Wanting a Folding Knife with NO Blade Play

The tighest-locking knives I have owned are:

Sebenza
Strider SMF
Skirmish
Buck Mayo

These have no play in any direction, and feel *extra* solid. I have other knives with no play, but these feel even more solid.

I am selling them all, though, as I have lost my interest in folders and just use fixed blades now.
 
If it is a folder without vertical play that you seek the look in to the world of Bali-Songs!

Good luck,
Allen.
 
I'm with Cliff on this one. Those knives should both be sent back to BM and Strider for warrenty work, as they are defective IMO.

I know that Strider is good about stuff like this. My SnG developed vertical play, and I sent it in. I had it back in a week and know it is tight as a drum. Don't know how BM is, but I have heard mostly good things. I do think it is BS that taking your knife apart voids the warrenty though.

Neither an AFCK or an AR should have any vertical play. If they do, back to the company is were they belong.
 
It's sad that people have to advise taking a Strider apart and bending the lock bar.

For $400 that baby better be perfect. I mean perfect.
 
Agreed. You can pay 8$ and get flawless blade mechanisms in a Vic Classic, I'd expect perfection in the lock mechanism from anything like a high end McHenry Williams, Strider, Sebenza, high end Spyderco or Benchmade etc.
 
I think it is safe to say that pretty much anybody expects a knife like that to have a flawless lock mech. And it should.

That being said, not every one of them will. Defects are virtually inevitable unless you inspect every knife individually. These are sitll production made knives, and not custom made one at a time. Even then there is still a break in period in which parts will shift and sometimes this means the locks will develope play. Thats why good companies have good warrentioes. Strider and Benchmade both do.

Send them in and have them fixed.
 
AmadeusM said:
Sounds like some QC people should spend a little less time browsing the internet at work..:rolleyes:
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LOL! I wish it were as simple as that .... the inescapable conclusion IMO is that certain well-known manufacturers not only know that an unreasonably high percentage of product they ship is defective, but do so intentionally.
 
Dog of War said:
the inescapable conclusion IMO is that certain well-known manufacturers not only know that an unreasonably high percentage of product they ship is defective, but do so intentionally.
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Can you explain this "inescapable conclusion" a little better? And exaclty what well know manufactuerers are you accusing of this?

All of the well known manufacturers that I can think of have lifetime warrenties on their knives. What possible advantage would it serve for them to knowingly ship defective products? Surely its cheaper to manufacture stuff right in the first place then it is to have warrenty service done on defective products.
 
Chin Mullet said:
It's sad that people have to advise taking a Strider apart and bending the lock bar.

For $400 that baby better be perfect. I mean perfect.
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So you imply that a $200K Porsche will never have to go to be serviced or have parts exchanged? It isn´t wizardry. It´s use, wear and tear.
 
Revierler said:
So you imply that a $200K Porsche will never have to go to be serviced or have parts exchanged? It isn´t wizardry. It´s use, wear and tear.
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No but if it came from the factory with problems or within a month I had to have it serviced for something it would not be acceptable.
 
korth. they use a ball bering system so that there is no horizontal or vertical play in the balde at all
 
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I am not blaming any knife manufacturer. I may simply have had bad luck in the knives I bought. Let's not rehash the debate about what the quality expectations of expensive knives should be.
 
I own three folders that have not even the merest hint of blade play:

1) BM Mini Skirmish
2) Emerson CQC
3) Kershaw 1050 "Folding Field" knife
 
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