"Waving" open the 710?

TheSkinwalkeR

TheSkinwalkeR

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Alright.

I swear dollars to doughnuts that the guy who owns Plaza Cutlery can wave his 710 open like an Emerson. My head nearly fell off from surprise when I saw him do it.

He carries his pre-pro 710 in his back pocket and we where "shootin' the shite" about Emersons and how fun it is to wave out the Cuda Maxx. He whips out his 710 faster than I can say "rusty-axis-rumor".

I asked him how he did it but I didnt quite catch the explination fully (something about catching the thumbstud and the alignment of the planets) No doubt,it is a wisdom comprehensible only by the masters of Benchmade arts. He did it several times in demonstration, but it was too fast for me to analyse.

I implore to all you dwelers of the forums...what is this secret? Has anyone else found this technique?

I will soon journey again to the mall to ask the master of the technique. Last time I didnt get a chance because he was on his way out, so I cleaned him out of SOG Crosscuts to teach him a lesson.:D

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BTW..... his 710 was awsome. It was so scratched and used, it looked looked he tried to cut the whole world in half with it. I hope my 710 looks like that someday.
 
You can do it with lots of knives with ambidextrous thumbstuds.
Pull it straight up, and out away from you at a 45 degree angle at the same time. The off thumbstud catches on the lip of your pocket. Pop.
 
wont work on the 710, but for a while i had a small wire tie in the hole on my BM 806 and it worked remarkably like a wave............

if my cammilus cuda maxx was tip up carry, the horns would also work VERY much like a wave...........

greg
 
Did someone patent the wiretie.Hurry before the Emerson police get you.:p
 
Hate to take the magic out of it, but it's pretty kiss simple. I stumbled across the technique by accident the second day my wife had her 940 Axis Lock. It's pretty much catching the ambi- thumb stud on the lip of the pocket while drawing. It works differently with different pants, sometimes ya' gotta twist yer wrist counter clock wise a few degrees, and sometimes you gotta draw the knife slightly rearward and away from you.

What works even better is using the zip tie on the thumbstuds. I have a SOG PE II beside me right now. All ya' do is make a circle by closing the zip tie slightly, and put the top of the zip tie where ya' want it before tightening and then VOILA! eenstant wave opening!
It's way cool with this SOG. Makes five inches of pretty broad steel pretty quickly accessible.

As far as "wave opening" the BM's my favorite is the Axis Lock AFCK with the zip ties, it's VERY quick, infact if you don't have the blade good an' snug it'll snap shut again on ya' in a heart beat.
 
Thanks for he replies!

Hmmmm...maybe my pants are not correct.

I am happy to hear some of you do know of this trick. I am familiar with the Zip-tie technique but I dont have alot of thumb-hole knives, and truthfuly I dont find it very attractive or useful on a EDC utlity knife. Course its not as ugly as that AFCK where the hole was ground out :barf:

On antoher note. I took the clip off my Maxx and carry it tip down. Pretty much the worse clip-placement on a knife I have owned, so I did away with it. It was realy uncomfortable in my grip and interfered with the lock. But I must say the Maxx rests in the pocket quite well. It is so flat and wide it stays in the same position in the pocket without rotating or fliping. Waving it out is quite fun.

The 710 is one of my all time favorie knives, and my first Benchmade. I just wanna learn all the tricks there is to know about the thing.
 
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