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0:01 Introducing Knives For Non-Knife People
1:20 How Intuitive are Slip Joint Grandpa Knives?
3:01 Why are Back Lock Knives Both Hard and Easy to Close?
5:58 Is Axis Lock the Easiest Type of Lock?
8:20 How Liner Lock Knives Work
12:44 Frame Lock Knives
14:19 Spydie Flick, Opening Knives, and the Awesome Compression Lock
16:10 Do Button Locks Work?
18:33 Knives and Fidgeting. Fidgety Knives!
20:42 Would you Hand an Automatic Knife To Someone?
22:25 Why everyone Loves OTF Knives
27:24 What Knives Would Zac Hand To Someone?
28:36 What knives Would Ben Hand To Someone?
30:17 BIG CHANNEL NEWS!
So me and Ben Banters from Knafs Co decided to walk around and talk to strangers about pocket knives. We were scientifically trying to figure out which knives are the easiest for non-knife people to open and close intuitively. We found that liner locks and frame locks are secretive, button and Axis Locks are easy, and every one loves a good OTF! All the knives were in order from most common to least common. We covered slip joints, Axis locks, Liner Locks, Automatics, Back Locks, Compression Locks, OTF’s, Flippers, and Button Locks. Let us know down below what you think about our findings.
We also want to give a huge THANK YOU to Ben and Athena at Knafs Co for being our first ever channel sponsor!! It’s a huge step for us and we want to thank everyone for the support with our fun little project here.
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Yesssss! First sponsor! We're honored. Stoked. Let's do it again, eh?
Thanks for the very interesting video, guys. Would have loved to have seen these people try a OTF gravity knife. Turning the knife upside down is not the first thing you think of when you see a knife.
LOL the opening killed me
Blade Theory 101. Nice! Thanks dudes!
Hey, I am a lefty. I like the Benchmade mini grip with the sheepfoot blade and hole cause I can open and close it with one hand. But with a knife with a button lock I use my index finger. Tho I think Spyderco's compression lock would be hard…. UNLESS THEY WOULD JUST MAKE A LEFT HANDED PARA 3!!
A knife is my American express card. Every time I fly I feel like have to leave a part of me at home.
I think the most counterintuitive thing about the ATF is that you wouldn't think that a knife could be open and closed by a single button. The ingenuity of the mechanics of it isn't that straightforward even though the interface is. If I was seeing for the first time even though it looks like it could open and close with the same button, it wouldn't make sense that a knife could work like that.
do you have sister wives?
Balisong user here. I have a trainer at home that has no blade on it. I take it places when i know someone wants to try it
I still have CRKT snap fire ppl can open it but watch em scratch their heads trying to close it.
Only lefty specific knife I own is my ZT 0350. I have a few Spyderco ones, they are older, and you cannot make them ambi (like the newer ones). But, I largely carry a Bradford fixed blade now. And a Victorinox Compact, which only really gets used for cutting apples :). The Bradford is my main use knife. Being a lefty with pocketknives with belt clips has sucked, until they started making them ambi.
I just had my Opinel in my hand and thought… what if you gave this to a non-knife-person with the lock on and not telling anything. I wonder who will be able to open it…
50 years walking this earth has taught me one thing: people that do not carry a pocket knife, or know how to sharpen a knife do not know how to use a knife and will likely hurt themselves and/or destroy the edge.
Wait, is this Victoria gardens in Rancho Cucamonga California?!
Now add a butterfly and a Karabit to the mix 😂😂😂
i started with a SAK classic that my cousin gave to me behind my parents back when i was like 6-7. cut a chunk out of the back of my thumb knuckle and i of course hid both the knife and the cut from my parents until they realized i wrapped my thumb with paper towel . i still have the scar now at 25
lefty otf, fixed blade or button lock for myself personally but I have been known to play with an occasional butterfly
I'd say as long as it's not auto/spring assisted. Also would need straight forward opening without a bunch of instructions
whomever have I handed my knife to, no one has ever been able to figure out a liner lock, not even after pointing it out. Unless you actually show it to them slowly.
Really fun video!
