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Sheesh. I don't even know where to start.
I used to love CRKT long long time ago. I kept being apologetic for it in recent times, cause it's really like that half-senile weird uncle that keeps saying "can you kids teach me the internet so i can look for some hoochie" and always wears the same pair of farty brown corduroy pants. It's bad, but you'd feel bad for hating it.
But man, is their QC a mess...
Bought a Clever Girl folder cause i like the design (both fixed and folder), even though super-tactical stuff isn't really my thing, and because i was curious about the deadbolt lock (didn't have any deadbolt knives in my collection). Out of the box, looks nice, some rough corners, blemishes, but nothing too major.
I try to open it, and it feels like scraping the blade across a cinderblock.
So i take it apart, and jesus...
Took some effort to even unscrew most of the screws including the pivot, cause they were SLATHERED in loctite. I can't even be sure it's loctite, it felt like straight CA dyed blue when i was cleaning the threads.
Slivers and flakes of CA were all over the bearings (oh, yeah, IKBS is caged now, thank f**k), which explains the gritty feeling in part, but not all of it. So i remove the bearings and...
No lubrication. Of any kind.
The snail trail in DLC you see isn't lubrication, it's the trench the balls dug in it.
I swear, it was COMPLETELY dry.
Which is all sorts of funny, because the backspacer was lubricated for some reason:
Yup. Gotta keep that backspacer lubricated.
Don't want it binding or galling against the liner.
As an aside, the total number of parts is insane:
And that's not even a full teardown.
It's fairly easy to take apart, and put together, and you don't need to do a full teardown to lubricate or adjust the pivot, which is nice. It's enough to unscrew the button, pull out the deadbolt and that's it, the pivot is exposed - you don't even have to remove the scales, which is awesome.
I also love that you can adjust the detent strength by just tweaking a set screw. It's even exposed through the scales, so you can play with it effortlessly until you find something you like.
Which you'll need to do to find a good balance between thumb-flicking and flipping if you want both to feel perfect. The blade is absurdly huge and heavy and has a lot of momentum. Umnumzaan for scale:
I used to love CRKT long long time ago. I kept being apologetic for it in recent times, cause it's really like that half-senile weird uncle that keeps saying "can you kids teach me the internet so i can look for some hoochie" and always wears the same pair of farty brown corduroy pants. It's bad, but you'd feel bad for hating it.
But man, is their QC a mess...
Bought a Clever Girl folder cause i like the design (both fixed and folder), even though super-tactical stuff isn't really my thing, and because i was curious about the deadbolt lock (didn't have any deadbolt knives in my collection). Out of the box, looks nice, some rough corners, blemishes, but nothing too major.
I try to open it, and it feels like scraping the blade across a cinderblock.
So i take it apart, and jesus...
Took some effort to even unscrew most of the screws including the pivot, cause they were SLATHERED in loctite. I can't even be sure it's loctite, it felt like straight CA dyed blue when i was cleaning the threads.
Slivers and flakes of CA were all over the bearings (oh, yeah, IKBS is caged now, thank f**k), which explains the gritty feeling in part, but not all of it. So i remove the bearings and...
No lubrication. Of any kind.
The snail trail in DLC you see isn't lubrication, it's the trench the balls dug in it.
I swear, it was COMPLETELY dry.
Which is all sorts of funny, because the backspacer was lubricated for some reason:
Yup. Gotta keep that backspacer lubricated.
Don't want it binding or galling against the liner.
As an aside, the total number of parts is insane:
And that's not even a full teardown.
It's fairly easy to take apart, and put together, and you don't need to do a full teardown to lubricate or adjust the pivot, which is nice. It's enough to unscrew the button, pull out the deadbolt and that's it, the pivot is exposed - you don't even have to remove the scales, which is awesome.
I also love that you can adjust the detent strength by just tweaking a set screw. It's even exposed through the scales, so you can play with it effortlessly until you find something you like.
Which you'll need to do to find a good balance between thumb-flicking and flipping if you want both to feel perfect. The blade is absurdly huge and heavy and has a lot of momentum. Umnumzaan for scale:
