I didn't check Walmart, but no other hardware store around here (Seattle burbs) carried something as small as a T6.

-john

Everything is a trade off. While there are springs, they aren't a direct load bearing part of the mechanism, and as Doug points out, there are redundant springs, and if it really came down to it, you can lodge something in the mechanism.

The upside is a very ambi, and more importantly, one-handed ambi friendly knife with a very strong mechanism.

My previous EDC was a Sebbie, and the ultra simplistic, titanium framelock certainly is a rugged mechanism (albeit hollow ground blade).

But... One day someone on the forums was talking about being injured and needing to use his knife off-handed and one handed.

I decided to try it out. While I can use the Sebbie effectively one handed... off-handed and one handed... um, notsomuch. In fact, it is downright difficult to use in this mode.

I figured in an emergency, this is a significant handicap.

My current EDC is a full sized DR M2 Grip, and I'm very happy with it. Not as cool as the Sebbie, but very well rounded.

Of course, a backup is a good idea anyway, and I suppose you could carry a lefty and a righty.

In the end, we are lucky we have the choices we do and one choice certainly isn't for everyone. But I've started to think about all survival my tools and how effectively I could use them one handed, and off handed. Interesting the things that crop up.

-john

None of mine wobble. IIRC, they use either blue or red loctite to make sure it stays tight from the factory, but even on the ones I've taken apart and put back together without it, I've never had any problems with it moving around. In fact, all the benchmade thumbstuds I've taken apart are specifically milled to slot into the hole in the blade so they don't move around.

I've found Spyderco's and Byrd's (a less expensive subsidiary of Spyderco) to be equally as easy to use right or left handed. They have holes rather than studs for opening, thus ambidextrous. They are lockbacks, so inherently ambidextrous to close as well, although I'd never try to close a lockback one-handed myself. I don't like closing any folder one-handed for that matter.

I'm sure the mini-Grips are fine knives too. But just in this short thread I see there are a couple of people who have had trouble with them. So the problems can't be that rare if they've been seen more than once in such a small sample of people.

How do you find the M2 for EDC re corrosion issues? I have M2 RSK, but EDC an S30V RSK.

If you have a Sears nearby, check there, I got mine (Craftsman) there. About $3.00 bucks.

So far, no problems. But I do managed to get dunked, I'll dry 'er off when I get home.

The M2 RSK does have a coating (although mine is plenty scuffed up) which offers some protection, but it doesn't seem overly inclined to rust anyway.

YMMV.

-john


then now

I should have thought of that. Thanks.

-john

Yes, there are plenty of fine choices out there.



After hanging out on knifeforums for a while, it was my impression that it is fairly rare, but YMMV.

-john

Interesting the weak hand problems with the sebbie. Of course, you could get a double thumb lug, but I don't worry too much, as it's clipped on my right front pocket, which I can't even reach with my left hand

I carried thumbhole knives (a chimera) and a few ambi disk knives, and like them. I don't really worry about ambi closing of the knife