Buck/Mayo Folder, small mod

[Gary W. Graley]

Posted this on a thread in the Buck forum but wanted to also share
this mod here and recommend this folder for those that may have
been on the edge of picking one up...

I had one of these a while back and let her go, and recently picked
up another one, kept remembering how nice the blade was ground
thin edged sharp! So I picked this one up and emailed Tom Mayo
thanking him for the design, even though it's not a wharncliffish
blade, but cuts so well

He said an easy mod to do would be to smooth down the thumb
ramp to the oval hole as they are a bit abrupt and can make accessing
the oval hole a bit hard to do, as well as getting to the lock bar for
releasing, while I was a little hesistant, I went ahead and did it and
I would highly recommend anyone having one of these to look into
doing the same, just be very careful when grinding! I then polished the
thumb ramp and very smooth opening now, here are a few quick shots
taken to night;

and a closeup of how much was ground down of the thumb ramp

Thanks again Tom and Buck!
G2

 

[Artfully Martial]

What a good looking knife. Still can't bring myself to spend that much on it though. Still beautiful--good job there, looks factory.

 

[M Wadel]

i did the same on my microtech cmtx5, it was almost impossible to close the blade onehanded before. so i took 1,5mm off and now its good

 

[T.K.C.]

That is very nice!! I really love my Buck/Mayo TnT!!

 

[dannyv]

I also did that on mone when they first came out and opens much easily! I carry it but my only problem is blade goes to one side closed. Tried to fix it like Mr. Mayo had said in some treads but still the same( bend it one way int eh open position).

 

[goldie]

Do you think it would be possible to do that to the opposite side? im left handed, & that side of the knife is even harder to open,it has even less of the blade hole exposed.one of the reasons i havent bought one.............

 

[Gary W. Graley]

I would imagine you could do that to the other side, ramp wise, I'd
not go deeper to make the cut out deeper as you would have less
material there when you want to go to press it in order to close the blade.
So, yep, I think that would work but, you'd want to also remove the
clip to make it easier.
G2