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    FLIPPIN’ QUICK

    Jun 16, 2020 4 minutes
    BY JAMES MORGAN AYRES
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    IMAGES BY ASHLEY AYRES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

    Before this field review, I thought flippers were an ingenious solution to a nonexistent problem. I mean, there’s the Spyderco blade hole, opening studs everywhere like mushrooms on a rainy field, automatics, gravity openers—it goes on. Human ingenuity applied to a simple problem: how to open a blade that folds. Did we really need yet another way to get that sliver of sharp steel into action? Read on.

    My team and I used three of the latest flipper folders to cut up broken heavy plastic storage boxes and damaged traffi c cones for recycling. We

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