What's the Best and Strongest Locking Mechanism for a folding knife?

hey everybody Nicky are in today I got a sort of educational video for you a remake of a video I did way back when I'm talking about a very very common question that people new to the Hobby have is well Nicky I know that some folding knives lock what are the different kinds of locks they use what's the best kind of lock out there what's the strongest lock out there and so I want to take a little bit of time because I happened to have a bunch of knives on the table that all have different locking mechanisms to talk about some of these different approaches some of these strengths weaknesses and you know I'll talk a little bit about how to think about this to start with though it's important to remember that not all knives lock in fact for a long time that was sort of the norm right so you have these kinds of things out here like this Victorinox classic which has been helpfully branded by a certain youtube channel it plug blade HQ available anyways I digress look a lot of knives out there don't lock and there were a bunch of different kinds of non-locking knives what are the most common and frankly one of the oldest ones and friction folders like this little guy right here this is literally a chunk of wood is no lock or anything in there the only thing that's keeping this knife open in your hand is the fact that your thumb is resting on this little lever right here so the end the friction of holding this guy in place so there is a friction folder in the classical sense there's literally nothing out there except this lever that's keeping this guy closed in your hand then you can go to some of the newer other there are these detent based folding knives that are other than they are non locking certainly there is nothing you know I don't even have to do anything to close the blade here but because they what they actually have in there is a little armature there that basically stops the blade well it's open um and that puts a little ball into a hole in the side of this it's actually very similar to how the detent ball works on a line a lock knife um but it happens to just be ready to keep them blade open so there is a little bit of force that actually prevents this guy from closing I'm the bigger force on this guy this is by the way the Monterey Bay II ewc everywhere carry this is the Hiroaki Oda F oh no I've forgotten it starts with an F it's a custom style knife but the main thing that's keeping this open is actually your fingers being on this little area here in this little area here with the gypping such that if it does try to close its not freaking going anywhere then you can get into a more classical slip-joint style knives if somebody talks about a slip joint chances are they're talking about something that works a little bit like this where you have a spring along the back of this guy a back spring then as you pull this knife up you'll see this spring actually lifts out a little bit and then usually there's a half stop it pauses there and that it goes all the way closed and so when you are holding this guy it really it is again there's nothing locking this knife closed I can close the knife just by pressing on the backside there but in order to close it you need to lift that spring up a little bit and that actually provides some resistance there coupled with your thumb be in there coupled with this unsharpened pot so this is a classical slip joint so to speak even though this one's made out of titanium this is by je made knives but it's a it is a good old fashioned slip joint so those are all types of non locking knives the knife doesn't lock but if they have their own ways of trying to keep your hands safe despite that fact then you go into another very traditional approach this is a twist locks a style knife opinel is really the most commonly known variety of these um this is they refer to this as the V ro bloc but nonetheless the way that this knife works is that you can open and close it but if you twist this collar you can see here it inserts some metal underneath the blade such that you cannot close the knife until you untwist that little piece of metal and in this case it actually locks closed as well if you do this it is now locked closed and that's a beautiful thing so this is one approach to locking a knife then we can go into our back locks now way back lock is called the back lock because well the back of the the spine of the knife basically is holding this locking mechanism and the way that you unlock the knife is by pressing down on this little button here and when you press it down on that button it actually raises up this little pod and that little pot falls into a little tiny gap in the top of the blade there and so you can see here that as I am closing this knife see drops into place and now the knife can't close the knife fee in order for this knife to close it would either have to like rip out the pivot is something stupid like that or rip out the back lock but more likely what would actually have to happen is that this part right back here I would need to press down here which raises this metal piece out of that little gap and allows me to actually start closing the blade again this is sort of a middle middle of the back back lock as opposed to a tail lock um this is a buck 110 a very classic pocket knife um this is by the way is Spyderco delica and that was an open L number rate um but this is a tail lock it is the same thing as a back lock it just happens to be the access to the lever is at the very tail but again see it's sticking this up right at the top there and so that is a different variety of a back lock I'm with a different locking mechanism but fundamentally at the end of the day it is still a back lock it is still using a little hole that that back lock falls into and maintains the blade in its open state but actually these can come in a variety of packages this is an automatic knife this is the protec knives magic for California legal but this actually has a hidden release basically where in order to unlock this knife you actually have to lift this part up here and that lifts the back locks spring out of the hole on the back of the blade there and then it drops back in so this is effectively a back lock it just has a very