Strongest folding knife !

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I do think it's telling that nobody bothers to do lateral folder strength testing. Is it because it's a blind spot hitherto unnoticed by the knife community? Is it that folders are so weak that nobody bothers because they know the pivot and lock will explode? Or is it that everybody thinks it's pointless because the know that the blades will snap first.

I think FFK believes 1&2, whereas the rest of us seem to be in camp 3.

Maybe I should just go snap a folder in half.
 
DrFish said:
I do think it's telling that nobody bothers to do lateral folder strength testing. Is it because it's a blind spot hitherto unnoticed by the knife community? Is it that folders are so weak that nobody bothers because they know the pivot and lock will explode? Or is it that everybody thinks it's pointless because the know that the blades will snap first.

I think FFK believes 1&2, whereas the rest of us seem to be in camp 3.

Maybe I should just go snap a folder in half.
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It is telling, and I have not done such tests, but I feel like we're in camp 3 for a reason. I assume most of the companies that engineer these things know that the blade will snap first, no? If that is true, these lateral tests are not really useful to us. Just my take.
 
I have treated everyone as even keeled as possible. I have kept my comments on the subject of this thread. You have all provided very helpful comments and I appreciate the unfiltered advice. I prefer this to a bunch of yes men. Free speech is always better !
 
RedLynx said:
It is telling, and I have not done such tests, but I feel like we're in camp 3 for a reason. I assume most of the companies that engineer these things know that the blade will snap first, no? If that is true, these lateral tests are not really useful to us. Just my take.
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Apparently the linerless Cold Steel Tri-Ad lock knives have the blade snap before handle failure.
Andrew Demko said that for the thicker (0.200") blade knives he makes, a liner was needed to make it so the blade would fail before the handle.

So it has been thought out, and the solution, at most, was to have a liner.
 
stabman said:
So it has been thought out, and the solution, at most, was to have a liner.
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Precisely. And another of the 500 pound gorillas in the room, and I don't know if this has been brought up lately, is that the FFK only has a liner on one side. The other side is just the thumb doohickey. And you can't tell me that the thumb doohickey is going to stand up to as much lateral stress as a liner. All that stress is going to be concentrated on the smaller surface area of the doohickey.

Physics. Its a "b" sometimes.
 
FFK said:
I have treated everyone as even keeled as possible. I have kept my comments on the subject of this thread. You have all provided very helpful comments and I appreciate the unfiltered advice. I prefer this to a bunch of yes men. Free speech is always better !
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Makes me want to break out in song! God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!! Land that I Love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike we are all here to help you as much as we can.
 
FFK said:
I have treated everyone as even keeled as possible. I have kept my comments on the subject of this thread. You have all provided very helpful comments and I appreciate the unfiltered advice. I prefer this to a bunch of yes men. Free speech is always better !
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Yet for some reason you refuse to respond to questions. I have asked you several questions that you have just ignored, becasue I think you are at least smart enough to see where the conversation would go. :)
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
RedLynx,
Yes! this had taken on a addictive tone somehow? Lol I have been trying to keep patience & tolerant of our new member but its reached the point of being comical and bordering on ridiculous.
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Laurence, after the way you've posted all throughout both of this guy's threads; when I'm ready to get some steel for the kitchen, I'd definitely consider doing business with you. That's a fact. :thumbup:
 
I'm eating well tonight too!
We made beer battered fish & veggies! Alaskan Halibut! Yum! With some cold beer of course!;)
 
Quiet said:
First in line, right here!
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Oh man,I just thought of another idea to help me sell it... A gorilla. I post video of an ACTUAL gorilla performing stress tests on the "500 Pound Gorilla" knife. Yes. A thousand times yes. Cold Steel, eat your hearts out.
 
Seafood is good, but there's so much farm raised fish out there. It's hard to find wild fish and when you do, it's very expensive.
 
Joe Duder said:
Seafood is good, but there's so much farm raised fish out there. It's hard to find wild fish and when you do, it's very expensive.
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Very true, Joe.

But I gotta say I'm a little more grateful having been to some places in Europe where any and all seafood had to be imported and was super expensive, even the kinds you'd expect to be cheap... but I agree, I wish the wild fish option was easier and cheaper.

Side note: It seems to me it is much easier to get lots of high quality free range eggs in the places I've been to in Europe though, so that's a plus for them. For me, at least, it's hard to tell here. They have "degrees" of eggs in many places there that give you a range, from completely farm mass produced (in the horrible conditions) to completely free range, and a few things in between. It is interesting. I'm able to get eggs from the free range birds my parents keep on their farm... but I haven't solved the fish problem yet.
 
RedLynx said:
Oh man,I just thought of another idea to help me sell it... A gorilla. I post video of an ACTUAL gorilla performing stress tests on the "500 Pound Gorilla" knife. Yes. A thousand times yes. Cold Steel, eat your hearts out.
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Youngsters....don't remember the American Tourister commercials....:)
 
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