Disassembly pics?

Lawilli2 said:
Gillian bearings? If so, why Gillian over skiff or taco. I do like the black/white contrast.
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Honestly skiff doesn’t make a bearing that matches the id and od of the bearings, and I put some taco bearings in it and it was the sloppiest knife I owned so I ordered the Gillian bearings because they are made specifically for the 0562 model. And man this thing is as smooth as butter. Lite lube during assembly and just breaking the bearings in and using it. It’s my main edc so I use it a lot it’s no safe queen.
 
Cheburkov Leader LIghtWeight. Interesting construction on this one--with two CF slabs it's basically a liner-less liner lock. The long steel lock bar has two tapped holes in its back half and is fastened through the CF by screws hidden under the clip. It's also pinched under the backspacer which has one locating pin and is secured at the butt by a screw with a widened smooth shaft that threads into the clip to secure it in place and hold the whole back of the handle together.

The lock bar is pretty damn stiff and breaking the detent ball free to initiate deployment using the flipper tab has been pretty rough on the old index finger. I was gonna give the bar a little tweak to lighten it. but it seems to be glued into the CF as well, so I just left it alone. When reassembling I filled the detent hole with FinishLine fluoro grease which has made getting the blade out a bit easier and less painful while the knife breaks in.

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Here's another Cheburkov not totally unlike the Leader I posted recently. This one's the Hudson (Gudzon) Lightweight version, kinda like the Shiro Hati with a Ti frame lock on the back side and a fully composite slab with no liner on the show side. I had this one partially apart not too long ago to see if I could tighten down the clip (screw at right of Ti slab) as it's just a smidgen off the scale, but it's honked all the way down and clip does work well and is stable. Like most any Russian knife I've had apart, the Hudson was lubed with black, Militec-like grease, in this case packed into the backside of the bearing retainers as you can see in the dish below. I soaked them in alcohol, then used the sharpened end of one of the swabs above to dig the stuff out, repeating the process twice.

I always re-lube with W10 NanoOil, which generally makes for a great improvement in the action. In this case the knife was pretty damn good right out of the box, which is why didn't do a complete breakdown and cleaning earlier, and the improvement is hardly significant. Still nice to have it all apart and cleaned out.

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