Another ghetto Wave..Benchmade

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endurawave58

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Here is a Every Day Carry, Benchmade Osborne, Waved with a C clip attached to the stock screw. Very effective, catches pocket every time.

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Good idea ! Looks way better than those plastic , clipped off wire ties and reversible since you didnt not have to change your knife ala wave mod. :)
 
endurawave58, welcome to the forums!

Great idea--I just might try it.
 
Yer a genius. THAT is a good idea---and it works! Thanks for the post.
Lycosa
 
Thats a good idea for people that dont want to a permanent wave.
 
Don't know the size, I just found it in a misc jar in garage. Any hardware or auto parts will have these small C clips for cheap. Tried a larger one first and it worked as well, the smaller one though, looks better.
 
Quite ingenious! You could repackage the c-clips, inflate the price a couple bucks, and make your fortune marketing them as "tactical, trouser-assisted knife openers".
 
Have not had any trouble as of yet.. I tightened them up real good and also used a pretty small c clip. a possibility would be to use a smidge of blue loc tite
 
Cool. I'll probably give it a try and play around with it on my CRKT Crawford/Kasper folder. I mostly carry a Waved Delica anyhow, but this looks it'll be a fun idea to experiment with.

Good point about the small c-clip. . . A larger one would have more leverage and have more torque at the thumb-stud.
 
Genius is right! What an innovative idea. :)

So innovative, in fact, that I dropped by my hardware store and picked up a few c-clips in different sizes to try out on my full-size Rukus 610.

Imagine my frustration when -- all settled back, ready to make the mod -- and the thumb stud will not budge!

It appears you loosened the stud somewhat in order to slide the c-clip under it and then retightened. If so, how in the world did you accomplish this miracle?!

This is what I've tried:
1) The BM Blue Box. Junk and now ruined.
2) Apply a butane flame for ~30 seconds and then use needle nose pliers to twist loose. It wouldn't budge.
3) A heat-gun applied in the same manner as the butane torch, still no luck.
4) A call to Benchmade, who claimed the studs are "one piece" and cannot be loosened or removed.

Can you please give me any tips or tricks? I'm out of ideas and really frustrated...:mad:

Thanks!
David
 
dwillia29 said:
Genius is right! What an innovative idea. :)

So innovative, in fact, that I dropped by my hardware store and picked up a few c-clips in different sizes to try out on my full-size Rukus 610.

Imagine my frustration when -- all settled back, ready to make the mod -- and the thumb stud will not budge!

It appears you loosened the stud somewhat in order to slide the c-clip under it and then retightened. If so, how in the world did you accomplish this miracle?!

This is what I've tried:
1) The BM Blue Box. Junk and now ruined.
2) Apply a butane flame for ~30 seconds and then use needle nose pliers to twist loose. It wouldn't budge.
3) A heat-gun applied in the same manner as the butane torch, still no luck.
4) A call to Benchmade, who claimed the studs are "one piece" and cannot be loosened or removed.

Can you please give me any tips or tricks? I'm out of ideas and really frustrated...:mad:

Thanks!
David
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The blade in the picture has a torx head slot in it, which is probably how he accomplished it. Some knives are just harder to do than others.
 
tmanifold said:
The blade in the picture has a torx head slot in it, which is probably how he accomplished it. Some knives are just harder to do than others.
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This thread is over 2 years old so he probably got it figured out or has given up.

Since this thread is now bumped up I will add that I tried this years ago before seeing it here and quickly took it off. It works great to wave the knife open but there were some problems. First the stock thumb stud was too short and had to be repaced with one for a thicker blade. The main problem is that because the clip is so thin it is quite sharp. Every time the knife was waved open it cut a hole in the corner of my pocket. I didn't like having a big hole in the top of my pocket from using the knife a dozen times.
 
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