Earlier this year, we took a look at a knife quite unlike any other in the Craighill Sidewinder. True to its name, the knife uses a curvaceous deployment action that’s fascinating to watch. Trying to quickly build on its rapid success with the design, Craighill is now turning the Sidewinder into a family, introducing a smaller version that folds the same split-handled, slide-and-flip design into a package small enough to hang on a keychain or hide away in your jeans pocket-in-a-pocket.
Craighill teams up with design house Chen Chen & Kai Williams once again, this time rolling downmarket a touch. They shrink – or “tastefully truncate” – the new Sidewinder Mini nearly in half as compared to the original, for a total length of 3.6 inches (9.1 cm) when deployed. The knife features the same intriguing opening mechanism, though, albeit in a smaller package.
I really want to get my hands on one. Either the standard or this mini version. I know it isn’t the first time a mechanism like this has been tried, but I imagine it has a fidget factor off the charts.
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NewAtlas: Sidewinder knife’s kinetic folding mechanism is pure tactile theater
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