Advice on Stoutly Built Field-use Folder

What's your job anyway? I know you mentioned that you'd be working on building a new refinery.
I'm a metal fabricator, welder and ship fitter. My work is almost entirely in the field on Alaskan fishing boats. The cold steel triad knives cover everything I need to do with a knife.
But like I said. If you want to spend the money.... :)
Maybe look into a Demko custom?
 
ac1d0v3r1d3 said:
What's your job anyway? I know you mentioned that you'd be working on building a new refinery.
I'm a metal fabricator, welder and ship fitter. My work is almost entirely in the field on Alaskan fishing boats. The cold steel triad knives cover everything I need to do with a knife.
But like I said. If you want to spend the money.... :)
Maybe look into a Demko custom?
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If I worked on a fishing boat, I'd find a good quality, relatively inexpensive knife like you recommended... one I could really throttle, and not suffer a heart attack over if it went overboard or got stolen or mangled up. A smart choice. Actually, I'd probably find a stout stainless fixed blade about 3.5" length and out of 1/4" stock, flat ground with a convexed final edge.

I'm a knife addict, mostly. See pics in thread. What I spend on knives is not justifiable. Kinda like expensive booze. (except that at least I can resell a knife... most people won't buy used booze... i.e. whizz)

I received a Strider SnG ... it's a surprising knife in a few ways. Will post more in comparison with other knives in this thread later.

Anyone got a used Demko for me to futz with?
 
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LOL, I don't think too many people would sell a Demko unless they came down on some real hard times!
 
robot37 said:
Cold Steel Recon 1 clip point
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Thats what I would recommend. And then put your left over $440 in the savings account.

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I may be able to part with an xm18 for a fair price.. You seem like someone who will actually use it and not just flip it if you get it at a good price !! Email me and we can discuss further !!
 
Powernoddle, nice polished edge, and my little one thought the incredible figurine was awesome.
 
Uh oh... looks like one of my "hard use" folders has a press-fit thumb stud. I discovered this while... wait for it... slicing open the back of a pill blister pack. The thumb stud just popped out. Not exactly hard use.

I kinda assumed these were threaded pieces... male one side, female the other, and threaded into place on a shoulder, w/ threads slightly locked down w/ e.g. Loctite. Not so. Press fit. And I didn't even press hard, ever. It is a "new-to-me" knife.

I guess I'll have to find a good metal-to-metal adhesive to keep the Hinderer thumb stud in place. Expensive little machined part to lose in the field... and the resulting "Spyder hole" isn't exactly large enough to use for blade opening.

Doh! ~(_8^(|) (<== Homer Simpson)


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yikes! never seen that happen before, and more importantly it is the stop pin.

dig the homer simpson!
 
MORIMOTOM said:
yikes! never seen that happen before, and more importantly it is the stop pin. dig the homer simpson!
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Indeed... it is a stop pin, and w/o, the blade has a huge amount of play. Makes me wonder how the CRK Umnumzaan and Strider's are secured.

That was how I first noticed... I thought "man, what happened... a bunch of play in the blade... is the pivot loose"... then I see the hole... WTF?... then see the stop pin laying on counter.

Anyway... not a killer, just a surprise. I suspect all of his semi-production pieces are this way. Maybe the "custom" ones too. I'll dig into a metal-to-metal adhesive suitable for the task, and post here once I figure something out. It's remedy-able (izzat a wurd?) but a surprise.
 
the strider stop pins are press fit and i think an adhesive is applied.

i had one of those fall out of an smf that was basically brand new.
 
Wouldn't you be able to TIG it in place?
 
Rob_Angerer said:
Uh oh... looks like one of my "hard use" folders has a press-fit thumb stud. I discovered this while... wait for it... slicing open the back of a pill blister pack. The thumb stud just popped out. Not exactly hard use.

I kinda assumed these were threaded pieces... male one side, female the other, and threaded into place on a shoulder, w/ threads slightly locked down w/ e.g. Loctite. Not so. Press fit. And I didn't even press hard, ever. It is a "new-to-me" knife.

I guess I'll have to find a good metal-to-metal adhesive to keep the Hinderer thumb stud in place. Expensive little machined part to lose in the field... and the resulting "Spyder hole" isn't exactly large enough to use for blade opening.

Doh! ~(_8^(|) (<== Homer Simpson)


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Just PM Rob or Rick and drop a few bucks on the postage and get it fixed right. I thought the stop pin was the pin that is inside the knife handle toward the front? Anyway, send them a link to your post. Just sayin...:)

For the OP: Strider, Hinderer, Demko Custom and what about the ZT 0551 and ZT 0550 (coming) and the available ZT 0301
 
cziv said:
Just PM Rob or Rick and drop a few bucks on the postage and get it fixed right. I thought the stop pin was the pin that is inside the knife handle toward the front? Anyway, send them a link to your post. Just sayin...:)
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Some knives don't have a stop pin in the handle. Examples would be DDR Maxx, Microtech Socom manual, and ZT300.
 
Charlie Mike said:
Some knives don't have a stop pin in the handle. Examples would be DDR Maxx, Microtech Socom manual, and ZT300.
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I've heard of the pin I'm referring to as a blade stop. It rests against the finger choil on the blade. I thought it might be a stop pin. I don't know for sure though. The XM-24 has it straight across and going into both side of the Ti liners. :confused:

I think he should send it to Rick for fixing though. I would, pricey little devils. :)
 
cziv said:
I've heard of the pin I'm referring to as a blade stop. It rests against the finger choil on the blade. I thought it might be a stop pin. I don't know for sure though. The XM-24 has it straight across and going into both side of the Ti liners. :confused:

I think he should send it to Rick for fixing though. I would, pricey little devils. :)
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that little pin inside is to prevent the blade from closing too far and the edge from contacting the stand offs.

the stop pin on the blade hits the scales when opened, and also acts as a thumbstud. without the stop pins, the blade would swing freely beyond 180 degrees.
 
No love for a Benchmade Shane Sibbert designed 755 MPR?

M390 steel, TI and G10 and built like a Sherman.
 
kitkat52 said:
Great balls of fire $ 500.00 for a folder?
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$500 for a mid-tech folder... That ain't nothin:D

Go to a knife show and handle a Niel Blackwood proto balisong. IIRC. the price was somewhere around $5000.
 
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