Enlan EL-02B & EL-02 Folding Knife Review - TrueKnifeReviews

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This review is on the Enlan EL-02B folding knife. I feel the steel holds its edge very well and have found it easy to maintain. I did not mention this in the video but the knife feels just a tad bit heavy on the handle, weighing in at about 4.8 ounces. An interesting note, the knife uses a copper washer on one side of the blade and a plastic washer on the other.

[video=youtube;k1c9vTqjPro]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1c9vTqjPro[/video]

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This model you can find on ebay for below a $20 price tag. Exceptional deal for the quality and amount of knife you get.

LOCKING MECHNISM: Axis Lock
BLADE STYLE & OPENER: Drop Point, Ambidextrous Thumb-Studs
BLADE STEEL: 8Cr13MoV Stainless Steel (56-58HRC)
HANDEL SPECS: Dual Stainless Steel Liner, G10 Handle Scales or Micarta, Lanyard Hole
BLADE LENGTH: 3.46" 88mm
OPEN 8.26" 210mm
CLOSE 4.72" 120mm
WEIGHT 4.76oz 135g
 
If this is made by Enlan, how can it have an Axis lock? Isn't the Axis specific to Benchmade, or is Enlan part of the Benchmade family?
 
brownshoe said:
If this is made by Enlan, how can it have an Axis lock? Isn't the Axis specific to Benchmade, or is Enlan part of the Benchmade family?
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No known connection, except that Enlan is somehow using an Axis-type lock made famous by BM.

The lock on my EL-02b works well enough but the suface is rough enough to scratch your thumb, so F&F could be better.

As for the pivot screw mentioned in the review, it requires a proprietary tool to adjust. No such tool is included with the knife, nor is it available from the manufacturer, according to the dealer.

In other words, if your Enlan needs adjusting, you'll have to make your own tool.
 
Thanks for the clarification.

I looked at their website, www.enlanknives.com/en_aboutus.php Enalan are the "approved" supplier for Gerber and have manufacured for Buck, SOG and other US companies. I wonder if it is an axis take-off or a SOG ARC lock take-off, straightened out. Can't find out if you cannot take apart the knife. Both the Axis and Sog depend upon good springs for long term survivial of the lock. Since Gerber's import product has a poor reputation for ruggedness, it will be interesting to see if this knife and lock hold up. I hope the original person gives us an update after a few months of hard use.
 
I have been torture testing several lower priced knives and have had bolts break and liner locks fail on both american and china made knives this week. Since basically my current test knives have broke, it leaves me with no option but to make this my new edc torture knife. I hope this one doesnt also fail on me too and i will let everyone know the results.

I guess i gotta make a tool to take knife apart and ill attempt take some pictures and post them so you can determine what spring style is being used for the lock mechanism.

I have had benchmade springs break on me but i remember i was able to make new ones from scratch such as really weak key chain rings.
 
brownshoe said:
If this is made by Enlan, how can it have an Axis lock? Isn't the Axis specific to Benchmade, or is Enlan part of the Benchmade family?
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I think it's kinda silly that all the knife companies at least trade mark, and possibly patented all these varients of more or less the same lock. Axis, Arc, Bolt, Ball Bearing...

...They all work more or less the same way, a spring shoves a piece of metal between the blade tang and a stop pin.

Proprietary locks are silly. As we see they get copied anway one way or another...even if not for "The Reds" then good ole American Companys are happy to come up with suspisiously similar inventions.

If they were more clear thinking whoever made it first would have just ceded it to the public domain and saved everyone a lot of paperwork.
 
If they were more clear thinking whoever made it first would have just ceded it to the public domain and saved everyone a lot of paperwork.
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Says the guy with no intelluctual property or inventions that pay your bills, pay off research investments. In fact no morals and sense of other peoples property. Perhaps if you were more clear thinking you would understand ceding your car, and bank account to the public domain to save people time and money ( aside from you of course).
 
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