What makes a liner?

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What make a liner lock and a frame lock differnt??
They look the same to me.
And
How dose the litle ball on a liner lock stay in when the blade is open?
looks like it would fall out to me.
 
The main difference between a liner and frame lock is the thickness of the side frames. The liner gets some of its stiffness from the handle materials and the thick liner makes the frame. (even though .050" thk titanium is very stiff).

The ball bearing is interference fit into a hole that is smaller than the diameter of the ball, so it doesn't move or fall out.

Kelly
 
If you use .100 titanium and add no scales, all you do is polish the titanium then it would be a frame lock. If you were to use .050 titanium and put scales on it then that would be considered a liner lock. Thats what I understand it to be. I am using titanium as an example.

-frank
 
The titanium "lines" another handle material. If the side of the knife that has the lock is exposed titanium it's a framelock, if the lock side has a scale it's a liner lock.
 
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