It's a rabbit hole!

Truth.

Opinel is a great choice, nothing wrong with other knives, but thin blades slice and few knives are thinner than opinel.

@@NickShabazz Started collecting a while back, you're not kidding about the rabbit hole. There are so many cool styles and designs, could have used your knowledge and wisdom years ago.

try spyderco or byrd, i havnt looked back.

Good lock, but an ugly knife.

@Backyard Samurai I've never had a bad QC knife from cold steel. On the other hand I've had some atrocious shit from benchmade an besides from being over priced they seem to be under heat treated in cut tests. The only problem with CS is lack of higher end options. Cold steel + gold class options = perfect imo

@Backyard Samurai Dang man, you're still at this? Haven't heard from you in a while. Hope you're having a great New Year! I miss your videos.

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I don’t own a cold steel but I ❤️ cold steel

Maybe fixed blades are truly the best

@@joelstatosky1817 - yuh think?

- Trmxzer0 - Haha.. nice

Witty, humour is 'A Beautiful Thing'. 😀

Ahahahhaahhahh

Yep, back locks and variants (e.g. tri-ad lock, scorpion lock) are very, very strong.

I think they did it on some Spydercos, and ball bearing lock locked very well. I think the blade broke even before the lock failed. Not sure though, It's been years since I've seen that video.

@Castle Bravo I remember a test with Spydercos only, but they did more of them.

I was Attempting to be brief in my first post. LOL! When they did the first test, it was a bunch of different locking mechanisms by several different manufacturers. Then they thought it would be more accurate with less variables in manufacturing and quality if they just did one brand with consistent manufacturing. So they chose Spyderco and did all the different locking mechanisms with Spyderco on the second trial.

Mikuláš Mecháček You are correct,See my post below.

well if our using your knife in the way it should be used a lock means nothing. the blade will be pressed up into the opened position against a blade stop made of steel. so it wont close on you anyway. its when you get to trying to use it in a none designed way that locks get stressed and become important for the user so you dont lose a finger. but thats just my opinion

Totally Agreed

@@bigsean2473 Yep

yeah,me too

lionsteel daghetta... could be a valid contender for the title, a "sliding-bar-back-lock". That said, the only time a knife failed on me, it was the frame not the lock :D

Thinking about it, it should be possible to make a "sliding-bar-triad-lock"...

@@lakinwillson4124 Quite so! But don't say that too loudly or they'll ban slipjoints too!

Its a 30 minute video instead, but the point stays the same

DizzyDee Edc Life for life haha

If I 'gut'something,I'm going to be throwing that knife in the river asap

Umm. Try a fixed blade?

have a "fleamarket copy" of the Spyderco Polywog with a modified Axis lock and i have used and abused this little fkr to hell and back and not once has this thing even shown a sign of failure of any kind. i dare say this copy is as strong or indeed STRONGER than the original damn thing in that the entire thing is ALL stainless construction. im not easily impressed by a knife but this one really surprised me. i also own a number of other brands from CS, Benchmade, Spyderco. i like them all and each although having their limitations in some regard or another, all perform as expected.

I have had a few Kershaw linerlocks, I never could trust them. I bought a Clip point Cold Steel Recon-1. No more linerlocks or frame locks. I do have a Steel Will Apostate with the frame lock, I only carry that when "out on the town" but the Triad lock is what I trust 100 percent..

@@gregorygolden1296 Steel Will Apostate is an awesome knife 👍

Blade Hq's 2nd lock strength test, circa 2016: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7ioe7iJpqy6o2g.html&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE&t=725

Your opinion period. Even though my daily carry ATM is a benchmade super freek, ill never (probably) buy another axis lock knife. I just dont like it. Much prefer a frame or liner lock. So many knives for so many preferences.

4 4c 75 74 68 65 72 61 6 it is an opinion for sure and I’m sure the comments for this video will be varied and very opinionated. So with that I’ll say to each there own but for me the Axis lock gets three things right. 1. Accidental folding or failure of the mechanism is extremely low 2. Fingers never need to be in the path of the blade while closing 3. Super fast one handed deployment and stow of the blade

@@chrisherbert4454 That I can agree with.

Agreed. And the Benchmade assist version has a secondary lock that locks it open or closed.

There's nothing wrong with having a backup or thirty.

Same in this test: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7ioe7iJpqy6o2g.html&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE&t=725

I'd put money on a well built Balisong beating a lock back any day if the week for strength.

Been doing it since you mentioned it 5 months ago. Pretty much an alcoholic now. Thanks.

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You can order left handed compression lock knives from spyderco. I have a friend who works there and showed me a few

theshapeexists yes Spyderco does make a few lefty compression locks but only basic black handle silver blade varieties.

