New Tuff Opens & Locks w/ flick-of-the-forearm

David45

David45

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I won’t be able to post a px or video as I’m a Luddite at heart, but I think I can describe the motion. Maybe you’ll think the detent doesn’t keep the blade shut firmly enough?

Hold the knife in right hand with thumb on G-10 and your palm over the spine and the tips of last 3 fingers will be around clip. The tip of your right index finger should be high up on the titanium frame and lnot be on lock bar.
Hold knife out in front of yourself with spine of knife up horizontally. Then flick your whole forearm (while keeping your wrist fixed) down (or to the side) and weight of the blade overcomes the detent, the blade swings open and snaps locked!

Very fast presentation discovered totally by accident 😁

NOTE: you must have a firm grip on the knife otherwise you may fling it out of your hand and down or around causing property damage, grave personal injury or death! 🤕

Beautiful knife BTW
 
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Danke42 said:
Congrats. You've discovered what they call the NYC flick. I can do that with just about anything except maybe a slipjoint.
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Not the Spyderco Szabo. Just saying, always thought Laci designed it for NY :)
 
Actually, it’s more like a forearm flick with a fixed wrist. It works for me with the blade swinging down or to the side.
The pivot is very snug and smooth, zero play. The lockup is so good this Tuff feels like a small fixed blade.
 
ferider said:
The other day, a flick-of-the-wrist Opened & Locked my XM-24 Skinny - on the ground, where I had dropped it.

Still have the scar on my foot to prove it :poop:
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This happened to me recently with a G*nzo (don't judge me, it was in a bundle deal) PM2 copy, doing the NYC flick/Harlem shake. It may be a cheap Spidercopy but the big hole in my shin can attest to its sliciness.
 
Mine does the same, which I actually just figured out today playing with it to see if it would open that way. Lockup is rock solid so it is not the pivot. It just is the way it is. Some may say detent is too light but i would not change it. Have to do it fairly hard and I am not at all concerned about accidental opening. I have several other framelocks that do the same.
 
Almost all my knives can be opened via gravity flick.
This Tuff is no exception. I'm really pleased with this knife.

The endura for one reason or another will not lock up consistently. So the enura is excluded from this.
 
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