I have owned liner lock folders of many types , shapes and brands for 20 years. I am also hard on knives . I can also say that i have never busted a liner lock folder ever. I have melted ,rusted snapped many blades but never the lock itself.

Of course given the right cricumstances all blades will break. The liner lock is a time proven locking device but like eveything you get what you pay for.

From my experience Iiner locks are fine abused and used with dirt sand and crap all int them becuase of the lack of maechanical parts. The jury is till out on the axis as it has another 3o years to prove itself.

Opinions are just that. No one less valid than the other.

This reminds me of the space race story, about the USA spending millions developing a pen that would work in space and the Russians used a pencil.

Sometimes you can over engineer something as well.

I am sure the Ritter knife is a f ine knife but I don't trust the lock until its been around longer than a year or 3 or 10.

My 2 cents your mileage may vary.

Flip