lefties and liner locks...???

Robert.B

Robert.B

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does any of the left handers in here find it a pain to find/not find a good liner lock production blade with the thumb screw on the right side of the blade for easy opening. i'm going to purchase a CRKT BLADELOCK 2 but it's a shame they arn't made with the thumb screw on the other side.

Robert.B
 
I regularly use a Buck Alpha Folder with dual studs, very easy to open as a leftie. It will also open with a flick of the wrist if you adjust the tension of the blade. It's built like a school house, I know 'cos I make it work for its living.

I've just got home with a new CRKT Greg Lightfoot M1. THis one has dual studs and flipper assisted opening. Looks perfect.
 
I have my BM31 Balisong in my left side ( I am lefty ) and a LM Wave in the right side ....

But I am considering to buy the CRKT Greg Lightfoot M1 for my left side and I will move the BM31 from my left side to a neck sheath or something like that, I am a Balisong lover so I have and I will have always one Bali on me..... They are the most ambidextrous knives ... :D

Roloss_valdes
 
well i'd absolutely love a balisong and they're one of my favourite styles of knives but unfortunately there completely illegal here :(.
 
I'm a righty, but always carry a lefty knife as well. I've carried many Spyderco's, now it's an old BM AFCK that I drilled and tapped to have a lefty clip. At one time, I carried a BM with thumbstuds and it was a fairly simple matter to call BM and get ambi-studs. They were really helpful and didn't even charge me for it.
 
for a couple of years. Never had a problem with it. The Carson flipper was so handy I never used the thumb studs. It's got a tiny bit of blade play but I beat the snot out of it. Pretty lefty friendly. Have you looked at Spyderco, Benchmade or SOG? They all have knives that are totally ambidextrous. I never realized how much of a pain it is to flip the knife around till I got a Spyderco and put the clip on the correct side. So much nicer.

Frank
 
Not a "liner-lock", but the William Henry "Interframe Series" ICON & SPECTRUM, are completely "AMBIDEXTROUS". These use the patented "Mattlock" which is a variation on the Axis lock.
 
For a production knife, check out Blade-Tech Wegner's Pro-Hunter. Drilled and tapped for tip up; tip down; both sides of the scales. Nice, easily accessible opening hole. Handles truly ambi, except for the liner lock itself.

HIgher on the price scale, you can almost always find a lefty Sabenza at sites like Neil Ostroff's. Although for me, I'd send it in to CRK and have double thumb studs put onto it.
 
I'm a lefty, but I won't own a liner-lock. They just don't work very well for me, because when I hold the knife tightly, the lock tends to want to release.
 
I'm a lefty. A real easy to use knife is a Benchmade with an Axis lock. I'm partial to mini-griptilians. I also carry a REKAT Pioneer. These work well lefty,the way these were set up with the thumbstud set up lefty it's easy to close without your fingers in the blade path. It's not a fast knife but very secure. They are, unfortunately, a bit hard to find these days.
 
Lefty here too, try a SOG X-ray or night vision :) great stuff for lefties! Arc lock and dual thumbstud
 
Dann,
I'm a Lefty myself and a knifemaker.
I understand your comment about holding a Linerlock tightly tending to have the fleshy part of you index finger press the lock mechanism to unlock.....I can see this with a right handed linerlock used in the left hand. Have you tried a left handed linerlock with the lock slightly recessed below the left liner of the knife...also a smaller cut than typical to access the lock mechanism or no cut might solve this concern. It would make the knife slightly less convenient to close but what you typically are looking for in a one hand opening knife is speed and reliability of opening single handedly. Closing it can be a two handed function.
If I make a linerlock to carry myself,which I carry in the right pocket and remove then open righthandedly, then pass to left hand if appropriate...I often seem to be holding in my left, dominant, hand what I want to cut... I may recess the lock and have no cutout at all to access the lock...you use 2 hands to close it and learn to use the edge of your thumb nail to release the lock and close the blade.
Just a thought from a fellow Lefty.
 
Yeah, what he said!

That's the wonderful thing about hand-made custom knives. You can get what you want. I'm not aware of a production liiner lock that features a recessed lock.

I just ordered a custom folder and a recessed lock was high on my list of requirements.
 
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