- Sure, one could potentially be bitten if not moving the finger(s) out of the way, no doubt.vandelay wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:29 pmI got bitten once doing that when I was being careless. If you rotate the blade 90 degrees before moving your fingers out of the way, it's not that hard for your middle finger to hit the blade if you're not careful with how you're pulling it back. I don't think I'll do it again now that I'm experienced with back locks, but I'm still more cautious with back locks than other mechanisms.Wartstein wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:48 pmhttps://streamable.com/myzlt
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FWIW I've also been bitten lightly by my para 3 when I was flicking it closed because my finger slipped a bit. I have trouble getting a proper grip on comp locks sometimes which makes them feel a bit less safe to close than they could be.
I've never hurt myself on a CBBL but the cage doesn't give me enough grip which makes it feel like it's going to fly out of my hands sometimes when I close it.
I don't find fingers in the blade path to be a problem on liner/frame locks with flipper tabs though. I've had those for a long time and you basically can't move your finger into the blade because the tab immediately hits it.
But the thing is: This is true for all locks and all closing methods, just at different points in the closing process. It always baffles me a bit when people do as if comp.locks had some magic finger safety thing going on, while in fact one still has to put the fingers properly and deliberately out of the way, right in the beginning of the closing process, just like it is with other locks or methods later on in that process.
. As your example shows: Mistakes can potentially be made with that comp.lock method too, just as they can with other locks at some other point of the closing process.
Plus: One pays with "knife less safe in hand" when using a "fingers out of the blade path" method with any locktype, as your example is showing too.
Again, for me not a thing anyway, but some really seem to value that fingers out of the blade path thing.
- Right, on liner -/ frame locks with flipper tabs or finger choils it does not matter at all when fingers are in the path of the BLADE during the first part if the closing, cause one can't activate the lock without keeping the fingers inevitably safe of the actual EDGE
- CBBL not giving you enough grip: If you can pull the lock with just one finger (normally the thumb) and guide the blade with another finger (normally index) in the opening hole, or gripiping the handle better by additionally using the index finger for that,this could perhaps help?
See here, method 2, 3, 4 , 5
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Some people find it hard though to operate a CBBL "one fingered"