This Busse folder is great. The blade is thin enough to be a good slicer, but is beefier in the pivot area. The main pivot bolt is 1/4" thick. Yes, you read correctly, the main pivot. It has a second pivot, that not only mades the handle blade juntion incredibly strong, but acts as a super lock. When you open or close the blade these two bolts, spring apart locking the blade and provide lots of steel to hold the blade to the handle. If you want to carry it as a fixed blade, or use a really big baton to beat it into something, you can even keep the two bolts apart with a secondary lock.
By having the blade a little thicker at the handle, blade, juncture, the hole in the blade where the pivot goes through does not weaken it. The main pivot and several fastners keep the handle secure, no matter how hard you torque it.
The scales on mine are bead blasted dark blue micarta. Now, remember, this is only imaginary, as this prototype is secret.
I came back to add a link to at least one site that has some of the links working to the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. This folder would be the perfect knife to have in such a situation.
http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/SETI/HISTORY/wells.html