What Folding Knife did you personally own, or have owned you would call?

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Indestructible, or almost indestructible.

A knife you beat up real bad, it is ugly now from use, but still works when you call upon it to do a job.
 
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I've owned folders worth over a thousand dollars and the absolute toughest and most indestructible folder I have ever owned/still do own is a $45 Cold Steel Recon 1 with the Tri-Ad lock. The Cold Steel Tri-Ad lock knives are folding knives that I would almost feel comfortable to call "fixed blades".

The blade itself would break before you can make the lock fail.
 
Metal Made Fox said:
I've owned folders worth over a thousand dollars and the absolute toughest and most indestructible folder I have ever owned/still do own is a $45 Cold Steel Recon 1 with the Tri-Ad lock. The Cold Steel Tri-Ad lock knives are folding knives that I would almost feel comfortable to call "fixed blades".

The blade itself would break before you can make the lock fail.
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Dude you ever own a Bm ADamas or Dpx hest or Lionsteel Sr1a or 2. I love the Recon 1 awesome knife at great price but for me best indestructible folders are Benchmade Adamas or LionsteelSr1a or 2. I got a Dpx hest in today and am impressed with the construction of it also. Frame locks are best locks to hold up to hard use or get a Benchmade ADamas. Made for abuse.
 
Spyderco Superleaf. I know on an intellectual level that there are tougher knives out there, but I beat on that thing all day long and it never did me wrong. I finally gifted it to my friend when he deployed and it's served him well.
 
I don't really know. I use all my folding knives be it a slip joint or locking modern the same. If I have a job and it is something a folder should be able to handle then whatever is in my pocket is what I use. Anything more and I use a fixed blade or the appropriate tool. The right tool for the right job. With that in mind though I do not baby my knives. I keep them well maintained and care for them regularly but I have no issue with using them for anything I feel it should be able to handle. If it can't handle what I need a folder to do then I sell it, trade it, give it away or junk it. I do realize that sometimes however you only have the option of whats in your pocket to get a job done and I take that into consideration.
 
I will definitely echo the Cold Steel sentiments in this thread. They are absolute beasts, ESPECIALLY considering their price points. I recently picked up a Mini Recon 1 for $35 shipped.

Say what you will will about Cold Steel/Lynn Thompson/Taiwan production, I don't care. They produce incredibly high value knives and invented the strongest folding lock currently available.
 
My ZT0301 handles everything I need it too.

I do agree that a fixed is a better choice for rough use. But often I don't have one on my belt. The 301 , however has been clipped in my pocket everyday for the past year.
 
This may get a few snickers but I have a Spyderco Gayle Bradley air that I have hammered on, I made it do a lot of tasks that a larger knife should do and it has done great. The blade will not go dull. I don't know if I would call it indestructible, but size and weight to toughness I would put this little gents folder high on my list.
 
Definitely my toughest folder is my ZT 0350ts. The stripes give it more strength over the standard 0350.:D

I generally don't buy beastly folders because I don't need them for hard use and I don't care for the weight. My next toughest is the Sage1 (My EDC and favorite folder). With that said, every blade nut needs at least one though.
 
I've probably used the SmF and Benchmade Skirmish the hardest, but most of my knives would hold up to any knifely tasks I can think of.
The only knives I ever had break---and catastrophically at that---were a couple of cheap fixed blades and a really, really old sword style bayonet.
And that crappy elephant handle sword made in India I got for $50 back when I was 16...wow that thing broke in a weird way. :D
 
Benchmade Emerson 975. I thrown it, stab into metal drums, hacked at branches dug in the dirt with it and just used it with abandon. I still have and plan to EDC it one day after a clean up.

Others:
Spyderco Endura 2 (very close to the above in use)
Benchmade 710 with ats-34 blade
 
mk.ultra said:
I will definitely echo the Cold Steel sentiments in this thread. They are absolute beasts, ESPECIALLY considering their price points. I recently picked up a Mini Recon 1 for $35 shipped.

Say what you will will about Cold Steel/Lynn Thompson/Taiwan production, I don't care. They produce incredibly high value knives and invented the strongest folding lock currently available.
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Well, no. They license it. Andrew Demko came up with it.
 
No doubt my CS Voyager with triad. it is simply the strongest lock system invented so far. I own a ZT 300 and handled almost all of the other zt's ive handled the benchmade adamas. I wont use my ZT 300 any where near as rough as i will with my voyager. if your talking LOCK strength as in pressure on the blade spine, no lock compares to the triad.
 
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