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Does the edge stick through when the handles are folded? I purchased one balisong knife (not one of these Fins), it was an expensive knife, blade was 154 CM. Unfortunately, the edge protruded through the middle gap of the handles. I could not carry the knife as grasping the closed handle would result in a hand cut.

That was the last balisong knife I ever purchased.
 
nylon gives more rigidity

I've asked her to consider one of the FRN materials like Grivory, but these knives have been made this way since 1959 and in use in Scandinavia by fisherman and hunters so she's skeptical of the need to change anything.
 
That should never be the case with a split handle folder that is properly made.

Sort of like the biscuit, you don't know how it will taste until you bite into it, and then, it is too late. I don't know if the maker of my flipper would have accepted it back, but the person I talked to claimed that no one had ever experienced the problem I was describing. It is so wonderful to be unique.
 
You would expect they would. A folder that is unsafe to carry is an embarrassment to the maker and they should want to make it good.

I did not send it back, and my behavior is exactly the business model many vendors bet on. They shovel out defective products knowing that very few, lets say less than 15% of the stuff comes back. The rest is pure profit.

The 15% number came from a Bloomberg article on product liability lawsuits. Less than 15% of the people injured with a defective product ever make an attempt for recovery through the legal system. That was the basis for the Ford Pinto exploding gas tank. Ford figured out the cost of adding a gasket, then calculated the number of people killed, the number who would sue, and decided the legal liability was less than the cost of a $5.00 rubber gasket.




https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1971-1980-ford-pinto12.htm
 
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