A reason to dislike liner locks besides strength

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Brutus013

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For the second or third time, I've been cut by a knife with a liner lock. I pushed the liner back with my thumb, closed the blade, but apparently forgot to move my thumb. Got a nice cut on the tip, bled relatively profusely. I got a quick gauze wrap on, then I put a rubber band around the base of my thumb to stop the bleeding, and got a clean, moderately tight wrap on there now. I guess this could've happened with a frame lock, as well, but so far for me it's only happened with liner locks. Has this ever happened to you?
 
Brutus013 said:
For the second or third time, I've been cut by a knife with a liner lock. I pushed the liner back with my thumb, closed the blade, but apparently forgot to move my thumb. Got a nice cut on the tip, bled relatively profusely. I got a quick gauze wrap on, then I put a rubber band around the base of my thumb to stop the bleeding, and got a clean, moderately tight wrap on there now. I guess this could've happened with a frame lock, as well, but so far for me it's only happened with liner locks. Has this ever happened to you?
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Nope, never had that happen and I have a boat load of liner locks.
 
Then I'm just uncoordinated, I guess. It was a recently sharpened Browning Ice storm, btw. The pivot's been loosening up on my, so I like to keep it a bit extra tight so I can open and close it a few times before having to re adjust, so it took just that extra bit of pressure to close.
 
I have never had that problem. If you can't remember to move your finger out of the way before you close a knife then you probably should not carry a liner lock. ;)
 
I cut my self on every thing but have never cut yself because of a liner lock mech some are cetainly more well made than others.
 
I stop the bleeding and use super glue to close up the cuts. Then I go back to work. I don't have time to bleed! :D (Jesse Ventura- Predator)

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Yea Ive never cut myself on any of my liner locks. i have quite a few too and trust the locks a lot.
-Barry-
 
technically it was NOT the liner lock that caused the cut, it was you not moving yer thumb....

just saying.......

i have a whole waxk of liner locks, never had ANY issues other than rock solid lockup!
 
I like liner locks. after having many many dozen of them I have never had a bit of trouble with any part of them.
 
I leave my thumb in place as a STOP...the unsharp base of the blade hits the top of my thumbnail. Then I move my thumb and use it to close the blade after ensuring my fingers are clear. I do this one handed. I admit I have been careless a couple times and nipped the tip of my little finger because it wasn't quite out of the way. That has only happened with one particular knife...twice. The superglue works like magic LOL.
 
Well, I went to locking knives because I stopped trusting slipjoints. Damn blades would get embedded in wood, then snap back and hit whatever's between it and the blade recess. No thanks. I know you can get in trouble with linerlocks too, some of 'em, but I never have. I did get nipped by a Buck 110 because the strength of the return lock was stronger than I'd expected, but once I got the bleeding stopped, it was just a matter of cleaning the floor, the wall, part of the ceiling, the cat, oh, and my arm from my hand to my elbow. (If I'd subsequently changed my identity and vanished, I suspect I'd see my wife on Cold Case files once they swabbed the place.) Yep, I learned a lot about Buck locks on that one. I just wish knife makers would learn that I don't need no help in closing the damn things. The 110 is just a slipjoint with a lock on it!

But I take the blame. It was my fault. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.

We ought to have a Hall of Blood or something.
 
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I leave my thumb in place as a STOP...the unsharp base of the blade hits the top of my thumbnail. Then I move my thumb and use it to close the blade after ensuring my fingers are clear. I do this one handed. I admit I have been careless a couple times and nipped the tip of my little finger because it wasn't quite out of the way. That has only happened with one particular knife...twice. The superglue works like magic LOL.
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The blade has no dull area on the two knives this has happened with. Also, I realize the liner lock did not cause the cut, but as opposed to a lockback, it does require the thumb to be placed in the path of the blade.
 
Never been cut closing a liner but that is why I don't mind using "right handed" linerlocks with my left hand. I don't have to swing my thumb back across the blade path.
 
I did it with a razor Mcusta once. Just nicked it but that produced a slide specimen. Not the lock's fault, mine . . . I like a good liner lock . . .
 
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