Out The Front (OTF) knives

[BWT]

That's a decent number of cycles. My OTFs get an average of no more than 1 cycle per day, so hopefully I'll be ok for a while.

Thanks for testing the failure mode for us. Your observations confirm what I suspected after looking over the mechanical design: mainspring failure will still allow the knife to be used as a gravity blade because the locking gates are independent from the mainspring. I think that makes it a good serious use knife--better than some folders that won't lock open if the locking bar spring breaks.

Of course, fixed blades FTW in general.

You know - if I had to guess I’d say maybe over 20,000 fires? I’m a fidgety person and I’ve carried it everywhere just about daily for three years.

It is nice it turns into basically a locking / unlocking gravity knife. I will say I just didn’t want it to slide open in my pocket and was leaving for the beach for a week. I just went back to work today and had left it on my desk.

[Leroy Suggs]

Every thing I am seeing about the Kershaw Livewire males me think it may be a better choice than the Microtech.
I have one in the cart and still deciding yes or no.

Anyone have a Livewire? @Clusterfrack

[Clusterfrack]

Every thing I am seeing about the Kershaw Livewire males me think it may be a better choice than the Microtech.
I have one in the cart and still deciding yes or no.

Anyone have a Livewire? @Clusterfrack

You could be our Guinea pig?

[Leroy Suggs]

What's that saying "when pigs fly"?

[Totem Polar]