Anyone remove the assisted opening feature from their knives?

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I have had a Kershaw Blur (Brown S30v) for a while now, and I have not been a huge fan, until I removed the assisted opening feature, now I really like it. It opens so smoothly, and it feels like a much higher quality knife.

Any of you do this to your blades?

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I've never intentionally removed it. But so far have had two kershaws where the feature removed itself without asking. A leek and another I cannot recall type. I gave them both to someone I worked with who needed a nice knife, and hence did not know anything was amiss with them. Have not and will not buy another kershaw, EVER!
 
cbxer55 said:
I've never intentionally removed it. But so far have had two kershaws where the feature removed itself without asking. A leek and another I cannot recall type. I gave them both to someone I worked with who needed a nice knife, and hence did not know anything was amiss with them. Have not and will not buy another kershaw, EVER!
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I have a leek, and I don't think that model is well suited to be manual, I like the Assisted opening on it, just my thoughts
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Yes I took the AO out of my ZT 0300. Had to drill a small dimple in the blade so the detent ball would keep it shut. Works great as a flipper.
 
Is it considered cool? I have heard about removal of AO quite a few times and every time wandered... For some reason I always looked at this fanction as a nice variety - so many knives do not have it, but you can also have a few which have. Nize! :)
 
I've been thinking about removing the spring from my 350. I've read where someone else had done it and said that the indent was already in place.
 
My brand new SOG Twitch II killed it's assist. Loosened the pivot a bit to oil it, and the spring that opens it popped out of the socket. Returning it tomorrow, and now I know how weak the open assist is, I may not get another. A single spring is not sufficient for long term durability.
 
I did the same thing as you. i prefer my S60V blur unassisted. I just removed the assistance and turned it into the sheeple knife. it works well.
 
I have done it before on my spec bump and g10 tyrade but ended up putting them back in because of blade retention issues. Also some flippers that were designed for A/O just don't have enough umph without the spring.
 
I removed the metal bar off my benchmade 913. It opens much more easily and faster than before
 
will the Leek have blade retention issues if I disable AO on it?? TBH I love the design of the knife, blade shape is great, handle is comfortable for a smaller/gentleman's type knife. But I just don't like the AO. For one thing the stainless handles don't give a positive feel when opening and closing, and overcoming the initial torsion of the AO.
 
Only one I've ever tampered with was my BM 672 - Apparition. It used the 'Optimizer' assist system (which I believe is meant to be removed, if you choose).

In my opinion it's BM's most horrible assisted mechanism. Required so much pressure on the thumb stud to trigger the assist that it would seriously hurt your hand if you sat there and played with it for a while.

Removing it and loosening the pivot a bit turned it into a great 'wrist-flick' knife for me, personally...
 
I've done it for other people plenty of times in the past. Never done it for myself, though, as I don't buy assisteds. :p
 
I did it to my 770cfM4 and it works just fine.

There have been a bunch of people who don't have a detent drilled, or not strong enough of a detent to allow for the full functionality of the flipper without added input (wrist, thumb finishing the opening).
 
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