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Ever broke or had a failure of a "Hard Use" knife?
- Thread starter SteelSnob
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I have broke a few larger knives chopping on pine and a 2x4 also pine. Folders, When the Microtech Socoms first came out I bought a couple. Both failed with any pressure NIB even the lightest pressure on the spine. It bit me needed stiches. Never bought a liner lock since then. 15 years? Still will buy frame locks, just not liner locks.
I have 2 liner lock knives fail:jerkit:.
Nothing happened and nobody got hurt
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Probably both the liners have had a bad heat treat and have got wear.
Both in a very short time and both knives are not used much or even unused.
The latest is a Boker Plus liner lock knife that i sent to Boker a week ago.
Hope they sent me a new one.
This was not a hard use knife but more gentleman type.
The other was a spyderco military.
This is a so called hard use knife.
This knife has not cut anything.
I was a fast deployable knife and the only thing i did was playing with it.
Wrist flicking and thump flicking.
This was an older type of millie and i did not have any papers or box with it.
I even showed it to Eric Glesser himself.
I did some bending to the liner lock to make it more usable again (lockup is much stronger now but less smooth action).
I also "pimped" the scales so this one will not be a knife that will show up in an exchange forum.
I wish i had talked to Sal about this issue but didn't
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So both failing liner locks were/are probably bad heat treat en both happened in a very short time with no real cutting jobs.
Just playin with them was enough to make them fail and both really were not build to last a lifetime:barf:.
Both knives have an up and down blade play in the liner now.
Both were rock solid with no blade play when recieved.
The boker is 1-2 month old knife and the millie probably some 8-9 year old but still unused (when i got it).
Nothing happened and nobody got hurt
.Probably both the liners have had a bad heat treat and have got wear.
Both in a very short time and both knives are not used much or even unused.
The latest is a Boker Plus liner lock knife that i sent to Boker a week ago.
Hope they sent me a new one.
This was not a hard use knife but more gentleman type.
The other was a spyderco military.
This is a so called hard use knife.
This knife has not cut anything.
I was a fast deployable knife and the only thing i did was playing with it.
Wrist flicking and thump flicking.
This was an older type of millie and i did not have any papers or box with it.
I even showed it to Eric Glesser himself.
I did some bending to the liner lock to make it more usable again (lockup is much stronger now but less smooth action).
I also "pimped" the scales so this one will not be a knife that will show up in an exchange forum.
I wish i had talked to Sal about this issue but didn't
.So both failing liner locks were/are probably bad heat treat en both happened in a very short time with no real cutting jobs.
Just playin with them was enough to make them fail and both really were not build to last a lifetime:barf:.
Both knives have an up and down blade play in the liner now.
Both were rock solid with no blade play when recieved.
The boker is 1-2 month old knife and the millie probably some 8-9 year old but still unused (when i got it).
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I did the bending after it failed offcourse.
It has a very late but strong lock up after the bending.
The action of the knife was very smooth and the detent was very low.
Action is not as smooth anymore and the detent is very strong now because of the "bent" liner.
It's not a thump or wrist flicker anymore but i think it's safe enough to use again. Although it has some play.
The normal failed lock up was not solid and would not hold up to a light spine wack:thumbdn:.
It has a very late but strong lock up after the bending.
The action of the knife was very smooth and the detent was very low.
Action is not as smooth anymore and the detent is very strong now because of the "bent" liner.
It's not a thump or wrist flicker anymore but i think it's safe enough to use again. Although it has some play.
The normal failed lock up was not solid and would not hold up to a light spine wack:thumbdn:.
Sending it in for repair / warrantee would have been better.
But as i said in my first reply: no papers (no bill), no box and an oldie.
The explaining of lock failure is probably the wrong term is use here.
The locks are worn and true these wear have got some play.
The locks always locked when they had to lock but would probably be not safe with hard use.
I did a soft spine wack with the millie and then the lock failed.
It did not fail with use because i never cut something with it (only played).
I did not try this to the Boker but would probably fail with a spine wack too.
Hope my explanation is clear now.
But as i said in my first reply: no papers (no bill), no box and an oldie.
The explaining of lock failure is probably the wrong term is use here.
The locks are worn and true these wear have got some play.
The locks always locked when they had to lock but would probably be not safe with hard use.
I did a soft spine wack with the millie and then the lock failed.
It did not fail with use because i never cut something with it (only played).
I did not try this to the Boker but would probably fail with a spine wack too.
Hope my explanation is clear now.
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Working Wilderness Therapy in Utah, lent a kid a Smith and Wesson H.R.T. Remember those big, forward curved fixed blades they made?
There, now you do.
Anyway, I lent it to one of the kids there, and he was using a rock to hit the spine while splitting a piece of wood. The whole blade just snapped in half. I kinda looked at it for a second, startled. Then decided right there S&W was crap and haven't used them since.
There, now you do.
Anyway, I lent it to one of the kids there, and he was using a rock to hit the spine while splitting a piece of wood. The whole blade just snapped in half. I kinda looked at it for a second, startled. Then decided right there S&W was crap and haven't used them since.
