Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Straight from the man himself.

Dan Dovel, Principal Engineer behind the RMX platform, explaining why the Thumbstud version exists.

The original RMX automatic requires strong closed retention so the blade can’t open in your pocket.

A good manual needs something different — a detent you can actually pull through.

So the solution was geometry.

Change the blade profile and the knife can run dedicated manual, with smooth thumbstud or fuller deployment.

Simple idea.
Hard to execute.