This is a thread I will visit often, great job jekostas!
Alright, part 2: locking mechanisms posted.
It's great for me, to get so much information about knives. Thank you.
Jekostas, please see photo and my most recent post in this thread
What do you make of that double-lock mechanism? I've never seen anything like it before.
There are a couple different versions of double-locking mechanisms. The CRKT has a couple called LAWKS (Lake and Walker Knife Safety) and LBS (Lock Back Safety), Gerber has one called the Rotolock, and Lionsteel has one called the Rotoblock. They're supposed to provide an extra bit of security against lock failure, especially with liner locks. The problem is that any force great enough to cause a liner lock to fail will often break those secondary locks as well, or break the knife in such as way as to make the secondary lock useless (such as the pivot failing rather than the liner disengaging). Mostly a marketing thing.
Put it this way - if you expect to put a great enough to force on a liner lock where you think you'll need a secondary safety, it's much better just get a knife with a stronger lock, like a frame lock or back lock.
Edit: Just remembered, SanRenMu actually has a secondary lock on a couple of their knives as well.
Good information, thanks. It's just not a one-handed closer.
One of them is the SRM T21. There are some photos of the secondary lock on page 5, post 48 of Budgeteer's 'Budget knives delaers' thread.
Thanks for posting that photo troop. I like knives with unusual locks.
Great job. I have a frame lock knife and never knew it!
Administrator can we have a section for Knives Please?
Me too and I almost broke it trying to pry it open. 
And Part 3 is posted.
Very nice, and straightforward. Please keep 'em coming!
That's the clearest and most concise overview of knife steels I've seen. Thank you for boiling it down to the essentials and providing such a nice foundation for further reading. I think I'll be referring to it again and again.
Alright, part 4 is up. It's going to take me a few weeks to finish part 5 as it involves a buttload of pictures.
I'm curious about the difference between Micarta and Pakkawood, and between G10 and fiberglass.
Pakkawood just "micarta" with sawdust or is the resin fundamentally different?
Same for G10/fiberglass, seems to be the same thing by the surface description.
Sorry, updated the article to better explain the differences. G10 and FRN are essentially the same thing, it's just that G10 is an FRN handle that's been cut in to extremely thin layers and laminated back together. Micarta is only made with full sheets of material, while Pakkawood is only made with sawdust (loose material).
Wow Jekostas, thanks for all your effort to put this knife primer together.
+1
+1000, but dont waste your time asking. Its not ganna happen...
Great knife primer jekostas! Thanks for the great compilation. Its good reading and very informative.
Hi all,
I just joined the forum. I think is a great place. I just finished reading the knife primer. Seriously that is a very good, educational piece of work.
Regards
Harry
PS: I will post in the intros section now!