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Why is this knife different from all other knives?
I was staring at my new plain edge Spyderco-Lum when I should have been getting some work done, and I noticed a couple of internal details that are different from most other liner lock folders.
1. While all other liner lock knives I've met, that have stop pins, have round stop pins, the stop pin on the Spyderco Lum is mostly round, but flat on the top, fitting into a matching hole so that it cannot rotate. Perhaps a Spyderco engineering person can explain.
2. While all other liner locks I've met lock up on a tangs that has a slanted or radiused back surface, the Spyderco Lum has tight radius milled into the near side of the tang, so that the locking spring contacts the tang on the near side, and cannot wear its way over to the far side. Why didn't somebody think of that before? Or is there a catch? It passed a moderate spinal tap test, by the way.
The most conspicuous difference about it is that blade grind, of course, which sets it apart from the usual "geo-tanto" without going over the edge (in the view of this art critic) like that SOG Vision thing.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
I was staring at my new plain edge Spyderco-Lum when I should have been getting some work done, and I noticed a couple of internal details that are different from most other liner lock folders.
1. While all other liner lock knives I've met, that have stop pins, have round stop pins, the stop pin on the Spyderco Lum is mostly round, but flat on the top, fitting into a matching hole so that it cannot rotate. Perhaps a Spyderco engineering person can explain.
2. While all other liner locks I've met lock up on a tangs that has a slanted or radiused back surface, the Spyderco Lum has tight radius milled into the near side of the tang, so that the locking spring contacts the tang on the near side, and cannot wear its way over to the far side. Why didn't somebody think of that before? Or is there a catch? It passed a moderate spinal tap test, by the way.
The most conspicuous difference about it is that blade grind, of course, which sets it apart from the usual "geo-tanto" without going over the edge (in the view of this art critic) like that SOG Vision thing.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
