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Frame locks, axis locks and liner locks are popular because of the ease of unlocking the blade with one hand. Your thumb is near the mechanism while using a normal grip. Convenience is more important to many knife users than brute strenth.
 
Surfingringo said:
Holy smoke, you guys are brutal!! Lol. Give the guy a break. He took the time effort and had the ingenuity to come up with a new lock design. I'm glad folks are thinking of new ways to push the boundaries of folding knife design...aren't y'all? You don't have to like every design to appreciate that folks are trying. I think the hate spewing is a bit over the top. I dunno.

Having said that, you should know, op, that you need to pay a modest fee to upgrade your status if you want to promote your products on here. I can only guess that that's where a lot of the negativity toward you is coming from.

Regarding your design, I wasn't able to completely understand how the lock works from the video. I would suggest making a video maybe with a progression of photos of diagrams that would better illustrate exactly what's going on.

Anyway, it's not my cup of tea as I'm not into the overbuilt folders at all but I can appreciate your effort and ingenuity that went into your prototype. Keep at it and good luck.

Now pay up like everyone else if you want to keep talking about it! :)

Take care,

Lance
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One of the worst designs I've ever seen. It looks hideous. I don't think your company will sell many at all.
No one I know would want a huge flip lock on the side of their knife.

Thats about all the feedback I have. Good luck with your company.
 
FFK said:
Qualified feedback on my design is all I'm after on this forum.....nothing more. Clear ?
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Ok, here goes.

For easy carrying, I find low-weight increases portability and reduces the chance you will ever leave home without it (how effective is the tool that is laying at home on the bedside table?). In this regard, I suggest you put the handle on a serious diet, it appears to be unnecessarily comfortable and ergonomic. I'd start by milling out really deep jimps everywhere to lower weight, then bevel all the edges to the point that the bevels meet. These actions could lower the weight by 30% or more. This also has the side benefit of making the handle so painful to use that very little or zero force can actually be applied to the handle, which practically negates the probability of lock failure!

Once these suggestions are incorporated and tested, you may find that the weight/portability can be further optimized by reducing unnecessary bulk in the lock area.

Continue to iterate through this reduction and testing algorithm until you also begin to reduce the blade thickness and bulk.

These later steps will almost certainly have a surprising benefit of increasing cutting performance. Keep going until you have saved enough weight that you can at last return to handle ergonomics. You will likely find that smoother more contoured surfaces are easier to grasp and retain even in slippery circumstances. These ergonomics also improve/increase duration of work periods during a survival situation ( a good thing, since we generally like to get a lot of work done when we need to).

You may also find that the optimal balance of weight/strength/ergonomics in the area between the handle and the blade is a fixture with zero degrees of free motion. Not only is this TRULY and unarguably as good as a fixed blade, it actually IS a fixed blade.

Give some of those concepts a try and you'll probably find yourself no longer in the gimmick market and firmly in the knife market. Beware, it is a tough market to successfully enter and survive in, even with a fantastic knife that outperforms the competition.

One thing you can also do to boost your acceptance into this industry is to research the groups with whom you hope to gain acceptance and play by the rules (written and unwritten).
 
FFK, wow, was I a d-bag last night or what? First of all, sorry about that, I was just having a bit of fun with this thread, totally went over the top.

Secondly, guy, seriously, if you'd like to use this place as a marketing tool, or a focus group, then get a membership to the correct tier. There are plenty of us who have forgotten more about knives than others of us will ever know. This place could be of serious help, but you gotta put some skin into this game, man. Good luck.
 
Yea well....partially deserved I guess. That is in the past now. Anyway I paid for Gold membership. Attached is a pic from original FFK_folded.jpgCAD file of FFK. The locking lever turns into a partial left bolster. The prototype in video was made by a company using their interpretation of an FFK.FFK_open_left_and_right_side.jpg
 
The CAD here helps me make more sense of it, thanks.

Just a heads up, you need to go into your account settings and actually switch to the Gold membership, otherwise you'll still show up as just a registered user.
 
Yes, when opening blade, tang pivots on pivot pin and when aligned with handle tang legs it descends vertically into handle tang legs. Then it's locked together with overcenter cam lever.
 
Yes, when opening blade, tang pivots on pivot pin and when aligned with handle tang legs it descends vertically into handle tang legs. Then it's locked together with overcenter cam lever.
 
RedLynx said:
That sounds like an obscure sexual position. ;)

Sorry guys, it's a really nice day out for the first time in awhile here in my neck of the woods and I'm in a weird mood. ;)
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You mean like this ...--..--.-.. -- ---...-..--. ? You need to go out and enjoy the fine weather my friend your freaking out. :) If it's on a pivot pin :D Would that not make this the weak point in your system ? Pretty sure fixed blades have no pivot point. Just saying not trying to start any drama.
 
LEGION 12 said:
You mean like this ...--..--.-.. -- ---...-..--. ? You need to go out and enjoy the fine weather my friend your freaking out. :) If it's on a pivot pin :D Would that not make this the weak point in your system ? Pretty sure fixed blades have no pivot point. Just saying not trying to start any drama.
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Got out for a little today already and hoping for more later... my local Dollar General (yeah, I shop there... it's next door to where I live so it's hard to pass up being able to walk over in nice weather...) changed their whole layout today so I had to spend extra time re-locating all of the usual items I purchase from there. ;)
 
RedLynx said:
Got out for a little today already and hoping for more later... my local Dollar General (yeah, I shop there... it's next door to where I live so it's hard to pass up being able to walk over in nice weather...) changed their whole layout today so I had to spend extra time re-locating all of the usual items I purchase from there. ;)
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A general reshuffle been there I think they just do that to confuse the employee's. Just go up to the cashier and start screaming where's the nuts should get some giggles.
 
LEGION 12 said:
A general reshuffle been there I think they just do that to confuse the employee's. Just go up to the cashier and start screaming where's the nuts should get some giggles.
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I did ask for facial tissues. But I didn't need hand lotion. ;)

They even changed the register locations which I found odd.
 
FFK said:
Yea well....partially deserved I guess. That is in the past now. Anyway I paid for Gold membership.
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Excellent. Though the gold membership you apparently have gotten doesn't magically make you did go away, and many here put a lot of value in the character of the maker behind the knife. And like I pointed out earlier, first impressions matter.

That said, and in lieu of you buying the correct membership, let me say that your knife still appears to be an uncomfortable, overcomplicated contraption built to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
 
Also worth noting is that a Gold membership does not allow you to promote products you have made in the General Knife Forum, I believe.

PLATINUM or GOLD - Platinum or Gold members are allowed to post in any of the Individual For Sale or Trade forums. They may sell items in the For Sale By Individuals, and can list items for Trade as well.
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I believe you need a Maker membership for that, and you are only allowed to promote your products in certain forums.

I would strongly suggest spending some time reading the rules, or asking questions in Tech Support.
 
Let me reiterate it's great that you are creative enough to have thought of this much less built what appears to be a functional prototype... I know that I couldn't do it. And I hope you continue as a Gold member to be a creative person striving for new ideas in the knife world.

Having said that, I have to agree with Marcinek... I don't think the knife CREATES more problems than it solves or anything, but it does seem overly-complicated and it makes me wonder why I wouldn't just have a thinner, lighter (even bigger and lighter, more compact) fixed blade instead.

Yes, I know this is a sort of "for when you don't have a fixed blade handy" sort of knife, but still.

Best of luck.
 
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