Spyderco Liner Locks

[carrot]

Every time I use my Military, I am always struck by how well designed the liner lock is. It appears to compensate well for wear, with a solid lockup and a reassuring click when it locks. The liner is grippy and easy to disengage and the scale cutout feels as if it were sized perfectly. I never liked liner locks and barely liked framelocks but the Military is quickly changing that, despite that I nearly didn't buy the Military because of the liner lock. I think Spyderco should really leverage their excellent liner lock "technology" to make more liner lock models.

So, as cool as the Stop Lock is, I really hope it doesn't replace the liner lock in the Military. Maybe there is room in the lineup for a liner-lock Millie and a stop-lock Millie. I certainly hope so.

[JPatrick]

IIRC, Sal did say something to the effect that IF they changed the Millie locks, that there would be a time when they would be making both the liner lock and whatever might replace it. When I read this here (I can't find the post at this time), Sal wasn't saying that they were changing the Millie lock, just that if they did that the liner lock wouldn't disappear immediately but there would be an overlap.