If the lock mechanism on my pocket knife breaks or fails while using the knife will my fingers be cut off?

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Leo Greer said:
I own a cheap Gerber with a liner lock that, weirdly enough, when I flick it out, pushes the liner lock to the other side of the inner frame. Only when I flick it. Butter knives come in handy.

Otherwise I love liner locks.
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That's a feature, not a fault, on Gerber knives.

Also, to ahawkua ahawkua , if this is a legitimate concern for you, I would like to suggest you purchase something from this subforum: https://www.bladeforums.com/forums/busse-swamprat-scrapyard-knives-for-sale.804/

Put it in a leg sheath so it's out of the way until you need it.
 
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Leo Greer said:
I own a cheap Gerber with a liner lock that, weirdly enough, when I flick it out, pushes the liner lock to the other side of the inner frame. Only when I flick it. Butter knives come in handy.

Otherwise I love liner locks.
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Buy a better knife! There are A LOT of other options.
 
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ahawkua said:
If the lock mechanism on my pocket knife breaks or fails while using the knife will my fingers be cut off?
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i could picture fingers flying
in every direction
at the moment of a lock fail
during a hard inwards pull
towards onesself.
one great reason to luv
finger choil designs like
the cs tough lite
is that a live edge
won't fall directly upon
the fore fingure in a fail.
TUFF LITE SERRATED EDGE - BLACK
but imo, it pays to get a guard flipper knife :)
but i won't discount injury though.
however one could still use a double guarded folding knife
in the event of a broken lock
by having assert forward pressure with the fore fingure
on the bottom guard:
and should for any reason
the stop pin or back lock bar
be broken
(ie situated above the pivot),
assert forward thumb pressure on the top guard.
the opposing asserted forces
should keep the blade in place
...well, sort of.
just my 2 cents.
 
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I know on a more than aquaintance basis nearly half a dozen fellas with missing bits and bobs from their fingers, none of which was caused by a lock failure on a knife... I'm short a small chunk from the end of my left little finger from one-handing a top handle saw. Takes a lot of work to cut through cartilage and bone, usually to sever an appendage there's mechanical force involved. I'm sure there's exceptions to my personal experience, but if you lop off a finger by making a locking knife fail then there's more to the story...
 
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Wild Willie said:
I'm short a small chunk from the end of my left little finger from one-handing a top handle saw.
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Which hand was holding the saw?

My tool nicks are mostly on my left hand, cause it’s my right hand doing the damage. Material cuts tend to be on my right hand, from not wearing gloves enough.

Sheet metal and electrical wiring carve me up the most.

Parker
 
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sgt1372 said:
Buy a better knife! There are A LOT of other options.
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No worries on that--I own a Kizer Sovereign, Cobratec Titan (not the greatest), and then I have both a Civivi Wyvern Flipper and a WE Kitefin shipping right now. As well as some quality custom Damascus steel pieces.

I'm not a collector yet, but I'd like to own at least a few knives that can truly be called quality.
 
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David Mary said:
Doubtful. I had a Cold Steel XL Voyager Tanto close on my index finger once. It cut the skin. Bandaid, and back to work, pretty much healed in a week or so. I know it was user error, but I can't remember exactly what I was doing. Maybe if I lost a finger I would remember. Pretty sure I just tried to close one handed while also distracted by something else.



I do run across it now and again. I had a landlord who was missing at least the middle and distal phalanges of his pinky. He was at kids' hockey practice, and had rested his hand on the boards, right where the gate to get on the ice was. It was open, and a couple kids went through while he was looking the other way, and one of the kids, evidently without looking, slammed the door. It was not a sew back on job.
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jokes aside I had my left thumb bascially cut off as a little kid. teenager next door was chopping at me with a pair of hedge clippers and got my thumb. cut through the bone and was hanging over still attached by a bit of tissue.

I wont bore ya on the process...but had micro surgery to connect the nerves which was new back then.....but its back on and still works...I lost so much blood I had to have transfusions and it was during the aids epidemic and before they were testing the blood supply. somehow I lucked though that and had to be tested for years later on and didn't get it, and didn't lose my thumb.

I also cut that thumb to the bone many years later cutting watermelon.....but i duct taped it closed. bled for days..and doesn't match up now. thumb print or meat from my home medical treatment.
 
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YIKES!

You reminded me of a time when I was a pre-teen, and I had a friend over, who was a rough around the edges sort without a father figure... anyway, he was "joking" by chopping at me with out large kitchen knife, and I raised my hand to block it, and he got my thumb. Dull knife, no stitches, but did open it up almost that much, and I immediately put it under the running tap in the kitchen sink. And started to lose my feet and go light headed. Little wimp, I was.... haha

ETA: Man I forgot the rest of the story: you know what he said to me when I asked him what the heck he was thinking? "It's your fault, you should have known I wasn't going to hit you for real.."
 
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jbmonkey said:
jokes aside I had my left thumb bascially cut off as a little kid. teenager next door was chopping at me with a pair of hedge clippers and got my thumb. cut through the bone and was hanging over still attached by a bit of tissue.

I wont bore ya on the process...but had micro surgery to connect the nerves which was new back then.....but its back on and still works...I lost so much blood I had to have transfusions and it was during the aids epidemic and before they were testing the blood supply. somehow I lucked though that and had to be tested for years later on and didn't get it, and didn't lose my thumb.

I also cut that thumb to the bone many years later cutting watermelon.....but i duct taped it cIlosed. bled for days..and doesn't match up now. thumb print or meat from my home medical treatment.
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I chopped my thumb nearly off once too. Big chunk of steel crashed down on it and cut the bone in 2. Just hanging on my the skin.

The cut was right at the joint so they couldn't cast it because it would have seized up. So they drilled a hole in the top section and ran a surgical steel wire through it. Bent the ends and then put a plastic brace with a copper wire halo on that hand. Ran elastic bands from the halo to the pin and I had to flex the joint as much as possible and keep it flexible till the bone knit. It was surprisingly not very painful and I was told to adjust the tension of the rubber bands even so it would come back straight.

It came out a bit crooked but no aches at all in the cold and damp compared to the other broken bones and surgical repairs I've enjoyed. Didn't even get infected till it was done and they clipped one end of wire and pulled it out. Good times.
 
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Danke42 said:
I chopped my thumb nearly off once too. Big chunk of steel crashed down on it and cut the bone in 2. Just hanging on my the skin.

The cut was right at the joint so they couldn't cast it because it would have seized up. So they drilled a hole in the top section and ran a surgical steel wire through it. Bent the ends and then put a plastic brace with a copper wire halo on that hand. Ran elastic bands from the halo to the pin and I had to flex the joint as much as possible and keep it flexible till the bone knit. It was surprisingly not very painful and I was told to adjust the tension of the rubber bands even so it would come back straight.

It came out a bit crooked but no aches at all in the cold and damp compared to the other broken bones and surgical repairs I've enjoyed. Didn't even get infected till it was done and they clipped one end of wire and pulled it out. Good times.
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wow you're lucky like myself. mine had a pin sticking out the top of the thumb with a cork and tape on it. basically so i didnt poke myself. at some point they yanked that out and I thought it would hurt but it didn't.

they told me as a kid I wouldnt get feeling back in the whole thumb and it was numb on one side for years..but it came back over the years. they also told me my nail wouldn't grow back..but it did. just isn't attached on one side and is ugly, but I dont care I still got a thumb.

medical technology. without it we'd both be thumb-less today.
 
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