Question for long time Emerson users

Some wear faster than others . My current oldest is a 8 or 9 year old cqc7 with about 20 percent lockup. My karambits are between 30-40%.

The fad or whatever you want to call it about early lockup is misleading . I understand wanting early lockup on a new knife ,because you know the knife is new I get that. However having my beater knife or even my edc (which I use ) a lockup of say 15% or where just the corner of the TI is in contact makes me nervous. I like all the TI to be engaged close to the middle of the blade.

Actually had a knife (non emerson) framelock . Lockup was very very early just the corner of the TI made contact. Well I used the knife pretty hard at work and something just didn't feel right with the knife . Lockup felt different in my hand and knife just didn't feel as tight. Started looking at the knife and the whole corner of the framelock had sheer ed off/deformed . Guess it was too much force applied. This was under regular use as well. No spine whacks for anything ridiculous (IMHO) to try and make the knife fail. Use it . Don't even worry where your lock up is use it . If its solid your good. If your lockup gets to where it's not solid ,send it in .
 
The only problem I have had with an Emerson that I didn't want to fix myself was when the screw that holds the thumb disc broke off in the blade of a new patriot. It had been crossthreaded originally.

Emerson fixed it and all I paid was something like $18 shipping. It did take over 4 months however, so make sure you have a spare knive to use for a while.....

~John
 
Esav Benyamin said:
1. It is easy to complain on the internet.

2. Many "complaints" are retweets by people who don't own Emersons with those problems.

3. Great knives! Enjoy yours! :D
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As Taylor swift sings, "haters gotta hate". I had an abused Commander where the lock would go past the blade to the opposite liner. While the blade would close about 20% while locked it wouldn't close on your hand. I had an HD-7 that started out at 100% lock up an ten years later after lots of use the lock was still tight. In short, I've never heard of a documented case where a liner failed to the point the user was cut. And as others have said, send it in if lock rocks and they will fix it.
 
I've had a horseman now for about 2 years. Can safely say I have abused this knife and it has exceeded my expectations even better than what I thought it would. I've beat the crap out of it and all that's resulted is a scratched blade and a 80% lockup that hasn't moved for a year, and is rock solid. 👍🏼
 
Carrying my 7 for two years daily. Lockup is 90% and solid.


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I'll have to agree that some knives will wear in faster than others. Some of my old school emersons from 1999-2005 are touching the opposite liners after minimal use but they haven't given me any issues through use or from testing. That aside, for newer production pieces, I've been carrying a Journeyman as my primary work knife for 6 years and it looks up solid at ~80% with no problems at all. The incredible story comes from my brother. I bought him a cqc7 back in 2001 after he couldn't stop playing with mine. That is the only knife he carries and he has used it at work since I got it for him. After 15 years, it is still rock solid at ~70% but I have a feeling the lack of a wave feature on it has helped it stay healthy for so long :)
 
Great knives and great customer service. I wouldn't worry about it. I have carried/used Emersons since the 975/970 series was being made by Benchmade and have yet to wear a liner to the point of failure. You will see the liner migrate across the engagement surface as the knife wears in and is used over the years but it has never been a issue for me.

Enjoy your Emersons.

Mark
 
I have a 13 year old CQC-14 and a 12 year old mini commander. The 14 has been abused like hell and the liner is still solid. The commander is also still solid just not anywhere near the level of use.
 
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