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I’m a pretty big EKI critic in this forum, but the things that make my CQC15 my go to work knife are the ergonomics, the wave, and a rock solid lock up. For what I use it for, I doubt the lock will ever fail.
How do you get one of these liner locks to fail? Even on my hardest use horseman that I used to hell and back it never failed, and if all that never caused a failure then I can't imagine anything else I could throw at a knife in any walk of life that would.
I think what this comes down to is understanding the difference between 'hard-use' and 'abuse'
I had some issue with the liner lock on a mini CQC-8
Nothing dramatic in normal use and it was strong when pushing on the top of the blade, but it failed repeteadly when you hit the top of the blade.
Very sad about this story since I really enjoyed the ergonomics of the knife. But all the functional aspects was not on par with the pricetag I paid for it.
When folding knives being used like a fixed blade fail I am not really surprised.I had some issue with the liner lock on a mini CQC-8
Nothing dramatic in normal use and it was strong when pushing on the top of the blade, but it failed repeteadly when you hit the top of the blade.
It was very disapointing, and I never had the same problems on any other knife I had, even cheap ones.
This, in addition to other small issues/problems, made me sell this knife.
Very sad about this story since I really enjoyed the ergonomics of the knife. But all the functional aspects was not on par with the pricetag I paid for it.
So, yeah, this.Fixed blades are fixed. Folding knives fold.
For sureWhen folding knives being used like a fixed blade fail I am not really surprised.
I guess I just mean that I personally am not going to hit/bang on the top of a blade of a folder.For sure
I may not have described correctly the issue I had with my Emerson.
I didn’t torture the knife, nor used it as a fixed blade.... and simply put,none of my other folders have demonstrated this kind of lock failure
This may be a one particular knife problem, but that is my experience