SOLID Folders that feel and perform the most like a fixed blade.

If I had to pick one folder ( subject to my previous caveat ) it would be my custom Crawford carnivore with rolling lock. The REKAT production folders used the same lock and although lockup seems solid it's not very smooth or as reliable as implemented by them. Honourable mention to the sebenza frame locks. If balisongs were legal that's a brilliant design with the benefits of a fixed blade and a folder, but of course that makes too much sense to be legal.
 
I entirely forgot about my 51, somehow. That wins out of my collection of folders for 'most like a fixed blade'.
 
My Pocket Bushman seems pretty darn strong. I also think the American Lawman is very strong. Totally different locking mechanisms, but very well designed.
Bob
 
trevitrace said:
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If all folders are "broken" knives, then I suppose draw bridges are broken bridges, doors are broken walls, and modern firearms are broken canons. Using the word is misleading; they work fine for what they are designed for.
 
While I've never handled one, I'd say the Extrema Ratio RAO II. I mean, when you look at the way it's been designed it seems that folding fixed blade was what they had in mind.

As for knives own, my Strider SMF is probably the most sturdy feeling folder I have. I can't even muscle play into even it I support the handle on a solid surface and press my body into the blade.
 
I'm also gonna go with "none". I have a lot of confidence in the folders that I have, but they're still folders and that's how I use them. If I think I'm gonna need a FB for a chore or "just in case" when I'm out, I'll carry one.
 
On a side note, I didn't mention the incomparable Busse folder because so few of us have one and I didn't want people to feel bad.
But I really shouldn't say more.
 
precisionshootist said:
Any of the Medium to Large Cold Steel folders with the Tri-Ad lock. They are as close as you are going to get to a folding fixed blade knife. I love my Spyderco knives as cutters but I have come to always carry a larger Cold Steel folder as back up just in case brute force is required! The Tri-Ad just spanks any other system out there. I will ad with the new for 2015 XHP steel, DLC coatings and the best G10 in the business I believe Cold Steel is set to literally dominate the hard use folder market.
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By DLC do you mean diamond like carbon? My research field is diamond and our research group's motto is 'have you tried coating it with nano diamonds?' :D apply some of that place it in a plasma chamber with methane. You'll grow a nice protective layer resistent of scratches, corrosion and electricity!

Regarding the topic I've never really seen a folder as strong as a fixed blade yet but I'm sure if you look the the bottom end fixed knives there is a point where a sturdy folder will outpeform a fixed one.
 
craytab said:
None of them.
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dalefuller said:
I'm also gonna go with "none". I have a lot of confidence in the folders that I have, but they're still folders and that's how I use them. If I think I'm gonna need a FB for a chore or "just in case" when I'm out, I'll carry one.
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Maybe you guys didn't understand the question? If all you have is a sak classic then that would be the folder you owned most like a fixed blade.

For me, svord peasant.
 
This one I just finished is pretty damn solid.





 
Agurami said:
My Evolution Pro from Carson Tech Lab springs to mind. Still, I wouldn't go as far as to compare a folder to a fixed blade, as the latter will always be sturdier (all other things equal). Still, I hammered that folder into a tree (found a dead tree, as I wouldn't do that to a living one), and did pullups on the knife. Nothing happened to the knife, though it took some serious abuse. And yes, the frame lock is very strong on that one, the blade opens with a resounding thud. In fact, the frame lock is so strong they even implemented a button on the non-locking side so that you could disengage the lock easier.

Of the folders I don't have, Demko models come to mind. IIRC, he hung a weight of over 800 pounds on the hande of one of his knives (the blade was wedged somewhere), and the lock held.
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I had an EVO for awhile and wish I hadn't sold it. It was very fixed blade like, but it was heavier than my smaller fixed blades so I just carried them instead. Only lock I would put above the EVO is the Triad.
 
bld522 said:
This^^^. If I need something that feels like a fixed-blade, I'll use a fixed-blade.
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What!?! Don't you have any of those annoying extra digits of which you would like to rid yourself?
 
Shotgun said:
Maybe you guys didn't understand the question? If all you have is a sak classic then that would be the folder you owned most like a fixed blade.
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No, I understood the question perfectly. Perhaps you should review the question yourself. This was the question:

yexactly said:
Which if (read "of") your folders feel and perform the most like a fixed blade?
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And I said none of them. Seems simple enough to understand to me....

bld522 said:
This^^^. If I need something that feels like a fixed-blade, I'll use a fixed-blade.
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Yup!
 
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