Spyderco designs are the very reason I DON'T like them

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@Backyard Samurai first of all it was a joke referencing a meme and secondly just because I've shown budget blades in videos doesn't mean I haven't owned other knives....I've had cold steels and even Chris Reeves, Medfords and customs just didn't do videos on them.......

Something like that, actually.

Blade hq has made that video, and I believe youre right, but almost all the locks took so much force to break that the knife part of the knife became pretty much irrelevent

@@batcarpet1225 Blade Hq's 2nd lock strength test, circa 2016: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7ioe7iJpqy6o2g.html&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE&t=725

Same here. Wanted a real pocket knife and mistakenly bought a SOG. The thing broke apart after about a month. After that I got a Delica 4...that started the addiction.

@@thefinder8087 I had a SOG trident that failed on me and cut me right to the bone. Initially I wanted a lock that would never fail and I saw a blade hq video of them cutting a tree down with the PM2. Thousands and thousands of dollars later here I'm 😂

It caught my eye too 🤪

Scott eDog yeah then I saw the full review, and it’s only vg10, and in the Japan factory. If they’re going to do a knife with an interesting lock do it in Taiwan with a good steel.

I agree completely!

I did a bunch of research and came to the conclusion that the triad lock is the only lock that is substantially stronger than other locks almost every other lock the only thing that matters is ease of deployment and closing and a reliability of deployment, lockbacks will close and open reliably, but i could open and close 9 out of 10 knives more quickly and easily than a lockback, honestly the marginal difference in strength isnt worth it on a back lock. I would also put axis lock up there with triad lock because it is less likely to fail from impact and is better for battoning even if its not recommended its a genuinely more beneficial strength than everything but triad lock.

@Daniel Alejandro You're suggesting that they are immune to this? God you guys are annoying.

@@Osprey1994 it would be a lot harder. Triad locks have a really long travel before they free the blade completely

@@valkyriesurvives5109 - i hope u r right because The Potos comment has me very FRUSTRATED that after literally hundreds of hours of knife research i thought i finally found the right knife to invest in until i read his story.

Yes because all back locks are the same and so you should just straight up dismiss any back locks without any research. Liner/frame locks have taken more fingers than other locks. 😂

Everybody seems to forget about balisongs when discussing lock strength. Lol Balisongs have been around forever, and still a stronger locking mechanism than any of these other pocket knives.

... Godspeed.

"stronger than fixed blade" ...no offense, but that is ridiculous. Your friend doesn't know what he's talking about.

With the external stop pin (e.g. Sage 5) it certainly is Tri-Ad among liner locks. With a default setup like Para 2 and Junior it's more like a Lock Back among liner locks-that cut out for the stop pin through the liner does weaken the liner itself at some degree.

Right!? I've got the Manix 2XL 💯❤🔥❗

It and the bolt lock are basically patent protection bypasses of the axis lock. Granted, they are better cause of the lack of omega springs.

@@rlanger3108 The Ball Bearing lock is better than the AXIS lock in more ways than just spring's. The design of the Ball Bearing lock is COMPLETELY different than the bar lock / "AXIS" lock making it stronger & more reliable. There's only one spring on the Ball Bearing lock that has a vertical metal rod going through the middle of it. That rod & spring are pushing a circular steel bearing into the notch of the blade that is also aligned into the metal framed back spacer making it all one solid metal piece when engaged. The Ball Bearing lock is also self adjusting as it wears insuring that the lock will never develope "play". You can upgrade the Ball Bearing lock too with titanium ball cages , ti liners & a ti back spacer making is way stronger than it already is. There's no upgrades available for the AXIS lock other than ti omega spring's that I know of. Lock bar or "AXIS" locks use two spring's to push a horizontal steel rod over the notch of the blade & there's one other bar built into the frame of the knife to keep the blade from folding the other direction but that's it. I'm not saying the "AXIS" lock is a poor design , on the contrary I think they are one of the best locks out in the market today , the action is super smooth plus ambidextrous , it's incredibly strong & locks up with zero blade play. The omega spring's are the only aspect of the design that's suspect & that's only if they fail. I've yet to have an omega spring break on me. Personally the Ball Bearing lock is my favorite with the "AXIS" / lock bar lock coming in a close second. I just picked up the SOG Seal XR. The new SOG XR lock is supposed to be rated at 2,000lbs & is said to give the tri-ad lock a run for it's money. That's a bold statement to make from SOG , I'm going to put this knife to the test & see for myself !

Travis Moore pretty similar to an axis lock to just different spring and uses a ball instead of a bar

Are you talking about CRKT Deadbolt lock? I'd like to see what's the strength on that lock too!

Tacklecentral Fishing Folding machete haha

@@monkeyfaceII I can't wait for him to call it a small knife.

Okabi knife!