flipper?

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I'm still learning all the terminology of knives so bear with me. I have been noticing quite a few sites/videos the word flipper being used. I have heard assisted opening knives being called "flippers". But I have also heard people call a knife a "flipper" that does not have assisted opening. Can anyone explain this?
 
Flipper is different than assisted - assisted has a spring to finish rotating the blade for you and a flipper has a portion of the blade tang that looks like a tab on the back of the handle to press down/in.
 
Flipper is a part of the tang that sucks out the back of the knife while it is closed to be pushed to open the knife. A knife can be assisted and be a flipper like the Kershaw leek or it can be manual and have no springs like the skyline.
 
bld522 said:
Ouch. That sounds painful. :eek: ;)
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Lol ment to say sticks, I'm on a kindle fire. And hey if had some pretty painful flippers from companies that don't seem to care. But a company like Kershaw that'll do it right it isn't at all, only saying Kershaw because they do a lot of footers acc they are a good price.
 
SomeNewGuy said:
Only saying Kershaw because they do a lot of footers acc they are a good price.
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Say what??? :confused: Man, you've got to put down the duckie if you want to play the saxaphone!

[video=youtube;acBixR_JRuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBixR_JRuM[/video]
 
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bld522 said:
Say what??? :confused: Man, you've got to put down the duckie if you want to play the saxaphone!

[video=youtube;acBixR_JRuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBixR_JRuM[/video]
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Sorry man.. the auto correct on this tablet kills me because it'll change things after u hit submit as it feels fit. I ment to say I'm using Kershaw as an example because they have a lot of flippers that are done right that work good at a good price
 
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