Seems like spyderhole is much stronger part than the lock.

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grownstar said:
It's not always a foreigner. Sometimes it's a 71 year old karate preacher trying to find a knife with the weakest detent possible.
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Ha! OK... it still would be too early for that one... waaaay too early... :D I really did not think that this thread would have warmed my day. Dear OP, sorry to hear that the lock failed the frozen mushroom spine whack test--I guess we can all be happy no one lost fingers, or an eye, and see this for what it is... a teachable moment.

Rock on, people...
 
Twindog said:
Sure, the spine whacks could have been harder than described. The knife could have been purposely broken with tools. But why would we assume that the OP is not describing what happened accurately? There has to be a reason to doubt his story, and there is no reason. I've shattered a knife blade into three pieces using just hand pressure. Things happen. No company can produce perfect products day after day after day. Some flaws will slip through. That's understandable.

I don't see this as bashing Spyderco. Sal himself recommends light spine taps as a testing procedure.

Unfair insults don't promote friendly and informed discussion.
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Because the OP isnt the person who did it. He is relaying a story he himself heard and has no first hand knowledge of the situation. You know what happens when you tell a friend something, it nearly never is repeated the way you told it to them. It hearsay. And if he is busting up frozen items with the spine of an older used knife and it breaks thats on the user not the manufacturer. He wasnt testing the lock on a new knife he was abusing and old one. If this was truly a defective item it would have broke a long time ago being treated like that. Dont blame your finger when you get a bloody nose from picking too much. The insults started at the first post.
 
Twindog said:
Sure, the spine whacks could have been harder than described. The knife could have been purposely broken with tools. But why would we assume that the OP is not describing what happened accurately? There has to be a reason to doubt his story, and there is no reason. I've shattered a knife blade into three pieces using just hand pressure. Things happen. No company can produce perfect products day after day after day. Some flaws will slip through. That's understandable.

I don't see this as bashing Spyderco. Sal himself recommends light spine taps as a testing procedure.

Unfair insults don't promote friendly and informed discussion.
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He isn't saying this was a one off flaw. He said it is awful construction. This is bashing. He is the one who comes on here and promotes unfriendly discussion. Go look at his post history. I don't think this is a person you really want to defend.
 
The OP specifically said his friend thought his manix was "the strongest of folding knives" and that he was using the spine to "separate frozen packages of meat from frozen packages of mushrooms"

He than goes on to say he was only whacking it lightly. Taking his previous statements into account, along with common sense - We all know "lightly" tapping two frozen packages is going to do nothing at all. His intent was clear here - He admitted it. To use the spine to separate frozen food. He had to have been using much greater force if he thought he had any chance in actually separating the frozen items.
 
I wonder if it's a counterfeit given the source

Also for beating up frozen food I'd probably go with my esee 6 or Contego
 
Cosmic Superchunk said:
NEWS FLASH: This just in. Folding knives are meant for cutting. The locking mechanisms are made to prevent accidental closure during normal use. Any locking mechanism can fail if subjected to abuse or stress that exceeds the lock's capacity.
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THIS.

The only lock that will never fail is no lock at all. Get a fixed blade if you're going to misuse your knife.
 
I think there was something lost in translation. I believe the guy was tapping on the packages and determining by sound whether they contained mushrooms or meat. Not hitting them to physically separate, they were not frozen to one another. Since I am not literate in Russian, I cannot be sure.
 
It does seem like a bit of a bash, and I too wonder if something was lost in translation (OP clearly meant packages from the freezer, rather than the fridge, for example.)

OP, my second language is Russian so if you could repost here in your native language what happened, I'd be able to gauge your grievance better.
 
Did someone say mushroom stamping with a spyderco?

In all seriousness, I can't see how anyone could think beating his meat and mushroom tips with a knife would be a good thing. Speaking of mail order brides...

But for real here. Who would smack their meat sack with a knife?
 
There's always some guy in Russia beating the snot out of a knife.;)
[video=youtube;HmH5M6brwRk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmH5M6brwRk[/video]
 
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