You all haven't heard from me much lately because I've been tinkering. Again.
More details soon.
Nice work! Getting it reliable must have taken some effort.
That's a nice mechanism.
You're not worried that this could pop open in your pocket or bag if it gets squeezed in a certain way?
It's theoretically possible, I suppose, but there are two things to think about there. First is that commercial knife makers, particularly Benchmade, use a similar sort of mechanism on several of their knives and I haven't spotted any lawsuits about it in the news. And second, the way a balisong knife works requires at least one of the handles rotating a pretty good ways before the cutting edge is really presented. I think that's unlikely to happen in your pocket. In fact, some of my balisongs with more annoying latches I carry in the unlatched position to begin with and I've never had an issue.
I would not have guessed that being in a knife community in the Lemmy-verse would cause me to start saving up for a 3D printer, but here we are.
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