The Taylor made S&W branded/packaged knives I have experienced in the past year are way below par in my opinion, with the most serious flaw being the often reported(see utube) linerlock locking and freezing past the mid butt of the blade, rendering the knife inoperable. Until you use a tool to fix this, you have a fixed blade! It is curious to me how the Taylor made Schrade branded/packaged knives do not share this flaw? I stopped buying S&W knives as a result. I am not saying they all are bad, but every linerlock I tried had the same issue. YMMV
The knives I tried were all on the low end of the price scale. No excuse for that type of poor performance though, and many other brands I have tried , including the above mentioned Schrades , are nice knives. Hopefully, as the parent company, S&W can bring some of their QA process to their lower end knife lineup.