Cold Steel Cold Steel Luzon Lock

DangerZone98 said:
If the CS liner lock works for you, then awesome dude. Me personally, I just find it a bit of a waste going Cold Steel and not getting their legendary lock. I’m a fan of Spyderco’s liner lock knives.

The ramlock knife looks interesting but the method of closing it makes me nervous lol.
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It's a bit of a pocket guillotine. It's not fidget friendly, but even using it as directed you gotta be careful. I have been bitten to the bone by mine. Great knife in terms of strength, but I tended to treat mine as a I would a food prep knife around the camp. Open it carefully, use it for all the jobs I needed it for, clean the blade, close it carefully. Not one that i like to open and close a lot just because when the blade starts to come down, it comes down :D
 
Steely_Gunz said:
It's a bit of a pocket guillotine. It's not fidget friendly, but even using it as directed you gotta be careful. I have been bitten to the bone by mine. Great knife in terms of strength, but I tended to treat mine as a I would a food prep knife around the camp. Open it carefully, use it for all the jobs I needed it for, clean the blade, close it carefully. Not one that i like to open and close a lot just because when the blade starts to come down, it comes down :D
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I’m sorry, bitten to the bone?! 😨

I’ll stick with my other locks then. 😅
 
DangerZone98 said:
I’m sorry, bitten to the bone?! 😨

I’ll stick with my other locks then. 😅
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I've used mine frequently and never had a problem. It opens one-handed just like any other one-hand folder. It does require two hands to close properly. It is fully and easily safe to use, if you follow fortytwoblades method of closing. (The Cold Steel published closing method is not a good method and I would never follow their recommendation on how to close that knife.)
 
DangerZone98 said:
I’m sorry, bitten to the bone?! 😨

I’ll stick with my other locks then. 😅
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It was my fault, but it is also the fact that it is a piece of polished steel for the handle. I was using to cut back some rose bushes at my old house sometime back in the late 20 aughts. I was opening the blade with two hands but my hands were sweaty. The blade was only about a third or so open when my fingers slipped on the handle and I let my fingers slip off the spine and it came down and hit me in the thumb knuckle.

Once again. My fault, but it is an unforgiving knife if you mishandle it, like any knife. That ram lock is just something else. Crazy strong but unforgiving. It was after that when I started to just keep it as a hard use folder in my camping kit. A folding knife that could act as a fixed for all intents and purposes.

I think they should have done more with the design. A steel upgrade on the blade and some checkering on the handle would make for a really handy set up.

As a matter of fact, I haven't gotten mine out in years. Maybe I'll find it and experiment with it a bit. My biggest gripe has be less about the strength of the blade slamming shut and more about how damn slick the handle is.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
It was my fault, but it is also the fact that it is a piece of polished steel for the handle. I was using to cut back some rose bushes at my old house sometime back in the late 20 aughts. I was opening the blade with two hands but my hands were sweaty. The blade was only about a third or so open when my fingers slipped on the handle and I let my fingers slip off the spine and it came down and hit me in the thumb knuckle.

Once again. My fault, but it is an unforgiving knife if you mishandle it, like any knife. That ram lock is just something else. Crazy strong but unforgiving. It was after that when I started to just keep it as a hard use folder in my camping kit. A folding knife that could act as a fixed for all intents and purposes.

I think they should have done more with the design. A steel upgrade on the blade and some checkering on the handle would make for a really handy set up.

As a matter of fact, I haven't gotten mine out in years. Maybe I'll find it and experiment with it a bit. My biggest gripe has be less about the strength of the blade slamming shut and more about how damn slick the handle is.
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Another gripe would be the lock being reliant on a piece of paracord. Not a huge deal I know, but I prefer a more no frills liner or back lock.
 
My personal , and rapidly devaluing 40.02 (USD) having viewed the video.

The clip point profile on about any knife is not esthetically satisfying to me.
In this type of knife, I much prefer the symmetrical, double edged or "stiletto" look, or a "bayonet" grind with the top false edge takes up about1/13 or 1/2 or the false edge.

I do not have confidence in the liner lock concept. This bias may go back to my experiences as a Cub Scout in the 1950s. It is interesting to note that he put a tab on the locking part to block the blade if it ever did fail . . .so he is thinking about that.

My opinion and thoughts from some twenty years ago: In 2002 or so, I was buying knives for a young Marine to take to war. The Ti-Lite was one I seriously considered. What I bought instead was the Camillus Cuda Maxx, a licensed clone of Darrel Ralph's Madd Maxx folding Dsgger, which is a frame lock. Having put hands on both at a gun show, the Camillus seemed to be a solid knife for a warfighter, while the Ti-Lite, though stout, seemed to be designed for a 15 year old lacking supervision. At that age I managed to acquire a cheaply made Italian switch blade and keep it hidden from my parents till I work it out as a fidget-widget. . . .so that may be where that was comes from.

Now then, the Cuda Maxx kn ife and Camillus are is long gone. The Ti-Lite on the other hand, s still available in variations of size and materials. It has been a commercial success and has a fan base.

Just early morning ramblings I blame on New Orleans style dark roasted coffee blended with chickary.
 
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So much to agree with in this thread…

The angle is not right, send it back. (You did :thumbsup:)
TriAd lock rules.
CS Ti-Lite liner lock is lesser but still good.
Ram Safe Lock is underrated and I wish it were used more.
Pocket Bushman is a solid design, but they could have given the blade profile a little more pizazz.
Pocket Bushman should have a better built in gripper to unlock than the paracord. I can live with it.
6” Ti-Lite was a good choice, darn big but makes me smile every time I open one.
 
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