Camillus "Trench Titanium Bonded Tool" (Demo knife copy): Any good?

As mentioned, the bottle opener on the Marbles is poorly designed. I don't know how they managed to bungle that, but they did. The rest of the knife is pretty nicely made.

One recurring problem with original Camillus models is the back springs being brittle. I think I've come across as many with snapped back springs as without. On the Marbles I own, it looks like they went in the opposite direction. I opened up two implements halfway on the same spring, and it took a slight set, resulting in lower "snap" opening and closing. So it looks like they may be more prone to bending than snapping. Which may be a good thing, as long as you avoid doing like I did, and only open one implement at a time.

Perhaps the spring breakage issue on the Mil-K 818 is the reason that the Camillus 19184 has given the master blade and awl separate, wider springs.
 
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