Question For Small Sebenza Owners

Here is what I do:

1. Index finger placed on the bevel ahead of the pivot (the forward end of the knife)
2. middle, ring, and pinky tips wrapped around knife with only the tips reting on the clip (essentially pulling on the clip away from the blade motion as it breaks the detent)
3. Press the lug with the tip of my thumb.

I guide the blade from deetent to lock (the blade is under control and not set into motion or "flicked" and allowed to travel with inertia)

This is what I learned to do, and I fid it more difficult with a small. This is one of the several reasons I prefer the large.

I made some brief videos about altrenate deployments, but I don't think you will like these as much as what I describe above. Hope this helps...honestly, I would prefer a little less detent than what the newer CRKs seem to have, but I would like excessively weak detents much less.
 
It's all about muscle memory. The first small I got, I tore up my thumb trying to learn how to open it. You eventually learn to keep your index finger off the lockbar when pushing the stud. I don't use any nail, just the tip of my thumb. Once it becomes second nature to you, you find that you don't really have to focus on doing the outward C arc. I can just push up towards the pivot kind of like opening an Umnumzaan and it still opens fine although it could subconsciously be my thumb knowing the exact directions to apply pressure, if that makes any sense. It's not a knife meant to be flicked nor do I understand the fascination with flicking, and I just find it painful to attempt to do so on a Sebenza.
 
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