Use it a little, indefinitely use it a lot, and you should learn how to sharpen a blade if you don’t know how already. How long? That depends entirely on you and what you do with it. You won’t feel any sticker shock or buyer’s remorse, and you’re not going to worry about making it less “pretty” if you have to use it hard. No, 440A isn’t ATS–34, but it’s still stainless. $25 well spent–looking at the broad picture, these knives are a good buy for the hard–earned $25 layout. ALL three Quick Flicks™ operate the same general way and all are priced at $25.00. While this can be a fun and showy way to impress people at family get–togethers, it’s actually a useful feature when you either have only one hand available to get the blade into use or need it in a hurry. Neither a side–swinging switchblade nor a front popper, an assisted–action blade requires the user to get things moving by starting the blade out manually on opening, not by pushing a button or sliding “switch”, after which the spring takes over and “flicks” the blade the rest of the way open top its locking position. Besides some of the familiar and popular features found through mid–sized folder knifedom in general, such as open construction, flat scales, pocket clip and thumb–studded blades, all three of the Quick Flick models also use an assisted opening “action”. The Colonial Knife™ Corp.’s Quick Flick™ line may interest you if you should happen to be on the lookout for a working folder. It’s even possible to get a bonus feature included for the money.
Taking inflation and other factors into consideration, $25.00 today would be roughly the equivalent of $1 knife 50 years ago, and I’d argue that there is a place in this day and age for a $25 knife. Given the basic idea, does a decent working knife have to have a designer’s name on the blade and a $300. Nothing glamorous–just every–day applications where a sharp edge beats teeth, and scissors are not practical to carry in a pocket. It’s the much more mundane things like farm or ranch chores, warehouse work, office activities, and so on. For the vast majority, this isn’t for hacking through the jungles of Borneo, felling trees to build emergency log cabins along the trail, skinning a dozen buffalo, splintering ammunition crates, reducing logs to firewood, repelling a charging grizzly, or defending against a masked guy with a bloody chainsaw in the woods. For 90 percent (and probably more) of the personal knife uses today, the buyer just needs a nice little folder he or she can tote along in a pocket or purse, and one that only has to get its owner through the trials and tribulations of everyday life. It was a very simple and basic three–blade stockman folder with jigged bone slabs, and if he paid more the $1.00 for it at the hardware store 14 miles from his home, I’d be astounded.Įven in this modern era with better steels, bigger blades, prettier handles and wider choice of locks than were ever dreamed of not all that long ago, the primary purpose of a knife is to cut. No super steel, no exotic handle materials, no tactical leg harness, no trendy brand name and certainly no 12–inch blade. The knife Grandpa took with him everywhere, every day, whether in bib overalls or church suit, wasn’t fancy. One of the lessons my grandfather learned early, and passed on down to me, was the necessity for a man to have a knife on board during daily life. ` –fast one–handers are appropriately named. Quick Flick Series, assited opening knives, by Denis Prisbrey, field tester for Tactical Knives magazine