Terzuola Liner Locks

snapcut - you don't necessarily have to white knuckle a linerlock folder for it to fail. and some people legally cannot carry fixed blades. besides, many of these custom folders are being marketed as "tactical" and defensive type folders. therefore, imo, they should be able to withstand moderately hard use. if a maker or dealer does not think that a folder should have to pass certain lock tests, then he/she should stop marketing and selling the folder as "tactical".

i think that some makers/dealers are in a state of semi-denial right now. they don't like lock tests. they don't think that lock testing is indicative of real-world use. yet, they are willing to sell/make folders that are obviously marketed as defensive folders. the reason, imo, for the denial, is that they make/sell linerlocks, and they have been doing so, successfully, for years. the trend towards new locking systems is a threat to their business. if linerlocks are shown to be totally undependable for self defense use, what will they make/sell?

i don't worry too much about lock failure in a self-defense situation, because i carry a fixed blade for that sort of thing!

marco
 
Snapcut, no and no.

Concerning liner locks, I finally found what I was looking for yesterday :

http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000255.html

There are a couple of ideas here for increasing thier stability.

Since they can be made right, unless Joe just made this report up, which I highly doubt, I see no reason to buy anything other than those that are. Unless of course that making them in the manner described has a trade-off in performance, but I didn't notice any comments of this sort.

Joe you might want to think about adding this link to the liner-lock FAQ (since they are HTML'ed now this would be trivial) as the idea is out there that liner-locks cannot be made stable and this gentlemen obviously can do so.

I think Marco got the main point and that is simply many people think it is not necessary or practical for locks to have these strengths. Bottom line why are you buying anything less than the optimal performance when there is no trade-off to having it? I am of course speaking of working knives not collectors items.

-Cliff
 
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