"bending" a knife!! works wonders lol

GBeninati

GBeninati

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I give all the credit to member echoscout on this board...
He helped me earlier by saying,
"If the pivot screw is properly tightened and the blade is still off center the easiest fix is to bend your knife. Open the knife and wrap the blade with something so you do not cut your self. With the handle in one hand the blade in the other give it a little bend. Close blade to check position of blade if not where wanted repeat till blade is centered the way you want. I use this method to keep all folding knives centered. Have a good one."

this was when my knife wasn't falling center and touching the liner slightly, but I also noticed that this also effects where the liner lock engages the tang. IE.. if your liner lock is traveling to far you can try this.

I would like to add you are not actually bending the blade, but just applying some pressure. I do this by placing the blade on the carpet, with a towel over it for safety, and "bending"

This means so much to me because I am little OCD about things and want my blade to fall dead center upon closing,and my liner lock to fall dead center (unless it is the break in period)

thanks again echoscout :thumbup:
 
So, are you actually bending the pivot screw, or the liners, or what?? Something has to bend at least a little, or this wouldn't work.
 
I'm not entirely sure, in most cases the blade is touching the liner very very slightly and I am only putting a very very small amounf of pressure into the "bend". All I know is after this is done it does not touch the liner.
 
It's very weird. It seems to work best on Emersons (well, Emersons seem to need this "treatment" the most ... >.> .... <.<) but I've done it to Benchmade and custom linerlocks too.

I've spent a long time trying to determine what exactly is shifting, but I can't pinpoint it. It's not the handles... it's somewhere in the pivot, but I really doubt it's the pivot pin or holes that are shifting.

If someone could say definitively, I'd be interested in learning.

-j
 
Folders are basically two parallel plates held together by screws along the backspine and the pivot. If that pivot or any part of the construction is not totally perpindicular to the parallels, you get this problem. My guess would be when you "bend" like you describe, you are aligning the two liners more parallel. I bet youre method would work even better with the pivot and all screws slightly loosened. I think you really are just squaring everything up. In order to actually bend a blade, you would need to apply a very large amount of force, and bend it way beyond straight in order for it to take a set back to straight.
 
Yep, and the weaker parts (pivot, liners, scales, screws) would give before the blade actually bent. To really bend a blade, you'd have to remove it from the frame first (or at least be very careful to secure the blade, so as not to put any stress on the rest of the knife).
 
I do this, especially after taking one apart. But I don't have to use much force. Just a little pressure seems to be enough to get the blade in line again.:thumbup:
 
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