Triad lock failure ! Ouch!!

ALLHSS said:
I must have gotten bad info, good to know!
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No I don't think you did. I read somewhere that the first batches, or maybe just the first batch, of XHP was not marked. The only way one could separate them was by a slightly different textured black coating, I believe the aus8 coating was teflon.
 
I love my voyager vaquero in cts bd1 it's clearly marked on the blade!
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J.Vervoorst said:
Before posting nonsense, you may want to read the video comments the poster himself posted:
"ya i did the test on the spine incorrectly. but my cut has healed."
'i have realized that this was my fault. it is a great lock"
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Which is the source of my initial question (no trolling, just asking)......Is there some grip or orientation that results in the Tri-Ad being likely to disengage or not? That has always been my concern with back-locks and the Cold Steel video tests do not account for this detail. How often does the button get accidentally pressed or is that unheard of (other than by the maker of the Youtube Video) ? If anyone has an honest answer or opinion that would be appreciated. I suppose I will know first hand soon, but I'd rather not find out the hard way.
 
kidcongo said:
Which is the source of my initial question (no trolling, just asking)......Is there some grip or orientation that results in the Tri-Ad being likely to disengage or not? That has always been my concern with back-locks and the Cold Steel video tests do not account for this detail. How often does the button get accidentally pressed or is that unheard of (other than by the maker of the Youtube Video) ? If anyone has an honest answer or opinion that would be appreciated. I suppose I will know first hand soon, but I'd rather not find out the hard way.
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Been using back locks for 40 years and more, never happened. Tri-Ad locks are a lot harder to open than normal back locks.
 
Just wait till he tries to unlock the triad for the first time LOL

His next thread will be about how stiff the lock is and his thumb hurts haha

Once you break them in it gets better, and your thumb gets stronger.
 
I accidentally unlocked a back lock by gripping it in use once... Because I choked down and put my thumb directly on the lock bar and did something dumb with the knife haha lock backs are extremely intuitive. I have found that many times I've shown non knife people or people not familiar with the lock a liner or frame lock they haven't intuitively known how to unlock them. I've never met someone that didn't know how to unlock a back lock. Though, tbh, my ex couldn't unlock the Triad on a Voyager XL and my girlfriend has trouble unlocking my Native 5, with Spyderco's updated midlock with stronger spring.
 
353 said:
No I don't think you did. I read somewhere that the first batches, or maybe just the first batch, of XHP was not marked. The only way one could separate them was by a slightly different textured black coating, I believe the aus8 coating was teflon.
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That, and the boxes they came in were signed as certified XHP by Lynn Thompson
 
shinyedges said:
Just wait till he tries to unlock the triad for the first time LOL

His next thread will be about how stiff the lock is and his thumb hurts haha

Once you break them in it gets better, and your thumb gets stronger.
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I laugh a little every time I see someone complain about this. It's no harder to unlock than your typical Buck 110.
 
Kwon Kwang said:
I laugh a little every time I see someone complain about this. It's no harder to unlock than your typical Buck 110.
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That depends on the model.
My Rajah 2 = pretty easy.
XL G-10 Espada = really friggin hard to close (strong spring, which on a blade that size is a good thing).
Tuff Lite = not too bad, but you still have to push it down further than on any regular lock-back. Still, the girl I leant it to for the adventure race had no trouble closing it, the very first time I handed it to her...and she isn't a knife person (that's why she had to borrow a knife; it was mandated safety equipment :) ).

So to say they're all hard OR all easy is just wrong; the truth is that they vary a HUGE amount in ease to close based on model (and probably some individual variation too, but mainly by model; my father's Espada and Rajah 2 are the same tension-wise as mine).
 
So taking this thread back to the initial video, of the guy who's knife closed when spine whacking, if the lock is so stiff to depress, how exactly would this have happened? Did CS increase the lock spring tension at some point after issues like this?
 
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