Knife Failures

Proper use for a folder is different from proper use of fixed blade. Fixed blade is more sturdy and durable. Not saying it can't fail, but it's less likley, and using a folder for stuff I use my fixed blades for would be asking for trouble.

I know that fixed blades also fail, but they're less likley to fail, as where folders literally fold on your fingers in large part of cases.
yeah that should have been so obvious didnt need to be stated. if ya cant cut safely without a fixed blade......guess best ya dont.
 
Proper use for a folder is different from proper use of fixed blade. Fixed blade is more sturdy and durable. Not saying it can't fail, but it's less likley, and using a folder for stuff I use my fixed blades for would be asking for trouble.

I know that fixed blades also fail, but they're less likley to fail, as where folders literally fold on your fingers in large part of cases.

If you use your fixed blades for tougher tasks, wouldn't failure with a fixed blade be more risky than failure with a folder in some cases?
 
Seeing how many people ended up getting stitches because of locks failing on a folder is making me beware of ever getting one. So far I only have fixed blades.

Look up some of the Cold Steel torture tests. They'll give you peace of mind. I have a decent knife collection (70+ knives) so my carry knives alter but I carry a fixed blade and folder usually a Cold Steel Recon 1 or Kershaw. I can tell you that my Ken Onion American has been beat up and never failed. I used the use it as a throwing knife and the lock is still solid.
 
Look up some of the Cold Steel torture tests. They'll give you peace of mind. I have a decent knife collection (70+ knives) so my carry knives alter but I carry a fixed blade and folder usually a Cold Steel Recon 1 or Kershaw. I can tell you that my Ken Onion American has been beat up and never failed. I used the use it as a throwing knife and the lock is still solid.
My most used fixed blade is Recon Tanto, and I use it for chopping and hacking usually, sometimes punching holes (stabbing)... I'd never do that with a folder tho.
If you use your fixed blades for tougher tasks, wouldn't failure with a fixed blade be more risky than failure with a folder in some cases?
In the case of fixed blade snapping in half and hitting my neck or wrists poit first, then yes, but odds for that are small.
 
Only my first knife my dad got for me at age 6 or 7. It was a cheap dime store Barlow with stamped metal bolsters and a soft pivot pin. The pivot pin bent pulling through the bolsters allowing them to separate, the back spring slipped to one side and it collapsed. I got a nasty pinch cut on my right index finger. After that I decided to buy my own good knife and it taught me a valuable lesson on quality and value.
Since then I haven’t had any knife break or failures only miscalculation and personal injury but not to serious.
 
Bought a Benchmade 556-1. After two months or so I noticed the resistance when opening was a lot less than it used to be. Low and behold, it was a case of omega spring failure. It had snapped right in the middle of the u-bend. Googled up the memory wire fix and went through with that, never had a problem since.

Other then that my knives have been problem free. I guess sticking to known quality manufacturers is key.

Original spring(the unbroken one) at the bottom:

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-Spyderco Ladybug
-Snapped the tip off by prying like crazy
-Didn’t use the warranty or even think about sending it in

Surprised such a small, thin bladed, liner-less knife held up as well as it did. Abuse broke it.
 
Yeah I broke one of my favorite garage knives, a small fixed blade a month or so ago. I was prying with it. Still makes me mad:(. I knew better.
 
A long time ago in a land far far away, when the grail was the Buck 110...
I was sitting with some dude one night when he started showing me his Buck.
I guess I should add that we were both drunk.
Well he starts to throw his knife into the wooden floor.
I'm like: dude, watch out that's how you break off the tip!
He's like: no way! this Buck knife is tough!
Well you can guess what happened.
All I could do was sit there.
The look on his face said it all.
After that I bought a Kershaw Black Horse.

I think breaking off the tip of a knife is something everyone does at least once.
 
As I don't abuse knives, I've never had one fail. I've cut myself a few times over the years from carelessness, however. Back in the 70's when my only *real* knife was my Buck 110, I foolishly used it (closed) to pound in some tent stakes and managed to ding up the brass bolster pretty good. But we can count that as stupidity, not failure. ;)
 
BUCK cross lock. Multiple times.

Older brothers failed on him too. He had to have surgery to reattach the tendon in his thumb.


Also, had CRKT M16 slop and nip me.
 
Many moons ago a friends mom saw our bottle of Yukon jack and she decided to duct tape the cork on the bottle for a joke
A short while latter for whatever reason,the bottle was still duct taped and in the back of his truck.
We got stopped at a railroad crossing and I was digging around in the truck for something to tinker with while waiting on the train.
I remember saying jackpot...Yukon what the hell is it doing in here.
Anyhow I pulled out a sog auto clip and started to cut off the duct tape. within seconds the blade broke at the pivot and in turn sliced my thumb rite open.
I was in the passenger seat and it shot blood all over his light gray headliner.
Anyhow the duct tape came off and I emptied the bottle.

I haven’t owned cheap knives since
 
Saw this today outside of BF. The guy said it was from batoning

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Was he batoning or just beating on his knife; his technique is way off. It looks like he got the knife stuck, panicked, and was laterally beating on the end of the knife trying to split the log when it went. You can still see the baton marks on the micarta near the pommel.

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