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While I was seduced by the wharnie shape, orange color, under 3-inch blade size, and -- let's not forget -- the closeout price -- even Spydie might have a hard time convincing me to buy any more slippies. I see no good reason to give up locks while I still have an option.

from your op ...

vic, you should be able to give us 1,000 specific reasons a slipjoint is good or bad, but you just say they are bad and give us zero reason. It seems like you are arguing, but giving NO information to support why your side is correct. You have said a lot so far, and all I can report is: He has ...

centofante 3 is one of the spydercos i have always wanted, thin HG blade, very nice

nothing i don't like about this knife from what i've seen

Donut wrote: That argument doesn't make much sense to me. If I'm allowed to carry a gun, and I can use a gun to cut rope and I prefer to use a gun to cut rope, is that the best option for me?

what the f are you talking about

I don't agree with a lock making a knife safer to use. A lock gives you a false sense of security. When you assume the lock will work and it doesn't, then your assumption gets you injured more severely. I believe that a lot knife related injuries could be prevented by using slipjoints.



if a ...

This thread is kind of annoying in the fact that most of the people who argue against slipjoints are people who have never tried them.

I still think that if people will try them out, they will like them.




your post is kind of annoying too donut

i've tried them, they're the only knives i can ...

Never had a slipit and, where I live, have absolutely no need for a lockless folder.
Also, I would not want to risk injury to fingers, etc.

That said, I like the looks of one of the slipits on sale at a closeout price. Spydie makes some nice designs, as we all know. Just wish the darn thing had a ...

he's sold a lot of knives for your favourite knife company and has generated a lot of interest in it?

Blerv wrote:I like choils but hate losing cutting edge for them. Likewise, I like leg room in cars but not at the expense of a smaller engine .

it wouldn't need to lose any cutting edge, plenty of room for choil

it's hardly a 1:1 ratio

You mean 15 minutes of talking without even opening the knife? :p

I trust Spyderco to make a nice knife even without nutn saying so. ;)


is it really still the cool thing to do to slag off this guy's videos? even when he highly praises something you like you still have to do the in thing don't ...

the multicam looked excellent and it would be expensive to do no doubt. i wouldn't buy one but wouldn't fault anyone for doing so. it would probably be an investment.

i wouldn't pay money for any persistence though, and buying a stock persistence certainly wouldn't be an investment

Not to argue, but maybe that has been your experience with semi-autos as far as being reliable...It has not been my experience, I probably have more exposure to issues revolving around the semi-auto's reliability, as I am a certified Law Enforcement and Civilian Firearms Instructor.
I see it ...

Shawn, seems to me you know what caliber performance you want in your handgun for your needs.....45 ACP Two thumbs up from me on that choice...Thing is you really need to think about the platform for delivery. You're thinking a Semi-auto, bigger ammo capacity, fast rapid delivery, but are you ...

defenestrate wrote:The Taurus Judge revolver fires .45 ACP and .410 shotgun shells...

no it doesn't, it can chamber .410 and .45 colt

the new smith governor with chamber both of those and .45 acp

obnoxious?

maybe with toxic green g10 it would work

See... thing is, that wasn't what I was doing. I picked two random knives... because the point I was making had nothing to do with the knives themselves, it had to do with the prices those knives fetched. If you prefer, you can just imagine that I used the SS Endura instead of the military... or ...

I am aware of that... hence the request to sub (read: replace) a more compatible model into the... actually, you've probably already stopped reading again and I think I clarified as much as possible in the portion of my post that wasn't worth your time. Sorry to have bothered you :p .

no you're ...

Jordan wrote:Ok, then pick a spyderco backlock with a 3-4 inch blade and sub that in for the millie in my glib little metaphor :p .

military's a liner lock

didn't read the rest

Well, lemme ask you this... I own a Buck 110. Is it really worth it to spend 2-3 times more on a military or is it just the bug on the blade that inflates the price :p .

Eye of the beholder bud, no other real answer.

at least he's comparing 2 ti framelocks which are comparable in design and ...

Yea or any material like cardboard. A FFG blade acts like a wedge.

In most cases I prefer a high-hollow like you said. 90% of my cuts are only midway up the blade and the geometry of that grind makes way more sense. They also sharpen longer before getting thick and needing to be thinned ...