrontations. Throwing away your last ditch resource is not smart.

 

[Stickfighter2]

I thought flicking a folding knife open by grasping the blade and flicking the handle downwards was called a "New York Drop."

That's what they called it when I learned how to do it on my Buck 110 back in 1975.

As for the Bandit thumbstud, I've still got two of them on my old Buck 110's. They still work very well.

 

[GRIM 62]

I remember seeing them on a few 110s'back in the early 80s.

 

[5370H55V]

I remember seeing several on ebay a few days ago. Try searching for "universal knife thumbstud".

 

[Raymond1000]

legal.

 

[Raymond1000]

Originally Posted by thombrogan
I thought flicking a folding knife open by grasping the blade and flicking the handle downwards was called a "New York Drop."

That's what they called it when I learned how to do it on my Buck 110 back in 1975.

As for the Bandit thumbstud, I've still got two of them on my old Buck 110's. They still work very well.

In the early seventies I'd never heard of a "New York Drop."

As for brownie pop, I'd have assumed it was something you drank, and wondered if it was legal.

 

[thebrain]

I have seen a new version on the bay it`s called EZ STUD it looks just like the "one armed bandit" just not nice .The old version had some texture or grip lines cut into it the ez stud is smooth .I don`t know if they are any good but I would love to find out.