Good folder as a personal reward?

Originally posted by Jeff Clark
You may find some legal inconveniences if you want an auto in Colorado, and the legal climate in Denver may be particularly cool to your carrying one. An assisted opener like the Aftermath may be a desireable alternative. You may find that less is more for daily carry. There are also legal inconveniences for blades longer than 3.25 or 3.5 (I forget which) inches in Colorado.

I would also look at the Buck Mayo collaboration.
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It's a technicality. I'm a nerdy-lookin' computer geek and I've never been in trouble in my life. I don't think I'm going to get arrested if I'm seen opening a bag of chips with my auto or 4" blade. It's really the kind of thing cops worry about if you're already a trouble maker. People are so paranoid about auto knives. Ya know I see a hundred people run red lights every day in Denver. Thousands of people get killed a year from red-light-runners; my girlfriend was almost killed by one. I've NEVER seen someone pulled over for it in Denver. (Same with turning signals.) They selectively enforce (or not enforce) the law. My knife has never, nor will it kill someone. I carry an auto knife. I don't run red lights. If a cop is going to selectively enforce the the auto-knife or blade-length law on me then he's going to be sitting in a court room a LONG TIME and listen to me rant about all of the above and more.;)

Walking Man, when I was a child I was terribly afraid of The Count and would run over to my mother when ever The Count came on Sesame Street. Now I'm a huge fan of horror novels and movies. It's ironic. I'm going to get a tatoo of him soon.

bquinlan, I read in the review forum yesturday that it's REALLY hard to deploy the Aftermath. Is it tip-up or tip-down carry?
 
Originally posted by fulloflead
bquinlan, I read in the review forum yesturday that it's REALLY hard to deploy the Aftermath. Is it tip-up or tip-down carry?
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It's tip-down. I generally prefer tip-up myself, but I have found that tip-down works better for me on models that have flippers. When my hand grabs the end of the knife to draw my index finger falls right on the flipper.

I disagree that the Aftermath is hard to deploy, but with a qualification. The ROBO mechanism does require an actual push, not just a tap, to open. Several of my friends have been unable to work the flipper at all when first handed the knife. However, I think most of the difficulty has to do with their initial grip and flicking angle, not with the mechanism itself. Everyone I've handed it to has been able to flick it open after a few minutes of practice.

As a point of comparison, I am right-handed and quite a bit weaker on the left. I can still draw and flick the Aftermath open smoothly with my left hand.

--Bob Q
 
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