Spyderco and Lockbacks?

[JamesA]

Originally posted by calyth
How does the compression lock work? I've read up on it but never figured it out.
The guy who wrote the small article on the centrofante gives me this rather vague description.....

These guys got it right, it looks and acts like a linerlock on the back of the blade -- but that's not how it WORKS.

A liner lock moves a leaf spring over and puts it under the tang of the blade, so that the blade can not move forward. You knew that.

A compression lock moves a leaf spring over and puts it between the tang (there's a cutout for this purpose, to make room) and the stop pin. Moving the blade forward pushes on this leaf spring, pushes it against the stop pin -- compresses it, in other words. Much stronger, arguably much more reliable.

Get it?

 

[Sergiusz Mitin]

Calyth,

How does the compression lock work?

<a href="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/spyderco/compr_lock_01.jpg" target="_blank"><IMG align=right SRC="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/spyderco/compr_lock_01_tn.jpg" border="2"></a>This stripped Vesuvius probably could explain you how compression lock works and what differs it from liner lock.

 

[Marion David Poff]

Sergiusz, Thank you.

The illustration also shows the best parts of the Compression Lock.

-- Contact with two different surfaces.

-- The compression aspect of the lock, when a folding impulse is applied while the lock is engaged.

I just got a Temperance, and I had been wondering about the Compression lock, as to how hard it would be to operate, and whether or not I would be able to work it one-handed.

It is so easy to operate, perfectly one-handed.

I love it so much, I am jones'n for more models with the Compression Lock, and even though I have no earthly need for another Temperance, I am strategizing how I can get a Temperance Trailing Point.