I've recently gotten back into knives after mostly just EDC'ing a Rift for the last couple years.
One thing I've noticed on the forums and with knives I've bought recently is the pathetic quality of liner/frame locks, it also seems on the forums that more and more people are having issues with rock lock, lock bars going to 100%, lock bar slip, locks collapsing with even slight spine pressure/tapping, etc.
For my own part in the last couple weeks I've bought 3 knives, the cheapest of which was $265, and of the three, two had issues with the lock bar that are going to require service. One lock bar slips under even pressure trying to force the blade closed, the other the lock collapses if you just tap the spine under it's own weight. I've had others over the last few months that had slight movement, lockbar flex etc. that were not blade lockup problems, but just didn't seem right.
I thought perhaps I was just seeing my old knives through rose colored glasses so I pulled out some old liner locks (BM 975, stryker, military, CRKT M16, MT socom, Emerson commander, EDI genesis and ran the same tests on them, and not one of them had any give, any rocking etc. and not one even budged with even a sharp hard spine tap, none would approach 100% with even hard lockbar pressure.
It just seems sad that liner lock quality control appears to have dropped across many manufactuers, worse yet that people that express concern over it are told it's not an issue, and if they don't like it they should just resell it to some unsuspecting person.
One thing I've noticed on the forums and with knives I've bought recently is the pathetic quality of liner/frame locks, it also seems on the forums that more and more people are having issues with rock lock, lock bars going to 100%, lock bar slip, locks collapsing with even slight spine pressure/tapping, etc.
For my own part in the last couple weeks I've bought 3 knives, the cheapest of which was $265, and of the three, two had issues with the lock bar that are going to require service. One lock bar slips under even pressure trying to force the blade closed, the other the lock collapses if you just tap the spine under it's own weight. I've had others over the last few months that had slight movement, lockbar flex etc. that were not blade lockup problems, but just didn't seem right.
I thought perhaps I was just seeing my old knives through rose colored glasses so I pulled out some old liner locks (BM 975, stryker, military, CRKT M16, MT socom, Emerson commander, EDI genesis and ran the same tests on them, and not one of them had any give, any rocking etc. and not one even budged with even a sharp hard spine tap, none would approach 100% with even hard lockbar pressure.
It just seems sad that liner lock quality control appears to have dropped across many manufactuers, worse yet that people that express concern over it are told it's not an issue, and if they don't like it they should just resell it to some unsuspecting person.