Civivi Elementum Button Lock - Full Review - In Stock Soon!
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2021
- My complicated feelings about the Civivi Elementum Button Lock after several weeks of using it.
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Great review! I think I'll wait for the other models. I think the lack of opening options would bother me on this version.
Needa thumb stud or a flipper tab to go with the button for sure. Still a sick lookin knife. Another solid review brutha 😁
Check out the Altus from Civivi. It will be coming out later this year
I want an elementum with a thumb stud, button lock and tanto blade.
If you add a thumbstud to this it won't work due to the type of locking mechanism
I wanted this knife so bad, until I found out about the button open.
If Civivi ever makes a flipper version with a button lock, I'll be all over it.
I agree a million percent. As is I really like this knife BUT I would have really LOVED it if it was a regular deploying knife. Plus now I gotta worry about the legality of it too.
Finally a button open/close without thumb studs or flipper tab. Wish all knives were like this. Kudos Civivi
I liked the concept at first but I’m glad to watch your review. Btw a button lock done right is the WMK Kizer Swayback btw thanks for the discount code
My WMK Kizer Swayback in brown micarta SHOULD be here tomorrow (I hope, I hope)
I'll hold till thumbstud TYVM :)
I love the way it opens just not crazy about that line of knives.
I have a feeling it was just EASIER to make the button a LOCK, rather than having to tune a detent/release ramp(?) on the button. But, like you said, they apparently figured it out quickly enough to release other knives with flipper/thumb deployment. So, maybe it was just laziness....
That's what I thought, too. You can find button locks on cheap automatic knives, because it's so easy to lock a knive closed with the button. But the real challenge for a designer of a button lock is to set up a good detent, not too weak and not too strong. And I think Civivi just skipped that part and threw the knife in the market as fast as possible.
I think it doesn’t matter to Civivi. Their strategy is clearly to flood the market and increase their share. It’s actually getting stupid. So many are just a tiny bit different than the last and I can say the consistency in quality is dropping. This and the Elementum fixed are my last 2 Civivi purchases unless they do something really different.
@@MrHayes-cb7hp We can see here a bad excample "Hotelling's Law". A company moves towards the average customer to gain as much market share as possible. But in the end all products look the same and boring. This can be stopped by the competitors and customers by moving towards more extraordinary products.
Seems like it's set up like a button lock auto, minus the spring.
I kinda wish benchmade, microtech and protech would sell their button autos in manual. Would love a legal to carry l-udt
I have one and love it. It is very fidget friendly. For me it is the only lefty friendly version of the Elementum. I have no issues with the button lock as the only way to open and close it.
Can you tell me more about the new Civivi button locks coming out?
With a flipper, Id buy 2, with thumb studs I'd probably pick one up. With no opening option.... Not buying that.... I'll keep trying to find a Malibu. Thanks for the review!
I understand, but, I see it completely opposite. So tired of the flipper tab.
You'd be amazed how fidgity and easy this is to open once you get used to the button lock. It's a very easy way to deploy the knife.
Took me about 15 mins after opening it this afternoon.
For sure,it is a beautiful knife; however, I would not want to get caught carrying it. Where I live (not a lawyer either) I believe it could get me in trouble because of the way it flips open without a detent creating a bias toward closure. Perhaps Civivi needs to offer it in two versions one being a full-auto with the button lock and the other version with the flipper tab ect in a more normal configuraton. If they did this, one could purchase the version that fits the regulations where the live.
Thank you kind Sir but I think I will wait to see the other two they have coming.
They made a knife that operates like my Milwaukee replaceable razor blade work knife. They made a beautiful knife with a horrible way to deploy the blade except in the construction work environment. Make it like the Malibu civivi.
The elementum button lock will be obsolete once the Altus comes out. Still an interesting knife though. Worth adding to the collection.
If only they would offer tip down carry options
Dude all you have to do is use it for a couple days to learn the ergonomics of it, and when you do it's fun af, for real. It's literally no different then an everyday pocket knife, I've decided to wait on getting a gravity knife because this is no different. IDK I didn't get that impression from it, I bet it would be one of you favorite knives once you learn it😁🤙but that's just me I guess lol
Great review. I have a thing for red knives which is why I really want this one. I agree with the button lock only issue. When I finally get it, hopefully next week, I’m probably occasionally go for a thumb stud even though it doesn’t have it.
Another excellent and honest review 👏 guess I'll try the odium instead.
Love the Damascus steel wow!
I’d feel obligated to say “Excuse me while I whip this out” every time I used it
I would have bought one if it had a way to open it.
I get your point, but it's amazingly easy to get used to. No legal issues here and I'm seriously enjoying it.
It does, otherwise it wouldn’t be open
I don't think they are going to make anymore of the red and black carbon fiber. I think it was limited edition for the first run. They released a plain carbon fiber without any of the red or blue coloring.
