bm 710 thumb stud question

[boris01]

Has anyone removed some G10 near the thumb stud to make it more accessable? if so did it improve the ability to flick open?

 

[mongomondo]

It's fine as it is. Just put your thumb underneath it and push up with your thumb. It's one of the easiest knives I've owned to flick open. I have fat fingers too.

 

[theonew]

I put a thin washer on the side of the thumb stud that I use 99% of the time. It makes the stud stand off from the scales by maybe 1/32 of an inch. Makes a pretty big difference IMO.

 

[boris01]

theonew,

Could you explain in more detail what you did?

 

[theonew]

Sure, I unscrewed the thumb stud, put a thin washer over one side of the hole and then put the the stub back through the hole and tightened it. At first, I was worried that the threads didn't have enough purchase, but after almost a year now, I've encountered no problems.

Hope that makes sense

 

[boris01]

theonew,

Thanks for the details. sound good

 

[theonew]

It's kind of a ghetto fix for a problem that really isn't a problem. The more you use and get used to opening and closing the 710, the easier it gets All around great knife.

 

[boris01]

I been practicing but compaired to my spyderco para military I find the 710 a bit hard to open

 

[Reeek]

The key to opening the 710 is to push forward at an angle, not straight up.

 

[boris01]

The problem is finding the the stud. It is so close to the G10 handle compared to some other knives.

 

[boris01]

Theonew,

Where did you get the thin washer. I can not find one so small.

 

[Kaizen1]

The problem is finding the the stud. It is so close to the G10 handle compared to some other knives.

Just slide you thumb along the side of the G-10 and you'll find the thumbstud every time.

 

[theonew]

Theonew,

Where did you get the thin washer. I can not find one so small.

Unfortunately all I can tell you is that I found it at the very bottom of my coffee can filled with random washers

 

[starboard]

The 710 is exceptionally easy to open with just a flick of the wrist. But if you must use the thumb stud, you should push in a direction tangential to the circle the stud makes as it rotates about the pivot.. or, in other words, roughly along the line of the scale. The stud is not really obscured if you want to apply force in that direction.

(I much prefer the Spydie hole, though. I think the world's most perfect folder would be formed if they took the blade from the Spyderco Military and married it to the rest of the 710. The sabre-ground recurve with a thumbstud.. is the least favorite blade I own. The rest of the knife is brilliant.)