Hell yes, that's a well built knife. Thanks for sharing that. Are the two knives in your rotation or are you just going to use one and save the other? I don't think I would ever get tired of either one.
I don't have the 15 anymore. I use the 10. Only kept one and my 10 was the better slicer of the two. Both are great knives just preferred the geometry on the 10.
so in a stiff spine whack, pressure is being transfered into the hollow standoff pillar by way of the tang pulling on the stop pin which is tethered to the lockbar.. this is lucky it's a 800 dollar knife because if someone figures it's worth the money to beat on, they're going to find demko has not made the successor to the triad lock here..
CSLFiero Demko tests his knives hard brother it won't fail a spine whack. I don't have this knife anymore but I wouldn't have any lack of confidence in this lock. I've been to his shop and have seen what he does to his knives to test them. As far as it vs triad lock Demko told me it's pretty damn close to the strength of the triad lock. So is it truly better than the triad or a replacement probably not just something different.
A common complaint of demko's triad in use by CS is the ease and speed in and out. This design appears a lot like a backwards Reeve Ti-lock. Without a lot of examples and testing of the lock, I think we can agree that it should be easier on the thumbs and faster into action than the triad. Especially when the flipper tail gets added to the blade.
That pin that you're questioning is the same size as the threaded pivot pin and also has a male threaded screw that goes in it essentially making it the exact same strength and size as the pivot, so it's not exactly hollow. All fasteners only need to be as strong as the pivot pin because if the pivot breaks then that makes all other stop pins irrelevant, regardless of them being solid, hollow or 5 inches thick.
