Very nice looking knife. But I have one problem with its design. The way you unlock the blade can be seen towards the end of the handle. Gripping the handle in a normal fashion, the palm of your hand pushes against the unlatch mechanism. If while you are lifting the knife, you catch the top edge of the opened blade, your palm puts even more pressure on the latch and the blade can unlock and close on your fingers. Try this: put a pencil in your hand and hold like you would a knife. Now push your other hand down on this pencil. Feel how it pivots in your hand? I have a scar on my right hand pointing finger and 6 stitches to prove it could happen. A liner lock, or a latch built higher into the handle is in my opinion safer. I carry a legal non-folding knife every day.
I dunno I have an old buck scoutlite with the lock in roughly the same position, and havenât had that issue. It did happen once by I was like 16 and doing things with the knife I definitely shouldnât have been. Which was the major reason we had knives at that point.
Ha!
Yes, it happen when I was 13yo or so with a Buck 110. Up in a tree on Mount Diablo. I think I was harvesting mistletoe to sell at Xmas.
It is all coming back to meâŚ
Maybe the rule should be donât leave teenage boys alone with classic american folders and a dodgy VHS about âninjaâ martial arts techniques. Aside from narrowly missing the loss of a finger I had to help re-do the drywall and spackling in my friendâs house as punishment.
Hand Eye Supply sounds like the home of the 5 finger discount.
Iâve got one, I love it. Bit big to carry round in your pocket in the UK though (still technically legal, but I imagine the busies would be arsey about it).
I should have used the more inward term âfeel the need to carryâ,rather the the projection of âsee the need to carryâ. I was only speaking for myself, not commenting on othersâ need for knives. Thatâs not my business.
ah, right on. Thanks for clarifying. It did sound weird, my misunderstanding.
Not really. A Sodbuster has a completely different handle and blade shape. I have no idea where youâre getting that from. I do think itâs funny that Hand-Eye is charging almost double what it normally goes for. I suppose thatâs where your dismissive âhipstered-upâ comment comes from.
That company makes a Sodbuster-style knife, though. I believe itâs the âBull Nose.â
I ordered one from knivesshipfree ($69). It arrived today. The quality is nice, and its friendly looking (I got the gitd) which is good sometimes. The first inch or so of the blade was kinda dull out of the box (or in this case tube). Some time with the wicked edge system and an old leather belt, and now its definitely sharp. Its all the benefits of a slipjoint, but with a lockâŚ
Be advised that âhealed up nicelyâ does not always apply to clean cuts if you make it is far as a nontrivial nerve or a tendon capsule. So, um, donât do that.
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