Another Question About Lockup

calypso699

calypso699

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Hi Everyone,

I have read a lot about lockup and have learned that it's supposed to be 50-75% but this is really bugging me so I wanted to get it off my chest. Does this look okay to you? Lockup is solid without any play. The only things that are worth mentioning is the fact that when cleaning the lockbar actually touches the other scale when the blade is removed and when I open the knife with a little more speed (not flicking at all just a faster sweep of the thumb) the blade seems to stick just a little when unlocking. I wonder if this will go away with break in? FYI, I took it apart and cleaned it this morning but nothing changed. Also, I bought this knife new about two weeks ago. Thanks for the help!

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Looks pretty solid to me.

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I wouldn't worry about it. You mentioned your Seb has solid lockup without any blade play so you answered your own question.
 
Thanks guys. My instincs tell me it's okay but I just wanted to get other opinions. Thanks for posting the pic also. How do you make it appear without clicking the link?
 
CRK has a magic way of crossing maximum lock-up reliability with slow wear and tear. The small Regular I'm carrying currently has about the same lock-up and it's relatively very new. I don't sweat it, because I've yet to wear one out in my nine years of carry to where the lockbar detent or lockbar itself touches the other side and/or blade play has developed.

Mr. Reeve likes maximum engagement on his lockbar/blade tang interface. Yet whether it be the lockbar heat treat or the blade tang ramp angle or both, the long-term wear is defnitely minimzed by design.

My Son is carrying and using my first EDC small regular Seb, and the lockup seemed to settle in and retire at 65%.

Professor.
 
calypso699 said:
Thanks for posting the pic also. How do you make it appear without clicking the link?
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Save it to an online hosting site (e.g. Photobucket, ImageShack, Flickr), click the "Insert Image" icon above, and paste the link from your online hosting account directly into your post here.

Works with Smilies, too:
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You just stick the link to the pic, I used your link, in between tags with "IMG" and "/IMG" but enclosed in square brackets like [ or ].

I can never recall how to quote the proper link literally without the bb interpreting it.

[ IMG ] http://link.to.your.picture/knife.jpg [ / IMG ]

See if this works...take the spaces out that are inside the square brackets though.... I added spaces so you could 'see' it without it trying to make a picture link out of it.
 
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It worked! Thanks for the explanation guys.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback. I'm not going to stress over the lockup anymore. I feel confident using it and I know if there ends up being an issue in the future CRK will stand behind it.
 
I actually wore out my 1997 lg reg seb! I sent it in and CRK replaced the handle and made it brand new at their expense.
 
My relatively new large Sebenza locks up that much also.

My local knife store had 2 in stock and they were both like this.

Nothing to worry about in my opinion.
 
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I have been using the heck out of it without worry. The only problem I have still is the sticky lock. It's still there and really annoying the heck out of me. I am giving it a chance to break in before I do the pencil lead trick, but I'm kinda losing patience.
 
calypso699 said:
It worked! Thanks for the explanation guys.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback. I'm not going to stress over the lockup anymore. I feel confident using it and I know if there ends up being an issue in the future CRK will stand behind it.
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That's the bottom line - CRK stands behind it's products.

BTW, lockup looks fine to me.
 
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