snap-off knife features

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I want to find my favorite fancy snap-off knives. I wish there were disassembly videos.

questions:
1. What's your favorite:
a) super steel
b) lock
c) custom knife
d) production knife
2. What features do you like?

What I've found:
1. There are 3 sizes: 9mm, 18mm, 25mm
2. Blades that don't snap off are called solid blades without snap-off lines.
3. Locks I've found: a twisting wheel, a button, a slider
4. For the body that holds all blades, I've seen sheet steel and plastic. I like the metal body. It looks stronger.
5. Some hold multiple blades.
6. The Dewalt ones are heavy. Their grips look like metal.

replaceable blade survival utility knife thread
 
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seacucumber said:
I want to find my favorite fancy snap-off knives. I wish there were disassembly videos.

questions:
1. What's your favorite:
a) super steel
b) lock
c) custom knife
d) production knife
2. What features do you like?

What I've found:
1. There are 3 sizes: 9mm, 18mm, 25mm
2. Blades that don't snap off are called solid blades without snap-off lines.
3. Locks I've found: a twisting wheel, a button, a slider
4. For the body that holds all blades, I've seen sheet steel and plastic. I like the metal body. It looks stronger.
5. Some hold multiple blades.
6. The Dewalt ones are heavy. Their grips look like metal.
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I like my snap off knives to to have cts-xhp steel, with a triad lock, hand made by Terzuola. I also like when I can store extra snap off blades of various super steels in the titanium body. NO SCANDI GRINDZ THO.
 
Ive never liked this type of knife. Having to dispose of the the broken off pieces seems like a safety concern to me. I much prefer the Stanley blade knives or even the ones that use one sided razor blades.
 
Love the snap off feature!

SNAP!! And abra kadabra you have a fresh tip and edge and is back on the job in seconds!

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Here's a wheel lock disassembly.
I want to test "solid blades without snap-off lines" to see if they would be good for survival bushcraft.

The Hyde 42051 has a different lock.
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The stabilizing bar on the KNIPEX CutiX could be useful. The CutiX doesn't have steel on the edge side of the blade housing. The housing teeth are also not steel. That might be a weakness.

This Olfa Works video includes batoning. I made a thread about replaceable blade bushcraft knives (link in first post).
 
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