Quick Openings...

[Gary W. Graley]

I just got a Howard Viele and was showing it to a friend, by accident my thumb slipped into the hole point first and then I flipped up my thumb, like your flipping a coin, and the blade snapped to attention faster than any switchblade I've seen so far! Pretty neat! I was use to the Spydie hole but all of the ones I've had to date were back locks and this is the first liner lock from them that I have. When I tried to do it again I had to make sure that the TIP of my thumb was sort of stuck into the hole and did the flipping motion. I tried to do that with the large Calypso but I'd need a thumb muscle the size of my calf to do it the same.

oops had to stop typing so I can do it again, pretty addicting, almost like the butterfly's can be....

Anybody else ever worked a knife like that?
I know the BM AFCK's open almost by gravity.

Thanks,
G2

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[This message has been edited by Gary W. Graley (edited 06 April 1999).]

 

[dino]

I had a large Wegner that would work like that. Works better when the blade travel is horizontal instead of verticle. That way you're not fighting gravity (Wegner balde is heavy.)

 

[Yekim]

G2,

You have inadvertantly stumbled upon to what I have been trying to explain to people for a long time, but refering mostly to thumbstud equipped knives. I taught me Mom how to do it...She is pretty quick with her CRKT Mirage. Perhaps your explaination is better than mine, and perhaps more people will have another facet of knives to enjoy.

YeK

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