Cold Steel Spartan mod suggestions...

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taiChiFighter

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I tried this post in the "tinkering" forum but maybe I'll have more luck here...

I am curious about mods people have done to the Spartan to improve it's performance and functionality.

After reading a bunch of things on the Spartan I now realize what happened to cause it to go spinning out of my grip while I was practicing waving it (resulting in a pretty bad cut). I believe the wave plate got snagged on the edge of my jeans. This had happened a few times before but, on those occasions, all that happened was the knife didn't deploy or I dropped it (prompting my post asking about lanyards). I saw one youtube video where a guy claimed that rounding off the back corners of the wave plate kept it from snagging. Has anyone else found this to be true or, if not, does anyone have any other suggestions on how to improve this issue?

Also I find the knife almost impossible to open one handed (I think this is the most significant drawback in the knife). It's very new and VERY stiff. The lock release requires a lot of force as well. Anyone have any thoughts on how to "loosen" things up a bit?

Any other ideas/mods would be much appreciated.
 
I bought a spartan on a whim and think it is a cool knife but don't carry it because of it being so big.
I am thinking about digging it out of my knife closet and going to work on it with some files to see what I get.
 
Regarding opening the CS Spartan one handed: It did take me a while to train my hands to open it one handed, but I can now open it quite easily with either hand. The trick is that my fingertips must all press solidly against the wide part of the handle scale, between the fore and aft finger grooves. Doing this, I can get plenty of leverage with my thumb against the thumbplate.

It sounds awkward, and it felt awkward to me at first, but now it feels perfectly natural, as my thumb's effort is smoothly converted to movement of the blade.

Also, developing some slight thumb calluses helped :D
 
taiChiFighter said:
Also I find the knife almost impossible to open one handed (I think this is the most significant drawback in the knife). It's very new and VERY stiff. The lock release requires a lot of force as well. Anyone have any thoughts on how to "loosen" things up a bit?
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Just use it, it'll loosen up/smooth out as it breaks-in. Or Just repeatedly open and close it while your surfing the web or watching TV to speed the process up.

-sh00ter

EDIT: Here a link to a guy that altogether removed the thumb plate and did a wave cutout (along with some other mods)
 
sh00ter01 said:
Just use it, it'll loosen up/smooth out as it breaks-in. Or Just repeatedly open and close it while your surfing the web or watching TV to speed the process up.
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There was a dude on one youTube video who suggested using a C clamp to compress the lock/release bar for about 2 days to loosen it up. That sounds like a good idea but I'm wondering if it could eventually get too loose over time .

BTW: Thanks for the link. That was an interesting review. I like what the fellow did with the hook , but I'm surprised he didn't keep the thumb plate and modify it. He could have created something that looked almost like an Emerson wave hook by keeping the top plate and filing the sides off. I'd like to keep the thumb plate myself because I want a backup one handed opening method for the occasions when I miss the wave.
 
taiChiFighter said:
There was a dude on one youTube video who suggested using a C clamp to compress the lock/release bar for about 2 days to loosen it up. That sounds like a good idea but I'm wondering if it could eventually get too loose over time.
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Yeah, I wouldn't advise this. Just stick with opening and closing repeatedly to break the lock in, this should smooth things up fairly quickly:thumbup:


taiChiFighter said:
BTW: Thanks for the link. That was an interesting review. I like what the fellow did with the hook , but I'm surprised he didn't keep the thumb plate and modify it. He could have created something that looked almost like an Emerson wave hook by keeping the top plate and filing the sides off.
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I believe one of the reasons the reviewer in the article removed the thumb plate altogether, was to make it more useful in wood processing since he was mostly using it as an outdoors blade (i.e. batoning).


taiChiFighter said:
I'd like to keep the thumb plate myself because I want a backup one handed opening method for the occasions when I miss the wave.
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That works, wrist flicks work too:D

-sh00ter
 
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