Lefty para 2

kinjo28

kinjo28

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Any word on when this gem will be out? Anyone else as stoked as I am?


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I'm stoked and pre-ordered!

Someone on the other forum emailed Spyderco about an eta and they gave an estimate of "early summer." We'll need to hold tight for a few more months. :)
 
Jamesh Bond said:
Lefty? I was under the impression the Para 2 is ambidextrous?

Whst makes it left handed?
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Have you ever tried to disengage a compression lock with your left hand? It is possible, but the cutout is cut on the right side and is not ambidextrous. You have to do some crazy hand contortions to access it and you can't safely disengage the lock and close the blade one-handed. The lefty version is mirrored-lock on the right, cutout on the left.
 
SaintZe said:
Have you ever tried to disengage a compression lock with your left hand? It is possible, but the cutout is cut on the right side and is not ambidextrous. You have to do some crazy hand contortions to access it and you can't safely disengage the lock and close the blade one-handed. The lefty version is mirrored-lock on the right, cutout on the left.
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Gotcha.

Way to go Spyderco for listening to your customers!

It'd be nice if another one of my favorite companies did that.
 
This is a decade long dream in the making. I finally caved in a year ago and bought my first PM2, it took time to grow fond of... I have to lay the knife flat across my fingers, and use my thumb to disengage the lock. This isn't a solid grip, and far from ideal.

The Lefty PM2 is on my radar, probably 2.... (or 4 if you can add a serrated version!!!)
 
I find my PM2 to be the easiest knife, not just ambi knife, to close of any knife I have owned. Pushing the compression lock to the left with my left thumb causes the blade to fall safely on my index finger. If it was left-handed, you would have to release the lock with your index finger which is much harder. I buy left-handed and ambi knives exclusively. I would not buy a left-handed PM2.
 
shingo said:
I find my PM2 to be the easiest knife, not just ambi knife, to close of any knife I have owned. Pushing the compression lock to the left with my left thumb causes the blade to fall safely on my index finger. If it was left-handed, you would have to release the lock with your index finger which is much harder. I buy left-handed and ambi knives exclusively. I would not buy a left-handed PM2.
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That's an interesting point of view that I heard on the other forum recently. Basically the contention is that the standard PM2 is left handed if you operate the compression lock with your left thumb similar to a back lock.

However, one of my favorite aspects of the comp lock is that you can hold the knife in an overhand pinch grip and press the lock tab with your (right) index finger and the blade will swing shut with your fingers safely out of the way. I also sometimes open the blade this way, by depressing the lock bar and then a subtle wave of the hand to bring the blade around. This doesn't work at all the same in the left hand though, so I very much look forward to the new model.
 
I m not particularly ambidextrous, but I find the pm2 as easy to close with my left hand as my right. Perhaps easier.
 
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