People who do not know how to open knives

derrickd803 said:
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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At least it wasn't an OTF. Like a friend of mine did, but he should have known better.
He had a cheap OTF auto and he was playing with it. Opening it and letting the blade hit a book. He said it won't even make a mark in it! I said (joking) open it into your hand. He just all of a sudden did and the tip went into the flesh pretty deep. He said damn you, Jill don't you know I'm impulsive. I said and you're an idiot, too!
 
Some assisted openers, like a Kershaw Leek, can be dangerous if the person opening it doesn't do it properly. It appears to have thumb studs, but if you try to use them as such, it's likely you'll slice your thumb open.

Protechs are probably the most dangerous to hand to a knife knewb, especially the little ones. Those little suckers will fling themselves out of your hand if you don't grip it with authority.

A Microtech Scarab can be pretty dangerous too, if you've had 1.75ml of cheap wine and 6 beers and don't know which end the blade comes out of, like a friend of mine found out.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
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.
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I was playing with a giant Italian stiletto auto the other day that you really did have to hold onto with two hands.
That thing kicked like an elephant and could probably be used to peel one too :p:thumbup:
 
It bugs me to see someone opening a knife with thumb stud or hole by flicking it open with wrist action.

Thumb movement is all thats needed to open it just as fast. The wrist should never move, whether holding upside down, behind back, or any other position.
IMO anyway, and it only take a little practice, kinda like riding a bike, you'll never forget once you learn.
 
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 agree! Especially framelocks and liner locks. They try and push the lock closed but towards the other slab! they cant figure that out by looking at it I do not know. It makes me worry about todays youth sometimes! :p
 
Liner and framelocks aren't intuitive. And the majority of non-knife users are just that, completely uneducated in the mechanism. If they have never driven a manual shift car, they look equally uninformed.

Our society prioritizes social skills in secondary education more than mechanical knowledge, as anyone raised in the '60's recognizes. Shop has been replaced with Reading, where the instructor strums a guitar and has you write a 50 word essay on what the lyrics make you feel.

I no longer loan a knife, I keep scissors. Most adults understand them, they can't get hurt, and I don't have to show off my latest EDC to narrow minded socialists who won't let anyone else demonstrate skill and compentency with items they consider dangerous. The males seem to surprise me more often with their raised eyebrows and snide comments.

They have no clue. I pity them getting to know an SW Asia vet - if they could be tolerated that long.
 
Planterz said:
Some assisted openers, like a Kershaw Leek, can be dangerous if the person opening it doesn't do it properly. It appears to have thumb studs, but if you try to use them as such, it's likely you'll slice your thumb open.
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Huh? I have 2 Leeks and have no trouble using the thumb studs. You've either got to be seriously clumsy or have weirdly gigantic thumbs. The flipper works better, though.
 
tirod3 said:
Our society prioritizes social skills in secondary education more than mechanical knowledge, as anyone raised in the '60's recognizes. Shop has been replaced with Reading, where the instructor strums a guitar and has you write a 50 word essay on what the lyrics make you feel.
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Sad but true. :grumpy:

Our educational system brainwashes people into the Liberal, socialist mindset.
 
I'd say that more often than not people can't close a knife. Liner lock, Compression lock, Axis lock, then you try slip-joints and they think there's a button somewhere...:rolleyes:
 
Ankerson said:
Sad but true. :grumpy:

Our educational system brainwashes people into the Liberal, socialist mindset.
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Among the people I know English class is still made fun of the most, with teachers using such techniques as throwing papers down a stairwell to determine grades (if they like you).
 
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