Canal Street Cannitler Issue

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alpinebear

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Hey folks.,
I picked up a Canal Street Cannitler recently and its a beautiful knife with excellent fit and finish except for a proud backspring on the main blade. I think this is pretty common for this model but is it relatively straight forward for me to get this fixed by a pro? Sorry I dont have any pics here. I tried to attach photos but looks like the only option is to paste from media? I am new to the forum so maybe its a status thing? Thanks!
 
This is the only time when Charlie has ever been wrong. You just need a hosting site, such as Imgur. There are instructions here somewhere. If I find them, I’ll lead you that way.
 
alpinebear said:
Hey folks.,
I picked up a Canal Street Cannitler recently and its a beautiful knife with excellent fit and finish except for a proud backspring on the main blade. I think this is pretty common for this model but is it relatively straight forward for me to get this fixed by a pro? Sorry I dont have any pics here. I tried to attach photos but looks like the only option is to paste from media? I am new to the forum so maybe its a status thing? Thanks!
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EngrSorenson said:
This is the only time when Charlie has ever been wrong. You just need a hosting site, such as Imgur. There are instructions here somewhere. If I find them, I’ll lead you that way.
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What he said.

Meanwhile, I think it would be rather difficult to fix that proud spring.
 
Would involve a total dismantling I suspect and you have to hope you have a repairer who is competent at putting it back together again....
 
Just here to say that if you’re okay with potentially REALLY messing up your knife, it’s possible to fix the issue if you go slow and think things through. You can do this with the knife assembled using a small file and LOTS of time.

Fair warning, I cannot recommend that anyone attempt this unless you’re willing to scratch up the inside of the liners, potentially ruin the open tension, potentially ruin the action, potentially ruin the angle that the blade sits at when open, and get metal dust everywhere.

BEFORE. Proud spring and blade at the wrong angle.
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AFTER. Blade at the correct angle and spring much more flush (not perfect, but acceptable)
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I just want to reiterate that nobody should attempt this unless you’re confident in what you’re doing. There are many things impacted by the interface of the tang and the spring. Filing away at the spring changes those things (some for the better, some for worse if you do it wrong). You have to keep the angle correct in two axis and make sure you remove only enough and not too much.
 
Hoffmajo89 said:
I just want to reiterate that nobody should attempt this unless you’re confident in what you’re doing. There are many things impacted by the interface of the tang and the spring. Filing away at the spring changes those things (some for the better, some for worse if you do it wrong). You have to keep the angle correct in two axis and make sure you remove only enough and not too much.
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How did you do this? File the spring end while closed? I would be willing to take a crack at this I think. The spring isnt as bad as your before pic but a little worse than your after pic. I also would be ok with the blade sitting a bit farther back when open as it sits fairly forward now like a typical canoe.
 
I also thought sanding down the spring a bit when open so that it splits the difference between open and closed (less proud when open but a little sunken when closed)
 
alpinebear said:
How did you do this? File the spring end while closed? I would be willing to take a crack at this I think. The spring isnt as bad as your before pic but a little worse than your after pic. I also would be ok with the blade sitting a bit farther back when open as it sits fairly forward now like a typical canoe.
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The face of the spring that interacts with the tang when open is at an inward angle. You just want to try to maintain that angle and file it back little by little until the spring is flush and your blade is at the correct angle. Here’s my attempt at representing what you want to do.

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The important parts are keeping the angle inward and about the same, and trying not to scratch up the inside of the liners while you file away (I scratched mine up a bit but prefer that greatly to the weird angle and the proud spring).

If you halfway open the blade, you can get just enough room. I used a 300 grit diamond file that was just narrow enough to get in there.
 
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