Buck Mayo for lock adjustment

[STR]

John your concern is very much a valid one with this Buck Mayo TNT.

I am quite shocked that Buck would send out a knife this leathally sharp ready to bite big mated to a lockup this precarious. I lightly tapped this one when opened up with a good snap and as shown here it was such a light tap on an an empty cardboard box edge that the blade didn't go in any farther than where it stopped right here in this pic of it partially moved in rotation. It defeated about as easy as any I've ever tested.

I dread to think of the nerve damage a blade this sharp could do in short order trusted to a lock up this bad. I don't exaggerate at all when I say the lock connects about as deep as half the thickness of one of my beard whiskers.

We'll get it better than this shortly.

STR

 

[STR]

All done. This was a simple fix.

No charge here, just pay the shipping back to you and we are cool J.

Its perfection now! You will be pleased. These are really not bad knives at all. I don't care for the horns up top where I want to put my thumb but other than this its a fine user. Great blade when you get the S30V option too.

Have a great holidays.

STR

 

[Jdunks]

Steve,

That was quick!!! I told you it was pretty bad. When I first got it and saw the engagement I was shocked. The first opening, a light whack to my palm defeated it..NOT GOOD..I'm glad it's tip top now. Just curious..What did you do to correct this? Thanks Steve.

John

 

[STR]

Upon inspection it looked to be that Buck used the exact same pitch angle and technique to make the contact for the blade as I do when I make my own frame locks.

I simply stuck it on my KMG and slowed down the machine to the slowest speed, put on a super fine belt with my MAP arm in place and with the blade out adjusted the angle of my table to the exact same pitch angle as that already on the blade from the factory. Doing it like this I don't even have to know the pitch angle they use at Buck because I set it so the contact is sitting exactly flat on the belt so when I finally turn on the grinder its already there hitting the full contact. I checked the pitch angle and as I suspected its 10`. It took 2 seconds to take off a hairs worth of metal.

The end result is a fine lock up and a finish that Buck would be hard pressed to tell was not factory. Looking at it they'd never know if they did it or I did.

By the way. I use the USPS web site and print my own labels. Everything is automatically insured for up to $200 when you use their website. You only have to add insurance if its more than this. We should both be getting tracking info emails here shortly.

STR