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Honey Badger Flipper

Posted on May 23, 2018July 27, 2023 by westernadmin

Honey Badger Knives Western Active HB1022-2

Background

The honey badger flipper is a relatively new knife in the USA market. Originally exclusively for the overseas market the honey badger flipper was designed to fill a gap between the really expensive flippers and the poorly executed really cheap ones.

What is a Flipper?

The main purpose behind the flipper is to make the knife really easy to open one-handed. Instances of this could be when you’re up a ladder with one hand already occupied, lying in a confined space under the car/table/kitchen counter etc. or just about any time when your one hand is occupied and you need access to your knife.

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The Honey Badger Flipper is not an assisted opening knife and does not use any type of spring mechanism that shoots the blade open. Instead of the traditional thumb nick or just grabbing the blade with the other hand to open it, the flipper has a little tab that protrudes. Simply apply pressure usually with your index finger and the blade will pop open. How easily the blade opens depends on how well the knife is designed and adjusted. Instead of using a bushing or washer, The Honey Badger Flipper makes use of two opposing roller bearings containing a total of 18 ball bearings. This makes for an ultra slick opening action. In addition the pivot about which the knife rotates is adjustable and it come with a torx wrench to assist in fine tuning the opening action of the knife to your liking.

What is Deep Pocket Carry?

Many of the pocket knives out there feature some kind of pocket clip. Instead of the knife lying loose in your pocket the pocket clip allows you to clip the knife inside your pocket so that it’s easy to find when you need it. The problem with many of the clips is that when clipped into your pocket, some of the knife still sticks out. Much like when you have a pen clipped into your pocket. The Honey Badger Flipper has what’s known as a deep pocket carry clip. As you can see in the photo, the clip mounts really high on the knife so that when clipped into your pocket no part of the knife sticks out at all. Many people prefer this so as not to draw attention to themselves. Deep pocket carry also means that you could easily carry the knife when wearing smarter clothes and it wont look out of place.

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Superb Craftsmanship and design, Excellent EDC Knife!

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The large drop point is my jam!! How perfectly this knife is engineered and appointed is almost an enigma to me! How did they get it to be so good and so budget friendly?

Honey Badger Knives are top notch for quality.

I do not own a a Honey Badger knife at the moment but I’ve heard nothing but good about these guys! I’m a beginning knife enthusiast and I live for the more budget friendly and on the occasion one that is more expensive for my collection. I’m adding all knives from different brands and if I won a knife from Honey Badger then they will have a spot in my collection and hopefully grow with the other brands I have now. Here’s to winning giveaways 🤘

I live in south Africa and love the Honey Badger knifes, excellent product competitive with ANY top tier name brands, parts and warrantee available easily. I will NEVER buy another top tier knife from abroad!!

Great quality at a great price point, replacement parts and ways to customize your knife. What more could you ask for?

honey badger has really good high quality knifes. i was gifted one, and since then i have it in my pocket all the time. once i lost it, so i told my family that who ever finds it gets 20 ILS

I love honey badger knives design.

Very nice nkife

Best pocket knife I’ve owned. Have carried all the major brands for years. And great options in other brands, but what impressed with this brand is truly the quality of the blade, fit and finish. This is a gentleman’s/grown up’s knife though. Thin super sharp blade. If you use a knife as a screw driver and to jam into hard things, look elsewhere.

Just bought the honeybadger knife HB1017 flipper medium and I am well satisfied with it except for the lock bar. When you close the blade the release nub has a sharp edge that hits the end of your thumb. I filed the edge off without a problem but I feel this should be addressed by the designer.

Nice looking knife!

Great knives at a reasonable price

Honey Badger knives are obviously built from quality, reliably sound materials to withstand vast and rugged conditions while simultaneously flaunting a full array of blade/handle shapes and designs ranging from more tried and true classic looks to more unexpected, innovative and eye-catching, yet still finding itself repeatedly snug in that go-to, forget-anything-but-this-one, even-running-way-too-late, oh-no-H0£¥ §H%actually-all-those-knife spot