"PRESS" (Slipjoints with brass liner locks)

hank_rearden

hank_rearden

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Who has examples of these? What are your experiences with this feature? I hope they're not unpleasant. No gory pictures please.
 
One example ...Camillus TL-29 has a brass liner lock but doesn't have "PRESS" stamped on it.
It locks up the wire stripper/screwdriver blade. Never had an "incident" with it.
I get the feeling you may not be telling everything about your own experience with a brass liner lock?
 
I have a couple of Camillus TL-29s, liner lock works on one, not on the other. A similar Boker model, lock works. A similar civilian version by Carl Kammerling, lock works. Also something different, this Wilkinson Sword Gardener's Knife, the lock is on the pruning saw. Not the most reliable lock design for sure, but it's handy to be able to lock the screwdriver blade on an Electrician's Knife :thumbsup:

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I don't have one, but the Shrade Old Timer 18OT "Mghty Mite" peanut size knife has one.
I only have the 12OT "PAL"; same knife, but without the blade lock.
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I've never had issues with blades closing on my digits, with or without a blade lock.
As long as you are not stabbing, and are cutting with the edge, the normal cutting action forces the blade open. :)
 
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BrotherJim said:
One example ...Camillus TL-29 has a brass liner lock but doesn't have "PRESS" stamped on it.
It locks up the wire stripper/screwdriver blade. Never had an "incident" with it.
I get the feeling you may not be telling everything about your own experience with a brass liner lock?
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Hey thanks for the replies guys!

Nothing unpleasant. As I related in another thread, as kid we used to tinker and play with piles of slipjoints of various makes and configurations. "What happens if you press this?"
"Don't. The blade will fly out and stick to your throat."

As a middle-aged guy and only slightly smarter, the thought that comes to me is those military issue equipment that say things like "THIS SIDE TOWARDS THE ENEMY." So it's only natural that a safety feature in a knife would be stamped PRESS.
 
Not brass, but same design and function.
(EDIT: oh yeah ... the generals must think rercruits are intellegent enough to figure out hw to close the blade, since they didn't put "push" on it. Of course the same generals didn't think draftees and enlisted under the rank of Major who carried a "demo" knife were intellegent enuogh to recognize a can opener. Why else would they demand "CAN OPENER" in all caps be stamped on that blade?)

Marbles MR409 hawkbill "G.I. Knife".
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To be honest, I'm not a fan of liner locks. They require you to put your thumb in harm's way when you're closing the knife. I do have a few of them, but never have carried one. Never had a bad experience with one, but I know me...
 
20210802_174153~3_resize_77.jpg20210802_174242~2_resize_65.jpgA couple of electricians with brass liner locks: Camillus with spear blade in black delrin, and a Kabar with clip blade handled in what was listed on the box as Walnut. Also a couple more clip blades with brass liner locks: another Kabar, small serpentine jack dressed in an unknown wood, and a Parker copperhead in apaloosa bone. The Camillus TL-29 and the Parker copperhead have half-stops on the locking blade, the other two knives have a cam-tang on the locking blade. Only the lock on the small Kabar serpentine jack is stamped "PRESS".
 
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