I think the difference is basically the equivalent of a detent ramp for the button. Haven't seen the internals on this one to be sure, but it's present on knives that do use other deployment methods.
While everybody is busy complaining about the lack of alternative deployment methods, these gizmos just keep flying off the shelf. If buzz equals sales, they hit a home run on this thing. I still don’t have one despite several attempts. I may very well join everybody in the complaint caucus immediately after I can actually get one in my hand. And by then I will have already given up my money so exactly who is the smart one in this situation? The jury is out but as a marketing lesson, it’s been hilarious to watch this unfold. So to speak.
I like the looks of the damascus blade and the red and black carbon fiber handle scales, but I'm not sold on the button lock.
hey brian thanks for bringing this to us of course mixed opinions but if its school or a recommendation i think its really great that you and all the other guys out there bringing this gear for us to check out its just a thanks....if ya flick a tater bug in the melon barrel once in a while well it happens take care and thanks!
I honestly think they used this as a public beta for their button lock design in general without having to figure out the detent with a flipper tab/thumbstuds. Great knife that could’ve been a legendary knife.
I’m going to wait for the newer ones they announced that have the flipper tabs
Hear me out… button lock front flipper. Also check the discord tomorrow evening….
Bennett Wilcox, I emphatically second a front flipper, button lock version.
Customer feedback should de.and a traditional approach in the elementum
Seems to me they rushed out a button lock to piggy back on the success of the Malibu as quickly as possible. No flipper tab or thumb stud and an awkward button lock? 🤔
They put a ramp on the blade in the closed position so the button lock can work as a detent
It coulda been great…..it coulda been a contender
Not sure why all the youtubers push Civivi I just returned the civivi elementum button lock. Its sharp as hell but the build quality is flimsy. The micarta scales were so thin if you tightened the 2 rear screws too much it would warp the scale off of the liner. Take a very close look at the button lock where it contacts the rear tang of the blade. The plunger is milled down less than a 1/16 inch this will fail before a liner lock would. Civivi knives are all show and no go. If you want a nice Chinese knife at a cheap price Petrified Fish is a better deal. Civivi - WE knives are over priced.
I like it so much better without the lanyard hole. I wonder if would be possible to convert it to an auto with a coil spring. No thumb studs or flipper tab makes me think that may be the case. Have you taken it apart?
Well, it's "safe" in the closed position, anyway... LOL! Becons the addition of a spring, as it would make a fine auto. 😁👍🗡️
Very happy w/ my brown micarta version. Button only, whatever. The larger Elementum blade alone makes it worth while.
It really bothers me there's no open method it needs atheist a thumb disk. I can't get over that fact
I would've already bought this knife if it just had the usual Civivi flipper tab. I don't understand their design decision here.
I think making this an auto would be the best next move
They waited too long to restock imo.
The Altus and Cogent are poking their heads round the corner.
I'll probably get another flavour of this knife too though, cause I have a problem.
I like the original elementum for the size much better I don’t want a bigger knife can get this knife and don’t think they will be easy to get so I think I will pass
but it is soooooo clean without a flipper tab or thumb stud. I hope they don't change the design. They already have flipper tab models.
A button lock should never stop the blade from deploying. They rushed this witbout thinking thru and it shows.
YOU know YOU wanna WHIP IT OUT ! We all know better....
If some (me) already has a Malibu, is there any reason to get one of these? I think the look of the civivi keeps me somewhat intrigued.
The Malibu is amazing.
@@dlife7427 obviously. We're talking about a 140$ up charge for the Malibu. It should be better lol.
You can open it with two hands, just like you can slowly open a side-opening auto with two hands.
Not worth the legal risk where l live.
100 and what for 9cR? Ill pay a bit more and get American labor, better steel, and a thought through design and buy a Protech. when they are in stock.. engineers missed big with this model. They could have done better with adding a thumb stud or tab.
I realize it's subjective so this is not meant as a criticism of you, Brian, but I really don't understand why people are upset about the button only design. You are not the only person to voice the complaint, but no one has ever expressed their issues in a way that makes me say "Oh, I see your point". All I've seen is variations of "I don't like it for reasons". I gotta be honest - to me, someone who's only really been heavy into this hobby the last 10 months - what I hear as the subtext to these complaints is "It's different and I don't like change".
Look, people not liking it has zero impact on me, but I just wish someone could give one good reason why the button-only design is flawed. Having said all that, you make an excellent point that CIVIVI has other button locks coming that have multiple opening mechanisms, so it's within the realm of possibility that they rework this knife to add a thumbstud - which would be fine with me.
I think I clearly said my issues very specifically. Probably illegal some places and easiest way to open it is with a big THWACK that I'd rather not do with a lot of non knife people around.
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