I have perfectly understood your words
It's why I told about technical performence. The usual goal of Roberto is to include modern systems in old patterns without aesthetic changes.
But I have to say that, to my opinion, the friction knife is the safest I know and this for one reason : if your knife initiate to close itself with
the slip joint system ou and locking system the blade will enter in the handle pretty fast and of course on your fingers.
If the friction is good the the blade will never reach your fingers , it will stop before .
This explanation come from .... a sardinian friend of mine
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This has been my experience as well with friction folders. The first thing I do with any Opinel, Higonokami, and my Resolza, is to make sure the rivet is peened for a snug fit. I keep an eye on it, and make sure it stays that way. Since I very very rarely use the lock ring on my Opinel, it works like any other knife, except that I know it will never snap closed on me. If the blade does start to fold because you're pressing with the point, it stops as soon as the pressure is off. I feel safer with a friction folder than with a slip joint with half stops or a strong snap to the back spring.
I've found that the horn handles on the Sardinian knives don't have the same swelling or shrinking with humidity like the wood handle Opinels, so the blade friction stays very consistent in amount of pull. Same with the metal handled higonokami.
Last year my sister law had a sofa being delivered to ther home. She couldn't take off work, so I sat and waited at her place. They dropped the sofa off and left it in a huge cardboard womb, because the internet sales didn't allow for de-boxing. So with my Opinel I set about getting this large sofa out of the packing and then breaking down all that cardboard into pieces that would fit in her recycle bin. The Opinel had to be sharpened up during the job, and twice I had to stop and use some hand sanitizer to get the glue and stuff off the blade as it was getting gummed up with the junk that was in the cardboard and packing tape the sofa was cocooned in. A couple times the blade squeaked and bound up, and as I pulled it back out of the double wall thick cardboard it pulled the blade closed a few degrees. But that was it. Maybe about a fraction of an inch, but no more. It was a very tough cutting job, but the Opinel worked just fine without even the locking ring on it. The locking ring was home in a drawer, since I had got used to using the knife as a pure friction folder.
I've come to totally trust the friction folder more than a slip joint. If you have the pivot adjusted right, you actually have to push the blade all the way closed.
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