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

Which thumb nail do you use to open your knife?

  • Left

    Votes: 54 45.4%

  • Right

    Votes: 65 54.6%
  • Total voters
    119
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I hold the knife in my right hand and open the blade with my left thumb nail.
 
It depends on which thumb remains available.

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Dan.
 
Held in left hand and use right thumbnail.
I'm a lefty and as is common with lefties my left hand isn't *as* dominant as a right hander's right might be.
We are forced to do many things right handed.

One of the things I love about traditionals is that they are ambidextrous.
 
I'm mostly left handed, somewhat naturally ambidextrous(first time I ever even tried to wrote with my right hand I was like 20, and did it without thought... and flawlessy... it was easy and natural).

Being in an unfair, insane(only left handed people are in their right mind!) right handed world, I've became ambi to some degree at almost everything.

Translation, I can't vote since you left out "both". :D I use whatever is most handy at the time.

I think I probably prefer knife in left hand, open with right thumb, then simply turn the knife around to use left handed...

but I do the opposite and tranfer to left to use, or just use righg handed too. Thinking I Prefer to use left handed but don't have to.

Sometimes I don't use my thumbs either. Sonetimes the midle finger and a kinda blind pull, or half a pinch is handy, for secondary(or #3 or #4 on bigger knives) blades, depending on how I want to hold the knife while opening, or after opening.
 
Just thinking....:rolleyes: I do open left-handed knives, like this Needham NAAFI knife, with the thumb-nail on my left hand. As I do blades where the nick is on the pile side :thumbsup:

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Edit - Also on SAKs, like this Farmer, I open the bottle-opener, on the left, with my right thumb-nail, and the can-opener, on the right, with my right thumb nail. Having never given any thought to it before, I'm now thinking about it far too much! :rolleyes:

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I use both, especially when using a knife that has nicks on both sides like a stockman.

Single blade though I’d say it’s 90% of the time using my left thumb since I’m right handed and hold the knife there.

Then there’s those times I’ll use a finger, not my thumb :eek:
 
I can come up with all kinds of ergonomic justifications for it, but in truth, I always use my left thumb because that nail is the strongest. I don't know if it's the strongest because I always use it...:confused:

When closing, I almost always ease a blade closed. It's a habit from handling antiques.
 
mcc850 said:
Did Stan prefer to snap the blade closed? I love doing it, but I baby my knives in that regard. The sound is quite pleasing though.
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Yes, he couldn't see why anyone would 'baby' them closed! :D There's a video of him somewhere, where he wipes the blades on a finished knife with a soft cloth, and then clatters them all shut! :D :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
Having never given any thought to it before, I'm now thinking about it far too much! :rolleyes:
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Blame John--he's a troublemaker.
Jack Black said:
Yes, he couldn't see why anyone would 'baby' them closed! :D There's a video of him somewhere, where he wipes the blades on a finished knife with a soft cloth, and then clatters them all shut! :D :thumbsup:
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Guess I let most knives (Case, Buck, lambfoots, GEC, etc.) slam shut. I ease the French knives closed. And I HAVE to ease the Opinel shut. And my Spanish navaja.
 
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