Please Post Your Favorite Pinch To Open Traditional Folder(s)

Count myself v.lucky that as decrepitude has engulfed me my hands remain firm in grip and dexterity of fingers fine, my nails are tough except when going fishing and water softens them etc. Take your vitamins you out there!

The obvious and valid choices for this situation are lockbacks-which I like or EZ-Openers which both from an aesthetic POV and in use I'm less keen on. Never got my head around that huge bite out of the scales and since my ring fingertip was nearly severed when I was young it feels uncomfortable in actual use. Still, there's some fine beauties as examples and I'm lucky to have a few.

But there's more. French knives are very often such that they are relatively easy to open and very hard to close- which if you pause to think about it, is the right order of things. So a very rich seam to choose from and many have plenty of blade exposed to get hold of- nicks often being mere decoration. So why not go for a icon and a very useful one at that coming in numerous sizes and quite a number of handle options. The Opinel is a genius knife, light, thin ground, lockable (some take off the collar, crazy ) and can be opened by even the feeblest and used by all.

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I’m used to needing and having a tight grip with my fingers. From turning wrenches and playing stringed instruments for a few decades, it’s a great break for my nails.
Other than the many patterns posted above, a wunderful surprise was this particular English whittler having a pinchable main, and velvet smooth secondaries….
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One might expect every Sod Buster (and type) knives to be pinchable
I have some that are and some that are not. The SS polished ones are harder to pinch in general
This particular one (CV) is my favorite if only for fit and finish and pinchablility <<< auto correct says I made that word up

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Plenty to pinch hold of with this Spanish Beauty.
The Russians never made us use the Rouble, we had the Markka, but paradoxically, our masters in the EU made us give it up and use the Euro. These compact Aitors are sadly no longer in production but make a fine travelling kitchen prep knife, thin, sharp and easy to get open, stainless liners and Bubinga wood. One for the pocket anywhere.

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