The strongest folder ever made?

Joshua J. said:
Yeah, the Triad Lock is up there with tho Compression Lock and Axis Lock.
Click to expand...

I own top-shelf knives with those locks and, with nothing to gain from saying this, I think the Triad is the best of them. After much heavy usage, almost every day, my American Lawman still locks up tighter than any other knife I own with no play in any direction. Mind you, that's not with the pivot cranked down, either! I'd absolutely love to get a custom American Lawman, but the bills prevent it att. I wish you good, long luck with that Demko custom. :thumbup:
 
No liner or frame lock is going to hold up to the same level of strength testing as this Demko folder using the Triad lock. For that matter that goes for the production models also. Even the unlined FRN (fiberglass reinforced nylon) models with no liners are going to prove to be incredibly strong and reliable when sporting this lock. The long term wear rate would be so much better also on the Demko design. There is no comparison really. The difference is night and day, particularly if both were used in a way that would be normal for the liner or frame lock.

By the way, I have one of these on order now, basically just like this one (with a twist to make it unique if I can have my way. We'll see.)

To give you an idea of the durability of the Triad lock if you do not know. I cut, correction, chopped a tree down today using one of my Triad locking Rajah I folders which Andrew Demko designed and all I can say is that I do not recall ever having a folding knife this tough, this durable and this capable at any other time in my life. I cannot think of another knife that could have done what I did with this one today that would not have shown severe premature wear from the abuse and this knife took it and did not change in the least and that last tree I chopped down with it was one that I probably should not have used it on due to the size of it. It did it no problem though. Not only that but I've been using it all weekend and yesterday trimming tree branches in the yard as needed getting it cleared for a new storage area for our garden shed. Today I looked at the pile of branches its made both today and over the weekend and it is no small pile let me tell you.

All I can say is that its absolutely incredible. While I doubt seriously if I'd be able to do that with a knife the size of the American Lawman, the point is the Triad lock will take an extreme amount of force and abuse before you would ever have to worry about it and all the while it would offer the best reliability of any design I've ever seen in a lock mechanism. I love it! So much so that I will own one of these custom Lawman models here soon.

STR
 
STR said:
By the way, I have one of these on order now, basically just like this one (with a twist to make it unique if I can have my way. We'll see.)


STR
Click to expand...


So do I with some minor changes to make it mine. :thumbup:
 
Bierkameel said:
Nice but the Extrema Ratio RAO might be stronger.
Click to expand...

The picture of the Rao in earlier than mine posts will show what I mean when I say that the Tri-ad is stronger and secondly the Rao isn't as strong as it is made out to be.

The aluminum stopping the huge mama of a pin is very thin and under high closing loads the aluminum will fail. Opening up the Rao will show the blade has a disconnection/cut that weakens it and lastly the relatively soft aluminum cannot resist the screws from popping out or stripping (aluminum strips, not the screws).

IMO the Rao is very very strong at resisting opening direction forces. 3 stop pins and 2 screws all serve to resist opening/chopping force. However with minor design changes the Rao will then be excellent in my eyes, not now.
 
harkamus said:
Easily done by bead blasting. And this guy here will do it free for us. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=690572
Click to expand...

i simply scratched the coating off my mini lawman, i like it better thoug the black didnt look bad at all. the coating came off real easy. took 10 minutes.

danfigphotodfp3194.jpg
 
Real good guys, I am now going to jump on the band wagon and as soon as I sweeten up the wife (mothers day) beg for one myself. :o
Damn that Demko. :D
 
Hi,

Had one of mr Demkos earlier folders and it was the strongest folder I ever seen. Do you know his contact info?

Kind regards
 
He's a member here, so you could probably contact him that way. :)
 
a friend has a similar one from Demko with 6,5mm S30V and g-10

it is hard to bea a sigle piece of Ti here is the SR-1 the "ambitious folder"
single Ti construction, Sleipner carbon steel blade, steel insert on the frame lock, thick lockbar and a safety lock

cimg2341.jpg


I like strong knives too, have a few already
but all this chatting is a bit too much, there is no BEST folder, there are so many! they are folders and should by the way not compete with fixed blades
a grat folder that is very strong is OK for me but...the best? how can you define that?
 
For me, I consider a folder to be very strong when the blade breaks before lock failure. The closer one gets to that magical figure (different for different thickness of blade) the closer it gets to being the strongest...
 
This is sorta funny. I talked with Andrew in Jan about building me the one he has, At that time he said his yearly output was around 30 folders and that he usually sold them all at two shows he attended during the year.

Now it appears that he is building 6 or 7 for people at BF and JD. The majority of which have the thick ti liners, instead of the G-10 only.

Have just received a camera from a very good friend, who is a member here, so I hope to be able to post up some pics of mine when it comes.
 
cutter17 said:
This is sorta funny. I talked with Andrew in Jan about building me the one he has, At that time he said his yearly output was around 30 folders and that he usually sold them all at two shows he attended during the year.

Now it appears that he is building 6 or 7 for people at BF and JD. The majority of which have the thick ti liners, instead of the G-10 only.

Have just received a camera from a very good friend, who is a member here, so I hope to be able to post up some pics of mine when it comes.
Click to expand...


Begging helps a lot. :D :thumbup: :eek:
 
cutter17 said:
This is sorta funny. I talked with Andrew in Jan about building me the one he has, At that time he said his yearly output was around 30 folders and that he usually sold them all at two shows he attended during the year.

Now it appears that he is building 6 or 7 for people at BF and JD. The majority of which have the thick ti liners, instead of the G-10 only.

Have just received a camera from a very good friend, who is a member here, so I hope to be able to post up some pics of mine when it comes.
Click to expand...

by contract with cold steel only 30 tri-ad lock a year, I'll maybe only do about half that or less this year, as far as tri-ads go. Then random stuff for the Ohio Knife Show
 
DemkoKnives said:
by contract with cold steel only 30 tri-ad lock a year, I'll maybe only do about half that or less this year, as far as tri-ads go. Then random stuff for the Ohio Knife Show
Click to expand...


You may be doing 30 this year after some of us get ours and do reviews and videos. :D :thumbup:
 
Going back to the knife in the OP, would any of you guys know if this knife could be made in an automatic version?
 
:)Great discusion guys, Demko looks like a real TANK. Like all the great features.:thumbup:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top