sneaky little trick to it Pro tech magic is a very very neat little knife and that's what we got there then there's the Triad lock the cold steel Voyager here is a very nice example of a Triad lock knife um the difference between a Triad lock at a conventional back lock is that there are a couple of things the big one is that there's this pin right in the middle right here you can see that pin is right there and then there's actually a little cutout in the blade as well so when this guy locks up the blade is being stopped by that pin and then this little area here which again this is basically a modified back lock but this little area drops into position there and so the blade is being held in position both by the curvature in that pin as well as by the lock bar here again it's it's a very strong lock but all back locks are very strong locks and so this is a it's an absolutely good to go style of lock and it just includes that extra pin which they're saying adds a little bit of extra strength and sure it makes sense that it would right so that's a beautiful thing next thing in terms of the the locking mechanisms the Reve integral lock I don't know why by the way no particular order here it's the order I put things down on the table so don't interpret anything from that um but the next one is the integral lock the Reve integral lock this is ASA Chris Reeve knives small Sebenza which Reeve integral knives Chris Reeve knives yeah there's no coincidence there I'm in a lot of ways that the Chris Reeve and then Chris Reeve knives are what put the the frame lock so to speak on the on the horizon for people this is the same thing is a frame lock by the way I can say Chris Ragan say frame lock I can say Reeve integral lock it's all the same thing but anyways I'm this is a knife in which the backside of the handle is one chunk of titanium and then as a part of that chunk of titanium they've cut out a separate lock bar which is bent such that when I open the knife all the way this part falls into place and so now the blade is prevented from closing because there's this part of the handle that is resting against the bottom of the blade against the flat spot there and so when I try and do this nothing happens when I try and apply force this way on the blade nothing happens until I move this piece back out of the way so you've got a frame lock there the frame of the knife itself is the locking bar of the knife and that's kind of a cool little technology and of course there were a bunch of these out there and you know there are a couple of parts that make that you know you need a lock bar relief cut this little area right here thins the lock bar out a little bit so it can bend properly you can have that on the inside of the knife as it is on this particular piece or you can actually have it external to the knife as it is on this particular piece this is the grimms MO knives Norseman a relatively well-known flipper style frame lock where they flip and deployment but anyways um this has an external lock bar relief cutout so you can see they've thinned the lock bar on the outside there and that so there you go and then sometimes you even get what's called a lock bar inside hold on my notes just got I'm not a brilliant man as many of you figurin out already um you have a lock bar insert on this guy so right here if you can take a closer look there's a little tiny piece of steel that's inserted this is the olymic knives busca by the way um you can see here there's a little tiny piece of steel and that little piece of Steel interfaces with the steel at the back of the blade there you can see it again from this angle and you can actually see the insert inside there what this does is it prevents lock stick and you know there are other benefits to it but it's not a crucial thing there were lots of knives out there they're frame locks that don't have an insert um but it is definitely something that you will very often see you also sometimes see one of these little guys right here there's a little tab underneath there and actually there's a similar one on the Norseman right here and see hiding under there that is an over travel stop what that basically does is it prevents you from pressing all the way out if you press the lock bar too far out in that direction in theory it could over bend and then the knife wouldn't want to lock up again but that little insert actually stops it from going too far and prevents that mode of damage basically which is well a beautiful no argument there um there's also another type of thing that is often referred to as a bolster lock which is actually kind of the misleading there was a type of bolster lock it was originally found in like stiletto style automatics that's not what I'm talking about here this is the whole knife Specter reichian is a particularly fancy one of them but nonetheless you can see here that actually what we have here is a frame lock because this blue pot here is the frame underneath there there is a lock bar that is integral to the frame itself um but there is a bolster over here in this case a polished damaged steel um that the is overlaid on top of the lock bar so it looks like there's really no lock bar but it's definitely in there and effectively the knife is a frame lock you can also see by the way there is a lock bar insert right in here along with an over travel stop that's built into that this particular knife's got some other fancy to do it but nonetheless this is what people often call a bolster lock which is usually bolsters on top of a frame lock so um yeah that's definitely that's that's a fact that it's something actually oh no not that particular piece anyway so that's what people often talk to you about that I'm moving on the lighter lock is a very very important kind of knife locket it's sort of one of the one of the granddaddy's if you will um this was invented previously but Michael Walker is sort of a insofar as modern knife making as they a tease he's one of them I'm a is a very serious knife maker and he invented a bunch of different lock up mechanisms a lot of which I'm not gonna talk about today because they tend to be not super replicated very often um but anyways a lighter lock has a lighter inside this knife actually has a little steel liner on the inside of this underneath