Good italian leverlock?

Vagabund · Post by **Vagabund** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:29 pm

Hi,

What do you think about the quality of this switchblade? Maybe I want to buy it... It' produced by italian switchblademakers. Can someone tell me why it have a nail-nick? It's a switchblade!
Merry Christmas to all!

butch · Post by **butch** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:45 pm

I had that exact knife theyre pretty nice but if you intend to use it for heavy work you might want to try something different the gaurds on these are stamped theyre not solid.

Post by **Bill DeShivs** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:45 pm

So that if the spring breaks, you can still open it.
Bill

JerrBear · Post by **JerrBear** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:29 pm

Or could it be possible it is the same blade used onna manual knife?

Post by **Bill DeShivs** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:58 am

It's possible, but that isn't the reason.
Bill

Vagrant · Post by **Vagrant** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:26 am

Solid bolsters would make these MUCH more desirable [and useful]

but let's face it, how many people still use old paper shells in a 16 guage [like me] and how long will my supply of shells last

When I first saw these advertised I was excited but when I got one and tried it on a shell I was disappointed

The extra couple bucks that solid bolster would cost would be worth it, to people like me but, I doubt it would sell enough more knives to make it worth it to the maker

[Even if you make the worlds best buggy whip, how many can you sell

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JerrBear · Post by **JerrBear** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:34 am

It seems to me that any company that would incorporate a feature into their product that couldn't be used unless said product breaks (which it shouldn't) certainly doesn't have much confidence in the quality of their merchandise...

Also, it appears to be poor marketing strategy when a potential customer can tell, with a quick glance, that the manufacturer of a product expects it to prematurely break...

On the other hand, it makes perfect sense to me that a manufacturer, making two different, but similar products, would find it advantageous to use a generic part that could be interchanged between both.

Post by **Bill DeShivs** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:52 am

There are other reasons that you should be able to figure out.
Bill

JerrBear · Post by **JerrBear** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:55 am

I was just workin' on this...

Bill DeShivs wrote:So that if the spring breaks, you can still open it.

butch · Post by **butch** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:19 pm

wether I actualy used a shotpuller or not Id still like to see these with solid bolsters they would make them a lot more desirable to the collecter and worth the few extra bucks to buy them.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:12 am

If I'm not mistaken, the shell pullers are for emergency use, to extract burst or sticky shells.
The 16 gage is popular in Europe, and in wide use today.
The old Edge Company sold this blade in a standard leverlock handle, and I had one-that sucker was sharp!
Wish I still had it.
Since the pullers are mostly for show-or at least to make the crossguard look gnarly-the knife will do as well as any.
I think the nail nick might be to camoflage the auto open, but I can't think of any other reason, unless it's because there is a manual version, and I've seen a few Italian lever lock gravity knives over the years.
Always made me wonder, too.
I also wonder why there are so few gravity knives, these days, I love them!

Vagabund · Post by **Vagabund** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:45 pm

The same knife have an another version. It costs 10 Dollars more. The stag of this is real, not imitation, but I don’t know if it’s solider or better than other. I also can't find until now any answer why it have nail-nick. But I think it can't be to camouflage, because nobody can overlook the lever and no nonautomatic pocketknive have a lever...
This is the page of the firm. Maybe you can find any explikation about nail-nick...
http://www.skm.to/pages/skm/pager/a/hsieg4.html

Post by **Bill DeShivs** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:38 pm

Do you guys notice TWO pins in the rear bolster? If you take one of them out, the spring comes out.......
Bill

j.a.c. · Post by **j.a.c.** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:49 pm

Vagabund · Post by **Vagabund** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:54 pm

Bill DeShivs wrote:Do you guys notice TWO pins in the rear bolster? If you take one of them out, the spring comes out.......
Bill

Yes, sure! But this is not a speciality of shellpullers. You can make the same thing with many other levers and they haven't nail nick

This one for exemple

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