which folding knife locks will fail? when stabbing forces are applied....

Strait up butterfly knife. Best at stabbing, thats probably why there outlawed alot of places. Ive been edcing my mayhem for months now.

I could see frame locks failing if while your stabbing you twist and accidentally unlock it. Same thing could happen to a liner lock but its less likely.

Ive had a few different backlocks fail on me, Usually from a stabbing/prying situation.


Hey crimson and singularity I was on candlepowerforums and noticed someone revived a 2 year old thread and tons of people posted, like it was a brand new thread and nobody said a thing.
 
singularity35 said:
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Don't think so, but don't know for sure. Just saying. It's BACK (cue zombie music). And I don't really see the point, especially when it's a brand new member responding to an OP who very likely no longer cares. It's one thing if there's a good reason to bring it back. I'm not really sure why this one is back, but carry on and enjoy.

As far as I'm concerned, if you use your knife safely and responsibly, any lock will do just fine. People get along fine with SAK's, which have NO locking mechanism. If you want a prybar, get a fixed blade, such as the BK3. Or a prybar. If you want a knife, why not just use it as a knife?

Butterfly knives aren't outlawed because they're good at stabbing. They're outlawed because they have a reputation for being weapons over tools, and they're effective as weapons because it's very easy to disguise where the blade is, and hence, difficult to defend against.
 
I tried batoning with a crappy Gerber folder just for fun and to see how it would hold up. I would never do this with a decent folder obviously. The liner-lock failed a few times but I still managed to split a fair amount of wood. Afterwards I had to tighten the screws and sharpen the edge but other than that the blade was fine. Since this knife, the Gerber, doesn't really hold an edge I abuse it quite a bit just to see how far you can push it, but I've never managed to damage it permanently.

Batoning is probably a good test to see if your lock will fail, but I don't think I would ever do it with a folder that I actually liked. I do it with large fixed blades all the time though.
 
If you want to baton with a folder, simply disengage the lock and beat away. If the lock is not engaged then the forces aren't going to transfer to it and cause damage. You can still control the blade with the handle able to rotate.


Moses2792796 said:
I tried batoning with a crappy Gerber folder just for fun and to see how it would hold up. I would never do this with a decent folder obviously. The liner-lock failed a few times but I still managed to split a fair amount of wood. Afterwards I had to tighten the screws and sharpen the edge but other than that the blade was fine. Since this knife, the Gerber, doesn't really hold an edge I abuse it quite a bit just to see how far you can push it, but I've never managed to damage it permanently.

Batoning is probably a good test to see if your lock will fail, but I don't think I would ever do it with a folder that I actually liked. I do it with large fixed blades all the time though.
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