these wood scales and that liner is bent much like on the frame lock is such that it will come on over and it will prevent the blade from closing so right now this blade cannot close because this piece of metal is in the way but if I move this piece of metal over in this direction this is by the way the trm atom but if I move that piece of metal out of the way then the knife can close very easily this is a conventional line of lock and it is an absolutely great locking mechanism and you'll see in a lot of places this is the ontario rat my butt though um and again you can see right here that in this case the lighters are actually exposed rather than nested there is a separate piece of metal here and part of that piece of metal has been such that it engages with the tang of the blade now men so this is a line of Locke next up is sort of a variant of the line of Locke that he's a very different variant this is the Spyderco compression lock well it's the compression lock but it's made almost exclusively by Spyderco and the way that this functions is sort of opposite of a line of walk and a line a lot conventionally the lock bar is on the bottom here it engages with the bottom of the blade in a compression lock instead what we have here is see this little hole right here at the top of the blade there is a little basically cave and then that lock bar is actually in effect a little tiny armature that goes up into that cave it pops over and it goes into that cave and it goes underneath this pin right here this pin is very very important what that basically means is that you have when you're trying to when you've got this guy open if you press on the back here what's going on is that the lock bar is inside that cave and the very table of it is this big old pin right here and so the lock bar is effectively stuck between the the blade itself and then this pin on the top here so there's kind of a rock and a hard place sort of thing and in order for the knife to close what would actually have to happen is that this light a lock this lighter at the top here would have to be compressed between the blade and that pin there and that's not how steel works that the hardened steel doesn't tend to do that and so any force that would compress the compression lock would be as well pretty catastrophic in a variety other ways but the interesting thing about a compression lock is that rather than reaching in from the bottom as you do on a line of lock and with this little area here this is by the way the Spyderco paramilitary to you end up reaching in from the top there's a little cutout right here and you can use that and you press this lock bar off to the side and that allows the knife to close and in fact the nice part about this is that you are you think is it completely out of the slicing path throughout the process here at no point does your finger ever come between the blade and the handle and so you can just do one of these guys and pop that guy open it's kind of a cool thing and it's a nice little lock here this is something that was invented by Spyderco knives and in fact they still hold the patent so you're not gonna see these coming from other manufacturers on occasion you will see small custom makers who have licensed this patent out using compression locks in their work but they to be very very few in number and that relatively few makers are actually doing that so there you go that's the compression lock and that is very much spider codes jam a lot of their high-end and frankly the medium and pieces are either doing the back locks or the compression lock right here so you can see is again the paramedic there I've is the Spyderco para three light weight again another compression lock again you seen a little cave there it's how it works there you go next thing we have a class of locks that you could refer to as the sliding bar locks I'm the original of this is the benchmade knives axes lock well I don't know about the original but I the one that was patented for a long time is the Spyderco or rather I'm sorry the benchmade axis lock this is an example of that basically how this works is that there's this little bar here this little bar sticks all the way through both sides and so you can pull this little bar back and forth by just putting your fingers on it and pulling and when you deploy the knife this little bar pulls back and then it rides along the back of the blade until eventually it hits this flat portion at the very top of the blade see that there and when it hits that flat portion it springs forward and so now at this point in order for the blade to close that flat portion of the blade would have to go up through this bar basically the bar is being pressed forward against the top of the blade here is what is locking this knife open and so in order to close the knife you have to pull that bar back again and then close the knife and that's actually a really cool technology it works very very well and it provides a very nice ambidextrous opening and closing option which is a very nice thing um this originally was benchmade exclusive for a long time but recently the relevant legal instruments were expired and other companies have been able to make it this is an example of a very similar lock this isn't what these referred to as the able lock from oak knives on the Doug Ritter RSK Mach 1 g2 I believe um but again it's a very similar construction a sliding bar lock that goes along the top of the blade there i'm these kinds of locks the sliding bar locks are very very good and a lot of people really like them for a bunch of different reasons one thing to keep in mind though is that these guys unlike a lot of these other knives that have note that don't really require much in the way of springs although for instance back locks generally have a spring that's underneath tensioning things um these guys require a little tiny Springs they require omegis Springs these are Springs that are shaped like an Omega that are attached back here and kind of have a circular shape and those are the things that are pressing this bar forward against the blade and if those Springs break then this isn't really locking anymore because well it won't have any motivation to slide up onto there and to stay over there um so that is definitely one area where these guys well they requires something else um there is another version from bench made only used in the anthem that has a coil spring around the state I'm used on the anthem but nonetheless that is one thing there Oh next up is a button lock now this particular pocket knife here this is a pro tect sprint this is a particularly fancy one but nonetheless a button lock is and this is an automatic knife but a button lock works by having a button basically and that button when you press it down disengages you can see there's a little tiny cutout with the blade there hopefully I can show this off a little tiny cutout in the blade there and then when the knife fully opens this button is able to pop the rest of the way out here I'll pull it back out again watch the button there you go the button pops out and so right now the button is popped out and it's engaged with that little hole in the blade there and so if I want to unlock this knife again I need to press that button back down that pulls that takes that post out of that hole and allows me to shut the knife like I said this particular knife happens to be an automatic knife so if you press the button it deploys but there were a non automatic button locks out there in the world and in fact they can be great because they offer a very free swinging action and they offer a very nice experience particularly is if the button is well positioned at everything like that so button locks are very very common and they're not all automatic although it is very common for them to be so um then there are a couple of little secondary options out there secondary lock up mechanisms um I don't actually happen to have one of these but many button locks will actually have a safety it'll have a little slide that you can slide back that direction which is an absolutely beautiful thing this slides in this direction and suddenly the button lock is literally prevented and it'd be what it's open the button lock is prevented from being pressed down there so there is no way to disengage the lock on the knife um and you know that can be something honestly do I find that to be super helpful no generally speaking a good butt lock is gonna be recessed and whatnot so you don't have to worry about that but it's definitely something you can see out and about another kind of secondary lock is what's showing off on this little guy right here this is a CRKT it's a discontinued knife the Graham Ray's 'el Graham racial this is a lighter lock but it actually has this little secondary lock this is the la wks locks system on the top here and basically what this does is if I press this thing forward if everything is working to spec which it might not be if I press this thing forward then this little lever inserts itself behind the liner lock which prevents the knife from unlocking again is that super necessary no not particularly but it's something that you will occasionally see and that's what's going on there just ways of holding other locks closed or open and as the case may be in a more permanent way then you can get into all of the other lock up mechanisms now look I've been talking about some of the most common ones and it is very common to see things that have slip joints it's very common to see back locks these are everywhere frame locks are almost hilariously common right now in the knife industry I mean the joke is like another flipper frame lock really because they are every freaking win Linna locks have been a staple for a long time compression locks are found throughout spider codes line up these kinds of sliding bar locks are very very well known at Benchmade going elsewhere and a lot of folks make button locks but there were some knives knife locks that just don't see that much widespread use but they are still cool and they merit some some discussion here this is an example of one such relatively new lock this actually I would say yeah this is probably one of the newer locks on the table here today um this is the deadbolt lock um this is a completely ridiculous freaking knife here but it has a lock that basically has that there's a spring here and this this whole piece as a said oh you can actually see the little bars that stick down into the blade itself and so when I press this out that those bars come up out of the blade and allow the blade the shot um but when this knife deploys you'll see this little guy drop into place locking those bars into the blade itself it's it's absolutely a thing um this is the deadbolt lock it's er Katie's the only people making this at the there might be custom versions out there but if so I don't know about them by the way um this is another locking mechanism that's very different and it's sort of a butt lock but it's entirely different because the act of the pivot itself serves as the lock button and that's kind of cool this is another example of a very weird knife this is the scorpion lock um this is the cold steel at-15 um yeah I've given all the names cold steel 8015 and this features a scorpion lock the Scorpion lock is this bar right at the top here and actually this is a lot like how a back lock works except it's got a bar right here and then that just drops down into that little hole in the blade and so to unlock the knife you just have to lift up this little section here and then the knife unlocks so you can and again you can do this one-handed you just grab here and here and then press down and then that pops that out of there but the thing is this is actually crazy secure because not only is it nice and deep in there but as you're gripping the knife you are going to be pressing it down further into that little area and so this is a very very strong lock up here and it's a very unique lock of it so I pick it laid it down here it has sort of a separate lock bar this whole thing is on a spring um and if you want to watch my disassemble you'll get a better sense of this or how any of these other knives work anything that I've mentioned here today by the way I have a full disassembly of so you can see exactly how it looks like on the inside there um and so the Scorpion lock is at another very interesting little thing um this is the benchmade neck lock then a camera lock in some ways it's a lot like a compression lock except it doesn't have that bar up on the top