Emilys so pretty and the fact she tried means there's hope to get her into knives
Lefty here, I don’t understand myself to be honest.
I use knifes ambidextrously. When I eat, knife is in my right hand. When I cook or chop it’s in my left….for the most part.
Use to the compromise, store most knifes in my right pocket. Close frame-locks/linear styles, with both hands.
If and when I get a Sebenza it will be in the right hand style. If I ever need to resell it, will move faster as a right handed knife.
On a side note, Jimmy Hendricks played a right handed guitar upside down. Another reason to just adapt.
Somehow, I think y'all have just done more actual market/ user research than all of the knife industry combined over a very long time.
Nice.
Yet to find a non-knife person that can close my spyderco
I have 2 different Chinese made Spyderco Byrds that have different lock types.
As a left-handed knife Addict I always have a PM2 in my left pocket and a fixed blade on the hip
Very entertaining video Fellas! I loved seeing all the different reactions. Way to go on the sponsorship!
As a left-handed man, assisted opening knives with liner locks was what I started with. Eventually I stuck with cold steel with the wave opening, tri-lock on The Spartan and then the Rajah 2. For work reasons I’m not carrying those so I use the stiletto style ti-lite which has a liner lock.
Slip joints are the easiest to hand to a novice- at least for me in India where most people haven't seen any locking knives. Victorinox is the one most people are familiar with.
From safety perspective I'd hand a compression lock or axis lock. PM2 is the safest folder I have. And I'm a fixed blade person (even for compact EDC)
Looking at the cross bar lock, Maybe that's why sog built the tac au with the cross bar as the release mechanism.
BENNNN!!!!!!!!
Dudes, I love that you three are all working together again!!! After Jamie left knife banter, it was THE end of an era, and in my opinion, the videos after the departure of all three of you just don't have any magic in the them. They just don't, everything feels too forced and falls flat. I seldom ever click on one anymore. I did give the new crew a chance, I mean, Kurt was still there, and he had his part in making the magic happen with all of you, but yeah, the magic that was Knife Banter just isn't that magical for me anymore.
Fast forward to now, and the magic's back baby. You just can't fake the kind of passion you guys have and share in your videos, regardless of whether those videos are knife related or what have you. There's just something about your energies that are infectious and real and I'm very excited to follow along as this new journey unfolds, even if it's not always the three of you in the videos all the time, it's just good to know it can happen.
Great video
Solid vid – been working in a warehouse for the past year – I brought a slew of different blades to work – all the guys ask to borrow my knife – the look on their face learning a new lock or style of blade is priceless 💥💥👍
I worked in a warehouse and carried a knife. Sometimes folks would ask to borrow my lockblade. It was funny watching them try to close it.
Lefty benchmade afo ii
Next episode, how to sharpen a really dull knife, looked like lots of fun
Great idea! You two please don't leave knife world for any reason &keep talk knife👍 (also dear Jamie)
In my experience people like to push on anything that looks like a button funky screws axis locks thumbstuds everyone expects a switchblade from me liner locks are commonly not understood and spring assist ruins everything
I will say though i don't care about anyones goofy opinion aside from a fixed blade with friction retention or a knife witha a wave there is nothing faster or more natural than a tip up back flipper
Am a lefty been rotating recently between a CRKT home front, bona fide slacker ,mini CEO, scribe and the snap on version of the stylist
Im a fan of Ken Onion
I carry a random Leatherman daily (rebar supertool sidekick) although recently been using a ozark trail wave copy that I've been very happy with
And ive been rotating between a griptilian, mini barrage thst i removed the spring assit from and a mini boost
It's amazing to see people struggle to open or close knifes, with some more recent locks, which have been around going on 50yrs. It shows how regular folks have move away from the use of a basic cutting tool. This was a great sociological test on what is going on in this culture.
As a lefty… I like linerlock knives, even though the majority of linerlocks are right handed. Framelocks are very problematic because lefties press our thumbs down on the lockbar to open the blade, which interrupts the opening…so we have to slide our thumb over to clear the lockbar, so that we can open the blade. If this sounds awkward…it really is.
Great video
Why couldn’t the boy do it under their adult supervision?