Syderco "geometric" cluch lock

[MamBo]

I saw dome of these poping on e-bay, but didn't saq any at my usual knife shoping places. anyway, I have few questions:

1. It's really spyderco ?
2. How good is thies cluch lock ?
3. if somone have this.. how is overall impression ?

thankz

 

[FullerH]

MamBo, as best I can figure from your post, you are asking about a "geometric clutch lock" from Spyderco that you have seen "popping up" on E Bay. I went over to the Spyderco web page and entered that term into their search function, got six "hits", and none of them actually mentioned a "geometric clutch lock". Spyderco" url is: http://www.spyderco.com/ and they also have a forum on this board, http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=726 where you might wish to post this question, but you might also wish to write it out in WORD, WordPerfect, or whatever word processing program that you might have and run it through a spell checker and a grammar checker first and then post it, as people will bew more likely to respond to a post that they don't have to interpret first.

 

[ThinkOfTheChildren]

It's actually a G Sakai knife which is a company that Spyderco is close to. From what I understand, it's just the BladeLock seen on the CRKT model.
<img src="http://www.gsakai.co.jp/seihin/gsakai/clutchlock2.jpg">

http://knifeoutlet.com/news/articles/000092.htm

 

[MamBo]

FullerH: sorry, next time I’ll try to find machine with word processor.

ThinkOfTheChildren: thank you for the info. Looks like the guy at e-bay misrepresented this knife (he says it’s spyderco and it’s titanium) Now, when I know it’s aluminum it isn’t so attractive anymore.

 

[KWG]

Well, it LOOKS exactly like the BladeLock, but it works completely differently. For one thing, the blade is not locked into the handle. There's a spring in there somewhere, connected to that bar under the thumbstud, that gives it a closing bias of about the same pull as a medium-strength slipjoint backspring would. The stud on the blade is not pushed down and into the blade to unlock, but rather along the surface and toward the tip of the blade. It's a little awkward to use the first few times, because you're pushing forward on the blade while trying to swing it toward you. It feels fairly secure, no wobble in the ones I've seen, but I don't know how the lock would compensate for wear. The knife itself is fairly light, and inexpensive for an anodized titanium handled knife with the option of wood, horn, or pearl onlays. The blade has a sharp tip, with plenty of belly. The pocket clip is pretty tightly sprung, but is a bright chrome. I'm not sure what it's made of, though. The handle's a little small for my hands, but I'm pretty sure that's just personal preference, since a small Vapor fits me just fine. Sharp looking knife, probably not the fastest or most intuitive to open or close, but good execution. Thumb-flickable with enough practice and force. All of these observations are based on playing around with a couple; I've never cut anything with one.