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The only concern I would have about a screwdriver blade would be the thickness of the existing blade, and not being thick/stiff enough to use as one adequately.
 
Primble said:
We are just giving you ideas. You paid for it - it is your knife - if you prefer a screwdriver blade - that would work as well. ;):)
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I did pay for it, but ya'll are smarter and i wanted to run it through you guys first. It sounds like it'll loosen up the blades which i don't wanna do. Is there any way to tighten this knife? I dont see hidden pins in the bolsters.
 
That knife has the swinden key construction, so no, there is no way to tighten things up without major dis-assembly work.
 
I have a 1978 Schrade knife that I snapped the tip off of using it in ways it was not intended. The Schrade 1095 steel can get really sharp and holds and edge great, so long as you use it as a knife. It can get a bit brittle when trying to use it as a screwdriver.

I kinda did a so-so job reprofiling this one. The bolster had fallen off years ago, so this pic also shows what the Swinden key looks like.



Technically a Parker-Frost knife but that was just because of the bone scales, the knife itself was made by Schrade.
 
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