Petitions for a ZDP189 ParaMilitary with Titanium Framelock.

I don't see how a integral compression lock would be any stronger than the current design. I believe I've read that when a comp lock fails, its because the pin gets ripped out of the scale, and I don't see a wider lockbar providing any real benefit.

That being said, a model with Ti scales would be sweet, blade steel I could care less about, I just want some full SE action in the pm2 pattern.
 
stabman said:
Titanium integral compression lock. G-10 slab one side (or carbon fiber), titanium lock side slab.
The ATR did it (except for the G-10 side, although I saw some modded like that), and it was amazing. My dad is an AXIS lock disciple generally, but he was really, really impressed by the reliability and strength of the design.
Make it and they will sell.:)
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Yeah, amazingly painful when you gripped it hard and really used for hard cutting (mine was a SS fully-serrated version) and amazingly visible when you had the ugly clip hanging off your pocket.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on this one. To me the ATR was an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. I admired the design and I really wanted to love mine, but I just couldn't do it. I even bought the same knife again after I had sold the first just to give it a second chance but ended up selling it too. The ATR ranks right up there with the Benchmade mimi-Skirmish (635) as one of my most disappointing knife purchases.
 
dogrunner said:
Current compression lock on the Para is great. My favorite lock. I would not be interested in anything different on this knife.
No interest in ZDP189 either.
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My sentiments exactly....so much so, that the Para 2 has become my favorite Spyder, with my third one coming in today from NGK.
 
Had both an ATR Ti and the Salsa Ti...sold both. Great concept, less than ideal IRL...
 
ctk123 said:
I don't see how a integral compression lock would be any stronger than the current design. I believe I've read that when a comp lock fails, its because the pin gets ripped out of the scale, and I don't see a wider lockbar providing any real benefit.

That being said, a model with Ti scales would be sweet, blade steel I could care less about, I just want some full SE action in the pm2 pattern.
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I'm not sure it would be all that much stronger but it would possibly take more outright abuse. The thin stainless steel lock would be easier to deformed than a thick one. A deformed lock bar can introduce blade play and probably isn't very smooth. That depends on if the softer Ti can resist deformation better than stainless. Some ti can be heat treated and hardened a few points around the 40 HRC range, but that is much softer than hardened stainless.

I think more than anything it would be for all the ti junkies that will buy anything, at a premium, as long as its made of ti.
 
At this point, I'd buy almost anything in the Para2 line. I'd only think twice if it was pink with purple polkadots.

TedP
 
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