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kershaw72787

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I recently got a knife from Beltrame knives. It is an italian made knife and is truelt beautiful. The only thing is that the blade itself is exetremely dull, and I can't even get anedge on it. This isn't a cheap knife either, it is of rather good quality. Does anybody know if knives by Beltrame come dull form the factory so they can be displayed, or if I just happened to get a lemon. Also, how would I go about sharpening this knife. It came with and edge of about 25 degrees or so, plus I don't have a wheel. I have a Diamond, Stone, and Porcelain sharpener. Please help, I truely would love to make this knife my EDC, but since it is not sharp as of now I can only leave it in the drawer. Thanks.


kershaw72787
 
I've never gotten one of their knives that was sharp, but I also did'nt really care about that either as they usually go straight into the display case along with the others.
 
I have been sharpening the knife on a soft stone and the edge is coming, slowly but surely. My next question is blade wobble. The blade on this knife wobbles back and forth and side to side. Has anybody else noticed this? Is there any way to fix it? Seeing as ther is no pivot screw to tighten I can't see how you could, maybe tap the rivets or whatever in a little more? Please rpely, thanks.


kershaw72787
 
Most European knive(s) aren't as "shavin' sharp" as their American
"cousin(s)"; my advise is to take the knife to a good wetstone, or, failing that, a good sharpeing "service". Europeans have a different opinion of what constitute(s) "sharp" as opposed to us "yanks" FYI.

AET ;)

Also, as regards "wobble" : This is
"uncommon" to European knive(s) ; I'd either take it back to where I
bought it -or- got it mailed to from.
 
On the blade wobbling I was told to possibly try squeezing the rivets together, since there is a rivet on each side of the knife, with pliers covered in a towel. I will await further responses before I do anything. Thanks.


kershaw72787
 
I took a ball peen hammer to the rivets on my anvil and they didn't need tapped in at all. What I figured is the problem is that you have the spine of the knife that goes up and flays out where the knob and the blade locks in. It is this flaying out of the spine pushing against the bolsters that hold them in place. The front bolster seen here pivots to unlock the blade and let you close the knife. On the other side the bolster wobbles a little. I is because this bolster is a little loose that the blade itself wobbles. The tightness of the bolsters is what holds in the blade. If I squeeze on the back bolster the blade wobble is decreased by half. I can see where the back bolster had been crimped and all I need to do is somehow crimp the back bolster so it doesn't move back and forth. My question would be to ask how would I go about making the back bolster not wobble. What would be a key place to crimp it, or is there something I should squeeze, what should I do? Please help. I will still enjoy this knife if it wobbles, it is beautiful, but I would prefer to have a solid lock up. Thank you.


Ryan Neaves
 
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