What brands besides Spyderco have a finger choil to protect fingers from lock failure

[NG VI]

Dont use a liner/frame lock and you wont have to worry about lock failure

Bingo!!!

Only one knife has ever cut me without a serious mistake on my part.

A 'nice' lower-cost liner lock.

I do love the Spyderco choil because it allows me to close my knife without paying as close attention.

 

[SeppukuSamurai]

I noticed my spydercos have about half an inch of unsharpened choil where if the lock was to fail and the blade were to close back into the handle, my fingers would still be safe. I have attached a pic I found of what I'm referring to. What other brands have this feature to protect the users fingers? I know fixed blade is best but was wondering what other companies care enough about their customer's fingers. I would gladly give up some cutting edge to have this feature.

Strider sells a nice folding choil with a cool blade feature.

 

[Cutlover]

Dont use a liner/frame lock and you wont have to worry about lock failure

Boom. Got it right on the mark.

I got a knife with klecker lock, pretty much impossible to mess up. And for finger protection, I think most flippers kind of double as finger guards, though I wouldn't count on it.

 

[Kwon Kwang]

Dont use a liner/frame lock and you wont have to worry about lock failure

This might sound contrary to what I said earlier, but it really isn't: for general EDC, you probably don't need a lock at all. I love a nice liner or frame lock. To me, they're some of the best locks for EDC because they can facilitate a slim and lightweight pillar construction handle as well as a very comfortable handle. I also find them very fun to actuate. Would I take one to a place where I thought bad people might come to hurt me? No. Would I beat on one? Absolutely not. That's not what they're for. For those things, I would exclusively choose a Tri-Ad lock (if I can't use a fixed blade, which would be my preference), which is just a little less user friendly but a whole lot more reliable.

Now, a choil like those on some Spyderco knives will definitely help to protect your fingers, but that's not necessarily what they're for per se, and as such I would not rely on them for that purpose.

Spyderco does make a damn fine knife with some damn fine locks, though!

 

[killgar]

If I thought the lock of a knife might fail and cut my fingers, I wouldn't buy that knife.

If I thought that the lock of a knife might fail while using that knife hard, I would use a fixed-blade.

I've been using frame locks and liner locks for the past 15 years, and I've never had one become unlocked by accident.

Considering how many liner lock and frame lock knives have been in use for the past several decades, if they were experiencing a heavy rate of failure I think we would be hearing about such incidents quite often on this forum. But we don't.

When people say that liner/frame locks are unsafe, I can't help but wonder if they have actually experienced a lock failure, or if they are just repeating something they read on the internet. And if they did experience a lock failure, I can't help but wonder what they were doing with the knife.

Of course, I don't actually expect people to admit that their lock failed while using their knife in an unsafe and irresponsible manner. Instead of blaming themselves, I would expect them to blame the knife.

If you buy a quality knife, and use it as it was intended, the lock shouldn't fail.