Features of different knives you want to combine

[mongomondo]

In America, more is always better. What knife features do you want to combine?

Compression Lock on the Paramilitary combined with the Military

Sebenza with Hinderer lockbar stabilizer and a Spyder opening hole

Strider SnG without the huge choil so you can have more than 3" cutting edge

Spyderco Military with framelock

Emerson CQC8 or CQC7 with an Axis Lock

Really, I wish every knife came with an axis lock option.

 

[J.Mattson]

Spyderco Military with framelock

Aren’t they making one of these?

 

[derrickd803]

Really, I wish every knife came with an axis lock option.

+1:thumbup:

 

[chocochoco]

In America, more is always better. What knife features do you want to combine?

Compression Lock on the Paramilitary combined with the Military

Sebenza with Hinderer lockbar stabilizer and a Spyder opening hole

Strider SnG without the huge choil so you can have more than 3" cutting edge

Spyderco Military with framelock

Emerson CQC8 or CQC7 with an Axis Lock

Really, I wish every knife came with an axis lock option.

all the above combined with the spyderco bug's price tag

 

[Gespenst]

A Kershaw RAM with better steel. I'm not talking about that partial blade stuff either. Maybe swipe the D2 blade off a Grip.

 

[Masteroffajitas]

Liner locks, to be replaced with frame locks. Other wise I'm happy with most designs put out. That's the reason I like knives so much. There are so many different ones, qith different steels, locks blade shapes, and ideas behind them, without being very expenisive.

Biggest thing though, if comapanies made more knives in America. Can't stand that taiwan, or china on my blade.

 

[archieblue]

if I could combine two thngs it would be a liner/frame lock with a wlippie style back spring for better closed retention.

 

[orthogonal1]

A French Laguiole type slip joint with a "tactical knife" stop pin.

Spyderco G10 on any knife using G10.

 

[SakuTheGreat]

I would like it if more knives had Axis locks or Ti framelocks and if all knives had IKBS and beefier screwed in stop pins.

 

[TWBryan]

Kershaw junkyard dog II cpmD2 blade,with axis lock, and spyderco four way clip.

 

[elkins45]

Aren’t they making one of these?

Hopefully it will come with the 4 way clip.

 

[A_Blade_Afficionado]

More framelocks with g10 on the framelock, (Zt300 or Zt200 series does this I think), more knives made in USA, and more HAWK lock, like the RAM.

 

[Peter Parker]

I'd like a about a 3 1/2" drop point blade flat ground in my favorite CPM S30V steel, with an Axis lock combined with my favorite handle materials G-10/micarta and if one or both were green that would be a plus. Hey wait a minute, I think I have that already!

 

[elkins45]

I'd like a about a 3 1/2" drop point blade flat ground in my favorite CPM S30V steel, with an Axis lock combined with my favorite handle materials G-10/micarta and if one or both were green that would be a plus. Hey wait a minute, I think I have that already!

It would be nice to combine that with the thumb hole blade from an Endura.

 

[Masteroffajitas]

Wait, sorry. Case knives with carbon blades.

 

[pvicenzi]

Sub 3inch blades, (for legal reasons) and large handles. oh wait, one company is smart enough to do this. Emerson and the cqc14.

 

[deermaster]

for all knife ,makers to make nearly every model, as spyderco is doing, truely ambidextrous with atleast right and left tip up, or even better, 4 clip option. or even better yet, a true lefty model for most of their knives.

 

[flashlife]

A sodbuster Jr type, but with a flipper-opener, and a liner lock.
Case?, Boker?, AGRussell?, Rough Rider?...anybody?

 

[kwackster]

A Strider SNG with a CPM3V blade, a handle from a single piece of titanium like the Scott Cook Lochsa, fabricated with a Chris Reeve-like attention to detail, and fitted with Spyderco's Caged Ball Bearing lock instead of the standard framelock.

 

[tsiloics]

I think it would be kind of cool to have a very robust, simple folder chassis, and then offer a range of blade options with it - perhaps interchangeable blades.

This would be a high-tolerance, low-B/S knife. Not a bling knife, not a disposable and not (necessarily) a folding railroad spike. Would have been my approach to the Umnum project. Guaranteed to put even the best-organized shop out of business.

As an example: Start with the Large Regular Sebenza. Add some mild ergonomics to the handle - MILD, not an art project. Add a pivot more like Strider's in terms of fortitude, but retain the bushing idea. Add Rick's dingus, just so we can say we have it.

Then pull-test some knives with full-thickness unground blade blanks, to see how they really fail. Make sure there are no disproportionately weak links in the lock and pivot. I kind of like the idea of keeping the single stop pin, but beefing it up. That's so much cleaner than using dual studs butted to the slabs. Definitely keep the frame lock. Screw all this fancy mechanical stuff - the frame lock rules! Lol.

Once you have the chassis dialed, work up a range of blades in different profiles, grinds and materials. You could have beefy SnG-ish blades, Krein-esque whittling, skinning and vegetable blades, wharnies, tantos... CPMX45QP stainless, INFI, good old 01, D2, etc... depending of course, partly on physical configuration.

Then, people could buy a chassis (or several) perhaps there would also be some top-slab material options (also interchangeable) and a bunch of blades to go along with. The blades would be priced a la carte on the initial order, and then there would be a fitting fee if you wanted additional blades after the fact.

So, a guy could get two chassis and maybe six blades up front. This would allow you to swap blades relatively quickly in the evening at home, or, you could carry two knives to cover a large range of applications.

I guess what I’m basically talking about is a line that starts with top-shelf production components, and lets the buyer customize with options. But not just cosmetic customization.