So I discovered biggest tactical disadvantage with liner lock system vs BM Axis Lock

Hey Scurvy!!!

I developed some medical issues and was in bad shape for the last year, but am healing nicely. I use the ZT I got from you every single day, it is a great knife.

How are your and the wife? How is the baby? Do you still have the same job?

Scurvy092 said:
It's not that old haha

How's sunny California treating you?
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Spydie Chick can help. Note she opens the liner lock with either hand but predominately with her left. Very quick while she is doing a video.

PS: I totally agree about the Mac and the Griptillian.
 
speaking of tough plastic clam shell packages my number one is the Spyderco Cricket

Think of it as the uranium tipped package buster. It doesn't even raise an eye brow . . . it just says what's next please?

 
That bad boy just plain looks mean. :thumbup:

Wowbagger said:
speaking of tough plastic clam shell packages my number one is the Spyderco Cricket

Think of it as the uranium tipped package buster. It doesn't even raise an eye brow . . . it just says what's next please?

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Locutus D'Borg said:
Hey Scurvy!!!

I developed some medical issues and was in bad shape for the last year, but am healing nicely. I use the ZT I got from you every single day, it is a great knife.

How are your and the wife? How is the baby? Do you still have the same job?
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Glad to hear you are on the mend. I'll shoot you an e-mail.
 
many of you are asking why quick closing/disengaging of lock is important in a tactical situation and I will try explain why the interface of a so called tactical folding knife is important.

firstly, I mean tactical disadvantage from deployment point of view also as there are multiple ways to open a compression or an Axis lock. Axis lock being more ambidextrous....this is important when 1 or 2 of your digits have been injured in an assault situation and u have no choice but to utilise your cutting tool for self defense and need to get it deployed...try opening your axis lock with middle finger and thumb or forefinger and middle finger..its much easier than liner lock based knives.

second, i have witnessed situations of knife fight, and once your assailant/robber takes off on foot and you have to chase them in urban situation, running with open knife can land you in lot of trouble in the eyes of law as opposed to disengaging it and chasing your assailant on foot etc. brandishing a knife and running after someone can get you close to being taken down also.
btw spring assisted liner lock knives are harder to close than non spring assisted ones.

these are extreme situations but I am fascinated by brilliant user designs and let my imagination run little wild :)
 
darthwayne said:
many of you are asking why quick closing/disengaging of lock is important in a tactical situation and I will try explain why the interface of a so called tactical folding knife is important.

firstly, I mean tactical disadvantage from deployment point of view also as there are multiple ways to open a compression or an Axis lock. Axis lock being more ambidextrous....this is important when 1 or 2 of your digits have been injured in an assault situation and u have no choice but to utilise your cutting tool for self defense and need to get it deployed...try opening your axis lock with middle finger and thumb or forefinger and middle finger..its much easier than liner lock based knives.

second, i have witnessed situations of knife fight, and once your assailant/robber takes off on foot and you have to chase them in urban situation, running with open knife can land you in lot of trouble in the eyes of law as opposed to disengaging it and chasing your assailant on foot etc. brandishing a knife and running after someone can get you close to being taken down also.
btw spring assisted liner lock knives are harder to close than non spring assisted ones.

these are extreme situations but I am fascinated by brilliant user designs and let my imagination run little wild :)
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LMAO, this post is full of win.


Chasing an assailant if he flees? Good luck with defending that action in court. And that's just in developed countries.

Here in the PI, running after a mugger will get you a sudden knife in the belly from an accomplice that you didn't notice.


BTW, if you absolutely have to, good way to carry an open knife is to hold it against your arm for concealment.
 
My liner locks generally sport a flipper. No trouble opening them with any finger. Even downward pressure against my leg will fire the blade out.

If I am ever, God forbid, in a knife fight and I am robbed...he can have my stuff. A knife is a last ditch line of defense. I would only draw my knife in the most dire of situations (long after my firearm).

If my knife is drawn, he probably already has my stuff and is deciding to make the mugging "personal".

He he takes off on foot, he's a problem for the police. Closing the knife quickly is a non-issue, IMHO.
 
Here I thought the biggest tactical (how I hate that word) disadvantage to a liner lock system was the fact that the knife comes broken in half straight out of the box.
 
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