Large easily flickable thumbstud liner lock <$100? (no flippers)

[gomipile]

I've been obsessively flicking open my Spyderco Resilience for a few days, and it has me wanting something as easy to flick, and just as long, but narrower and with thumbstuds.

In my experience, flipper designs can get in the way of thumbstud opening, so for this purpose I'd like to avoid a flipper.

What I'd like is something like the Cold Steel Ti Lite but easily flickable with the thumstuds alone with the left hand. It has to be as easy or easier to flick as the Resilience. To put it in perspective, I can easily flick the Resilience with just my thumb and absolutely no wrist action, with either hand.

 

[SomeNewGuy]

I've been obsessively flicking open my Spyderco Resilience for a few days, and it has me wanting something as easy to flick, and just as long, but narrower and with thumbstuds.

In my experience, flipper designs can get in the way of thumbstud opening, so for this purpose I'd like to avoid a flipper.

What I'd like is something like the Cold Steel Ti Lite but easily flickable with the thumstuds alone with the left hand. It has to be as easy or easier to flick as the Resilience. To put it in perspective, I can easily flick the Resilience with just my thumb and absolutely no wrist action, with either hand.

One of the smoothest flicking knives iv ever held was a ontario utilitac 2. Its cheap below 30$ so maybe worth a try?

 

[Vanguard.223]

^^^ My Ontario Rat 1 is extremely smooth and the thumb stud opening is effortless

 

[X_shooter]

+1 on the Ontario Rat 1. You can buy 4 for $100 or less.

 

[gomipile]

Those are both kinda small compared to the Resilience. I'm hoping for something that looks like a Rat-1 but with a 4"+ blade.

 

[harkamus]

EDITTED: Didn't read you asked for linerlock. Oops.

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

Coldsteel Voyager 4". Initially it might seem harder, but it'll smooth out with use (or flicking).

My XL tanto blade will drop by releasing the lock alone. The only problem flicking XL is the blade mass and inertia makes it accelerate slower and need more 'kick'. I guess the large (4") will be easier.

 

[gomipile]

Coldsteel Voyager 4". Initially it might seem harder, but it'll smooth out with use (or flicking).

My XL tanto blade will drop by releasing the lock alone. The only problem flicking XL is the blade mass and inertia makes it accelerate slower and need more 'kick'. I guess the large (4") will be easier.

I respect you Chris, which is why I'm surprised you didn't read the title of my thread before posting in it.

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

Missed out the 'linerlock' part.
How about EL08 then? No really a linerlock, but close.

 

[whateatsrabbits]

The kershaw blur has great thumb studs, all knives should have thumb studs like the blur.

 

[gomipile]

The kershaw blur has great thumb studs, all knives should have thumb studs like the blur.

Well, that's true, but it is kinda small and also assisted opening. The whole point of this thread is to find another large liner lock that is satisfying to manually thumb-flick open, like the Resilience but slimmer and with ambidextrous thumbstuds.

 

[SomeNewGuy]

Well, that's true, but it is kinda small and also assisted opening. The whole point of this thread is to find another large liner lock that is satisfying to manually thumb-flick open, like the Resilience but slimmer and with ambidextrous thumbstuds.

Might sound really stupid but <100 means greater or less then? I never really got those symbols ever since little kid school (i had a lot of problems with math in school i had a lot of extra help and tutoring to just get through the lowest requirements of math to graduate.) But what about a zero tolerance 0200? I never owned one so i dont know about performance or anything but I was at a army navy store and they had one (a few other nice things too not a big selection and high prices but it was cool to handle stuff i never seen in person before) and it felt real smooth, also it was a very heavy knife too.

 

[Unk]

SomeNewGuy. think of < as a LAZY or TILTED "L" for LESS THAN
and > as the other or GREATER THAN.

Works for this old man.

 

[Czechmate]

SomeNewGuy. think of < as a LAZY or TILTED "L" for LESS THAN
and > as the other or GREATER THAN.

Works for this old man.

^^^ That's actually really helpful; I always get the symbols confused too. Same for Roman numerals; can't stand those! :foot: