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·Spent a couple of days going down the rabbit hole of folder locking systems as I have been looking at buying a cheap folder of AliExpress.
In the end I decided I would go for a button lock only to find that none were cheap and that Chinese sellers were running scared of patent/ copyright infringement.
I had bought a cheap and cheerful lockless folder but these sought of knives scare me so I might look at modifying it to a button lock, though I guess a liner lock would be the easier path. Compared to a couple of years ago knives out of China have reduced markedly in variety and pricing for anything half decent has risen steeply. In the past I got some absolutely well made and appointed knives for between 10 and 20 dollars, anything half decent is now 70 to 80 bucks, times have changed.
In the end I decided I would go for a button lock only to find that none were cheap and that Chinese sellers were running scared of patent/ copyright infringement.
I had bought a cheap and cheerful lockless folder but these sought of knives scare me so I might look at modifying it to a button lock, though I guess a liner lock would be the easier path. Compared to a couple of years ago knives out of China have reduced markedly in variety and pricing for anything half decent has risen steeply. In the past I got some absolutely well made and appointed knives for between 10 and 20 dollars, anything half decent is now 70 to 80 bucks, times have changed.
