The Fastest Draw....

Gollnick, very impressive. With a Balisong, too! Hey-I also liked your advice regarding the humidifier! We need to grab a beer sometime-I like the way you think!
 
scarman,
sorry for the late response,i don't want to attribute some super hype to the "wave" feature, it is only a small hook that catches on your pocket when you draw out the knife and with very little practice make you a faster drawerthen jhon wayne.
however i must admit that the diffirence between drawing a military and a commander are not that great.o.2-0.3 of a second to be exact.and on the other note i'll go with mike turber that i am not sure i want to go on a drawing competition with "spyderco kid glesser"
scorpio.
 
On the subject of the Wave, I was at a knife shop tonight and a clerk with a pocketful of knives (Benz, Elishawitz) responded to my questions about how good the Wave was ... by smoothly whipping a folder out of his front jeans pocket that fully deployed as it cleared his pocket ... but lo and behold the knife wasn't a Commander .... it was a BM 710 Axis!

He explained that the thumbstud on the 710 was sufficiently high that, with practice, he is able to consistently draw the knife, catching the thumbstud on the edge of the pocket during the draw. The tip-up carry means the stud comes out last, pulling the blade open as the knife moves from the pocket (ala Wave).

In fact, he felt this was faster than the Wave for a strike, since the Wave moves the hand backwards in order to do the "catch".

Any other Axis users know about this? Maybe a good modification would be to scallop the G-10 near the stud to make an easier "catch"?

I gotta tell you, the guy was pretty fast with the Axis drawn that way.

[This message has been edited by Longden (edited 24 October 1999).]
 
Longden - putting a notch in the backside of an thumb opening disk will also do the same thing. As a kid in the 50's, we used to put a small notch on the spine of our "fruit knives" about an inch behind the tip. This permitted one to "hook" the notch onto one's jeans and open quickly despite the fact that it was a springback knife.

sal
 
Very interesting Sal. If this is knowledge from the 50's, I could tell my childhood years must have been wasted behind my books.

Must be that Ernie Emerson was a kid on your block
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