Quick question regarding the Sage II

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Here's a quote from Mr. Emerson.

"Cheap Chinese imports and others who do not understand the mechanics of the liner lock system may think that the lock face on the blade and the face of the liner lock should be parallel, face to face, with full engagement of the lock face against the back of the blade. They are incorrect. As both aerospace mechanical Engineer and the third knife maker in the world to use the liner lock system almost thirty years ago, and having made several thousand custom knives and several hundred thousand production knives I assure you that I know of what I speak."

Don't argue with me, go tell the established knifemakers that they don't know what they are doing.

This may all be correct, but I have a hard time considering Emerson an expert. My CQC-7B had all the fit and finish of a knife assembled by a developmentally disabled lower primate, and was one of the few reasonably expensive folders I've purchased that did not lock up reliably (if you stuck the blade in something you were cutting and had to wiggle it free, it closed from locked about as easily as a SAK does).