I've got a Buck 110 that I've had forever. Nothing very special, just stock out of a Sears case about, god, a decade ago (before they got so uptight about selling to minors). Anyway, shortly after I got it I taught myself how to open it one handed. I pull the blade up with my thumb and index finger and then continue with just my thumb in a rolling motion. It does the trick beautifully and is a very useful little trick but the only way it works is from pushing on the side of the blade and using that tension to keep the blade from snapping back down.
Think about the motion you'd use to flip a coin.
Anyway, lately I've noticed that when I'm cutting something thick that the blade feels like it moves slightly to the left or right of the locked position. Vertically it's great, which is surprising since I thought that would be the first place to get loose. If this were any other one of my folders I would just take a little oil and an allen wrench to tighten it. Problem solved. But the 110 is held together by pins and brass and I have no idea if I even can tighten it up.
Any other knife and I wouldn't care. I would just put it in my toolbox to get destroyed from prying concrete or something, but this is like my Alpha Knife. I bought it as a replacement/apology for my Dad because I lost his 110. Later we found his knife and he gave the new one back to me and it's kind of become a good luck charm, on top of not being a bad knife.
Any ideas on how to maintain an older Buck 110? Should I just consider this the beginning of the end?
Think about the motion you'd use to flip a coin.
Anyway, lately I've noticed that when I'm cutting something thick that the blade feels like it moves slightly to the left or right of the locked position. Vertically it's great, which is surprising since I thought that would be the first place to get loose. If this were any other one of my folders I would just take a little oil and an allen wrench to tighten it. Problem solved. But the 110 is held together by pins and brass and I have no idea if I even can tighten it up.
Any other knife and I wouldn't care. I would just put it in my toolbox to get destroyed from prying concrete or something, but this is like my Alpha Knife. I bought it as a replacement/apology for my Dad because I lost his 110. Later we found his knife and he gave the new one back to me and it's kind of become a good luck charm, on top of not being a bad knife.
Any ideas on how to maintain an older Buck 110? Should I just consider this the beginning of the end?
