Soddie ?s

[aceofblades]

I have a ? about sodbusters. This probaley won't happen in the event that I bought a sodbuster is there a chance of it closing on my finger and chopping it off?

 

[Wildcat]

Well, there is always the chance of closing it on your finger, but it won't chop it off. Unless maybe you happen to have it in a vise and you are tightening it down on that finger just at the exact moment that it closes on said finger.

I have had blades snap closed on a finger before. If i had been more careful and paying better attention, it wouldn't have happened.:thumbup:

 

[aceofblades]

Well I have had knives colse on my finger to I just didnt know about the sodbuster do to the strong backstring

 

[Wildcat]

in my experience, the back spring is no stronger than any other Case knife i have. no worries.

 

[bob bowie]

The springs are a bit stronger on sod busters and othe large folders, but as long as your not power stabbing anything, you'll be fine.

 

[Dr. Mudd]

... in the event that I bought a sodbuster is there a chance of it closing on my finger and chopping it off?

Well, there's a chance the sun won't come up in the morning. But if you have even a modest understanding of how to use a knife it won't close on your finger, and if that happened it most certainly would not chop it off. Why do you think men have used non-locking pocket knives for a few hundred years? For much of that time they didn't even have springs to keep them open.

 

[jackknife]

Well, there's a chance the sun won't come up in the morning. But if you have even a modest understanding of how to use a knife it won't close on your finger, and if that happened it most certainly would not chop it off. Why do you think men have used non-locking pocket knives for a few hundred years? For much of that time they didn't even have springs to keep them open.

Very true.

Its the physics of the thing. With any slippy, as long as your cutting something, the forces at work will prevent the blade closing. The old penny knives of Europe did not have a spring in them, like some of the old shepards knives of the 1700's to early 1800's. With a backspring it gets even safer. Of course if you're doing something like pushing with the point, there's the chance you could collapse it on you, so just use some care and think what your doing and you'll be fine. If you think the cutting job at hand is a bit too much for your slippy, then thats what small fixed blades are for.

The sodbuster is derived from a very old Eurpean design of a simple working knife that has been the knife of common working peasents for a couple of centurys. It still is a good choice for a edc pocket knife.

 

[mnblade]

Unless that knife becomes possessed by Satan, Paris Hilton or some other sinister deity, there is no possible way it will close up on you. It's an inanimate object.

Now, if you are using it carelessly or ineffectively, you might cause it to close. But that's a whole other matter.