Wave Feature Consensus

mjpgolf1 said:
Personally I'm not a fan. I think it has something to do with those people who hang zip ties and whatever else they can find around their house off their knives to give them the wave feature. It looks god awful and I'm pretty tired of seeing the same pictures of the same knives here on the forum with those stupid homemade waves. To each his own I guess, but I don't get it.
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Just goes to show ya, people are in favor of the wave lol!
 
Oddly I love the Wave... but only on Spydercos. I'm not a huge knife-self-defense person, but I regularly travel to Maryland for business, where I can't get a carry permit or legally carry a concealed fixed blade, but pretty much any folder is legal.

A waved Endura is nice knife for that. Good quality, fast deployment, not super tactical looking, and inexpensive enough that I wouldn't shed too many tears over losing it if it was ever confiscated. Plus knives with Spyder holes travel well because you can cable lock them to your checked suitcase frame.
 
madcap_magician said:
Oddly I love the Wave... but only on Spydercos. I'm not a huge knife-self-defense person, but I regularly travel to Maryland for business, where I can't get a carry permit or legally carry a concealed fixed blade, but pretty much any folder is legal.

A waved Endura is nice knife for that. Good quality, fast deployment, not super tactical looking, and inexpensive enough that I wouldn't shed too many tears over losing it if it was ever confiscated. Plus knives with Spyder holes travel well because you can cable lock them to your checked suitcase frame.
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The Spyderco Delica 4 with a Wave is a bad ass knife.. What spyderco with a wave do you use besides the Endura? Also I don't know why I haven't ever thought of that but locking a spyderco to your luggage is genius. Definitely using this technique next time I travel.
 
EliteBlades said:
The Spyderco Delica 4 with a Wave is a bad ass knife.. What spyderco with a wave do you use besides the Endura? Also I don't know why I haven't ever thought of that but locking a spyderco to your luggage is genius. Definitely using this technique next time I travel.
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Just the Delica and Endura. Not a huge Matriarch fan. I'm sure it's a great defensive knife, but it sure gives up a lot in the utility side of things and also limits point use.

I just like how much bigger the wave hook is on the Spydercos compared to the Emersons or ZTs, and it's hard to beat the Delica/Endura for cost/benefit. Only thing I wish is that they made a FFG waved Endura, but apparently that wasn't possible.

I usually run the knife through the cable lock I use to secure my small gun safe to my checked luggage. Barring that, you can use a rubber-coated long-hasp padlock to accomplish much the same. Or even a cheapo cable gun lock.
 
EliteBlades said:
The Spyderco Delica 4 with a Wave is a bad ass knife.. What spyderco with a wave do you use besides the Endura? Also I don't know why I haven't ever thought of that but locking a spyderco to your luggage is genius. Definitely using this technique next time I travel.
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I have a waved civilian and szabo ;)
 
sph801 said:
Thanks for clarifying! I was wondering what in the world a wave feature was doing on a fixed blade. [emoji12]


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The original was meant as a blade catch (for hand to hand knife fighting). The deployment "feature" was accidental.

I very much prefer the Emerson wave (carry a Custom 7 every day), and enjoy it's usefulness when appropriate. I have no problem with Emerson knives being designed and marketed as edged weapons - they fulfill that role quite well IMHO. There is definite real world application as such - there are places a sidearm isn't appropriate, in which case I'd rather have a (capable) knife than not.
 
Has Emerson ever said why their chisel edge is on the wrong side for a 'righty'? I might try one if it weren't for that. It still needs to be a functional EDC even if mainly designed for SD.
 
FlaMtnBkr said:
Has Emerson ever said why their chisel edge is on the wrong side for a 'righty'? I might try one if it weren't for that. It still needs to be a functional EDC even if mainly designed for SD.
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It makes the knife more photogenic. Not kidding.
 
That is an interesting post, thanks for linking it.

I don't have tons of experience with chisel grinds so I'm not going to flat out disagree. But from the cutting I've done I would definitely think there is a difference. With material on the flat side the blade seems to make shallow cuts and allows cutting or whittling away thin layers of material. When the material is on the bevel side, it seems to bite in and want to take chunks out and seems harder to control the cut. But maybe that's somehow related to which hand is doing the cutting since I didn't have examples with the grind on each side to directly compare? I guess for stabbing and self defense it doesn't matter much.

Anyways, that's not the topic of the thread and I was just curious if anyone knew why and now I know. Thanks!
 
The wave was actually not initially intended to be a blade opener. It was designed to be a blade catch, finger protector on a fighting knife. Then people realized it opened the knife when drawing it from the pocket.
 
T.L.E. Sharp said:
Both, depends on whether or not I'm armed.
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Interesting. Personally, I would not carry a right hand Emerson in my back right pocket. In about 2/3 to half of the Emersons I've had had a blade that could be shaken out (taking varying degrees of effort). I wouldn't be comfortable with it not sitting against a seam. Also not sure how one could wave while carrying that way.

I do like to carry a right hand Emerson in my back left pocket so it waves into a reverse grip. For me, it actually waves out easier and more consistently than right front pocket.

YMMV

Thanks for the response!
 
stabman said:
The consensus is that there is no consensus.
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But is there a consensus about the consensus? Perhaps we should form a consensus about the consensuses consensus. :D
 
stabman said:
Not sure if we can manage that much consensus. :eek:
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We can't manage any kind of "consensus" on anything!

I think that's a good thing though, because if you can just have a semi-open mind then there might be something to learn!
 
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