Any Brand Horror Story knife failures

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I was just wondering how many horror stories there are about knife lock fails. Any maker any model any lock. I personally have never had a lock failure. But I watched a work associate nearly cut his index finger off with a Spyderco Native when the lock failed.

The short story, we had just got a vehicle full of dope, dope in the tires, trunk, back seat, just full. Anyway, one of the guys pulls out a Cold Steel I think it was the old style Voyager and slices through the sidewall like butter, and lo and behold small packages of wrapped stuff. So my buddy starts on another tire and as he is sawing back and forth, he yells out some great four letter words and I immediatley thought something in the tire had got him. Boobey trap or something. I look at his hand and he is nearly gushing blood from his right index finger. The blade had closed and cut between the first joint and the nail down to the bone. OUCH! Anyway, I don't think it was so much a lock fail as a fail on how he held it. Somehow he had pushed on the lock-back while sawing away at the tire a little too aggresively.

Anyway that was what I was wondering. How many other stories like this are out there? There have to be hundreds...
 
Had a swiss army knife lock fail and cut me. I pulled my sog seal pup out of the sheath while not being careful and cut myself something fierce. Nothing horrific.
 
Yes because the kydex sheath was messed up and wouldn't release except two handed. Sent it into SOG and they gave me a new sheath.
 
K.O.D. said:
Yes because the kydex sheath was messed up and wouldn't release except two handed. Sent it into SOG and they gave me a new sheath.
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Well there you go. That would be SOG's fault. Should have said that in the first place! :D
 
You're right. My mind is addled with the old age of youth. Or is it the mid-age of old youth?
 
Pretty much all of the accidental cuts I have seen or suffered were due to user error and not mechanical failure. The only true mechanical failure I've personally seen was on a Boker Magnum knife on which the liner lock moved all the way across the lock face in less than 2 months and got jammed against the scale. It no longer truly held the blade open but it also couldn't close, so no injury resulted.
 
K.O.D. said:
You're right. My mind is addled with the old age of youth. Or is it the mid-age of old youth?
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They would explain buying a Seal Pup. Hey-oooh! Ba dum dump.

Sorry. Couldn't pass that up.

On topic...Repeated brand horrors? None. If I have a bad experience with brand's model...I don't buy that brand again.
 
In response to the op, the native doesn't have a boye dent in the lock back so it can release if you bear down on it just the right way.
 
The only lock I have had fail was a Kershaw Blackout with a liner lock. It only lasted through about six months of use
 
Never had a tragic accident but I had this one knife when I was younger and it was a little Chinese blade. Classic style "tooth pick". Honestly wasn't that bad, especially for a kid just starting. Anyways it opened easily but when you closed it it snapped like a gator! The lock back made it spring down hard. Well I was wittling a stick when wham! Came snapping down right on my fingers cutting only my index finger really deep (I have big hands so they stopped the blade quick haha). But I believe I had caught the back of the blade on a little twig jutting out of the stick. Well that's the thing about knives tho. If you're gonna play with knives. You WILL get cut.
 
I have a Schrade Old Timer made in USA lock back that the lock broke while in my pocket.
I was at work leaning against a machine making repairs when I heard and felt a snap in my pocket. Pulled out knife to find a crack straight across lock.

I also cut the heck out of my trigger finger with a Case stockman trying to make an extra hole in my belt. My own stupidity on that one. Lol
 
I had a $20 Gerber slice me open a few times before I realized the blade protruded about 1/4" when closed.
No stitches, but no more cheap Gerbers either.
 
nope. never had a lock fail on me, even cheapo chinese gas station knives. likely cause i treat all folding knives like slip joints because i started with those and it's a habit.....
 
Gerber Remix. What a poorly designed lock. The whole lock depends on this thin piece of plastic on the spine right behind the tang when open. If it pops out, the knife just folds.
 
The only knife that I have been able to get to fail without abuse is now a discontinued model. It was a CRKT 14K summit series knife. That thing sucked. The lock would fail and fold up on your fingers in a heartbeat. No I did not abuse this knife before it failed. General cutting, rope, stripping wire, food preps, and basic utility use. Had it for about 3 months then one day ooops I was bleeding and you could push the back of the blade hard enough that the blade would fold. I did not send it back for warranty because I only paid like 35-40 bucks for it and to ship for 9-12 dollars did not make sense to me just to get a knife I no longer had confidence in. I just went a bought a benchmade vex. That thing was a beast. I destroyed that one two but I destroyed it with abuse. However I was so satisfied that I went and purchased another vex.
 
ok, this isnt a failure story, its more of less a failure of me to realize how f*cking sharp the sypyderco smallfly really is.. last week i got a box from fedex and i used my smallfly to open it, i put a little more pressure into the blade that i should have, the knife cut thru the box like it wasnt even there. the 154cm steel blade went straight into the part of my hand where the thumb meets the palm, hit the bone, and had to get 6 stitches because of it. fun fun!
 
I had two lock failures with Buck linerlocks, luckily since I'm quite careful with folders I didn't get hurt. In fact, I realised the locks weren't working properly while cleaning and sharpening the knives, not during use. I was pissed off because one of them had been my main EDC knife for a long trip around South America. They were a Crosslock and an Alpha Hunter folder. I sent them to a fellow from another forum who lives in the US and didn't mind paying for shipment, I think he got both replaced by Buck.
 
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