Quality folding knives are overbuilt for their intended purposes....ie....cutting, whittling, trimming, some light prying. The tang area in folders is designed
with a pivot pin, blade tang/aperture, on each side is a nylon or bronze washer(not HT), stainless liner material(not HT) some clearance on both sides of
each washer so blade can rotate, handle G10 or FRN(potential clearance when crushed during side load). First to go at the pivot pin location during
increasing side load is the G10 handle, then the teflon, nylon, bronze or 300 series stainless washers compress to the point that they create excessive
clearance.
Dude...
1) as a general rule, a quality folding knife is built for the purpose of cutting (it's the same concept as giving a phone a million features + a free happy ending with each sale, but forgetting the reception part)
2) folding knives are not built for prying, and folding knives built to pry generally suck at cutting and have minimal value as a cutting tool (ex: try slicing an apple with a Crusader Forge)
3) the materials used for prying, or the heat treatment of steels used for prying, are generally
dramatically different than a HT used for a cutting tool (two different characteristics (edge retention<----->toughness) (for example, S7 can withstand incredible shock/impact/deformation, but gives the edge retention of a spork)
4) of the thousands of knives with G10 I have sold, I have not once heard of the G10 "going" (G10 is a
very strong material and G10 failures are as common as poly frame failures on GLOCK firearms [rarer than my Prime Rib])
5) of the many accounts of failures I have read, I have not once heard of the G10 "going"
6) of the thousands of knives I have sold, I have never heard of the knife suffering compression that would cause the issue you are listing in the fashion being presented
7) the mating of multiple pieces plays a pivotal role in an equation you are presenting as a 1+1=4 (for example, look at the standoff design on the Hinderer XM-18 and the hardware being used to mate the different handle components and distribute load/shock)
8) other things generally break first before what you are describing, and on folding knives it is almost always the blade because the basic design of a more compact knife limits how thick you can make the blade, and the need for wear resistance limits you from using something like S7 steel, which has a huggggggeeeeeee advantage if you are talking about doing something like prying over almost everything else)
Computers are great but if the data you are simulating is suggesting this is how knives fail, some 0's and 1's may have done a doubletake...
A company known as Dark Ops Knives promotes many of their knives using logic on knife failure that contradicts 99.9% of the first hand data on design, usage, and failures. Much of what they present is void of any empirical evidence. If the scenario you are describing is something you find to be common or a vulnerability that quality knives have, I would suggest posting more than just a text description given you can search this entire forum, and quickly find this is not a failure that users are reporting.
I know who is making the big bucks in this scenario and its not the OP.
