.357 mag wrote:I don't currently have any but the liner lock is my favor to play with. Cut myself the most with that lock too.
I agree.... it is pretty fun & dangerous. I find myself flicking and closing the line lock the most. Also an easy way to cut yourself if you aren't paying attention or looking.
I'd also say the Axis-Lock is fun as well, but I've had two experiences with the springs snapping. So, the unreliability of it (for me) totally takes away the joy of the lock.
Spyderco please make a wire clip version of the Manbug/Ladybug!
Evil D wrote:For all the lockback comments...this is something i always loved about my Native. If your finger is in the groove on the handle and you press the lock, the blade drops down and hits your finger, but it's the choil that hits you, not the edge. That knife also has a really satisfyling clack sound when you open it.
Yep. Over the past eight years, in addition to a lot of cutting, I've probably played with Spyderco midlocks for hundreds of enjoyable hours. Never had a problem closing one, never found it difficult to do one handed, and never cut myself when doing so. Like every other lock, there are techniques that work and techniques that don't.
I'm too set in my ways to bother learning those techniques for other locks so, with the exception of my new "toy", I stick with the midlock. Autos are fun in a totally different way. I see it as an adult jack-in-the-box. :o :D
dialex wrote:I'm gonna cheat a little at this one and answer... balisong. By far the most entertaining and enjoyable of them all :D
That was my thinking as well. Glad someone else said it first.
Whoever didn't have the pleasure of flipping one yet, must go buy one asap.
Becides that, it would have to be one that doesn't slice the crap out of my finger.
DedRok wrote:I'd also say the Axis-Lock is fun as well, but I've had two experiences with the springs snapping. So, the unreliability of it (for me) totally takes away the joy of the lock.
Two of my 710s, one a trainer and one a very early production version, have exceptionally high cycle counts...neither of them has ever broken a spring...I believe it happens, but I don't believe it has anything to do with the number of spring cycles.
Midlock is my favorite as well. I too like depressing the lockbar until the blade swings freely and catching the choil to close.
But my favorite thing about back locks is that they DON'T swing perfectly freely. I like that the lack imparts a certain amount of tensioned resistance as the blade rotates along its arc. Each midlock knife has a different feel to it. I find that Enduras and Delicas and their derivations swing with a relatively unhindered quality that has machine-like precision to it.
Schempps on the other hand are a bit stiffer but to my this confers a solidity of construction and makes it feel as though the lock and the knife have a lot of life left in them. I love that the big heavy hollow ground Persian blade's momentum can overcome this positive tension and still absolutely scream into locked position.
Evil D wrote:For all the lockback comments...this is something i always loved about my Native. If your finger is in the groove on the handle and you press the lock, the blade drops down and hits your finger, but it's the choil that hits you, not the edge. That knife also has a really satisfyling clack sound when you open it.
So...it's about obsessive/compulsive is it?
Pardue 720 and Pinnacle. Axis and Mono-Lock. (This is before I found out about Sebenzas etc.) Sentimental picks but boy what a joy so many years ago! Still have em with the black coats still black. (Tactical phase don't ask.) They still open and close beautifully. Still play with em now and then.
Nowadays it's the Military. :)
