To flip or not to flip

353 said:
No flippers for me.

In my narrow view it leans towards tacticlol.
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Flippers are cool and convenient. What's tacticlol is associating "tactical" with "folding knife" in the first place.

It's like how I have one knife with holes in the handle. I think they look and feel okay but I could take or leave them. The tacticlol is thinking that those holes increase speed, reduce drag, or give you an extra dice roll against enemy ninjas.
 
Chronovore said:
Flippers are cool and convenient. What's tacticlol is associating "tactical" with "folding knife" in the first place.

It's like how I have one knife with holes in the handle. I think they look and feel okay but I could take or leave them. The tacticlol is thinking that those holes increase speed, reduce drag, or give you an extra dice roll against enemy ninjas.
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Don't you go and shatter my daydreams! I'll 550 cord wrap my handles and wait for the day I'll need 3ft of cord for whatever!
 
I don't need My knife to open at the speed of light, thumb studs and likewise require fine motor skills and in a high stress situation, might prove difficult. I don't need to flick or flip open my knife --- the term "tactical" is so muddied that almost everything qualifies to the dim-lit, but essentially a tactical folding knife is a knife you may use in a fight. Everything else on that knife is just an accessory, like a flip tab, it allows for the fast deployment of the knife, but why? Different topic that one.
 
ShaiHulud said:
I don't need My knife to open at the speed of light, thumb studs and likewise require fine motor skills and in a high stress situation, might prove difficult. I don't need to flick or flip open my knife --- the term "tactical" is so muddied that almost everything qualifies to the dim-lit, but essentially a tactical folding knife is a knife you may use in a fight. Everything else on that knife is just an accessory, like a flip tab, it allows for the fast deployment of the knife, but why? Different topic that one.
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That's why they call some flipper techniques "the light switch" 😄 Personally, I just want a reliable and predictable action. I enjoy all manner of opening methods, except maybe nail nick, because I keep them trimmed short.
 
Would it piss people off if I said I didn’t always flip open my flipper knives? I sometimes pinch the blade and open them two handed style, usually when others are around so the sound doesn’t make people look. I also carry slipjoints and back locks so that two handed technique just takes over like second nature sometimes.
 
Jsega51 said:
Would it piss people off if I said I didn’t always flip open my flipper knives? I sometimes pinch the blade and open them two handed style, usually when others are around so the sound doesn’t make people look. I also carry slipjoints and back locks so that two handed technique just takes over like second nature sometimes.
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Philistine! Boo this man! 😁 fukc feelings!
 
There's something very satisfying about the thunk after flipping open a Kizer Sheepdog XL or Zero Tolerance ZT 0308. I carry them occasionally (I carried the ZT 0308 when I went out today), but I'm pretty certain their primary purpose is to reach into a desk drawer and give them a flip once and a while.

I'd much rather have a flipper or thumb hole than thumb studs for opening. Of course for knives with axis locks or even better a Demko Shark Lock, you don't need anything but to disengage the lock to flip it open. What annoys me most for opening are knives with both an intrusive flipper and thumb studs (I'm looking at you Civivi and Hinderer). There are other knives where it has a flipper and a thumb hole, but it doesn't bother me the same way as the flipper/thumb stud combo. It's not a deal breaker for an otherwise good knife, but it's just so unnecessary.

I keep a SOG Terminus XR on hand to fidget with on the rare occasion when the spirit moves me, to save the pivots of more expensive knives, and for some reason it has a flipper, thumb studs, or you can open it by unlocking the axis lock and flicking it open (the last one is the method I actually use). I'm surprised they didn't also cut out a thumb hole for opening it while they were at it.
 
norcalAF said:
You might work in an in environment where talent is overlooked for irrelevant details, but that isn't the case so far at this gig. I wish you the best and you have my greatest sympathy for that level of tyranny.
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LMAO, uh, no. I guess that’s one way to put it, but my interpretation would be more like “your environment isn’t all that professional, son.“

I live in Texas. Where men sit on the porch picking their teeth with a Bowie knife, cleaning their entire collection of shotguns. Where we shoot open clamshell packages with a .45. Even so, if anyone I know started randomly flicking and flacking a knife in a professional setting like some kind of spastic child, they would be summarily shown the door.
 
norcalAF said:
I'm the guy at work flipping knives while negotiating business ish. I don't care about the feelings, in business or in knives 😁
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It's effective, particularly in a Zoom meeting. Playing with a fixed blade works, too. :)
 
AntDog said:
LMAO, uh, no. I guess that’s one way to put it, but my interpretation would be more like “your environment isn’t all that professional, son.“

I live in Texas. Where men sit on the porch picking their teeth with a Bowie knife, cleaning their entire collection of shotguns. Where we shoot open clamshell packages with a .45. Even so, if anyone I know started randomly flicking and flacking a knife in a professional setting like some kind of spastic child, they would be summarily shown the door.
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Interesting that a CA construction company is less judgemental than a TX co... We do a lot of business in TX, I'll try not to scare y'all 😁
 
norcalAF said:
Interesting that a CA construction company is less judgemental than a TX co... We do a lot of business in TX, I'll try not to scare y'all 😁
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Ah, construction. If you had said that from the start I wouldn’t have bothered replying.

If you find yourself in a corporate setting/office building type environment sometime down the road, I would highly suggest not doing that.
 
AntDog said:
Ah, construction. If you had said that from the start I wouldn’t have bothered replying.

If you find yourself in a corporate setting/office building type environment sometime down the road, I would highly suggest not doing that.
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I'm a PM, so it's a corporate construction setting
 
Never have or will own a flipper. Other than that old phone I ran over one time.
 
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