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. 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.
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