wrdwrght wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:02 pm
Thanks to this thread, I now have a C4, my first Chinook, coming to me, appropriately enough, from the Great White North’s Warriors & Wonders. FYI, now OOS…
Really stoked.
And I get a PowerLock to stand in for one I lost when I sold my Tatanka (I like big, just not that big).
I’m not exactly asking you to disassemble your knife, but the comparison of the Powerlocks between the Chinook 4 and Tatanka is one reason I want to see inside the Chinooks.
I was studying the lock and sketching some rough design. I noticed that my design with no choil was not working with the Tatanka’s Powerlock set up, the knife with those really nice pictures showing a piece with clear scales so you can see the lock.
The Chinook 4 has the interesting distinction of being a Powerlock with no choil (something I’ve always liked about the design), as well having “evolved” from a previous iterations that did have choils.
However, I couldn’t find any images of the internals of that knife, or any Chinook.
From what I can tell, the C4 eliminates the stop pin that takes up a lot of space and makes the choil necessary on the Tatanka. I have some ideas, however, I’m not really sure what’s going on and the easiest way to figure it out would be to just have a look at the inside of the knife.
I would buy one myself just to figure this out (and because I’ve always been attracted to the design) but that will have to wait. By then, it’d maybe be better to just wait and see what Sal has planned for the next version.
Or maybe a Sage with a Powerlock? Probably both. My recent interest in lock design has the Sage series looking more and more interesting, to me.
I think there’s also some potential for innovation in the way of lock manipulation for backlock style mechanisms like the Powerlock, at least in production/Spyderco knives, but that’s another topic.
Sorry for the long-winded comment.
rex121 is the king of steel, but nature’s teeth have been cutting for hundreds of millions of years and counting :cool: