Which Emerson in the CQC line has the beefiest lock?

STR said:
For frame locks there is another thing to consider. The lock cuts being thin does not keep many users from using them dang hard and overall for most uses the knives hold up fine. I think the hand actually helps the lock to absorb some of the shocks from hard use too, acting somewhat as a cushion and stabalizer in its own right. There are a lot of liner locks that would prove stronger than most frame locks in static load tests. But in the human hand, during real world use, which is something a static load test cannot possibly replicate, I feel the frame lock has the advantage even with the lock cuts thinned down as they are on so many in the industry. I know I'd sooner hard stab a frame lock than a liner lock any day of the week, thin lock cut or not. For whatever that is worth to you.

STR
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Good points & very interesting. I never had a CQC12, so I guess I shouldn't have mentioned it. I did have an HD7 & several CQC7s (Still do). I guess I never noticed the thin cut-out, however, I did notice how my HD7's lock didn't wear as far, nor as quickly as my CQC7s & I've used them for stuff that a folder isn't recommended to use on (You gotta do & use what you have when you're out in the field).

I totally forgot about the mini A100 as that is one beefy small folder.
 
stabman said:
No it didn't.
Wiggle up and down, but no failures on ridiculous spine-whacks.
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I stand corrected.

However, the wiggle up and down troubles me, as I have a BM 930 which has an axis lock. Mine wiggles up and down too, although I've never spine whacked it even once. Not even a tap. I think the lock is fine for most things, like light whittling, opening envelopes and packages, cutting an apple or steak, etc. And I do like the knife. However, it'll never be on my list of knives for anything serious that's remotely related to self defense. I consider it a gentleman's knife. (It looks particularly good now since I made a set of scales from tortoise shell celluloid.) I have no real confidence however in the lock.

Folderguy
 
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