there so it's sort of how much is this being pressed up out of there and then this is a probably the newest lock on the table if not the deadbolt I don't know exactly what the time it looks like but this is the stop lock um this is a brand new design from Spyderco and basically this has this little piece you can watch the whole disassembly video but it just has this little piece and then there's this little Hollow and when you fully deploy the knife it drops down in there and that is kind of a cool little thing the nice part about this and the reason this is actually kind of cool and exciting is that the lock up mechanism fits entirely within this little space here all of this is just g10 it's just handle back here this is the Spyderco pirata by the way so you got a lot of bunch of different exotic sort of locks out there and they there were so many more these the hawk lock they were if you look at them closely a lot of them have some similarities to existing things uh you know the Triad lock is another one you didn't often hear mention is being or at the end of the day it's very back lucky and you know Stan Wilson on flipper flipper has a backlog etcetera but nonetheless there are a bunch of really crazy locks out there that I don't have time to go into but a lot of these is some of the common ones that you're gonna see in the market now we now come to the part of the video where we talk about you know what what do you think about you choosing a lock if you're looking for a new folding knife what do you need to worry about with a lock well there were a couple of things that do come up I mean one of the questions is do you want to lock I generally advocate that people get locking knives if you are legally able to do so there is not a whole lot of harm in having that extra margin of safety and right now what knife locks is so unobtrusive that very often it's it's not a problem but there are certainly very safe non-locking knives out there and you know people got by with slip joints for many years so that's something to consider another thing to consider is handedness I am a decidedly right-handed human I am NOT MB any damn thing so this is a very very important thing for me I'm sorry it's not a very important thing for me because most things are made for righties um but there are the locks out there that are completely ambidextrous for instance the axis style la toya that is sliding bar locks they are ambidextrous because there is literally no difference between whether you open it with the this thumb and this forefinger or on the other side there then the function is identical between those the same thing with the eye with a back lock as long as you can switch the clip these knives you get the exact same experience as a righty and a lefty because well the thing that you're touching is right down there in the middle so back locks triad locks and the sliding bar locks are pretty much ambidextrous which can be nice um you also get one-handed operation can be a concern for some people on the other side maybe you just don't want to use through hands and in that case many of these locks can be operated one-handed I mean you can do a frame lock one-handed very very easily there's not really a concern there and similarly you know again you can do a lot of these things one-handed but there were some locks that are a little less well-suited to that um and one of the nice things is you know some of them make it real smooth like the compression lock all you need to do is put your finger in there it's so damned easy to come so you know you're going think about that and if you regularly doing things that one handy you're not gonna want like a twist lock which is absolutely a two-handed lock or even tail locks tend to be a little bit more difficult to do one-handed you need to kind of support it with the other hand as you're doing that kind of thing they were tricks you can usually get through it but at the end of the day if you want one handedness there were some better locks out there for it the action that the swing open and closed he's gonna vary a lot from lock type the lock type for instance a back lock is never gonna have a super free swing in action if you open this guy you are gonna need to use your entire thumb to do that and to close it you're probably gonna need to it's not gonna be a super free swing in action as opposed to something like this and to be fair this knife is the grimms mo Norseman here is sort of an example of a free drop in action um but you can get these incredible just absolutely top-of-the-line fall shuddhi actions super smooth absolutely amazing with frame locks but you can also get them with lino locks you can get them one of the nice things with a sliding bar lock is that when the knife is when the bar is back there's nothing touching the blade except the washes and so you can get these very very nice free droppy actions that way I mean but even like the deadbolt lock is a very similar sort of thing so if you're looking for a very you know smooth fall shot which some of you may be thinking you know come on you're talking about tools what are you thinking about smooth fall shot you freaking yeah idiot um you got a point there buddy but you know that's something a lot of folks think about and a lot of these do well but for instance a back lock might not be a choice if you want super smooth action then there were design constraints as you're making it as you make it a pocket knife for instance some of these locks scale down very well some of these locks don't you know this is a very distillate is a super compact lock there's really not that much going on there um and similarly you can fit frame locks in relatively small knives but it gets a little bit more difficult to fit some of these other things in there and then one of the other big things is do you ever want to have your fingers in the slicing path as you're closing it one of the big downsides for instance to a knife like this a frame lock is that as you are closing the knife you need to put your thumb over to the side here and then start to close the knife and very often you'll have like a flip and a door and on shopping area so that way you can get your thumb back out of the way and close the knife the rest of the way but for some people that feels a