How strong the Resilience is?

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Falcenberg

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Hello to all.

Please believe me, I know: a knife is not a pry bar, you cannot chop or hack down a tree with a folder, you have to slice not to chop etc.
And I follow all the "good use" rules.

But I have a question, just to know the knife I have just bought:
- I have just bought a Resilience Lightweight CPM S35VN: it is a quite large folder, it suggests you to cut big, hard things (large vegetables, hard cheeses, medium sized wood pieces, paracord,...);
- the steel blade is a very good one: good edge retention, good toughness,...;
- but the blade pivot hole is quite near to the end of the blade, at the heel where liner locks. The steel thickness is 3 or 4 mm there.

Did the blade of a Resilience ever break at the pivot hole?
What are the heaviest tasks you have done/you know are hard use but not abuse for this knife model?

Thank a lot.
Falcenberg
 
I just searched an image of one disassembled and you should be fine. The endura appears a little worse in the regard you mentioned and there are very few reports of one breaking there that I've found.
 
Don't do anything that shouldn't be done with a knife let alone a folder and it will last you a lifetime.

The rest a feller that goes by Joe X on youtube can answer for you in a 10 minute video at the 7:55 mark he snaps the blade right down the middle of the opening hole like most other Spydercos. It took a surprising amount of abuse, but it's by no means a knife that was intended for "hard use".
 
I've been thinking about pivot hole placement a lot lately. It's definitely a weak point but a very experienced maker here said that the exposed blade is more likely to fail than the pivot/locking mechanism(s).
 
I use large folders when the item to be cut is big. Big leaf shaped full flat blades excell for food prep when you cannot use a chef's knife. That's what I use my resilence and Military for.

For me, big blade only means more usable edge. In serrated blades it makes even more sense (more teeth for the sawing action). Just because the knife is balanced forward due to the weight of the blade, does not mean it is a chopper. Nor a prybar.

Mikel
 
David Mary said:
I have owned a dozen or more Resiliences and never broken one. But maybe I’m not the right guy to ask as I haven’t tried to hammer nails in with it.
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How come you have owned so many? Not that the Resilence has several iterations/variants such as the Police... I bought one and I don't think I will part with it at any time. Therefore, I don't think I will ever have to buy another!

Mikel
 
David Mary said:
I don't know what you are saying here.
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Some people try to buy every possible flavour of a particular knife (serrated, plain, combo edge, scale combinations, etc.). The Spyderco Police was just an example of an iconic knife that has A LOT of different versions. However, the Resilence doesn't have that many.

Mikel
 
Ah, I see what you're saying M Mikel_24 . Actually, that is part of why I bought so many Resiliences. I modded them into many flavors, serrated, plain, pseudo clip point, leaf shape, wharncliffe... :)
 
They are really good knives, plenty strong enough, and you get a lot of knife for your money, literally. I've only had the original version, but I wish there were more choices, as in the Police line. Spyderco had a full serrated version planned, but it didn't work out with their maker, so it was combo edge only. I know many people wanted the full SE. Maybe someday.
 
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