Military Lightweight!

[SpyderEdgeForever]

When,sal?

I'm sure nearly every forumite old and new and in between and thousands or more not on here would buy one or more.

1 a great stainless blade
2 FRN grip
2 SE and PE and CE versions

Please

[kobold]

With liner lock!

[Brock O Lee]

Hard pass.

[Wartstein]

With liner lock!

This.

No interest in a comp.lock FRN Millie (...PM2 XL... ), but the Millie 1 with its great linerlock, grippy FRN and even lighter would be an instant buy.

Though I don't know how much weight they could shave off the Millie 1: Certainly a little bit with FRN and its internal webbing, but liner-wise the Millie 1 already is pretty "minimal"

[Paul Ardbeg]

The only "lightweight" Millie i'm interested in Besides my Salt manix LW, the only FRN lw i'm interested in are the models with a back lock of which there are plenty such as the Stretch 2 and xl version.

[kobold]

[Tristan_david2001]

If I ever try a Millie one day it definitely won’t be a plastic version

[Jesla]

With liner lock!

Very hard pass…

[vivi]

if they make the smooth clip contact area in the middle of the scales long enough for the size knife the Military is, I'd be interested in one. That's been an issue with their larger LW folders unfortunately (Police, Resilience, etc.)

I'd prefer the 2, definitely.

[SpyderEdgeForever]

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

[Hopsbreath]

With liner lock!

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

Not a Spyderco but I’ve had both CRKT and Kershaw liner-locks fail in the past. Both times were with a bit of wrist torque twisting the frame, widening the gap, and causing the lock to slip. Military, Tenacious, Resilience, Gayle Bradley are all rock solid and not prone to the same issues in my experience.

That said, I imagine disassembling and reassembling a knife a bunch of times and wearing out the hardware could lead to a similar problems. What I’m describing though is an abuse scenario where care isn’t taken to avoid rounding of corners and even cross threading screws. It’s not completely out of the question but highly unlikely unless you don’t take the time to do things right.

[Paul Ardbeg]

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

Never!

[Jesla]

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

For me the issue is liner locks eventually bite… an acceptable alternative for me are assisted opening liner locks that stop them from swinging/slamming shut… then there is the issue of safely one hand closing off-handed.

[JSumm]

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

Never, but I could see how some designs on the market are questionable. Except the Military, the tang where the liner lock interfaces has the most aggressive angle where I could never see it wearing down to the point of failure. The choil ends up hitting your thumb if you let it drop all the way. My hands freeze up working in cold temps in the winter and the Military ends up being the easiest for me to use in those times.

[Mrj]

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

Never failed but i have a nice scar on top of my thumb from closing

[RazorSharp86]

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

Gayle bradley failed on me, digging into my index finger very deeply.
It was the only time I had a lock failure, from use and not “testing”.
Never bought another linerlock since.

Also, 3 Spydeiechefs and two technos with major lock movement when pressing the spine.

Whenever I reported these on the forum, people were quick to dismiss. I even posted a video on it back in the day, but the responses were “you could have used better lighting - what a sheesh* video, man!”
“Next time, get a manicure done before you post this type of stuff dude!”

Hilarious stuff.

[Coastal]

I might be tempted by a lightweight Military, but would probably pass. It just feels too out of character. Plus, as someone else already said, we already have the Stretch XL. A lightweight Military would inevitably be a Military 2, and since I like a backlock better than a comp lock, I'd probably just stick with the Stretch XL.

[wrdwrght]

What drew me to the Military Model in the first place was its lightness (for its size).

Can’t say a lighter-weighted Millie interests me at all, compared to the prospect of new models.

[Wartstein]

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For me the issue is liner locks eventually bite… an acceptable alternative for me are assisted opening liner locks that stop them from swinging/slamming shut… then there is the issue of safely one hand closing off-handed.

With a (linerlock) Millie?

Honest question: What could be the issue here?

When I (righty) close a Millie with the left hand, I just press the lock with the index finger instead the thumb and due to the position my index finger has to have in order to do that there is no chance of the edge hitting it (it will always inevitably be the choil).
Actually in that first closing step safer than a comp.-(or other) lock, since with the latter one CAN actually accidentally put a finger in the EDGE path...

[Wartstein]

Side question on this: has anyone on the forum or anyone you know of had a Spyderco liner lock truly fail during use and/or lead to cuts on finger or not ever?

Never with a Millie or Tenacious familey linerlock.

There are those stupid Millie "destruction" tests on yt: Even there the lock never fails as far as I saw.

I can recall two accounts here though where a comp.lock "failed" or not actually failed but was accidentally activated when the knife was gripped really hard and so the blade came loose.

Don´t know if there is a chance that this could happen with a linerlock too, but the substantial safety plus of a linerlock over comp.lock and other locktypes on a Spydie with (!!) choil: Even if the lock should get accidentally activated there is that "special built in safety feature" :The finger that accidentally could activate the lock at the same time is inevitably in a position where it will also stop the blade at the choil before the edge could hit any finger.

One if the reasons why the linerlock Millie 1 especially in harsher outdoor conditions is more secure to use than the comp.lock Millie 2.