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Ok, I'm waiting to get my own Axis AFCK but I played with my friend's model extensively last night. He was so eager to get one that he paid the full retail price and got it directly from Benchmade.
He noted to me that if the knife was inertia opened, it would sometimes fail to lock. I tried for myself and found that he was right: under certain amounts of force, the blade would smack the stop pin and just bounce back before the lock could stop it. This was certainly disheartening. I have seen this before on other folders which had weak locks that failed to engage in time.
So has anyone else witnessed this? Is it a fluke or a design error?
If you want to say that it just shouldn't be opened by inertia then you are certainly entitled to that opinion but if I get a knife for defense then I want to be 100% sure that it will always operate properly under inertial forces.
So what's the consensus? I've never seen this problem on any other axis model but the AFCK's axis lock's 'shelf' on the blade tang looks shallower on the AFCK than it is on my 940.
He noted to me that if the knife was inertia opened, it would sometimes fail to lock. I tried for myself and found that he was right: under certain amounts of force, the blade would smack the stop pin and just bounce back before the lock could stop it. This was certainly disheartening. I have seen this before on other folders which had weak locks that failed to engage in time.
So has anyone else witnessed this? Is it a fluke or a design error?
If you want to say that it just shouldn't be opened by inertia then you are certainly entitled to that opinion but if I get a knife for defense then I want to be 100% sure that it will always operate properly under inertial forces.
So what's the consensus? I've never seen this problem on any other axis model but the AFCK's axis lock's 'shelf' on the blade tang looks shallower on the AFCK than it is on my 940.
