CRKT Hammond Cruiser

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F3Beam

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I notice on my new Hammond flipper there is no pin for the back of the blade
to rest on when opened. Just wondering why the blade doesn't flip all the way backwards under hard use as there seems to be nothing used to stop it?
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Kinda hard to see, but notice the pin behind the open blade on the bottom knife. All my other knives seem to have this. The Cruiser on top has no such pin and I can find nothing visible to hold the blade...why doesn't the blade flip
on over the back of the knife? or will it?
 
The Cruiser does not have this to accomodate for the flipper, while not having to use the studs as a stop pin, a la M16. Don't remember how it's done, though. What's the knife on the bottom, btw?
 
their website says someting about a blade stop channel being part of the blade itself. haven't seen it to know what they mean - but that sounds like the mechanism that stops the blade in place of a stop pin
 
the blade stop is in middle of the knife, below the pivot.

there's a half-moon cutout in the blade that it travels in.

look through the liners, directly under the pivot and you'll see the pin and channel. or disassemble it if you like; really clarifies things.

interesting technique but it scares me as it removes a LOT of steel right around the pivot.

IIRC, the hammond customs have the channel in the liners and the stop-pin fixed to the blade; here, it's the inverse.

-j
 
I'll be, had to use a magnifier glass with a bright light, but I see it now.
Glad to see there is something there to hold the blade. :D

I just recently received both of the knives in the picture.
The bottom one is a CRKT Crawford/Kasper Pro model (AUS8) that
I bid $25 for on eBay and nobody else bidded at all. I was surprised
to get it, and when I did, it was mint and the box still had the $99.99
price tag on it.

At first, I liked the Hammond flipper best.
But after awhile, I begin to like the Crawford/Kasper
better. Easier to carry and even with the metal handles I
can keep a better grip on it. This is a much bigger knife than
I expected, makes my Buck Alpha Hunter folder look like a
little knife.

Thanks for the info! :)
 
Jim Hammond's custom folding knives have extraordinary hand work in them that is not immediately apparent - it's stuff he does under the hood, so to speak. The custom Cruiser has no visible stop pin - it's built into the knife where you don't see it. I imagine the CRKT model takes this design idea into account.
 
F3Beam said:
I'll be, had to use a magnifier glass with a bright light, but I see it now. Glad to see there is something there to hold the blade. :D
Thanks for the info! :)
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No problem. It's a very interesting construction method, isn't it? I can imagine it's more suited to CNC... sounds like it would be very difficult to do by hand.

Take care,

-jon
 
Boink said:
Jim Hammond's custom folding knives have extraordinary hand work in them that is not immediately apparent - it's stuff he does under the hood, so to speak. The custom Cruiser has no visible stop pin - it's built into the knife where you don't see it. I imagine the CRKT model takes this design idea into account.
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The CRKT uses a channel in the blade and a stop pin fixed to the liners.

If I remember right, Jim said that in his customs, he had used a channel in the liners and a stop pin fixed in the blade. I also remember that he said that the CRKT had certain advantages and that he wanted to adopt that in his customs.

-j
 
biogon said:
It's a very interesting construction method, isn't it?

-jon
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That is kinda cool.
Now that I know, I feel better about the knife.
Only real thing making the Cruiser less carry friendly
than the C/K right now is how it will often snag on
my pocket when I go for it. I've heard that mentioned
before and it seems to be so with me too...today
anyway.
 
Very grippy handle scales come at a price - they can also grip your pocket when clipped.
 
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