Does Blade Play Annoy You??

And what about those, frame-locks and Axis-locks that you can press the lock in tighter with your fingers, once opened and then they lock up solid? I have seen those, too and no matter how much you mess with them, it seems if you open them easy, they won't seat the lock tightly enough to have no vertical movement. Yet, open them hard, or push the lock over, or up and they are tight. That bugs me, too!
 
jill jackson said:
And what about those, frame-locks and Axis-locks that you can press the lock in tighter with your fingers, once opened and then they lock up solid? I have seen those, too and no matter how much you mess with them, it seems if you open them easy, they won't seat the lock tightly enough to have no vertical movement. Yet, open them hard, or push the lock over, or up and they are tight. That bugs me, too!
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I have some of those. I guess you have to pay CRK prices to get CRK quality.
 
jill jackson said:
And what about those, frame-locks and Axis-locks that you can press the lock in tighter with your fingers, once opened and then they lock up solid? I have seen those, too and no matter how much you mess with them, it seems if you open them easy, they won't seat the lock tightly enough to have no vertical movement. Yet, open them hard, or push the lock over, or up and they are tight. That bugs me, too!
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Tri-ad?
 
Yes. I'm lucky to have enough knives in my edc rotation that, if a knife developes blade play, I can sideline it until it is corrected, repaired, or replaced.
 
I have seen Tri-ad locks get play if you use them hard. They didn't give but yes I've had a few and a little up down was apparent on all, after chopping small branches and other semi demanding, cutting tasks. Especially those with a lot of pressure on the edge, such as making deep cuts in wood.
 
I used a linerless medium voyager for three years while working offshore, didn't develop play. Also had a couple of axis lock BMs that I would hammer open with the hardest inertial openings I could muster, and they made it through fine. Also had liner locks that wore out very quickly and knives of different locks that had play out of the box. Depends on the brand and the work put into the fit.
 
In a word YES ! I have a couple of folders that now have play in them . When you consider the price of a high end folder that would not get this issue easily , it seemed to me a better idea to carry a small fixed blad . So now my EDC is an Esee Izula . You'd have to pay 4 times as much or more to get a folder that can handle what this knife will and it carries discreatly INSIDE my pocket in a sheath I made with a pocket clip .


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I got a twitch 2 which has so much play that I cant get rid of. So I was just wondering if you guys gett annoyed with it. Even the slightest irritates me. I have now decided to use the Twitch 2 as a "going out/gentlemans" folder because I dont want to make it worse.
 
B-bladeplay? ... Does bladeplay annoy me? Annoy me, you ask? YES it does!

Had a (China) Buck Bantam somewhere in 2005 which developed bladeplay over several weeks.
Cutting with a folder I cannot trust is pretty unnerving and a china produced knife with bladeplay is exactly that!
 
Doesn't bother me much, depending on the lock type. Back/mid/front locks can have some blade play without my minding, linerlocks and frame locks should be solid. I've never had an axis lock that didn't have vertical play. Overall a small bit of play is fine as long as there isn't that loose rattley feeling.
 
I have had issues with edges with benchmades but with the Axis lock... never. wonderful lock, I have a user 551 that i'll never get rid of, yes I have batoned with it locked to. I've had about 8 overall. So with most blades blade play very annoying. with my delica it was expected nothing crazy but its there.
 
as long as i can tighten it up, nope...and i say that without regard to the "speed of deployment"; speed of opening is irrelevant to me...
 
Blade play bugs the hell out of me. I can live with a smidgin of lateral blade play if the model isn't adjustable, but vertical blade play is unacceptable in a locking folder (providing it's not a lockback, as some very slight give is expected)
 
It's funny, the more I've spent on knives, the more blade play I've seen and yes, the more it bothers me. But the less I've spent, the less blade play I've seen and I can't help but think, if these lower cost knives did exhibit some blade play, I don't think it would bother me. I suppose perception is reality!

So all of that said, I am perfectly happy with my new EDC, a Delica FFG which has the tightest lock of any folding knife I've ever owned.
 
It's a pet peeve of mine and mostly because of established expectations. Solid lockup is all over the map and spans all price ranges and there lies my issue. I have had $30 knives lockup more solid and for a longer period if not all the time, than some $200 to $400 knives.

And adding salt to that wound, some of those high ticket MFG's will look at you and say YOUR expectations are unrealistic. Ummm right . . . And don't hide the shortcoming of your knife behind the word "user" either :)
 
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