Hi
This is about the inside of the folding knives, their design and construction, more on engineering technical side. I want to see other people hear have any suggestions which knife is strong in what I am going to describe in the following.
I actually posted this in "All about pocket knives" Knife Mechanic's Swap forum that is supposed to talk about the mechanical aspect of knives. When I described using the knife for prying, thrusting ans shanking, they called me vigilantism!!! So I try posting here to see if anyone actually like me opening up the knife and study the construction, and any suggestion which model that is good. So here it is:
Just curious anyone here are like me that open the knives up and look at the inside? I find quite a few that I opened are quite disturbing. A lot of folding pocket knives look very heavy duty on the outside. But if you open them up and look at the inside, it's a totally different story. I am looking at the joint between the handle and the blade, here is the picture of what I am looking:
The picture show the thickness of the blade where it is screwed onto the frame. You can see the cut out to fit the ball bearings. This picture is Off-Grid Baby Rhino. The thickness is 0.073", which is very robust. The two steel side plate is 0.06" thick. All in all, this is a very robust knife that can stand up to prying, shanking and all that.
Now, look at the SenCut Acumen : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09F6D95SC?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Looks heavy duty from the looks, BUT, look at the inside:
The thickness is only 0.035", That's very thin for a knife that's supposed to be heavy duty by the looks.
You cannot even trust the brands that stress on heavy duty. Like the Off-Grid Enforcer.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RQ7T3Y7?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
The thickness of the blade pointed by GREEN arrow is good......BUT, look at the metal frame of the handle. They made the pocket for the ball bearing into the frame, look at the picture on the two RED arrow. It's very thin, like paper. How to you expect this to survive prying and heavy use in survival situation? You cannot even look a one model of the brand to judge the other models. Like the Off-Grid Baby Rhino, the picture above show it's as good as it gets. And this one is the worst!!!
Kubey is the same, I have the KU159 DUGU, it's robust with 0.063" thick on the blade and 0.06" on the frame, but then I bought and return the KU901, it's THIN!!!
What's wrong with the people that design knives, they don't seems to have any common sense. it's so easy to design a study knife, how can they be so stupid.
All that said, if anyone actually opened knives and have any recommendation, let me know.
Thanks
This is about the inside of the folding knives, their design and construction, more on engineering technical side. I want to see other people hear have any suggestions which knife is strong in what I am going to describe in the following.
I actually posted this in "All about pocket knives" Knife Mechanic's Swap forum that is supposed to talk about the mechanical aspect of knives. When I described using the knife for prying, thrusting ans shanking, they called me vigilantism!!! So I try posting here to see if anyone actually like me opening up the knife and study the construction, and any suggestion which model that is good. So here it is:
Just curious anyone here are like me that open the knives up and look at the inside? I find quite a few that I opened are quite disturbing. A lot of folding pocket knives look very heavy duty on the outside. But if you open them up and look at the inside, it's a totally different story. I am looking at the joint between the handle and the blade, here is the picture of what I am looking:
The picture show the thickness of the blade where it is screwed onto the frame. You can see the cut out to fit the ball bearings. This picture is Off-Grid Baby Rhino. The thickness is 0.073", which is very robust. The two steel side plate is 0.06" thick. All in all, this is a very robust knife that can stand up to prying, shanking and all that.
Now, look at the SenCut Acumen : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09F6D95SC?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Looks heavy duty from the looks, BUT, look at the inside:
The thickness is only 0.035", That's very thin for a knife that's supposed to be heavy duty by the looks.
You cannot even trust the brands that stress on heavy duty. Like the Off-Grid Enforcer.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RQ7T3Y7?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
The thickness of the blade pointed by GREEN arrow is good......BUT, look at the metal frame of the handle. They made the pocket for the ball bearing into the frame, look at the picture on the two RED arrow. It's very thin, like paper. How to you expect this to survive prying and heavy use in survival situation? You cannot even look a one model of the brand to judge the other models. Like the Off-Grid Baby Rhino, the picture above show it's as good as it gets. And this one is the worst!!!
Kubey is the same, I have the KU159 DUGU, it's robust with 0.063" thick on the blade and 0.06" on the frame, but then I bought and return the KU901, it's THIN!!!
What's wrong with the people that design knives, they don't seems to have any common sense. it's so easy to design a study knife, how can they be so stupid.
All that said, if anyone actually opened knives and have any recommendation, let me know.
Thanks