De-assist the SWIFT? Has anybody figured out how to do this?

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I absolutely love everything about the Swift. Well, everything but the assisted mechanism. While it does what it is supposed to do, I just do not like assisted knives period. The blade shape is incredible, the steel is awesome, the ergos are amazing and the G10 is superior. I just can't get past the assisted opening.

So has anybody figured out how to de-assist this yet?
 
It shouldn't effect locking, but I'm not sure about detent. I'm not sure how much of the detent is done by the assist spring and how much is done by the lock bar pushing against the bottom of the tang. :confused:
 
Good question! But considering that other non-assisted blades are held in the handle only by lockbar spring tension, the assist may not affect the detent. Hard to tell. OP should just hack it off and get back to us with his results. :D
 
I think it's a bad idea not because of the detent, or the irreversibility. It's because this will void the warranty. Usually that's ok, but if you look at part of the spring that gives the lock bar tension, it's a weak point and will break sooner or later. In fact im probably the first person to report the broken lockbar spring here, and there has been another report by a youtuber 'stiletto'. My gut feeling tells me that it's not an isolated incidence, but a minor design flaw for not using the normal manual triad lockbar spring. In this case if the lockbar spring breaks on you rendering the knife useless, you won't be able to to get a replacement due to voided warranty. CS does not send out parts so you have to send the knife in for any issue.
 
FWIW, mine is still going strong as the first day

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