where are the "flippers" ?

bigbore.45

bigbore.45

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Yes i`m a big fan of flippers and always thought this was the best improvement to pocketknives after the clip and the hole/stud!

After the success CRKT had with the flipper devices at their M16
i expected every factory to come out with more knives with flippers than without.

But what do we have now?
CRKT brought the M18, there is the S&W HRT, Kershaw Onions,
soon the Camillus MAXX ...plus some fine customs.
That is not the flood of flipperknives i`m waiting for. :(

Please give me hope,


;)
 
I think they are neat, but with a lot of knives you can flip them without the flipper. For example my BM 910 can be flipped open without any wrist action with just the thumb on the disk now. Even when it was new you could use your thumb and a minimum or wrist flick to open it. Maybe companies think it ruins the lines of their knives or maybe it is a statement that their knives are so smooth they do not need flippers.
 
The Cold Steel Ti-Lite can be flipped using the little guard. Be careful, though: that blade is sharp and the flipper really snaps it open fast.

I have a CUDA Maxx 5.5 on order; I think that can be flipped, too.

Here's a neat one: on the Buck/Strider folders, the top of the blade, where the thumb will rest when it's open, protrudes slightly forward when closed. Place your thumb on it and shove down and forward, and the blade snaps open, and that's without even the integral guard that all the others use for a flipper.
 
I agree, I love flippers! :D

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Kershaw Boa, Chive and a third (Garlic or whattaheck) have it.

HM
 
Phillip and I have several different models in the works. You guys will just have to wait to see them.
 
I got a chive yesterday and my freind got a Scallion. Both of us are happy campers. I just wish they made a large Chive.
 
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