You will drive yourself crazy trying to decide Between the two. Flip a coin and go with it. I have had the same problem trying to decide between two handguns. I actually did flip a coin and went with it.
I was going to say the same thing about Protech. I have a few Benchmades but recently have been buying Spydercos and Protechs. But I did buy a full size regular opening Adamas few months back
Blade hq is having a lot of sales this weekend. You can pick up a kershaw with the Emerson wave feature for less than 50 to see if you like it. A real Emerson with that feature is probably over 250
Emerson originall designed it. It is the small hook like cut out on top of the blade. With practice the hook catches the back area of your pants pocket and opens the blade as you remove the knife. Emerson’s design is smaller than Spydercos
I know you said auto, but I have carried or used more knives than I can remember. What I really like now is a knive with the wave feature. With practice just pull the knive out and it is opened. No buttons, dpsafety or anything else to think about. Or maybe a small fixed blade
Civivi is bringing out a fixed blade. The blade looks like a karambit style. But with the push of a button the blade can be rotated and looks like a karambit or push the button again and it rorares back to straight. Retail should be around 140