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Question/New Lock combo for Sal
- Thread starter ShepardCC
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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.
That's exactly my thinking. Opening would be fine. It's the closing that would be the issue.
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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.
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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.
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.