Spyderco byte December 2022 - EDGE-U-CATION® - The Compression Lock
Invented by Spyderco co-founder Sal Glesser in the year 2000 and formally recognized by a U.S. Utility Patent in 2003, the Compression Lock was a milestone achievement in folding knife lock engineering. Although often misunderstood as “a LinerLock on the back of the handle,” it is actually one of the simplest, strongest, safest, and most user-friendly locks ever developed.
Michael Walker’s LinerLock took the traditional brass split liner safety of old-school pocketknives and elevated it to one of the most functional, ubiquitous, and, sadly, unacknowledged, lock mechanisms in the cutlery industry. Elegantly simple, it uses a split liner, or in some cases, an inset...