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I was recently gifted one of these (lucky me!:thumbup
and I really like the knife. A few small things I may have changed on the design, like making the "flipper" button marginally longer, but nothing worth getting worked up over.
The one thing I did notice though - and I have not taken the knife apart, so I may have missed something - is that there is no stop pin in the construction, that I can see. I have been getting into designing and making liner and frame lock tactical folders lately and have from reading, speaking to other makers and observation always included at least one stop pin/block in my designs.
I don't think the Avid was designed as a tactical folder, more of an EDC, so maybe it need not be that strong. On the other hand, is a design without a pin necessarily weaker than one with a pin?
Are all the Vantage models like this or is it only on the Avid?

The one thing I did notice though - and I have not taken the knife apart, so I may have missed something - is that there is no stop pin in the construction, that I can see. I have been getting into designing and making liner and frame lock tactical folders lately and have from reading, speaking to other makers and observation always included at least one stop pin/block in my designs.
I don't think the Avid was designed as a tactical folder, more of an EDC, so maybe it need not be that strong. On the other hand, is a design without a pin necessarily weaker than one with a pin?
Are all the Vantage models like this or is it only on the Avid?