Dummy Screws?

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Ken Cox

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My Chinook II wends its way to me and I find myself looking at pictures of it on New Graham Knives' website.
I see it has nine open screw holes for the clip.
If a person had nine extra screws, would they srew all the way into the empty screw holes without interfering with the function of the knife?
 
Ken, the holes do not go all the way through the liners, so no problem with intefering with function. Your question gave me the incentive to get around to setting mine up for LH carry. Found out the problem is that the screws appear to bottom out before the head is against the scale. Did not want to use force, but they seem to stop just less than clip thickness out.
 
Have to revise what I said a bit Ken, the front holes do go all the way through the liners, and the screws are longer that the combined thickess of the G10 and the liner, but if you put them in without the clip they get snug without the tips touching the blade or the heads touching the scale, so perhaps the liner is not tapped all the way. The back holes do not go the liners. One nice thing, they left the locktite off the screws, it was much easier to swap this clip around than the one on my Calypso Jr.
 
If a person knew the dimensions of those screws (pitch, diameter and ?) he could possibly find some hex head or torx screws that would fill up the holes.
Something to think about.
Thanks to The Deacon for the report.
UPS tracking shows my delivery as the 22nd.
 
Originally posted by Ken Cox
If a person knew the dimensions of those screws (pitch, diameter and ?) he could possibly find some hex head or torx screws that would fill up the holes.
Something to think about.
Thanks to The Deacon for the report.
UPS tracking shows my delivery as the 22nd.
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Yes, it would be great to know those dimensions, length is easy enough to check with a ruler. Length is more critical on the Chinook than most models I've done clip swaps on, as the G10 is not tapped, but instead drilled oversize, so the screw must be both long enough to screw into the liner but no longer than the combined thickness of both. Oddly, those dimensions, at least where other models have been concern, are one of the rare things Spyderco seems less than willing to share with us.

One other thing I found out in the process of moving this clip that may be of interest to even those not with no desire to do so. At least one of the screws was not tight. Once two were removed, the clip became very loose on the knife. Never experienced this before, and I've moved a few and removed a few others, preferring clipless in some cases to a wrong-side mounted clip.

You are going to love your new Chinook II Ken, I don't think anyone who handles one could fail to be impressed. I don't own a Military, and wish someone who has both would give their appraisal of which they would favor in a TEOTWAWKI situation, but can honestly say the Chinook II makes all my other Spydies with the execption of the Persian, feel like toys in my hand by comparison.
 
I've had a Chinook and a Military, and would pick the Chinook in a TEOTWAWKI situation. Problem is that I've sold both, so now I would pick my Fallkniven F1, but I'll probably throw the rest of the collection in a bag also.

I could consider putting clip screw dimensions of all models on the list of all Spydies, then for sure it will never be finished ;)

Ted
 
Ted wrote:

"I could consider putting clip screw dimensions of all models on the list of all Spydies, then for sure it will never be finished."

Makes sense to me! :)

Several people now have mentioned the Persian in comparison to the Chinook II.
They look similar to me, in concept.
They both look like my Greco Persian.
However, as a left-handed person, I find myself increasingly intolerant of less than totally ambidextrous designs.

I would think that right-handed people who carry firearms on their right side would want a backup knife on the left side.
As a left-handed person myself, I feel most comfortable with a firearm on the right and a knife on the left, but then I think we left-handed people do that more naturally by necessity than do right-handed people.

Still, I will probably never consider a Spyderco Persian because of its inescapable right-handedness.
I could have lived with no screw holes and a sheath, like on a Buck 110.
I wonder if we'll ever see sheaths for folders again.
 
Originally posted by Ken Cox
Still, I will probably never consider a Spyderco Persian because of its inescapable right-handedness.
I could have lived with no screw holes and a sheath, like on a Buck 110.
I wonder if we'll ever see sheaths for folders again.
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Well Ken, here's my take on it. I love front locks. I love bolsters. Micarta may not be my first choice for scales, but it certainly is acceptable, especially with the matte finish used on the Persian which, to me makes it look more like ebony than plastic. If I want the Persian clipless, and it does ride really nice in my back pocket that way, it's pretty easy to unscrew the darn thing. If the empty holes annoy me, I'll fill them with black RTV silicone and it will take a nitpicker with a magnifying glass to find them. If I want to carry it clipped, I'm in luck, because I prefer tip down. The Persian's curved tip up RH clip could be used for this, but, since I also would want the deepest carry possible, I'd probably go with the more universal straight three hole clip. Am sure SC Rebel would be able to drill and tap the bolster for me. Even with this added cost, the knife would still be a bargain in my book. Also have an urge, getting stronger every day, to buy another one, and have someone strip off the micarta scales and replace them with stag, that would would most certainly not have a clip.

While I can appreciate your strength of will, the idea of depriving myself of this knife, over what in this case is a minor and solvable issue, would smack of self flagellation.

As far as sheaths go, there are enough excellent sheath makers that having one made to your tastes, if that carry style suits you, should be easy. If one came with the knife, it would most certainly be the wrong material, wrong color, or wrong carry for a goodly number of those who wanted it, and a total waste of money to those who did not.
 
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