![]() “We’re trying to make it quicker every time. Once your order is in, Gavin Hawk tells us that the usual wait time is about 6 months, but as they continue to streamline their operations that window will shrink. For now, the only way to get your hands on a Deadlock is to hop on the Hawks’ books through their newsletter. Grab a Pack of 5 Microfiber Blade Sleeves for $8.99 < <ĭespite intense interest from other manufacturers and companies, the Hawks still plan to keep Deadlock production in-house for the time being. I’ve never seen anything like it,” he says. “It’s an inherently interesting mechanism. But Gavin Hawk believes the video will have appeal to fans of knife design in addition to lucky Deadlock owners. Each knife also comes with all the tools necessary for take down and maintenance. To that end, the Hawks added retaining clips to facilitate easy disassembly and keep tensioned parts from coming loose during the process. “We want people to be able to take apart this knife,” he says. Gavin Hawk emphasizes that accessibility is an important part of the Deadlock design philosophy. “We spent a whole year just making drawings and working out several features,” Grant Hawk says. This efficiency was reached through an intense prototyping phase to ensure each element carried its weight. “It has more parts than a Microtech but less than everything else,” Hawk confirms. While it brings more innovation to the table, the Deadlock is comprised of fewer parts than most OTFs. Hawk tells us the video highlights the relative simplicity of his creation. “The Deadlock is totally different.” In the 29-minute video, Hawk highlights the important elements of the Deadlock mechanism, including a conical stop pin, which works in conjunction with a stop plate to deliver the rock solid, no blade play lockup that has already made the Deadlock famous. “Everyone’s seen how other OTFs work and it’s always the same principle,” says Gavin Hawk, who works alongside father Grant Hawk. This is the first time since the Deadlock’s 2015 debut that the Hawks have uncovered the entire assembly of the innovative out-the-front mechanism. The really big news is the cycle tests! By changing a few parts around, and applying various coatings, we have achieved cycles of 100,000 on all parts! Spring breakage is the number one failure of other OTFs on the market.Hawk Knife Designs has just released a revealing take down video of the Hawk Knives Deadlock automatic, the first OTF knife with a completely solid lockup. ![]() The older versions were smoother and easier to operate than all other OTFs on the market, but this new version is by far the smoothest out-the-front available to date.īy making the internal mechanism with even less parts, and with screws with all the same size torx, taking the knife apart is easier than ever. This version of the Deadlock is so smooth. In Batch 4 and 5, we focused on number of overall cycles, smoothness, ease of user disassembly, and of course- ease of manufacturing. Batch 2 is fairly easy to take apart, while Batch 1 and the prototypes are best sent back to me when the time comes. Each knife is inspected by Gavin, and ships. This service is 10 of the selling price, which is calculated after shipping and paypal fees have been subtracted. Each knife is sent back to me, and tested, and in some cases given a spa treatment. Batch 3 was again ease of manufacture, with an added focus on the ability for the user to take the knife apart for cleaning. Due to this, I offer a service of selling after market G&G Hawk knives. The goal of Batch 1 and Batch 2 was ease of manufacture, which came in the form of simplification. The first prototypes had a singular goal of locking up solid. Every batch of Deadlocks has started with a goal.
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