Recommendation? Blasphemer?

[johnnytoxin]

How is fitment an issue if you move everything over? Blade, bushing and washers.

The lock face is ground to fit the lock bar. There is an old Blade HQ video showing this. Probably still up if you care to search for it.

 

[badmatt]

They're still ground on a jig, likely to a set depth unless something is vastly different.

Now with the 31... I bet you could pull blade out of 10 knives and the lock face will be mainly the same across them all.

 

[Twoody]

Absoolutley. Life's too short to not do what ever you can to get the most joy. If financial gain is your thing Maybe not.. if carrying and using your idea of perfect is what your after, I'm with ya and say DO IT !!!!!

 

[MIKE969]

if you swap over all of the hardware (spacer, stop pin sleeve, blade, pivot bushing and washers) from one set of scales to the other, you should not have blade play and the action should be the same, with the exception of the lock.

As others have said, CRK sets the lockup from the factory by grinding the lock face on the blade tang until the lockup is correct because of variance in manufacturing process. Take a good look at the lock engagement percentage (60-80% lockup is ideal) and where the blade tang actually interfaces with the lock bar face (it should mostly interface with the area farthest away from the pivot on the blade tang to avoid lock rock.

But why not just sell both and buy a factory plain damascus if that's what you want?