Strength of the S&W Powerglide?

[Confederate]

About a year ago I got a good price on about six S&W Powerglide knives. I took the nylon pouches and used the knives for odd jobs and carrying in the tool kit, or in the back of the car. I've played with it a bit, but don't know how strong the lockup is. Certainly it won't win any contests in opening speed, but it does appear solid once it's locked into place.

 

[Tripton]

Well, you have six.

Go break one and see how strong it is.

 

[Confederate]

Well, that'll have to wait. I've never intentionally (nor unintentionally) destroyed a knife for test purposes. I only test one casually to determine whether it's strong enough and go from there.

The mechanism of this knife is much stronger than a balisong and I think it would take quite a bit of pressure from the southern side without failing. In fact, I have a hard time figuring out where it would fail.

 

[MValborg]

edc one till it fails, that will tell you more than anyone here can(no offense just a philosophy)