Which thumb nail do you use to open your slip-joint?

[kvaughn]

I've become fairly proficient at putting EZ open notches on the ones I can. Even just a small knotch on one side of a multi blade knife can help a lot.
My hands dont do hard to open knives well any more. Most have ended up as gifts

 

[Prester John]

I am right-handed. I have always held the knife in my right hand, like this:

And I use my left thumbnail to open the blade. And I ain't changin'!

 

[JohnDF]

Well displayed, Jack.

I don’t think there is a right way or wrong way

There is only the "right" way.

 

[SteveC]

I use both, it depends on the knife and blade.

 

[Will Power]

Really? Thumb?? I always use my teeth

 

[mbkr]

Really? Thumb?? I always use my teeth

 

[JohnDF]

I always use my teeth

 

[Jack Black]

I'm learning a lot! Like why that darn pull-scale has SAKs rated at 5, when they should be around 2!

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Upside down and backwards, but with a whole lot of soul and feeling, probably based around a minor pentatonic, b5 for effect.

I don't know some of the things you said, but I understood it perfectly

 

[huntnfishin]

I’m right handed. I always use my right hand on the blade...unless the nick is on the pile side then I switch. But I always open the blade away from my body. Old habit. Works for me.
Teeth...that made me spit out my coffee.

 

[euroken]

Use both, depending on the the knife. I have camp knives that has left open and others with right open.

 

[black mamba]

Held in left, blade up, open with right thumb, pivoting away from left hand!!

This, unless the nick is on the pile side. In that case, I flip the knife upside down, grab the nick with my left thumb and swing the frame away from the blade with my right hand. Being right handed, I use my left just to hold, and my right hand to do the movement.

 

[EngrSorenson]

I’m just glad I didn’t have to read:
“Where dem thumb studs at?”

 

[huntnfishin]

I’m just glad I didn’t have to read:
“Where dem thumb studs at?”

where ar dem thumb studs????

 

[sitflyer]

Right handed here, most knives I hold in my right hand and use my left thumbnail to pry the blade open. Exceptions being any knife with a beartrap spring, I hold in my left hand, and pry open with my right thumbnail. Especially if it's a beartrap with a half stop.

 

[Marlingspike12]

I use my right thumb nail, but I usually pinch the blade.

 

[mcc850]

For me... I was shown how to open a slip-joint knife "properly" by my Scout Leader.
Use the dominant hand on the blade for the most control and swing the blade away from all fleshy parts (blood zone).
He had to break my bad habit of using my left hand to open the knife and I've been doing it "correctly" ever since.

Held in left, blade up, open with right thumb, pivoting away from left hand!!

Hold the knife with my left hand, and use my right to open either by nail or by pinch. The only knives I use differently are from Colorado!

As an aside, for fun I just tried to hold my 93 lamb with my right and use my left thumb nail. I think I’m lucky I still have an attached left thumb!

John and I had the same scout leader.
I am so glad to have learned the proper way

I can't believe what I'm reading!!! OF COURSE you open the blade with you right thumbnail!

Surprisingly, I have a video too! Sent this to a gentleman a couple of years back. He said the knife had a fault and couldn't be opened. I suggested oiling, and blowing out the joint, but he insisted it had a mechanical fault, and it was impossible to open. Here it is straight out of the envelope it was returned in, opened with thumbnail, and pinched

These are all men with great taste and common sense.

 

[CelloDan]

I am right-handed. I have always held the knife in my right hand, like this:

And I use my left thumbnail to open the blade. And I ain't changin'!

I am right-handed. I have always held the knife in my LEFT hand, like this:

And I use my RIGHT thumbnail to open the blade. And I ain't changin'! ...........

 

[Jack Black]

Best thread of the year!

 

[6Strings]

Forgot to mention, in public or around non knife people, I hold with my right (dominant) and open the blade with my left, I believe It’s more discreet as the knife remains concealed in the right hand the whole time, from out the pocket, opened, used, closed and returned, most of the knife won’t be seen.