Why spydie flick with your middle finger?

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EngrSorenson said:
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Lol I don’t spydie flick because I see people fail half the time they try and when they do get on a roll they do it like 3 times in a row because they think they look like hot sh*t. Why invent a new way to open a knife when all the other ways worked fine? You ever see a knife for sale and go to the Imgur video and it’s just incessant spydie flicking? Pass
 
While I normally use my thumb, I do find that with how I hold my spydies, flicking with my middle finger actually results in my hand already being roughly in grip position when the blade opens. When using my thumb I have to rotate the knife after opening to be in a normal grip.

Really, that extra step of rotating is rarely an issue for me unless I’m dealing with a particularly fast apple.
 
I was at a knife store the other day and they had a young guy working at the counter. I noticed they had gotten in a new spyderco drunken for $540 and asked to see it. The young guy removed it and proceeded to start "spydie flicking" it repeatedly. This made me cringe, if it's your knife or if it's a budget knife do whatever you want. But if it's an expensive knife that is not your property you should probably lay off the flicking and just slow roll.
 
I seems to be very intuitive for me on my Manix 2.
When I take it from pocket, my middle finger is right there. No adjustment needed to open. I don’t do it with any other knives I own.
Maybe it’s my hand size, 2XL, combined with the big opening hole and size of the knife. Don’t really know. Just feels right.
I don’t normally flick open knives. Think it’s bad for the knife long term.

Maybe it’s just my inner mall ninja trying to surface.🥷🏻
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
I can do it with my index finger, but not my middle. What am I missing?
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Nothing. I can do it both ways, but middle finger is always more fiddling to get the knife in the hand just right, and then more grip adjustment afterwards, than if I had just index or thumb flicked it open. I, too, once tried to understand the reason for it, and well, ultimately came up empty. But if it's fun for people, great, just don't cut yourself or someone else.

What I really want to know is how Mike Janich is so good a pinky flicking a Delica of all things. Or those guys who can one hand open and close an Endura by pinching the scales with their thumb and pinky/ring/middle fingers while actuating the lock bar with their index finger. Open and closed fast and easy just like PM2 or CBBL knife. That amazes me and makes me just a teeny bit jealous.
 
I don't know why............
I have more knives than I can use in a life time?
Have some knives even though I'm not military, special forces ?
So..........how someone opens a knife......
 
BillZee said:
I don't know why............
I have more knives than I can use in a life time?
Have some knives even though I'm not military, special forces ?
So..........how someone opens a knife......
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Just one lifetime? 🤣


Edited to add: I still haven't figured out how to spydie flick my delica... Going to stick with a slow roll for the time being.
 
David Mary said:
Nothing. I can do it both ways, but middle finger is always more fiddling to get the knife in the hand just right, and then more grip adjustment afterwards, than if I had just index or thumb flicked it open. I, too, once tried to understand the reason for it, and well, ultimately came up empty. But if it's fun for people, great, just don't cut yourself or someone else.

What I really want to know is how Mike Janich is so good a pinky flicking a Delica of all things. Or those guys who can one hand open and close an Endura by pinching the scales with their thumb and pinky/ring/middle fingers while actuating the lock bar with their index finger. Open and closed fast and easy just like PM2 or CBBL knife. That amazes me and makes me just a teeny bit jealous.
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Some Spyderco knives do it better! I can do it fairly easily with my Native 5, but it's much easier with a Siren.

Honestly I like just goofing around with opening knives in different ways, seeing how else I can do things.
 
You guys are boring! I am a proud "Spydie flicker" and I don't care who knows. I even take it further and see if I can do it with every finger.

Nothing about this hobby is practical so let's not pretend everyone has to have the same opening preferences. People enjoy their knives in all sorts of ways and that is really cool that there can be so many ways to get joy from man's oldest tool.
 
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