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I bought a few of these couple years ago. Every time you go to use it it feels like you're going to cut a finger off. It has a click to stop you towards the end before the blade closes. Needless to say I don't use it much.
I don't have any problem closing it with one hand safely. And it is very locked in place when it is locked.
I bought both versions of this. The other one without a ring can fold up on you, this can't. You just have to learn to properly unlock and close it. I like the ring (original - this one posted) version better. Awesome closing method.
Feels very safe to me.
Also it's Sharp - I tried shaving a very small part of my face, gave me a closer shave than my razor. Note: don't do this! It felt very light, exactly like it might make a good old time shaver, but it is too long and doesn't follow the curve of your face - it will have a tendency to always dig down no matter how you angle it, and it will slice off or go under skin very easily it is so sharp. Again, don't do it.
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cheap garbage. plastic handles, poor construction, dangerous design. i bought a couple weeks ago and immediately returned.
Won't find a better knife with a 4.25" blade for $7.85. I like the design, it feels very safe to me. I bought one, and then another, and am about to buy a third.
Unless you are willing to learn a different lock mechanism for a knife, you won't like this obviously. But I find it easy to safely close this with one hand. And if you want to work with it, it's unlikely to fold back on you.
Won't find a better knife with a 4.25" blade for $7.85. I like the design, it feels very safe to me. I bought one, and then another, and am about to buy a third.Unless you are willing to learn a different lock mechanism for a knife, you won't like this obviously. But I find it easy to safely close this with one hand. And if you want to work with it, it's unlikely to fold back on you.
I understand this is a traditional design but the execution of this CS model seems to be too cheap according to many, so maybe get the real thing if possible. (But I guess they are rare and cost more)
Put your pointer finger - index - finger around the ring and put your knuckle of the finger, including the rest of the knuckles of your fingers on your hand after the pointing finger, on the handle away from the blade, sortof like a brass knuckle a little bit. Put your thumb, which is right next to your pointer finger, against the back side of the blade instead of the backside of the handle. It helps to put the thumb close to the pivot point between the blade and handle. Push with the thumb. The blade will unlock and start to close.
This will become easy with practice, and you will see there is really no way you can get cut if you positioned yourself right this way. If my description isn't good, there are youtube videos showing the technique (and quite a few showing bad ways too - not using the ring). You can face the blade downward against something if you are just learning if you want another safety factor, but once you learn it, safe and you'll never go back.
There's a one handed way to open this too, but you'll probably need to loosen the blade - easy - and practice a lot, and I haven't done it yet. But when I do, the blade is promising to be even a better one then the 4" lockback I had as a boy. I used to open that one handed too - a lot of fun when you know how. But lockbacks aren't designed to open that way, and it broke after years of it. This one won't. And even if it did, I think it's cheaper in today's money then what I paid for my knife in the 80s! FYI I used to practice opening and closing my lockback one handed, so I'm probably used to doing it safely. But I never cut myself learning either - just be careful, and read up, and use videos of people showing how they do it.
PS: These are popular overseas, and people there seem to know how to use them, so it's probably more cultural and knowing how to use them already than anything about being unsafe by design.
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Not worth it I split my thumb open bc it would close great
I'm sorry if you cut your finger on something (post is not clear), but this is a ratchet knife, it will stop at certain points as you close it and prevent snapping back suddenly. After you get to the last ratchet point (and assuming you used the ring properly) or whenever you feel it is safe, shift your hold, keeping all fingers on the back of the handle (and not over the part the blade folds into...), and press the back of the blade on something - a table top, the wall, your leg maybe, to close it the rest of the way.
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I bought both versions of this. The other one without a ring can fold up on you, this can't. You just have to learn to properly unlock and close it. I like the ring (original - this one posted) version better. Awesome closing method.
Feels very safe to me.
Also it's Sharp - I tried shaving a very small part of my face, gave me a closer shave than my razor. Note: don't do this! It felt very light, exactly like it might make a good old time shaver, but it is too long and doesn't follow the curve of your face - it will have a tendency to always dig down no matter how you angle it, and it will slice off or go under skin very easily it is so sharp. Again, don't do it.
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Unless you are willing to learn a different lock mechanism for a knife, you won't like this obviously. But I find it easy to safely close this with one hand. And if you want to work with it, it's unlikely to fold back on you.
This will become easy with practice, and you will see there is really no way you can get cut if you positioned yourself right this way. If my description isn't good, there are youtube videos showing the technique (and quite a few showing bad ways too - not using the ring). You can face the blade downward against something if you are just learning if you want another safety factor, but once you learn it, safe and you'll never go back.
There's a one handed way to open this too, but you'll probably need to loosen the blade - easy - and practice a lot, and I haven't done it yet. But when I do, the blade is promising to be even a better one then the 4" lockback I had as a boy. I used to open that one handed too - a lot of fun when you know how. But lockbacks aren't designed to open that way, and it broke after years of it. This one won't. And even if it did, I think it's cheaper in today's money then what I paid for my knife in the 80s! FYI I used to practice opening and closing my lockback one handed, so I'm probably used to doing it safely. But I never cut myself learning either - just be careful, and read up, and use videos of people showing how they do it.
PS: These are popular overseas, and people there seem to know how to use them, so it's probably more cultural and knowing how to use them already than anything about being unsafe by design.
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