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   From: rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk   
      
   rigger wrote:   
      
   > That said I've never had a lock on a Spyderco fail either   
   > so, unless someone like Cliff can test a bunch of these   
   > to come to a statistical conclusion it's more a matter of   
   > what appears strong to you (although I'd avoid cheap   
   > lockers, which I _have_ had fail).   
      
   Indeed: I had a cheap Chinese one which I bought beause my better one   
   had a blade which was a sizteenth of an inch longer than what was   
   permissable to carry (at the time) and I wasn't going to grind it down   
   to suit some asses in Parliament.   
      
   The blade of my chapo one bent and the bar which locked the blade   
   followed suit, with a zig-zag blade sticking up twenty degrees from the   
   proper position.   
      
   I have it somewhere, waiting for me to build my forge, and to find the   
   right materials for making Damascus steel for a new blade.   
      
   The locking bar is easy to make from an annealed file - it shouldn't   
   need any heat treatment, but if it does, I can.   
      
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   Rusty   
      
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