Question/New Lock combo for Sal

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Have you ever tried to make a compression lock flipper?
I've been mulling it over and it doesn't seem like an easy problem to solve...but I think it would make one sweet lock/knife if it can be figured out.
 
I'm sure it could be worked out but I think the flipper would be in the way when closing. It's only A guess but I imagine most people with compression locks close them by pinching the lock and then swinging the blade closed.
 
rycen said:
I'm sure it could be worked out but I think the flipper would be in the way when closing. It's only A guess but I imagine most people with compression locks close them by pinching the lock and then swinging the blade closed.
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That's exactly my thinking. Opening would be fine. It's the closing that would be the issue.
 
It really isn't a problem at all IMO, unless you're one of those people who haven't yet figured out how to close a lockback/comp. lock one handed by catching the blade kick on your index finger (those people really do exist). I kinda like the idea.
 
I've been working on this problem for a while ( a year or so now) and the hardest part is providing enough space for the locking piece to engage between the stop pin and the tang while simultaneously not making a giant (see ridiculous) ricasso/choil.

If you want to see how they solved the problem, you have no farther to look than the Szabo folder which has all of the pieces in place to be a flipper. IIRC, that design started as a comp-locked flipper. If you look at how they treated the problem I describe, you will see real genius.
 
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