Carbidizing your Strider: Yes or no?

From what Ive seen, the larger thumbstuds/bladestops don't have any significant effect on aesthetics... I cant imagine it taking more than a fraction of a millimeter to reset the lock up... I could be wrong though, I have never a/b'd the two... anyone have a pic of the thicker thumbstuds?
 
^^ I'd also like to know if the larger bladestops fix effect the knife aesthetically. Anyone had the fix done by strider? And are you happy with the results?
 
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Why not use the knife and if it develops a problem then send it in? Rather than worry about it.
 
psarou said:
^^ I'd also like to know if the larger bladestops fix effect the knife aesthetically. Anyone had the fix done by strider? And are you happy with the results?
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Yeah, can't tell the difference....
 
if you really want a framelock with carbide face, sell the Strider an get a custom. You'll keep a lifetime warranty and get the features you want that way. Otherwise there will be a exchange of one for another - leave it alone and keep the warranty, cabidize it and lose the warranty.
 
I have owned quite a few Striders, one or two developed Blade play due to wear on the lock face, I sent it into Strider and they fixed them up in no time. Why void your Warranty, they have excellent customer care, let them fix the knife if you develop issues, although, on my other Strider knives I have never had any problems.
 
I wouldn't modify it. Old lockup, new lockup, Striders just don't ever fail.. Use the hell out of it.. Leave the safe queens for CRK.. Muhahah..jk. But seriously, their warranty is top notch. I had a capped Strider, really couldn't tell unless you were looking for it.. No biggie.
 
I dont know if they consider that a "mod". But than again I dont know if they even want you takeing them apart.
But look at it this way, when Mick makes a knife with his own hands he carbidizes the lock face.
 
My newest SnG (gen7, new lockup), purchased new from KnifeArt was the first of five Ive owned that came from the factory carbidized. I don't think it's common though. I'm sure it's just one of many in their bag of tricks to achieve the desired lockup during assembly. Carbide Schmarbide though. Months of opening and closing has completely worn it away.
IMO Strider knives are very unique and hence not very comparable to other knives. I'm a Sebenza man's Sebenza man and to be completely honest that has made me super anal. While I want most of my knives to be perfectly made I understand that that was never part of the deal when I bought my Striders. What I paid for is a very usable design, excellent materials, with a warranty that does not recognize the word "abuse." Sure, the lockup may or may not get a little wonky but I seriously doubt the lock will ever fail. To some that's a deal breaker and I completely understand. But for me the Pros are staggering and completely outshine this one aspect.

Oh... And send it to Strider if you have a problem. The Warranty is one of the best reasons to own a Strider. Don't blow it.
 
There's an expression: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Which, of course, means that things that can and should be done ahead of time get ignored, water pumps fail on a vacation when you knew the car had 135,000 miles, etc. There is a thing called preventative maintenance, too. And if you want to compare notes with professionally anal people about that, talk to the ones who travel about in flying machines. That brings up another expression: Failure is not an option.

But we're just talking about a knife, not life and death. My SnG is over five years old, looks it, a user, locks up just fine, cuts open clamshell packaging even today - and it just gets touched up on crock sticks. Strider makes their knives to a different standard, you might call it military grade - premium materials, strong design, capable of taking abuse that would cause other knives to fail, not much on looks. Military grade today isn't about knights in shining armor and dressy ornamentation, it's about functioning in harsh conditions during years of service. Kinda why any comparison with the Sebenza has always been apples and oranges. Neither designer ever meant them to be direct competition to the other's purposes, they just have overlapping customer demographics.

One of the those demo's is the ability to spend some money in an effort to maximize the knife as being state of the art. Again, neither does that, they are really a snapshot of what the makers saw ten years ago. Knives are still progressing, and the leading edge is now starting to move away from some of the features they share - like those knives with a carbide insert in the lock bar. And the problem there is the lock tang is now the softer material, so it's still going to wear and loosen up.

The average knife in daily use was expected to last less than 36 months during the 1930's, and now, I suspect knives with S30V and titanium lockbars will be passed down to the next generation. They are that good. I wouldn't worry too much about getting things carbidized, when the next better way of doing it is likely just a few years in the future. Buy it now, use it, don't worry about it, and if it should happen, then deal with it.

Cause, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
VolundoftheForge said:
See, I'm more worried they won't replace it more than anything. Though I guess I could wait til that point and if they won't fix it I could have it carbidized and customized since it'll be useless. :P
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Won't replace what exactly?

As long as you haven't modified the knife (even if you have in some cases) they will literally do whatever it takes to get the knife back in working order. They don't skimp on the repairs, they do it right.

It doesn't matter if you broke the blade in half trying to pry a car door open. If you told them how it happened Josh would probably say "hell yeah, did you record it? Send it in and we will fix it."
 
Strigamort said:
Why would they not cover a totally unrelated warranty issue if you carbadized the lockface?
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They most likely would. I personally know of people who have had to send their knife in solely because they did carbidize the lock face (started slipping), and SKI still fixed it no charge. His name is ModifiedZ on YT.
 
during the brief time I owned a Strider SMF (about 3 days) the only conclusion I could draw was that they want you using 2 hands to unlock it. The lock stuck horribly, and they told me on the phone it was working as designed and that 'some stick more than other' and that my knife did not use carbidization. That's all I needed to here, sent it back. Buying knifes, anything sight unseen, is risky, I knew that going in.
 
A little bit of pencil lead will fix lock stick, fast on a Strider. My SMF was working fine after applying it 3 times.
 
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