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They brought me the knife, I flipped it open, and--what the hell?! Something pinched me. I tried it again, same thing: a soft but still distinctly unpleasant pinch on the right index finger, the one doing the flipping. I realized after a few more flips it was the compression lock on the back, in conjunction with the flipper, or flipping action, at least. As the blade deploys, the tang pushes the lock open, then slides along until its past the steel liner, and lock drops shut. As the blade opened the lock, that is, as the blade was swinging upward about halfway deployed, the lock would pinch the skin of my finger against the liner.
It was greatly painful by any means, not really even pain-inducing, per se, but it most definitely was uncomfortable. And completely unavoidable if one flips open the knife, which is the only way to deploy the blade.
I couldnt justify buying the thing with a feature like that. Not for $150. Maybe there's a reason most Spyderco flippers are in the $200 to $450 range.