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Planning to add to my Victorinox collection with a holiday "gift-to-self." Looking at a Victorinox Swiss Army, 111mm One-Hand Sentinel, Non-Serrated. This is part of their lockblade series. There were 10 reviews listed at the internet store, with most comments very positive about the quality of this knife. Nothing unusual about SAKs....most always commented as great knives.
However, out of the 10 reviews, 3 considered the liner lock to be problematic. Copied just this issue, as follows:
~~~The only issue is the reversed liner lock, which seems to have been designed for lefties. It's easy to open one handed, hard but possible to close using only the right hand.
~~~It's not the most comfortable knife in the hand, but its usefulness compensates for liner lock pressing into the folds of my fingers.
~~~The only inconvenient characteristic is that the liner lock release seems backward. Rather than unlocking with thumb movement toward and across the palm, one has to pull the liner toward the thumb side, which is awkward.
The liner lock on the Sentinel is located right next to the knife butt on the edge side of the blade. I have two one-handed Hunter Pro lockblades. The liner lock on these is positioned in the center of the handle on the spine side of the blade. Based on this I can easily see the "reversal" noted in the reviews.
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this Sentinel in particular, or with any SAK that has this "reversed" liner lock?? I'm trying to visualize what these folk are saying is the problem, if used by a right-handed person. Seems to me just to possibly be a slight "inconvenience" to unlock the blade. Any thoughts or experiences out there?
Thanks, and have a great day.
However, out of the 10 reviews, 3 considered the liner lock to be problematic. Copied just this issue, as follows:
~~~The only issue is the reversed liner lock, which seems to have been designed for lefties. It's easy to open one handed, hard but possible to close using only the right hand.
~~~It's not the most comfortable knife in the hand, but its usefulness compensates for liner lock pressing into the folds of my fingers.
~~~The only inconvenient characteristic is that the liner lock release seems backward. Rather than unlocking with thumb movement toward and across the palm, one has to pull the liner toward the thumb side, which is awkward.
The liner lock on the Sentinel is located right next to the knife butt on the edge side of the blade. I have two one-handed Hunter Pro lockblades. The liner lock on these is positioned in the center of the handle on the spine side of the blade. Based on this I can easily see the "reversal" noted in the reviews.
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this Sentinel in particular, or with any SAK that has this "reversed" liner lock?? I'm trying to visualize what these folk are saying is the problem, if used by a right-handed person. Seems to me just to possibly be a slight "inconvenience" to unlock the blade. Any thoughts or experiences out there?
Thanks, and have a great day.
