Here you have 3 different way to stop the blade when open
- thumb-studs: they engage liners on 2 different places
- cilinder (don't know the name of this sistem): the blade engage the small cilinder between the liners just in 1 place
- back-lock: the blade engage the bar and consequently the entire locking system between the liner just in 1 place
due to the above, I will leave the "cilinder" system (of the Benchmade Rift in this case), and get on thumb-studs and back-lock
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best solutions could be maybe a combination of thumb.studs+back-lock, but I don't like so much back-lock systems due to the difficulty to clean and dry the knife in a wet environment, also an integral-lock knife need for a numere of pieces far less than the others kind of folders, which is always good thoughness
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...I'm now thinking about a knife with integral-lock + back-lock
) could be nice, and really strong
Please don't ask me for thumb.studs + central cilinder because I yet try to do and I'm not able!
Alfredo