How to close your lock back with style?

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wuyeah

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With fram lock, Liner lock, you push your thumb, index fold~ cool~ :thumbup: (doesn't really work with skirmish 630)

with my Chinook II, Manix, I am not sure if my hand is too small or else, doesn't really seems like a one hand closing knife. sometime i try to do it will risk my index finger right under the blade :eek:

:cool: (really not a smartest idea)

Can you close your Mnix smoothly with one hand or it is just me?? If your answer is YES, Can you please explain or teach me :)
 
check this out. If your Manix does not close like that try loosening the pivot screw. Also when you place your finger on the groove in handle it is impossible to hurt yourselve. The finger will meet with the choil.
 
The Manix can be closed with one hand in a couple of different fashions. First, by simply holding the knife handle parallel to the ground (blade edge) and pushing the lockbar with your thumb, the blade should drop right down and point to the ground. BE CAREFUL as you need to have your pointer finger at least as high as the first handle countour. This way the blade choil taps your finger, not the edge.

Secondly, you can actually open and close the Manix with your pointer finger on the lockbar. It does take strength, but if you can push the lockbar down this way, the knife will swing open and closed with almost no force required. It actually swings EASIER than my Axis lock griptilian.

Both of these methods require a free gliding pivot. If the blade does not drop on it's own, the pivot is too tight. Mine took about 100 opening and closes to loosen up.
 
With the Chinook, Manix, Native, etc.., one hand closing is safe & easy.

Just release the lock bar with the thumb, allow the blade to close down on the index finger, spin the knife upside down around the index finger, remove the index finger and close upside down with the entire hand.

Any knife with a choil can safely be closed this way.
 
I regularly EDC a Spyderco Native. The pivot on mine is tight, so gravity is of no help, but I'm still able to close it one-handed. I grip it just beneath the blade with the middle finger, press down on the lockback with my thumb and use the index finger to push the blade down. The choil meets the middle finger. Actually, I don't wait for the choil to make contact -- I flip the knife over and finish closing it with the thumb. *shrug* That's what works for me. Not sure if this'd work with the Manix because of that knife's size.
 
I choke my index finger up at the top of the handle, unlock it, and let gravity or a little inertia make the tang of the blade hit my index finger, then grab the spine with a few fingers and squeeze it shut. It do that for my Delica and it works fine, but Buck doesn't lend itself to this method with the lock bar access being down at the rear bolster.

Don't get cut ;)
 
The lock bar on my 'Nook is too stiff to press it in with my index finger like you see in that video. But that's OK. I open all my Spydies with the hole* and you can close the 'Nook, Manix, Native, and any other "choke-up-able" Spydie by letting the finger choil come down on your index finger. Just don't do it with knives that will let the sharp edge hit your finger.

*You can't beat the hole. Thumbstuds are an inferior opening method that takes you down the road to all sorts of game-like openings, but the simple method of sticking your thumb in the hole and opening the knife is just as fast as the circus tricks and works every time.
 
I don't like the way it's done in that video. Granted your finger would never come into the path of the blade, but at the same time (and because of that) you won't have a very strong purchase on the knife.

If it works, go for it, but I see a lot of dropped knives or stabbed feet from that method.
 
Psychopomp said:
I don't like the way it's done in that video. Granted your finger would never come into the path of the blade, but at the same time (and because of that) you won't have a very strong purchase on the knife.

If it works, go for it, but I see a lot of dropped knives or stabbed feet from that method.
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maybe in theory, but I've been EDC-ing Chinook II for 6 months, hardly use hole and never dropped or stabbed anyone's foot :) everyone has to try it for yourself and judge if its the safe way to open or close a lockback. It works fine for me however I dont take responsibility for any injuries :) stay safe

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the grip is actually quite strong because you hold the knife between your fingers, which is unlikely when opening with the hole.
 
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