CRK Warranty work turnaround time.

[JNewell]

The comment on the screwheads is not a joke, or not just a joke...

 

[OldDude1]

Because of the comparatively high tolerances involved in the Knife design and construction, disassembly and reassembly will quite often alter the percentage of lock bar engagement. An almost imperceptible variance in the forward/backward alignment of the assembled slabs can cause the lock bar to engage more in one direction or the other. OldDude1

 

[TyFrameLock]

Well this first sebenza of mine went from the greatest knife ive ever owned to the ultimate knife. When i handle or use other knives i cant help but think, "this is nothing compaired to my sebenza."

 

[JNewell]

IIRC, CRK used to use a slightly eccentric blade stop pin that could be rotated to adjust lockup. I don't know whether that's still the case, but if it is, you might have assembled the knife with an "adjustment" that changed the lockup.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Are you sure it's the stop pin?
I think it's the Sebezanistas that are eccentric!

( off to play
with my crk
knives today )

 

[nyefmaker]

LOL



edit, maybe it had a little more gap on the left side, but It came from the factory with a 75-80% lockup and centered blade no blade play.

I used it for 2 weeks or so and it worked over to a 85% lockup and developed some blade play....

took it apart for the 20th time and put it back together and somehow have a 55-60% lockup, same centered blade and no blade play...




FACTORY

AFTER REASSEMBLY TODAY

Now LOOK What You Did !!! You Broke It...........Just Kidding

 

[440hard]

LOL

edit, maybe it had a little more gap on the left side, but It came from the factory with a 75-80% lockup and centered blade no blade play.

I used it for 2 weeks or so and it worked over to a 85% lockup and developed some blade play....

took it apart for the 20th time and put it back together and somehow have a 55-60% lockup, same centered blade and no blade play...

FACTORY

AFTER REASSEMBLY TODAY

Definitely looks like like the lockbar side washer slipped in the "before" pic.
"Factory" means nothing except other humans assembled it before you.

Looks like you got it seated properly this time.
Wait a while before you disassemble it if you can (like 6 mos.)

There will usually be a telltale imprint or marks of the bushing on the washer
when they are assembled and used without being seated properly.
I've seen washers get pretty mangled from this, but you can usually sand
them reasonably flat again.

..

Here's a pic of 3 Lg BG-42 Seb users. Identical, all approx. 70% lockup.
All are silky smooth, yet they each feel very different using them in hand.
It's like each one takes on its own character..

This is the lockup I prefer, though some folks here like it more or less.
(For large Sebs). 75% I think is a good compromise between safety and
room for wear, but as mentioned here before they usually wear very little.

JMHO -Ron

 

[DallasSTB]

Just got mine back from CR and the lockup is about like the ones shown above. Somewhere around 60-70%. Looks great to me.

BTW, CR stuck a surprise inside. Perforated washers baby!