blade play on SS spyderco

[Cornelis Böhms]

Do you have blade play on your SS spyderco ?

 

[rcbalt2]

no. I haven't had any blade play on any of the ss models.

 

[Chin Mullet]

In the past I've owned a SS Delica, and 2 Scorpius'. None had any play.

 

[Daniel]

Lateral or vertical play?

Liner lock or lockback?

 

[TFin04]

Lock backs, over time, will develop some slight vertical blade play (that is, toward the lock then toward closing the knife).

If it is lateral play you can every so lightly tap it with a rubber or rawhide mallet to tighten it up. Start with VERY light taps and work your way up. You can pry it back open if you go to far, but that's harder than tightening it up.

Good luck.

 

[smcfalls13]

On a SS Spyder? Never. FRN or G-10 Spyders I sometimes I have a little vertical play, but SS Spyders usually lock up solidly.

 

[bh49]

I have three SS lockbacks. No bladeplay at all

 

[stefanschlaegel]

I have in use 2 SS Delica with no vertikal bladeplay, earlier I had a SS Rookie , Harpy and Co Pilot, also no bladeplay.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

I have had a SS Police for over ten years, and it has developed no blade play whatsoever.

 

[puukkoman]

Gots me a Po-lice an' a Delllllicka, an ain' never had no fuss off'n either uvvem.

 

[Menocu]

Some tiny horizontal and vertical play on my kiwi.. barely enogh to be detected.

 

[Cornelis Böhms]

I mean blade play on a SS Spydie that is used for hard work.

 

[stefanschlaegel]

What ist hard work for you ? To cut down a tree ? You can use a Kiwi for hard whittling even if it is small - I had one before, but with bone scales.
By the way, my linerlocks Spydies (Wegner, Centofante C25, Starmate, Howard Viele) didn't have any blade-play. The C25 is still one of my really used EDCs - no blade-play neither vertikal nor horizontal.