People who do not know how to open knives

GWashington1732

GWashington1732

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Does anyone else cringe when they see someone open up an assisted opener two handed? It's just wrong especially when they do it with a Kershaw Leek. Even more irritating is to see people who are afraid to close them. That's why I stopped letting people borrow my knives. My official policy is, get your own. :grumpy:
 
There's a simple rule about that.
If they have a knife, they don't need yours.
If they don't have a knife, they don't know how to use yours properly.
 
Haha, I was home last Christmas and I watched my Mom open my Dads BM auto two handed, she put her hand over the blade holding it in the handle, pressed the button and slowly lifted her hand until the blade was fully opened. I just watched, laughed and asked her what the hell she was doing. She said she was afraid she would drop it if she opened it the right way
 
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Ha, ha. I've fired off a few autos that did their best to jump out of my arthritic hand. My Severtech is going to accomplish just that someday.
 
I can understand others not knowing how to open an AO, since they seem to be less common. What usually makes me laugh is when they end up handing me an open knife because they can't figure out how to disengage the locking mechanism.
 
I never hand out an assisted opener closed anymore; I'll open it for them or hand over my Artifact/Micra.
 
Protech's will jump out of your hands too!! I've had Dalton's Microtech's and Lone Wolf, but the Protech was the one that surprised me.
 
There are a lot of people who are not familiar with knives. I almost always open mine when lending and they typically hand it back open. I loaned a SAK to a buddy while we were hanging ladder stands and I was sure to tell him "it wasn't a locking blade and will close on you...".
 
I cringe more at the way people try to CLOSE knives.:eek:
"Maybe if I just shove harder without doing anything different, it will close better.":rolleyes:
 
True about the Pro-Techs. My Godfather's got a kick, but the real stinker is the Duke. Not enough there to hold onto! :p
 
My most dropped knife was a ProTech Ciabatta. I never let anyone open it for the first time without making sure it was over carpet.
 
YayILikePie said:
I can understand others not knowing how to open an AO, since they seem to be less common. What usually makes me laugh is when they end up handing me an open knife because they can't figure out how to disengage the locking mechanism.
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I get that quite often. Liner locks, frame locks, lock backs, doesn't matter. :p
 
GWashington1732 said:
Does anyone else cringe when they see someone open up an assisted opener two handed? It's just wrong especially when they do it with a Kershaw Leek. Even more irritating is to see people who are afraid to close them. That's why I stopped letting people borrow my knives. My official policy is, get your own. :grumpy:
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Depending on who's around, I open my ZT 0301 with 2 hands so it doesn't make that tell tale loud click. ;) :p
 
i like to hand my dad a liner lock and watch him struggle.. sometimes i'll throw in a lockback or even a slippie just to screw him up :D
 
Ankerson said:
Depending on who's around, I open my ZT 0301 with 2 hands so it doesn't make that tell tale loud click. ;) :p
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There's that. Sometimes I open my one-handed-open knives with 2 hands for just that reason- so they open slowly and silently.
 
dsmegst said:
I get that quite often. Liner locks, frame locks, lock backs, doesn't matter. :p
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Actually, people around me seem to get a "button" lock, i.e. there is something visible you have to push or slide to unlock. Thus a lot of folks fail at closing liner locks, because they'd never get the idea to look "in the handle", while other locks are okay.
 
Knives open?....You just 'em pull out of their sheath opened....I don't get it????



yeah I get it...no I really don't get it....
 
Terror of terrors, I let a coworker use my SAK and she tried to close it pushing against the lock with the blade towards her hand. I nearly choked. I was amazed that she didn't cut herself.
 
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