little bit creepy I mean it's not as much a concern with a very slow action you know on the Seban here it's it's not gonna drop shut really ever that's not how this knife is designed to work um but it can't be a concern and so for some people if that's something that bothers them something like a sliding bar lock where you're able to just pull it back with your fingers and not put the blade shut that way or a compression lock is going to be very nice in that way cuz you don't need the weather have your fingers in the slicing path even a button lock and pretty wou would work pretty well there so there were a lot of different constraints in terms of choosing a folding knife mechanism and a lot of these things are gonna be only be found in certain price points right line of locks tend to be the name of the game up until you get you know into the 50 60 70 dollar range again is speaking of early 2020 here then you can start to find like steel frame locks from time to time you'll find back locks etcetera slip joints but you know then as you go up higher you start to find more and more frame locks you start to find fewer exactly you know either way there's no strong and fast rule but there are a lot of things that might determine the locking mechanism um that you end up using however one of the biggest questions in the last question I want to address is one of the most common ones which is what is the strongest knife lock out there so I wanna give a really unsatisfying answer to that and say that all of them are good enough these days I'm in practice any properly designed and functional locking knife is strong enough for pretty much every daily tasks that you're gonna have there as a normal person going throughout your life any of these locks are gonna be just fine I mean if you take out and aside some of the really old-school models or the non locking versions they're all pretty much gonna work I mean back locks is super strong the frame locks can be super strong but the Triad lock that's sort of its claim to fame right they did but the thing is um for the longest time right slip joints were the norm that was sort of what how things what friction folders were the approach that was what you had and the thing is you also need to remember that any folding knife no matter its variety is always going to be safe when applying force in the cutting direction as you are cutting you are going to be applying force in this direction and usually then the knife is being pressed the blade is being pressed up against the stop pin it's being pressed up against solid metal so any knife is fine as long as you're going in the cutting direction where it becomes dangerous is if you start applying pressure to this side of the knife or if you stab into something for some reason and then you start you know levering that could make the closed and then that's when you need a lock there the thing is in practice most people don't require that folding lock to be super strong in a daily life and at the end of the day there were a lot of companies that have specialized in selling the strongest lock ever oh my god and they'll do things like testing and your honor showing you know like hanging weights off the back of it thing is in effect yeah sure it might be a stronger lock than some of the other ones out there on the market and certainly I did that I'm not objecting to that but thing is it's like money as people are selling you a watch that dives down to like 10,000 meters or something like that like yeah okay that absolutely could be stronger yeah okay that absolutely could be different but the thing is you're not gonna need that strength so it's probably not a major concern so I really do encourage you to make your decisions based on practical issues like handedness like design constraints like the desired action like all of those other kinds of things we already talked about rather than focusing fixating on lock strength it's a useful thing to think about but any bought a knife that is designed competently and put together well is going to lock up securely in a way that's going to work absolutely fine for most of your daily life but some of you are saying I hear you saying right now Nick hold on no no no you see I am hardcore you see I am regularly doing X Y Z I am smokejumping into combat I don't freaking know that's not the same thing anyways and so I need the strongest knife I can possibly get something that is strong beyond anything else the strongest possible pocket but you're doing abusive tasks you're batani using the knife as a lattice step hammering it into a tree all of those different things in that case there is absolutely one clear choice of locking mechanism that you're gonna want to use for that and that is a fixed blade knife at the end of the day if you absolutely need strength above all else and you need strength in weird ways you need strength you know to be able to spine whack with the APA you know banging something you're banging a tent post into you want a single continuous chunk of metal that is the very strongest locking mechanism on any knife ever is a single continuous chunk of metal so if you are going to be using doing a bunch of abusive tasks find yourself a fixed blade like this Bradford Guardian right here but aside from that any folding knife should serve you find in your everyday life so there you go I hope you found this interesting and that you learned a little bit something about some of the lockup mechanism you find out they were involving knives and mostly I hope that you have yourselves just an absolutely wonderful rest of your day and that I've got the subject matter here on lockdown okay trying my best not to lie to you if I do I was framed it's okay I'll be back for another video don't get him up in a twist if there's a problem yeah okay anyways that was terrible hope this was interesting to you have yourselves an absolutely wonderful rested day by now

Channel: Nick Shabazz

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Keywords: EDC, Review, Gear, Nick, Shabazz, Locking Mechanism, Folding Knife, Knife, Liner Lock, Framelock, Axis Lock, Able Lock, Back Lock, Triad Lock

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Length: 31min 37sec (1897 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 21 2020