EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

ChazzyP said:
Whenever I carry this knife or one of my three similarly named Al Mars and it's not a Friday, I always mentally note the irony and sometimes even mention it here. I got a brief email from my Vermont neighbor's lawyer this afternoon meeting my settlement ask for her side of the timber trespass on our lower 27 there. (The logger had manned up from day one, we've already agreed, shook hands, and he's paid up.). Despite my fondness for "Stormy Monday", dating back to my teens, and the "flies on Friday" line with so many great versions from the TBone Walker original to BB King to Bobby Blue Bland to Lou Rawls (maybe my favorite) and the Allmans, Monday will henceforth always be a good day for me to carry this Les George or any of my other Eagles.

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Love my WC Eagle, I just wish I could get the free spinning pivot tight enough to center the blade perfectly like my mild OCD demands! It's just a hair off, and I don't want to dork it up!
 
ChazzyP said:
Whenever I carry this knife or one of my three similarly named Al Mars and it's not a Friday, I always mentally note the irony and sometimes even mention it here. I got a brief email from my Vermont neighbor's lawyer this afternoon meeting my settlement ask for her side of the timber trespass on our lower 27 there. (The logger had manned up from day one, we've already agreed, shook hands, and he's paid up.). Despite my fondness for "Stormy Monday", dating back to my teens, and the "flies on Friday" line with so many great versions from the TBone Walker original to BB King to Bobby Blue Bland to Lou Rawls (maybe my favorite) and the Allmans, Monday will henceforth always be a good day for me to carry this Les George or any of my other Eagles.

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I’m really not sure what you just said, but I like that knife!
 
norcalAF said:
Love my WC Eagle, I just wish I could get the free spinning pivot tight enough to center the blade perfectly like my mild OCD demands! It's just a hair off, and I don't want to dork it up!
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I've had mine for 8+ years and have always really loved it too, but had an issue with the action for a long time before I finally found and solved the issue. Along the way I had it apart many times and don't recall having any trouble with a spinning pivot. My knife is an early model with Teflon washers and I eventually discovered the tiniest roll in the edge of one that would impede flipping when the knife was properly tightened down. The roll was so small that I just cut it off with a fine blade.

My OCD must be milder than yours or my slight degree of off-centeredness (maybe 15/1000's) isn't enough to bother me. I've got the pivot tightness set at just that point that eliminates any side-to-side play but optimizes the action. Oh look, I've got another pic.... 😏

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Wild Ben said:
I’m really not sure what you just said, but I like that knife!
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I was referring to what's a fairly common expression and a line from the classic and oft-covered blues tune "Stormy Monday"--",,,the Eagle flies on Friday..." meaning it's payday. Maybe I'm just so old now that my reference has become obscure.... 🤷‍♂️
 
ChazzyP said:
I've had mine for 8+ years and have always really loved it too, but had an issue with the action for a long time before I finally found and solved the issue. Along the way I had it apart many times and don't recall having any trouble with a spinning pivot. My knife is an early model with Teflon washers and I eventually discovered the tiniest roll in edge of one that would impede flipping when the knife was properly tightened down. The roll was so small that I just cut it off with a fine blade.

My OCD must be milder than yours or my slight degree of off-centeredness (maybe 15/1000's) isn't enough to bother me. I've got the pivot tightness set at just that point that eliminates any side-to-side play but optimizes the action. Oh look, I've got another pic.... 😏

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How do you secure the spinning side of the pivot to tighten it down upon reassembly? Mine is a bit more off center, no rubbing on the scales luckily, I'll have to disassemble completely and check for abnormalities with the components.
 
norcalAF said:
How do you secure the spinning side of the pivot to tighten it down upon reassembly? Mine is a bit more off center, no rubbing on the scales luckily, I'll have to disassemble completely and check for abnormalities with the components.
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One thing that sometimes works to freeze a spinning pivot is to open the blade and to flex a knife at the pivot laterally by setting the blade, say, in a desk drawer or bench vise. That can exert enough pressure between the barrel (bushing) of the female pivot and the blade hole to keep it from spinning. Another thing that can work if you can get it apart is to glue (Loctite) the back of the head of the female pivot to the bottom of the recess it sits in.

You can also try "scale shifting" to center a blade by leaving the pivot tightness alone, loosening the two standoffs, flexing the knife as described above in the appropriate direction, and retighten the standoffs while the knife is flexed. See my thread of May, 2017 in the Benchmade forum for a description of that method.
 
Big work should begin with a big smoke break! :)

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