BRAM wrote:The liners are the same..blade is also same thickness, only G10 is thinner..
no plastic washers as in spydie,,Bronze phoshpor washers in LLC
As for the rest..I own the utility and design patents on the Gunting not Spyderco..Its my knife...I don't have to ask permission to use my design or any variation of my design..
as for overall quality its as good or better...
( just so you chinaphobes take a breath without dying most of the products you routinely use say made in China, Mexico, Philippines taiwan or Korea..!)
we have gotten this knife out to many teams..and its quality has been touted and approved! You might want to see Wes Doss' article & review in Tactical Knives Nov 2007 "Bram Frank's Warrior Weaponry"..and the LLC won Tactical knife of the Year 2007 @ IWA.
The Spyderco Gunting is dead. end of story. I thank Spyderco for making my design and doing it very well..
Long live the newest member of the Gunting family the LLC and I look forward to the others in the Gunting family of knives: the Desangut, Tusok, Magnum, the LLC fixed blades both standrd and elongated and of course the upcoming Gunting2...
be safe
Bram
BRAM -
I'm
not arguing
against but
for your LLC design. I'm
not, in a sense, a "chinaphobe" other than communist China is still a hostile
foreign power, and their workers could be paid as well as the rest of the world's, but aren't. Political convictions aside...
I rather like the "puzzle lock". It's probably better than on the Gunting
and seem's a little more "user friendly". For the sake of my lack of mechanical
terms, a "compression" or other type lock ( other than the Walker ( liner ) lock ) really IMO doesn't hold so-much as a candle to the "puzzle lock".
Meebee :spyder: could introduce a design with your ever kind permission
( and compensation as well ( $$$ )) of a :spyder: with the "puzzle lock"?
I also read that article in
Tactical Knives and that was the reason for this thread.
I hope to obtain an LLC in the future.
AET
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it reality.
T.E. Lawrence