Knife locking Mechanisms

tkdiver1

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I have decided to start a knife collection based on different types of locking mechanisms. I want to have knives that have the many different types of locking mechanisms available. I have a few already such as the liner lock, framelock, etc.

Please help me with making a list of the different types of locks available out there and if possible a knife that has that type of lock. I am most interested in Spydercos but others are welcome as well. Thanks
 
Keep your eye on the sage series. Spyderco will manufacture several sages featuring different lock types.
 
lockback
liner lock
frame lock
compression lock
frame compression lock
Benchmade axis lock
Spyderco ball bearing lock
Sog arc lock
Kershaw HAWK lock
Several Benchmade patents that I don't remember the names of, look it up.
Blackie Collins Bolt action lock
Cold Steel Triad lock
regular slip joint
Spyderco slipit
Kershaw External Toggle
Balisong
Jani Song
Boker Che lock
Spyderco Meerkat
Spyderco T-mag
friction folder
single action OTF
double action OTF
button lock (on side opening auto stillettos)
Spyderco Q
Van Hoy Snap Lock
The mechanism on Cold Steel's Triple Action (originally a Perrin design but I don't remember the name of his version.)
Ring lock (on Cold Steel's Kudu)
So called "paratrooper knife" (blade slides out the front with a pivot construction.)

Yeah, those are all I can think of right now. Others feel free to add to the list.
 
Hey Doc, I think you pretty much covered all bases there. I see several that I didn't even know existed before. Thansk for the list.
 
Wow! Thanks for the list. It would be way cool to have pictures and cut-away drawings to show each in action :D
G27
 
You probably ought to break down the lockback by release location as well. Back release typified by the Buck 110, front release by Al Mar and middle by Endura/Delica.

The Gerber Obsidian is a non-switchblade that uses the plunger lock. I don't know of any non-switchblades that use the button rocker-style lock used by the older switchblades. There is also a slider lock used by the old Flylock switchblades.

Then there is the Centofante Secure lock found on the C-50, the funny folder or swing blade, the Benchmade Levitator used on the Benchmite, the Rollox, the side leverlock, the Paul lock, and one I don't recall the name of where one scale is rotated a full 360 degrees to expose the blade.

Knife locks are an interesting area of study.
 
tkdiver1 said:
I have decided to start a knife collection based on different types of locking mechanisms. I want to have knives that have the many different types of locking mechanisms available. I have a few already such as the liner lock, framelock, etc.

Please help me with making a list of the different types of locks available out there and if possible a knife that has that type of lock. I am most interested in Spydercos but others are welcome as well. Thanks
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Folding/lock action is my top criteria for collecting knives.

Dr's list is very good, I would add the some swing out blades and the twist lock on the Opinel.
 
Spyderco may come out with a Blackie Collins Bolt Lock. It is said to be much smoother than the old Gerber model and ampidexteris. There were pic's in earlier threads.
 
Two more, both sold by CRKT and probably by the inventors in custom knives.

Tom Stokes Kommer Fulcrum™ with Charles Kain’s opening action,
Barry Gallagher's Glide Lock™
 
If we could get a Military with a triad style lock, We would be set for the ultimate most indestructible folder ever made.
 
Camillus offered what they called a "CAM LOCK" for a long while. I have one. Its one of my most used hunting knives from when I was young and one of the first knives I bought for myself after my first job. It is a slip joint until you decide you want to lock it and when you lock it you simply push a button in the handle forward which shoves a cam into the tang of the blade.

STR
 
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