Budget blade to the max - 4 dollars - not bad - pic heavy

[Deltaboy1984]

Coast and S&W knives have been good so far.

 

[grter]

There are cheap knives and then there are cheap liner lock knives.

I avoid liner locks from high quality makers...I sure as heck don't want to risk thousands of $$$$ for tendon repair surgery with a cheap liner lock. IMO they perfected the liner lock when they flipped it around to the back side of the blade and made it the compression lock. One of the many reasons I love the Spyderco Paramilitary 2 is the compression lock.

I agree for the most part. I am very cautious about liner locks in general because of the of the high level of precision and quality needed to get it right.

Even the more reputable brands let some slip by that are not up to par.

There are some screaming deals on low priced fixed blade knives that are super sharp and hold an edge (Mora.)

What I am trying to say is guys please do your homework on locking folders and be very careful using any folder even the best ones are not going to be as secure as a fixed blade.

 

[JShirley]

There are cheap knives and then there are cheap liner lock knives.

I avoid liner locks from high quality makers...I sure as heck don't want to risk thousands of $$$$ for tendon repair surgery with a cheap liner lock. IMO they perfected the liner lock when they flipped it around to the back side of the blade and made it the compression lock. One of the many reasons I love the Spyderco Paramilitary 2 is the compression lock.

QFT. About the cheapest liner locks I'll buy for people I like are the Spyderco Persistence and Cat or Chicago. I personally don't use them.

 

[Yo Mama]

A chip too small to capture with a phone camera should be able to be removed if you're a fair hand at sharpening just using sand paper.

So I had time to freehand with sand paper and man it was easy to get the chips out! Never did it this way before, maybe took three minutes with400- 600 grit to shape the edge back.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[hso]

As long as the abrasive paper is on a very flat surface (we used to wrap around a file for "polishing") you can treat abrasive papers like stones.

 

[hso]

I picked up one of the $10 paired small Coast sets at Home Depot today. One had a perfect liner lock engagement and the other was past the half way point (too far for me).

I picked up another one of the tan Ozark Trails on a whim. This time the majority of the dozen I looked through had reasonable lock positions.
The thing tore note pad paper instead of cutting it. :banghead: I gave it to one of our engineers I'd just beaten the snot out of for not following procedure so he could test it over the weekend and report back about the blade.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Thanks HSO my Coast been great.