Well, I will disagree on the bold points. I do think it is a little tank of a knife. I certainly wouldn't call it lite weight. Further, the liner lock bar is plenty thick.
While I don't think of it as a "tank of a knife", if you read my post carefully you will see that I stated the lock bar was satisfactory.
In the other masive Utilitac thread Quiet posted some pics of the Utilitac 2 sitting next to a 350. The thickness of the liners is close. Of the liner locks I own it has the thickest. Now, if we are talking about the width of the lock bar on the round handle version, that is another discussion. Then again, I think if one can damage the lock bar on the Utilitac II the wrong tool is being used.
My ONLY concern for this knife was that the liner lock bar looked a bit flimsy to me. There was no need for worry as the knife still locks up perfectly after a pretty fair amount of use, and as you can see where a previous testor chewed through a 2X4 with no problems. When used a knife I have no doubt there is plenty of lock there to make any user happy.
Blue from my original post. Sorry if I was unclear. When I said it looked flimsy to me, I didn't say it WAS flimsy. It appeared that way to me. But later in the very next sentence, I said (I thought clearly) that there was no need to worry as after a fair amount of actual use, it still locked up "perfectly" (thought that was clear...) and then made mention of another user that cut through a 2X4 and reported NO problems. To be completely understandable, I don't have a problem with the lock as it works and continues to serve well. Last thing there was my opinion that "when used as a knife" the knife lock would be satisfactory for
any user. I meant that when it was used as designed, as a knife, the lock would no doubt work well for the user. I wasn't thinking along your lines of using it incorrectly or not as intended (not as a knife) but I agree with you. It isn't a hammer!
I guess it depends on which knives you look at for reference when deciding what a thick (or relatively thicker) liner is or is not. Without getting out my micrometer from the shop and simply eyeballing it by putting the liners next to each other for immediate, liner to liner touching comparison, the liner on the U2 isn't as thick as the liner lock bar on my Kershaw Tremor, Kershaw Tyrade, Kershaw Junkyard Dog II, about the same but just a bit less than my RAT 1, and isn't even remotely in the same ball park as my Bad Blood Harbinger.
To be fair, none of the other knives are in the league as the BBH, which makes all my other folders look like children's toys.
3/16" blade thickness which is
half again as thick as the UII, G10 handles (not Zytel/plastic), sabre ground 4" blade not 3 1/2" (but the BBH is still only 3/8" longer), and weighs in at almost 1/2 pound of metal and G10! Now that my friend is a tank by
my definition. Of course, YMMV.
And it is within $9 of the Utilitac II's price.
All that being said, one of the knives on my short list is the Utilitac II with rounded handle and drop point. It's a spiffy EDC. Hard to resist such a nicely designed and well made knife.
Robert
