One-handed Closing Lockback

mtngunr said:
It is all quite easy....let me simplify all the directions given here.......






Or....just close the thing...it is not a race.



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Haha. It's as simple as that!

Seriously though, it sounds complicated when typed out, but in practice it's a piece of cake for me. I'm not doing gymnastics with my hands or trying to "tie shoes with mittens on" as someone else said. I don't even have to think about it.
 
I was just dying for a thread to paste this in....Thanks....
i lifted from some other site where a guy asked how to post a photo and some helpful forum member commenced with about 14 screen shots of print-shop-quality photo manipulation lesson with some "easy" program, and of course another guy just typed in "simple" and then the rocket science lesson.....

Feel free to copy and use anytime it gets deep....honestly the way Spyderco posts for a Delica type knife works just great...its single largest advantage is that it lets the strong and callused thumb do the pushing rather than side or tip of index finger for the pants leg crowd (which i formerly did and still do at times as old habits are hard to forget....)
 
bdmicarta said:
Well a lot of people say that they just let the blade fall on their finger, but the last time I did that there was a lot of blood involved so I'm not going to be fooled again.
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You might be doing it wrong. :D
That's how I close 'em most of the time. It's probably a good idea to take note of the choil size, if there is in fact one. Ha. :)
 
It's only a problem if you have a Buck 110 style lockback where the release is back by the pommel or if the edge goes all the way down to the pivot. Catch the blade kick on your index finger, then close with thumb.
 
I've pretty much circled and find lockbacks the best for my edc purposes. I sometimes one hand this bad boy.

When I need a work knife I go for the Delica and rotate back and forth. Lockbacks rule!


The KA version of the Delica is very easy to one hand.

 
I no longer have the excellent dexterity as displayed in the video but I can pretty easily close my Spyderco EDCs with one hand. This is why they stay in the line up as EDCs. Sometimes another surface is needed but not another hand.
 
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