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- Dec 6, 2001
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- 59
Just now, I sat here, opening and closing my AMK Eagle. It's so slimline--only 3/8" thick, and yet 8 7/8" overall;, the spearpoint blade is so stout; and the long bolster is good-looking and an appreciated structural stiffener. The Micarta slabs are, well, micarta. You know, we're talking, like, Plastic City, man, extruded from a CNS precision fabricator.
I opened and closed the blade. To close it, I pressed my finger, the 'second' (longest) finger, against the lock release (which is a half-moon of s/s located on the shoulder, or spine, or back, of the knife). At the same time, I rest the tip of my index('first') finger against the thumb stud, so that, when the lock releases, my first finger will instantly start pushing the blade back into the liners.
I CAN do it. But not every time, without a moment's delay, reliably. And, everything about a knife should be RELIABLE.
Then it just came to me.
This AMK knife, ALL those dozens of models of AMK knives, with this type locking mechanism:
THEY'RE NOT ONE-HANDED KNIVES!!!!!!!!!.
I CANT GET THE LOCK TO RELEASE AND THE BLADE TO CLOSE BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO DO IT WITH ONE HAND. THE DESIGNER OF THESE AL MAR KNIVES INTENDED THAT YOU UNLOCK THEM AND CLOSE THEM WITH TWO HANDS!!!!!!!!!.
Well. I wasn't aware I was buying any knives that were not one-handed anymore these days. Having to use two hands just seems, um, horse-and-buggy, doesnt it? I mean, a good one-hander, one that you have carried for awhile, you pull it out of your jeans front pocket and snap it open---nobody but a knife aficionando would know whether or not your knife is an auto. To give that up, to return to two-handers, . . .
No. I, I dont want to change. I want AL MAR KNIVES to change. Change to making one-handed knives, or else progress will trample you underfoot, and your bones will moulder in the outmoded dust. You know, AMK, you'll be like 8-tracks, like typewriters, like analog watches, good bye bye bye gone gone. --- JDM
I opened and closed the blade. To close it, I pressed my finger, the 'second' (longest) finger, against the lock release (which is a half-moon of s/s located on the shoulder, or spine, or back, of the knife). At the same time, I rest the tip of my index('first') finger against the thumb stud, so that, when the lock releases, my first finger will instantly start pushing the blade back into the liners.
I CAN do it. But not every time, without a moment's delay, reliably. And, everything about a knife should be RELIABLE.
Then it just came to me.
This AMK knife, ALL those dozens of models of AMK knives, with this type locking mechanism:
THEY'RE NOT ONE-HANDED KNIVES!!!!!!!!!.
I CANT GET THE LOCK TO RELEASE AND THE BLADE TO CLOSE BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO DO IT WITH ONE HAND. THE DESIGNER OF THESE AL MAR KNIVES INTENDED THAT YOU UNLOCK THEM AND CLOSE THEM WITH TWO HANDS!!!!!!!!!.
Well. I wasn't aware I was buying any knives that were not one-handed anymore these days. Having to use two hands just seems, um, horse-and-buggy, doesnt it? I mean, a good one-hander, one that you have carried for awhile, you pull it out of your jeans front pocket and snap it open---nobody but a knife aficionando would know whether or not your knife is an auto. To give that up, to return to two-handers, . . .
No. I, I dont want to change. I want AL MAR KNIVES to change. Change to making one-handed knives, or else progress will trample you underfoot, and your bones will moulder in the outmoded dust. You know, AMK, you'll be like 8-tracks, like typewriters, like analog watches, good bye bye bye gone gone. --- JDM
