Assisted Opening

[HiPower]

i really feel bad about you guys that have all those joint problems, has to be some pain involved. i received a plastic knee about 4 yrs. back & it was great --no pain & i can work all day w/o trouble.certainly i believe any individual with these impairments should be specially allowed to carry any knife --special tool to make their life easier. the new benchmade barrage was my last toy but it was too heavy for work..i have no problems with these knives but i can open mine with a flick of the thumb nail--my b.m.710 in m390 & the. spydie endura in zdp are my work carries but on the water i carry my millie in s3o. i'm lucky to have good dexterity in my joints since i still roll at 72.---HiPower

[garddogg56]

Here is a SOG Twitch II;I used during hunting season,I may have to put in EDC rotation that AUS Steel I had to resharpen after one deer but it was easy to bring back I do like the steel in the Kershaw Scallion better.

[Hoosier]

my 2 AO, gerber mini fast draw and its big brother. i really like the simplicity of the unlocking slide on the side and they hold a decent edge. they get carried from time to time.

[shtango]

I have a couple of AOs but gimme autos any day of the week.....and my .45, just sayin'

[jerryd6818]

A few more have joined the pile since I last posted. More Kershaw Leeks, a couple of Buck SIRUS AO's, Kershaw Needs Work, Kershaw Zing (flick), Kershaw Skyline (flick) and a Kershaw Pack Rat. The little Kershaw Silver Spur II (thanks Scott) would be a stud opener if there were room for a stud. Ignore the Bucks in the clam pack. They're just there because they're orange.

[Cutty]

Here's just a few that I have pictures of. Love them AO Kershaws. I EDC one along with a slippie

[jerryd6818]

Oh my, Cutty. There's something about those Baby Boa's...

Top pic, bottom knife. Did you remove some partial serrations? What happened to the blade on that one?

[Cutty]

Jerry
It once looked just like the one next to it sans the DLC coating on the handle that it didn't come with when i got it in '07.
That one was put out on loan to a guy who used to do work for me (construction) a few years ago and that's the way it was returned. He was a sub. (grading/silt fence etc.) and a few weeks passed before I got it back, after repeatedly reminding him. When I asked him "what the bleeeeeeep did you do to it????" Well the short answer is, a GRINDER was used to sharpen it after he abused and damaged it. Needless to say I never loaned him so much as a cup of coffee after that. I was able to get a decent edge back on it but it sure is ugly now. So now it rides in the tackle box or glove box most of the time. To tell you the truth I would trade a bunch of them to have construction come back like it was here back then, pre busted bubble

[jerryd6818]

I don't understand what goes through the mind of people that will treat the property of others in that manner. Is their brain housing group just a vacant space? Do they just not care. Are they ignorant enough to think they are doing a good job? "Unh. Dull. Thor sharpen." The answer is beyond my feeble mind.

It just lends credence to the old adage: "Neither lender nor borrower be."



My buddy, the guitar player, lent an amp to his son who is also a guitar player. The son lent the amp to an acquaintance that was in a band and in need. When John's son got the amp back, it had been painted some God awful color along with child like figures all over it AND it had been dropped so hard the transformer mounts had sheared. I want to hunt them down and beat them severely about the kneecaps with a baseball bat but John says no.

[Cutty]

Get 'em Jerry.

I will say that "el dipspit" did offer to replace it but back then I was so busy and doing so well (comparitively speaking) that I just let it be. Nowadays I would react a bit differently Everything is relative to what's sittin' in the bank, I guess.

[jerryd6818]

We make our decisions with the information we have at hand and based on the current situation. If things change, oh well. What you did was right for you at that moment in time.

If we use that incident to make a decision in a current situation, we call it experience.




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[wkholden2222]

Picked up this beauty today!

[TripleF]

Oh, I gotta jump in on this thread.......

The assisted opens are what put me over the knife edge....