Anyone seen this before? Hook with pivot bearing on top

[Shrub]

Isnt an xacto knife a fixed blade? im not sure.

Toi clarify i was meaning a stanley knife or simular, they have a fixed or snap off blade that slides in and out with a knob or lever on the knife body, slipped all the way back theres no knife, pushed out one click you have a small blade come out the end, the farther you push the knob the more the blade comes out, i
Instead of the blade you can use a pivot point and on the knife caseing you fasten a pick, this would mean you can slide a pivot point under the pick to stop in any position.

Im sure you realised this and its me getting the knife type wrong,

Cant wait for the pics and results

[pinsetter]

Actually, I didn't fully understand the knife type you were talking about. I DO have a knife exactly like what you are describing though.

In my own head I was thinking of the xacto knife with the removeable and replaceable blades.

I can see potential to do a project with either type, so I may try.

It's actually a cool idea!

[Shrub]

Try THIS link, its the first i came to with a half decent pic.

[raimundo]

I think pickfish is onto something, a mobile fulcrum built into the pick handle could be pushed out beneath the pick shaft or completly withdrawn when you don't need it, somehow, the topic also gave me a concept for a type of pick that would be like a one tube one wire varient of the sputnick, a piece of tubing that could put out a hook at the end of variable size. possibly a guitar string inside a piece of stainless steel tubing. since the varience between a high and a low hook is so little, I would expect that it could be controlled with a small movement of little wheel or lever on the pickhandle perhaps even with the sensitivity to feel the pins resistance while doing it. I would expect to use heavier wire than is common in the sputnick though, or possibly some twisted cable with the end soldered against fraying.