Is a liner lock traditional--or can it be

Fish30114

Fish30114

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Pretty simple, I am just looking for group input on this question, I really don't know and a forum search didn't do much to help. I have an old 'delrin' scaled Old Timer with a liner lock, that before I joined here, I would have called traditional, but now I'm not so sure...
 
SURE!!!!!

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Certainly can be a Traditional provided it has the conventional slipjoint backspring as well and no skeleton construction. Plenty of older Traditionals have liner-locks, the lockback goes back into the c19th for example. I have 2 GEC 73 liners, 2 Queen liners a Teardop and a Copperhead, a GEC 85 and two neat RR liner sodbusters. I like the combination of a secure lock and a backspring for many tasks.

Regards, Will

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Traditional liner lock knives still have back springs that hold the blade open, not the liner lock itself. If you cut the tab off, you'd have a traditional knife with an extra liner. The tab just prevents the knife from closing all the way if you were to push past the backspring tension.
A few LLs Schrade 194 OT

GEC 46 Lumberjack (LL for saw), #73 LL, #23 LL, #85 LL, #15 STREK (LL for saw)




 
I'll drink it!:thumbup:

Here's another liner Traditional, GEC 85 SFO in White/ivory Bone. Thanks, Will

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Fish30114 said:
Pretty simple, I am just looking for group input on this question, I really don't know and a forum search didn't do much to help. I have an old 'delrin' scaled Old Timer with a liner lock, that before I joined here, I would have called traditional, but now I'm not so sure...
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Will and Trand had the correct answer. It is possible for a knife to have a liner lock in addition to the back spring and be "traditional". However, a modern Walker style liner lock is not traditional, because the lock is the only mechanism holding the blade open.
 
^ exactly, well stated! Liner locks with a backspring are trad, liner locks sans backspring = not trad.

SAK = trad, Swiss trad, but trad nonetheless. They are slipjoints after all.
 
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