Framelocks and linerlocks... Who here has ever disengaged one during use???

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i'm really curious about this. if so, what brand & model & version? it's hard for me to imagine this happening unless the knife is a true piece of rabbit pellet stew. it's never happened with me or anyone i know (but then again, my peers love higher-end stuff).

i think all this debate about linerlocks/framelocks versus other types of locks is way too theoretical, unless this thread actually fills up with horror stories of field failures of the respected models & makes.

hit me back y'all.
 
I had a Spyderco Shabaria fold up on me and bite me good. I was using the back of it to pry a lid off a can of popcorn and it folded. After that I tried to spine whack it and it failed miserably. Now 9 months later it locks up beautifully and passes every spine whack I can give it. Go figure.

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Originally posted by kamkazmoto
I had a Gerber Shabaria fold up on me and bite me good. I was using the back of it to pry a lid off a can of popcorn and it folded. After that I tried to spine whack it and it failed miserably. Now 9 months later it locks up beautifully and passes every spine whack I can give it. Go figure.
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upon taking a look at a pic of the shabaria (i did a quick search & only found one by spyderco), the liner "lever" sticks out too much in the way of the lateral forces of the hand/fingers, so i could see how that happened. definitely coulda been designed better by the liner being more recessed. yikes!
 
I returned a CRKT M16 because of liner lock failure, darn thing just collapsed when I barely spine whacked it. Almost no force at all. Wouldn't lock after that. Some kind of milling problem I guess. It's the only liner lock I have had any trouble with.

--Dave
 
I had a plastic toy soldier burn me when I lit it on fire & then tried to put the smokey, grey smelly fire out (before my brother ratted me out). Moral: Keep fingers away from the blade at all times! :D
 
I've never had one actually close on me but I've had several linerlocks where the blade would wobble laterally to an unacceptable degree whenever I gripped the handles tightly. I don't want to start a flame war so I won't name the brand. The only linerlock I have that I would trust not to fail on me would be my Spyderco Military. The only framelock I have is a Sebenza and that thing locks up like a fixed blade.
 
Originally posted by MadAxeMan
I've never had one actually close on me but I've had several linerlocks where the blade would wobble laterally to an unacceptable degree whenever I gripped the handles tightly. I don't want to start a flame war so I won't name the brand.
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go ahead & name the brand! i realize there are always exceptions and anomalies of quality control, so i wouldn't condemn the brand just because of 1 failure. but if others chime in with similar stories, then this thread just becomes a consumer service, now duddn'it ;)
 
I have had a couple Emersons close on me. One CQC-7A and one Raven. The only knife that ever bit me from closing during use was a slipjoint though.
 
The only folder that has ever folded and bit me was a slip joint when i was too young to know the brand. The only linerlock I've got to fail on me was an MOD when they had the non-recall a while back. It was a Trident that would close on me under hand pressure:(
 
Never had one close, but I did have the lock disengage on a couple of older production Emerson CQC7's and on a custom Elishewitz Corallus. Never had a framelock even comeclose to disengaging.
 
i had a crkt c/k pro fold on me

the liner is poorly designed it folds too far around the front where your index finger rests and is prone to catching on the thick skin of my index finger

better designs have the liner finishing before your index finger in my opinion eg. my fallkniven mod p and microtech lightfoot
 
I've never had a knife close on me (knock wood), but read a post by a forum member stating that he had been bitten by his CRKT S-2 framelock. This prompted me to play with my small and medium S-2's, and I found that the design of the knife facilitates accidental closure during twisting motions due to the amount of contact between the index finger and the locking portion of the frame. This is much more prominent on the medium than the small version. I don't mean to knock CRKT in general, as I own several of their other knives and think that in general they deliver outstanding value. I still enjoy, carry, and use my S-2's...just a little more carefully than I used to.
 
I have yet to have a knife fail me, but I don't use them hard, especially my liner locks. So if you're just using them for light duty work I wouldn't be to worried about it. If you're going to try and stab into things, twist, and chop I'd be a bit nervous with some of my liner's. The framelocks feel secure as long as you're not doing a lot of twisting. Twisting can disengage the lock. I'm most comfortable with the Axis locks. I can't picture them failing.
 
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