Right on the latter... ZT definitely ain't following trends with their knives.

C'mon, heavily machined G-10 and sculpted for less than 200 bucks. That's definitely a trend. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

But why Aluminum for a frame? Titanium, apparently, is stronger and would be much better suit for abuse. Sure Aluminum is light, but were talking about a folder here.

I mean you don't see Aluminum frames on framelock knives.