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Sebbie
Endura/Delica
Buck 110
710
42

Bingo, I'll second this list.

Man, shouldn't the AFCK be on this list somewhere??

Or the Walker liner lock? 1980

What about the one handed opener with a pocket clip? C01 Worker 1978

Those were two major break throughs in my mind.

Would list my top 5, but much is personal pref.

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Or the Walker liner lock? 1980

What about the one handed opener with a pocket clip? C01 Worker 1978

Those were two major break throughs in my mind.

Would list my top 5, but much is personal pref.

Iam no knife connoisseur , but what makes the Walker liner lock diff. from others.
Ive tried to look inside with a light to see if I can tell any diff. and its hard to see.
To me a liner lock is a liner lock .....they do the same thing.
That little Micheal Walker Spydie knife is an awsum little knife (IMHO) easy to open an close ...one handed

Is there a chance that Walker is the guy who invented the liner lock? I don't know another reason why they would name them after him.

A little history and a short read. Found this on Wikipedia while waiting for breakfast to cook:

The Walker Linerlock is a locking system developed by custom knifemaker Michael Walker in 1980 for use on folding knives. When the blade of the knife is in the opened position, it is held in place by a leaf spring (also called a lockbar) that butts up against the tang of the blade to prevent the blade from closing. To release the lock the user must press the lockbar back toward the handle side whence it came to allow the blade to close. In the closed position the lockbar rests alongside the handle and the blade.

While linerlock-style knives have been around since the late 19th century in what was known as an electrician's knife, Walker refined and popularized the design, eventually securing a trademark for the name linerlock. Walker's main contribution to improve the design was to enable the leafspring to securely lock the blade open and facilitate true one handed opening of the knife. This was accomplished by removing the weak backspring and adding a heat-treated stop pin to align the blade in the open position. Walker also added a detent ball to hold the blade in the closed position using the same spring force from the liner.

Linerlock mechanisms are most commonly composed of steel or titanium.

Some of the many knife makers and knife manufacturing companies that utilize the Walker liner lock include:

Benchmade
Buck Knives
Chris Reeve Knives
Cold Steel
Ernest Emerson
Gerber Knives
Kershaw Knives
Ken Onion
Microtech Knives
Spyderco
Strider Knives
Victorinox

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Man, shouldn't the AFCK be on this list somewhere??

While the AFCK is a great knife, I don't know if it could be considered iconic. The main reason I say that is because it was supposed to be an improved version of the Spyderco Police, so it's not necessarily a break-through design. That's just my opinion though.

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- Walter Brend
- AFCK
- Ares

Spyderco native for me kinda what got me into knife collecting.