Should Your Folding Pocket Knife Lock or Not?

Whitemountainknives24 Dec, 2025Business

There was a time when the vast majority of folding pocket knives did not have locks. Most of these were either a type of folding pocket knife called a friction folder or else were made with slipjoint mechanisms in one of several popular traditional patterns. Some of these were sowbelly, stockman, congress, canoe, and trapper knives, among others.