Hello Everybody.
I just picked up a new HD-7. The lock-up on these knives is really great and I'm glad that Emerson jumped on the frame/integral lock bandwagon. I am wondering, however, about the use of only a G-10 slab for the other side of the handle. The older models featured the titanium liner and the G-10 which seemed to make a stronger overall handle. For the HD-7, they increased the thickness of the G-10 slab to compensate for the lack of a ti liner, but I am wondering if this will not reduce the strength of that side of the handle. So in the older models, you had to compromise with a thiner liner-lock, but you got ti and G-10 on the opposing side. Now, you get a super strong ti frame-lock on one side, but the opposing side is only G-10.
So my question is, just how strong is the G-10 only scale, compared to a G-10 and ti scale? Is Could the G-10 crack? I think Strider also use a slab of ti on one side for the lock and only G-10 on the other.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks
I just picked up a new HD-7. The lock-up on these knives is really great and I'm glad that Emerson jumped on the frame/integral lock bandwagon. I am wondering, however, about the use of only a G-10 slab for the other side of the handle. The older models featured the titanium liner and the G-10 which seemed to make a stronger overall handle. For the HD-7, they increased the thickness of the G-10 slab to compensate for the lack of a ti liner, but I am wondering if this will not reduce the strength of that side of the handle. So in the older models, you had to compromise with a thiner liner-lock, but you got ti and G-10 on the opposing side. Now, you get a super strong ti frame-lock on one side, but the opposing side is only G-10.
So my question is, just how strong is the G-10 only scale, compared to a G-10 and ti scale? Is Could the G-10 crack? I think Strider also use a slab of ti on one side for the lock and only G-10 on the other.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks
