What Is The Strongest And Sharpest Folder Knife?

strongest is a good question, i would say probably strider for a custom knife (although any good custom folder is gonna lock up well, pat crawford, ernest emerson, darrel ralph, bob t, all the ones i have seen had great lock up, like a vault imho) but production? the BM axis lock is pretty good, the buck striders are good, the extrema ratio's are very good, surefire alpha is good also. a good frame lock ie BM skirmish is also great, maybe the best all around.

as far as sharp, a zero bevel grind emerson specwar hands down, nothing could be sharper than one of them imho. i have a CQC8 and a collectors assoc. P-Tac and ya have to see/feel to believe, not the best for utility (not what they were designed for...) but for sheer "sharpness" nothing else comes close imho. makes me shiver to think what it could do to flesh ever time i look at them.
 
I think the old REKAT Rolling lock was the strongest lock ever made (next to a fixed blade!),

dont agree with ya on this, i would say a well made liner lock is as good as a rolling lock, a frame lock/axis lock is 10X better, the rolling lock is too prone to failure because of stuff getting into it/the very thin piece that locks it breaking/or any number of things, all of which have been discussed. i have had more lock problems out of 3 knives (all sifus) with rolling locks than all other types combined, they all had problems, while the rolling lock might be theoretically a good lock, on paper, in service it just doesnt work, imho the tolerances are just too tight. pat crawford made a model w/a rolling lock, now it might be ok, but its pretty high $$, the production rolling lock was not good imho. very very far from the "lock of the 21st century " lol.
 
Hai WadeF,

You made a sharp point there, thanx. Offcourse anyone can resharp a knife over and over again, I am just curious wich folder knife is most sharp factory sharpend.
More importent, how long will this knife hold that sharpness after using it for carving hard wood and general purpose? Finally, is it possible to resharpen that knife easily and how long will it remain good quality after resharpend it again and again and again....

regards.
 
Hi Freddy1,

Thanx for the link, I checked it out and it looks just great!
I just bought the Boker Leo-Damascus folder for my collection. That knife really rocks!

Regards.
 
shpshooter said:
3 words: Scott Cook Lochsa

Think of it as a Sebenza's better brother. Handle milled from one solid piece of Titanium (not two slabs and a spacer like the Sebenza), a stainless steel pivot and thumb lug, Bronze bushings and washers, and a blade of 154-CM, S30V, BG-42, S60V, S90V, or Damascus (your choice), all for between $500 and $700 depending on what you want in it. Really a top notch piece.
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There is of course a slight problem with this, for me anyway.

$US700 is around $1000 in my money. Now, rich buggers like you ( ;) ) can probably afford to spend $1000 on a knife for every day use but a poor country boy like me would be too afraid to take it outside the house in case I lost/damaged it. The $US400 for my Strider and Sebbie is about the limit I'm prepared to risk there. They might be great knives but I'd be afraid to use it and all my knives are users, to one extent or another.
 
Magnum440 said:
The Leo-Damascus, a high performance steel, was made available to Boker through a noted European Damascus forger, Markus Balbach. This particular steel was forged out of the barrel of the German battle tank Leopard I, thus the name Leo Damascus. This specialty steel is not available on the market and there is no material number even assigned to it because it is only used by the military. Herr Balbach was fortunate to acquire some of it for Boker exclusively
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Fortunate? Maybe, maybe not. Considering the immense battering that the bore of a Leopard tank gets each time a shell is fired through it, I would be very *very* suspicious of the condition of any metal subsequently forged out of this barrel. Besides, why is it not possible to get this metal directly from the maker? The Leopard I is not such a high-tech new tank as to have that kind of things still kept secret (the Leo has been exported to, and used in, quite a few countries and I cannot imagine that the metal of its bore would be so secret).

Sure looks like a marketing gimmik to me.

Am I missing something here?

TN
 
Hi TN,

Well maybe you are right, maybe it is possible to buy this metal directly from the maker or from others, maybe the Leo has been exported to and used in many countries. If it is all a gimmik, I don't really mind, because I allready bought this knife and to me it is a wonderful knife in my collection.

I don't think it's high secret metal or something, I just like knives and this one is Leo-Damascus from Boker and I enjoy Boker knives.


Regards.
 
Hi,

I have to say that the pics of the knife that I saw look absolutely beautiful! Makes perfectly good sense to get it for a collection. Enjoy!

Kind regards,

TN
 
The 3 sharpest as received folders I have are the discontinued Buck 532 and the Fallkniven U2 or the Buck/Mayo with S30V steel.

The strongest I have would be one of these:
Al Mar SERE
Sebenza MM Classic
or one of the first Benchmade CQC-7's

Ron
:p
 
IMHO, there is no knife that is the best of both. To be strong, the blade and handles must be thick, and to cut well and be sharp, it must be thin profiled. The best cutters would have to be some of the dozier folders and the toughest would be the Greco Falcon.
 
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