Liner locks- why?

[KVT]

I like scales on both sides of a folder. I resist buying anything with a metal side. I own one such knife (Benchmade) and a stainless steel Spydie Endura.

Wow - I’d lose 90% of my collection. I personally love a well-done Ti frame lock. I love looking at the lock side and seeing all of the “mechanics” of the lock. It so makes the show side that much cooler!

I prefer a frame lock, but I’ve got a ton of liner locks - mostly Kershaws.

There are a LOT of great, quality liner lock knives.

I probably dislike sub-frame locks the most, but I have a bunch of those too.

 

[jceckrosh]

I actually had a guy ask me to spine whack a knife before he would buy it (actually a frame lock from you know who, hence his paranoia). I smacked the spine on my soapstone countertop, and it failed a couple times. So he did not buy it.

I just don't get being in a situation where I would be whacking at the spine of my knife - especially where there would not be force/tension applied to the edge side at the same time. It's designed for force application to the edge side of the knife, not the spine. So to me it really doesn't surprise me when banging on a knife in a direction where force is not designed to be applied results in failure. Even if I was batoning with a folder, the whacking on the spine would still keep pressure applied to the stop pin as long as I had the blade in some wood. I would think.

Regardless, if I need to bang on the back of a knife, I have fixed blades designed to take that kind of abuse.

 

[SharpPancake]

I actually had a guy ask me to spine whack a knife before he would buy it (actually a frame lock from you know who, hence his paranoia). I smacked the spine on my soapstone countertop, and it failed a couple times. So he did not buy it.

Maybe you should have smack that knife against his head
Just kidding.

 

[K.O.D.]

I like liner locks, especially over frame locks. However, a poorly made one by CRKT did fail on in regular, medium use.

I like them because they have scales instead of just a slab of metal.

Spyderco's BBL and compression lock are my favorites.
It's hard to come with a new lock design, and many are still under patent. Liner and frame locks are not, so there is no worry there.

Just because it's old tech, doesn't mean it's bad tech.