The last time I looked all knives with visible locks on them have had the locks removed in the photos. I first discovered this when someone pointed me to the official Kizer store on aliexpress. I was looking for button locks and all the knives I knew had them were missing the buttons in the images. Those that have purchased from there said the knives arrived as expected (with locks) and they suspected it is some legal requirement that they don’t show locking knives. But that’s pure speculation based on very few data points.
3V steel in a fixed blade is, hands down, my favorite steel. You can beat the heck out of it all day long and it comes back for more. Just wonderful stuff.
I’ve always wanted a Bailout with the green aluminum handle but they put that stupid glass breaker on the end, so then you have to buy a replacement backspacer for something that is already costly. Every once in a while you can find a used one where someone has done that for you but they get snapped up within literal seconds of posting.
(Sorry for the hyper-saturated orange color. Tried adjusting the white balance and the saturation a bit without turning the rest of the image into grayscale but looks like it wasn’t enough adjustment.)
It is not possible to type the letters E, D, and C in close proximity to each other on the internet without that one guy reflexively parroting, “Just get a Bugout!” Or often, an entire chorus of them. It seems this is one of those laws of nature. Sun comes up in the east, spring follows winter, punters on the internet all...
I have both a Bugout and a mini Bugout and I love them both. But I don’t treat them like I would a knife with full liners. The concerns about flexing scales are overblown IMHO as I would rather have something flex than snap when undergoing stress. I don’t use mine for breaking down firewood or removing heavy-duty staples from lumber. This is not a knife I want to spend hours at a time using. It’s worked well for food prep (not just dehydrated) and general/easy camp tasks. Both are great in shorts or swim trunks if down by the lake/river/swamp/bog (or whatever floats your boat in summer).
Benchmade has stuck with S30V when others have moved up the ladder a bit in performance. If the Bugout was rocking Magnacut then $180 would be justified but at this point S30V is rather middle-of-the-road from a competition standpoint. They must have purchased a warehouse full of the stuff years ago, I don’t know.
I purchased both of mine on deep discount from stores clearing out stock and even then I’ve felt like I paid too much. Used gets you a better price but availability is hit-or-miss unless you go back to r/Knife_Swap where they, at times, seem to rain from the heavens.
I don’t even know what to say at this point. The opening mechanism is bonkers, the price even more so. And they go up to $770?? Makes Spyderco and Benchmade pricing seem perfectly reasonable.
Remember that $9 folder with 8CR13MOV steel? They now make a crossbar locking version (with what appears to be better scales) and it’s only $10.50 with coupon: www.amazon.com/…/B09T26HZGR
Well, you know, if a disassembly post showed up here, I certainly would not complain.
I should have scrolled down further on the product page. I just realized the Duratech line is made by our good comrades at HANGZHOU GREAT STAR INDUSTRIAL CO.LTD
I’m a big fan of CJRB. Their knives hit a very nice price point and the QC on mine have been really good. I have a few (5? 6? I donno, don’t ask me to count knives) of theirs and all have punched above their price point. I’ve had no issues with edge retention with their RPM9 steel but I’ve not done any systematic tests against D2. It certainly sharpens up nicely. They’ve had a bit of a runaway hit with their Pyrite and Pyrite-Alt models in the past year and half or so.
Any thoughts on trying to round the heel away from its elliptical shape to get it to a more axis-lock flick? It wouldn’t be perfect but maybe momentum would carry you through?
My hat is off to you for being able to disassemble this without having the screws immediately strip. I’ve had mine sitting at my desk since I bought it and I keep hoping that mindless opening and closing will eventually work it into something flickable. I see now it’s going to require the same cleaning and cleanup you gave yours.
Is the spring tension on yours really high? Or did the cleaning help with that as well? I can’t believe how much force I have to use to pull the crossbar back.
I’ve done a little whittling (or really, whittling adjacent) with it on a piece of basswood I also keep at my desk and, surprisingly, the edge has not rolled over.
I believe I have the b&m version of Amazon torx drivers: Masterforce from Menards. In fairness they’ve taken on other knives without issues but I don’t have a lot of confidence in them working against each other to try and unstick the pivot.
I’ll work on filing down the rough parts on the lock and see if that improves anything.
Doesn’t rake have a slang definition related to debauchery or a lack of self-control? Not sure that helps at all as that sounds even worse. My guess though is it is one of the verb usages: to move swiftly over a surface or to scratch
I find myself not carrying any assisted-open knives anymore. People think they’re automatic knives, end up being unable to close them properly when borrowed, and generally the knives just raise too many eyebrows. I used to carry the Scallion to work because of blade length restrictions but since the Baby Banter and the Maileah showed up, I don’t really feel the urge.
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