Someone mistreated my knife.

What Esav said and the gun counter guy, you should have kicked him in the nuts too. Its not his gun to mess up, what a jerk.
 
The Adamas is fine, it's a tool built for hard work.

Watch Benchmade's demonstration and test videos.
 
I usually avoid letting people touch my expensive knives but when somebody wants to touch my knife I l always explain first to not mistreat it or drop it and I also tell them not to cut their self.
 
ok, thanks for all the responses everyone

i actually have one more question about the spring, if anyone wants to answer it

could the spring be damaged by pressing it down on one side instead of both? i did that a few times to disengage the lock when i first got it before i realized you were supposed to press down on both sides
 
No problem. The springs are remarkably durable, and compressing them, even one at a time, is what they are made for.

When I close an axis lock, I pull back on one side and the whole bar moves back, and I flick the blade back in.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
No problem. The springs are remarkably durable, and compressing them, even one at a time, is what they are made for.

When I close an axis lock, I pull back on one side and the whole bar moves back, and I flick the blade back in.
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ah. ok thank you.
 
The Trout said:
ok, thanks for all the responses everyone

i actually have one more question about the spring, if anyone wants to answer it

could the spring be damaged by pressing it down on one side instead of both? i did that a few times to disengage the lock when i first got it before i realized you were supposed to press down on both sides
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You really need to just use your knives. They aren't made of glass, they are meant to be used. This whole thread is a joke imo "he opened it too hard" hahahaha
 
The Trout,
I've made that mistake in the past as well and I don't anymore. I do not let people handle any one of my firearms or knives without a proper talking to first. I had my one friend, whom I wouldn't have expected it from, ask to see my one pistol I had just gotten then act like he was demonstrating vigorous malfunction clearing and dryfiring lol. I grabbed him by the shoulder and politely said "calm the F down and hand it back over if you can't treat property with respect. Lay off the Magpul DVDs bro."

Now mind you, I do all the same things and I use my firearms and knives as they are intended but if there's going to be character marks or if it's going to be run hard, it's going to be by me. Not someone else. People need to learn to be respectful and I've learned not many are.
 
You should have gotten the knife tossed back to you, then leapt across the room, slashing your guest across the throat. As blood begins to spray all around the room horror movie style while your wife is screaming, you do a spinning back-kick that straight blasts your guest off the couch, and out of the picturesque front bay window in your living room. Glass and framework just goes everywhere. Oh, and it's raining, so the camera pans to an outside shot, showing you standing there, briefly illuminated by lighting, covered in rain, blood, and rage as you utter...."NEVER flip another man's knife."

Annnnnddddd CUT.
 
Kyle_4 said:
You really need to just use your knives. They aren't made of glass, they are meant to be used. This whole thread is a joke imo "he opened it too hard" hahahaha
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well, fair enough, but i only have a few knives, and while this one isn't an heirloom piece, it is the best one i have to this point
 
Esav Benyamin said:
No problem. The springs are remarkably durable, and compressing them, even one at a time, is what they are made for.

When I close an axis lock, I pull back on one side and the whole bar moves back, and I flick the blade back in.
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Hmm, now I'm curious because I've always pulled down on only one side when closing my Barrage. I thought it depended only on which was your knife hand. So there are two springs in there? Am I wearing one out faster by not pushing down on both sides do you think?
 
Also I think the people here that are yelling OCD or that this is a joke of a thread need to ease off a bit, or a lot. Yes it is a beastly knife and we know it can take way more punishment but as the OP said it's the best one he owns right now, and he doesn't know a lot about knives at the moment. Maybe he didn't watch any hardcore Adamas videos before he got the knife.

I think most of us have been there where we're worried about loaning our knives out, but we're usually the only ones at the party to have em and it's a decent thing to do and our knife can get some public love so why not. I know I've been concerned about hurting much cheaper knives than the Adamas until I learned more about certain models and what they can really stand up to.

In recent years I've finally managed to get to the "certain familiar contempt" mindset with a lot of my knives, and I think I'm a bit better for that than I used to be, but I still don't think it's out of line to not want others that are taking a look at our knives to treat them as someone else's property, which it is. It really has less to do with the knife being able to take 10x that amount of punishment and much more to do with common decency. I can't speak for anyone else but I treat the property of others' like fine china unless I know it's okay not to. My knives are mine to beat up, not someone else's. If I loan out a beater knife I won't care if they start beating on it because it's a beater, but I will care because I think it shows they don't respect my property like they should, and definitely don't respect it like I respect theirs.

Yes it's a tank that wasn't hurt by the wrist flick, but just focusing on that is missing the real point entirely. Be a decent person if you want to take a look at something that isn't yours (and in this case the guy likely didn't know anything about knives, whether his flicking would hurt it, if it was a prized possession of The Trout or an expensive piece. Decent thing would have been to be cautiously respectful.) That's the real issue here and this thread isn't out of line at all.
 
RedLynx said:
Hmm, now I'm curious because I've always pulled down on only one side when closing my Barrage. I thought it depended only on which was your knife hand. So there are two springs in there? Am I wearing one out faster by not pushing down on both sides do you think?
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Does the lock disengage? if yes, then you are working both omega springs. If you only use one side to disengage it just means that it takes twice the amount of force to operate than if you used both sides.
 
NorthernSouthpaw said:
Does the lock disengage? if yes, then you are working both omega springs. If you only use one side to disengage it just means that it takes twice the amount of force to operate than if you used both sides.
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Who knew?! Everyone but me apparently... thanks mate.
 
A friend of mine also did the same thing to one of my customs and it did bother me a bit even though I knew the knife could handle it. So I told him that although it might have seemed like a cool-looking move, it clearly showed that he knew nothing about folders. Then the education started...
 
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