Blade Play.... Acceptable Amount?

[Guyon]

Search function is down, so I'm posting my question.

In your experience with Buck 110s, is there an amount of side-to-side blade play that you've come to accept? Is this just something that comes with the territory, or should a 110 lock up tight with no side-to-side play?

I ask because I have three (soon to be four) 110s that were bought as new. Two of them, both in the $30 range, lock up tight. My $128 Buck custom, on the other hand, has blade play that you can actually feel when you grasp the blade and handle and apply pressure from side to side. I'm not talking about trying to break the knife; I just mean gentle pressure back and forth.

Now, I do have two older "2 dot" 110s that have a little bit of play, but even they don't have as much as the new custom 110.

Is this blade play just normal? Am I being too fussy? Could it have something to do with the fact that the "tight" 110s have brass bolsters and the looser, custom 110 has nickel-silver bolsters?

 

[guy g]

Does this happen with the blade open or closed? Sometimes the Pcks have come out a little loose.(i've read other posts to this effect here)Joe has always told us that the knife needs just enough 'play' to make it work smoothly.
hope this helps
guy

 

[fudo]

I have 3 110's, 2 BG-42 MS overruns and 1 regular production. All have 0 play.

 

[rdg]

My 110's have no play at all when locked open. Does your knife have brass bolsters? If not, it may be that with different materials used in the bolsters they have to leave a little play to get the blade to open smoothly. I speculating, but my 560s have never been even remotely as smooth as my 110s.
Bob