Locks with Springs durability

Ok enough. The OP I believe has an answer, that excessive opening and closing can cause omega springs to break. I think opinions on BM and Spyderco have been aired out enough already, and mcflyfyter is just being a troll. I'm out, I suggest OP or mod close the thread.
 
K.O.D. said:
Ok enough. The OP I believe has an answer, that excessive opening and closing can cause omega springs to break. I think opinions on BM and Spyderco have been aired out enough already, and mcflyfyter is just being a troll. I'm out, I suggest OP or mod close the thread.
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To minimize hurt feelings, I second this motion
 
mcflyfyter said:
I already said that nobody actually uses axis locks. Why are you not satisfied by me acknowledging that you are correct?
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Benchmade has about 380 employees, and sales for the year about 66 million dollars. Yeah, clearly no one actually uses axis locks.

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jux t said:
Lol. You said it took decades for Spyderco to refine and innovate their knives, while also calling those knives the equivalent of gas station knives. In no decade was that true.
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This is a flat out lie. Your reading comprehension is lacking or you are trolling. Hopefully just trolling

Edit: the part about spyderco being equivalent to gas station knives is your lie. Their lack of innovation back then is fact in my opinion.
 
Yo Mama said:
Benchmade has about 380 employees, and sales for the year about 66 million dollars. Yeah, clearly no one actually uses axis locks.

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Sometimes it's just easier to let people believe what they want to believe than to convince them their beliefs might be unfounded.
 
mcflyfyter said:
The fact they axis locks even exist proves you wrong.

You may be too young to know, but for a really long time spyderco literally riveted their knives together (yes, just like a gas station knives) and it was nearly a 2 handed operation to open one for the first month. Granted, they are lightyears ahead of that now, but they produced terrible knives for a ridiculously long time. To claim this is false shows either your youthfulness, or silliness.
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This is obviously user error. 2-handed operation? In the early 80's I gave my EMT buddy a Spyderco Worker which he still has to this day. That thumbhole was a game changer for him. Spydercos were designed specifically to be used one-handed, even while wearing gloves.
 
gooeytek said:
This is obviously user error. 2-handed operation? In the early 80's I gave my EMT buddy a Spyderco Worker which he still has to this day. That thumbhole was a game changer for him. Spydercos were designed specifically to be used one-handed, even while wearing gloves.
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I don't know what to tell you. If you picked up a random spyderco in 1996, there was a very high chance the blade would not swing freely. You may not like this fact, it may hurt your pride, but it is a fact.
 
mcflyfyter said:
I don't know what to tell you. If you picked up a random spyderco in 1996, there was a very high chance the blade would not swing freely. You may not like this fact, it may hurt your pride, but it is a fact.
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Wow, all blades have to swing freely? Not a requirement where I'm from. If you truly want one handed go otf.
 
mcflyfyter said:
Sometimes it's just easier to let people believe what they want to believe than to convince them their beliefs might be unfounded.
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So you made unsubstantiated claim that nobody uses Benchmade axis lock, and that spyderco didn't swing freely in the nineties enough for you. Glad to see you throw your credibility away in one day of posting.
 
Yo Mama said:
So you made unsubstantiated claim that nobody uses Benchmade axis lock, and that spyderco didn't swing freely in the nineties enough for you. Glad to see you throw your credibility away in one day of posting.
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I can't make the internet as a whole happy. I think most of us know the truth.
 
midnight flyer said:
Got one for you. Back in the late 70s probably about a third of all guys in construction carried the Buck 110. Several of them on the job every day going across all the trades being used for anything the owner felt was suitable.

One of the HVAC guys managed to break his, and everyone on the job was in disbelief. Sure, we'd seen plenty of crap knives break but never a Buck. He got the bright idea to call Buck, and they were in disbelief as well. At that time there was no discussion of warranty from them, promised or implied. IIRC, there was a written limited warranty on my 119, but not on his 110. So he regretfully sent it to them because they said they wanted to take a look at it and might fix it if they could. He figured he was going to get screwed, but had nothing to lose since the knife literally would not stay open. Looking at that knife myself I figured he had certainly got his money's worth out of it because it was beat to hell and the tip was broken off the blade.

And then, this is how Buck built their reputation. In about 3 weeks he had a brand new 110 in his hands with a new leather sheath. No charge! It also had a handwritten note in there that somebody wrote to apologize for the inconvenience.

That story was told so many times on site and when hunting I could tell it better than he could, and I'll bet it sold another hundred knives for Buck.

So out of the thousands of Bucks I have seen on the job since the mid 70s, that's the only one.

Robert
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They still are like this in 2022 as evidenced by me and the kind service they did for me, replacing a 110, and because of how great they are, among other things, more Buck is a surety in my future.

Excuse me, let me adjust my tone to the tone of this thread...
I like Spyderco more than Benchmade! Rah!!! I'm mad glib globbit!
 
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Yo Mama said:
Benchmade has about 380 employees, and sales for the year about 66 million dollars. Yeah, clearly no one actually uses axis locks.

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okay time for a verbal battle pause.....😉



nice pile of benchmades..... what caught my eye was......that Hebrew on the one blade? what's it say in English if ya dont mind me asking?
 
mcflyfyter said:
That is the funny part. I completely understand favoritism, but complete denial of historical fact? That's pretty bad. I feel like I'm arguing with holocaust deniers.
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Lol you aren't arguing with me at all, that was my first comment in the thread. I just noticed all you dudes carrying out a huge argument over whether Spyderco's construction is riveted, who the professionals are, and whether anyone actually uses the Axis lock, or is it just a conspiracy like Smurfs or the NFL.

For the record, I have one Spyderco that is from the 90s, an ATS-55 linerless Civilian, and it doesn't "swing freely" but it is certainly easy to open with my thumb. It's a backlock, though, not a PM2.
 
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