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I recently bought a CRKT M21-01. This isn't a review, and many of you are familiar with the model or at least some variation of it. The M16 style knives from CRKT and Carson have become pretty popular. From what I can tell, with good reason. For the price, the knife is very solid. Very sharp, nice blade shape, super tight lock up.
Anyway, the LAWKS system is pretty sweet. For those not familiar, the LAWKS system is a little lever, that when pushed up, moves a small piece of metal in the way of the liner lock, making it impossible to accidentally disengage the lock.
Great system.
The problem that I found, and hadn't heard meneioned before, is the that LAWKS lever sticks out beyond the spine of the knife, so that every time you use the Carson flipper to open the knife, you hit your finger on the LAWKS button. Anoying to say the least. It makes the flipper not work as good and your figer gets sore from hitting it after you sit all day and flip your new knife open and closed.
Anyway, I couldn't deal with it anymore, so I got out the Dremel and filed the lever down so that it was reletively flush wth the spine of the knife. A crude but effective job.
I honestly can't believe that the knife, which obviously had a lot of thought go into its design, has such an obvius and glaring imperfection. Whatever though, its fixed now.
Here is a pic for your viewing pleasure. Feel free to comment or not, I just thought I'd share.
Anyway, the LAWKS system is pretty sweet. For those not familiar, the LAWKS system is a little lever, that when pushed up, moves a small piece of metal in the way of the liner lock, making it impossible to accidentally disengage the lock.
Great system.
The problem that I found, and hadn't heard meneioned before, is the that LAWKS lever sticks out beyond the spine of the knife, so that every time you use the Carson flipper to open the knife, you hit your finger on the LAWKS button. Anoying to say the least. It makes the flipper not work as good and your figer gets sore from hitting it after you sit all day and flip your new knife open and closed.
Anyway, I couldn't deal with it anymore, so I got out the Dremel and filed the lever down so that it was reletively flush wth the spine of the knife. A crude but effective job.
I honestly can't believe that the knife, which obviously had a lot of thought go into its design, has such an obvius and glaring imperfection. Whatever though, its fixed now.
Here is a pic for your viewing pleasure. Feel free to comment or not, I just thought I'd share.
