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Post script on auto openers,
On some auto opener knives, if the button was pushed to swing the blade to the full open position and the blade hits something and was stopped like Swatsurgeon described, the blade would just flop freely until it was "re-loaded" by compressing back into the handle frame and the switch was pushed to open again. This of course takes two hands to do. On some auto designs you could not just manually rotate the blade full open and have it lock.
Other types of auto opener designs called "double action" can be either opened manually and lock just fine or the button (or other switch feature) can be pushed to open "auto."
I'd always thought it curious to have a fast opening mechanism on an auto with a little tiny button that was hard to locate in a hurry.
The manual opening folding knives can often be opened faster than an auto because of the "find the button and push it" time.
Last edited by Bill Harsey; 12-28-2004 at 09:02.
Reason: traditional knifemaker spelling
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