Framelock flipper?

Kershaw's Leek, Chive, Shallot and Tyrade are all AO flippers with a framelock.

The Soon to be released Kershaw OD-1 is going to be a flipper with a framelock, it looks awesome :)
 
I second the OD-1 from Kershaw. Wait for it, it's gonna be a great knife. I think it'll be priced around $50 or so.

mike
 
Kershaw Composite JYDII:
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I third the OD-1...

G-10 on one side
Stainless on the other
new 14C28N steel
new flipper from Lee Williams (the OverDrive)
Hinderer lock-bar stablizer
3-position clip
made in the USA

what more could you want? :)

is it September yet?!?!
 
+1:thumbup: on the JYD Ti/SG2. Custom quality without the high price and one of the best slicers going.

Dave
 
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I rather like the Kershaw Storm, although it's much cheaper than what you're looking for.

You might want to like at the BM skirmish or mini skirmish. They don't have flippers, but the action is so smooth and the blade has so much inertia that it's very, very easy to flick.
 
It's slim, but I have no problems with it. Some flippers are meant to be accompanied by a flick though. The flipper in the storm just overcomes the detent really until you master it (like the small M16, I did eventually get the thing just right to open it flipper only, no flick). Flippers are fun, and I prefer them, but once you learn a small variety of inertia deployment methods they become superfluous.

That said, they're still fun, and they're more accessable since there's basically no learning curve. But there is a benefit to them that isn't as often cited, which is that in lock failure situations the flipper will close on your finger before the blade does, which isn't ideal but is nonetheless a better failure scenario.

I'm going to give a Kershaw RAM a try at some point and see how that fairs.

Reflecting on the whole flipper/AO thing, it kinds of seems that slipjoints and lockbacks are really the only kinds of knives that could even make practical use of it. Any good liner lock, BB lock, axis lock, compression lock etc with a smooth action is going to be easily flickable with just a thumbstud/spyderhole, and if you have a lock that can be disengaged before the flick (axis locks for example, compression locks too) you can remove basically any resistance to the opening anyway. Beyond this, any of these knives can be more quickly deployed with inertia techniques anyway.
 
I can't wait for the Kershaw OD-1. It looks like it might be able to replace my Calypso Jr as a small EDC slicer. Oh and I am a framelock and Kershaw lover.
 
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The Kershaw Groove is the best flipper I've ever owned, the Kershaw Tanto Groove being the second best. Both are framelocks on the lower end of your price requirement ($70-150), as each can be found for around $70-85. I'd also highly suggest the JYD (the I, as it's a framelock, unlike most of the II's), but it falls short of the low end ($70) of your price requirement.

Composite JYD II

That's not a framelock, Preston.;)

Regards,
3G
 
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