Yes, it makes sense, but I think that with the right knife....assuming you're willing to spend the money for it....you can have a knife that opens even faster without assisted opening.Soccerdad1995 wrote:This seems like a good group to give a knife recommendation.
I am looking for an EDC with a very assisted opening mechanism. I had a knife where I just swipes my thumb down the back and it popped right open. But that knife disappeared. Everything I am finding now that looks similar doesn't pop the blade fully open. Hopefully this makes sense.
I have two knives that I carry. One has assisted opening — a Kershaw Ken Onion Tanto Blur. The other does not — a Benchmade 940-2 Osborne. The blade on the Kershaw pops open, but it uses a liner lock, so safety requires two hands to close. (You can do it one handed, but I wouldn't recommend it.) The Benchmade deploys the blade just as quickly, if not faster, with less pressure on the thumb stud to deploy it. It literally just flicks open. Bonus points, the Benchmade uses their AXIS locking mechanism, which allows safe one-handed closing, and the blade almost falls into the the closed position. The Benchmade has almost no friction at the pivot point, so the blade opens and closes like it was on ballbearings or something. Absolutely amazing.
I haven't carried the Kershaw even once since I bought the the Benchmade. The Kershaw Tanto Blue is a great EDC knife. If I had never spent the money on my Benchmade 94-2, I would have been none the wiser. I had carried a Tanto Blur for a number of years, and was never dissatisfied with it. And Benchmade is a pricey brand — my 940-2 costs 2-3 times as much as the Tanto Blur, depending on where you but it. But I am so impressed with Benchmade's quality that I'll likely not buy any another brand of knife again. I'd rather wait a while longer to be able to afford the better knife, for a knife that is heirloom quality.
Right now, I'm looking at adding a Benchmade 183BK Contego fixed blade to the collection. You can spend more on a knife than Benchmade's prices, but I think at that point you're getting deep into the laws of diminishing returns.