EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

TheFactor said:
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Bugout M4 admiring its work today .
This Vacmaster Pro is so strong I think it can suck a golf ball threw a garden hose šŸ˜³ Seriously.
I just might be trading something in šŸ¤£
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Sure would be a lot quieter around the house!!
 
ChazzyP said:
I missed posting on a mostly relaxing Sunday, though I did spend a few hours in the shop, hand fitting the 8 corner mortise and tenon joints on the cabinet door stiles and rails, having cut them all using both the UniSaw and the cross-cut sled on the Model 10.

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Just gotta clean a few stray fibers off this off this one now.

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Mostly that's just a matter of paring the tenon surfaces with my Stanley Sweetheart socket chisels, knocking the corners off, and making sure they fit into the mortises smoothly without forcing but with enough surface contact that the frame will hang together without glue like this.

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After getting the panels all cut to size and sanded, ready to start gluing everything up this afternoon....

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I've been carrying the S.E.R.E. (Saw, End-joint, Rabbet, Edge) in the shop for several days running and it's proven to be a very capable and solid work knife. Today it was perfect for the simplest of tasks, lifting the squeeze-out from the corner cove of the stile/rail joints at the panel, an area that's been pre-sanded but needs to be free of glue before finishing.

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Great job brother.
 
kreole said:
Anyone ever had a back spring bend and permanently lose tension on them just from opening the knife? A first for me

Edit: Nah, it cracked

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Good luck getting parts out of Cold Steel .
I have found them very sketchy even / especially on something as simple as a pocket clip and that was before covid and the big corporate change .
Go ahead Cold Steel prove me wrong ! Make a liar out of me ; I dare you , I triple dog dare you !

From the photo it looks like there was some bad steel right next to the break where the scale / texture is . Maybe when they rolled the spring material .
I bet one of the knife makers / repair people here could cut and bend you a spring fairly quick like a bunny .

Any body know where to buy basic spring bar material like this ?
Would be child's play to make one .

I take these springs out on nearly every Cold Steel that has a back lock and take some tension off the spring rate (along with some other tuning ).
I have tons and tons of Cold Steel Triad Locks and have never seen a flaw or had a problem bending them .

I wish you a speedy solution ! ! !
PS : There is (was) a Cold Steel forum here ; maybe give them some hell in there as well . I haven't been in there since I been back recently from years away .
 
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Wowbagger said:
Good luck getting parts out of Cold Steel .
I have found them very sketchy even / especially on something as simple as a pocket clip and that was before covid and the big corporate change .
Go ahead Cold Steel prove me wrong ! Make a liar out of me ; I dare you , I triple dog dare you !

From the photo it looks like there was some bad steel right next to the break where the scale / texture is . Maybe when they rolled the spring material .
I bet one of the knife makers / repair people here could cut and bend you a spring fairly quick like a bunny .

Any body know where to buy basic spring bar material like this ?
Would be child's play to make one .

I take these springs out on nearly every Cold Steel that has a back lock and take some tension off the spring rate (along with some other tuning ).
I have tons and tons of Cold Steel Triad Locks and have never seen a flaw or had a problem bending them .

I wish you a speedy solution ! ! !
PS : There is (was) a Cold Steel forum here ; maybe give them some hell in there as well . I haven't been in there since I been back recently from years away .
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Thanks. Yeah.... I was going to wait at least a week to be fair, but since you kindly provided the opportunity to vent .... I am right with you on sourcing the part myself.

Filled out the warranty request form Wednesday. No email yet. When I left a bad review on their site a few weeks ago, I got an unexpected email from support after a day or two. It's pretty clear what their warranty is worth and where GSM's priorities are.

*After* filling out their warranty, on Thursday I jumped on Jantz and bought some lock bar stock. That came today, so a package made it across the country quicker than GSM could email me back (and that's giving them the benefit of the doubt that they will eventually contact me). Good on Jantz, bad on GSM. It costs me $1.25 for enough to make 3-4 lock bars, so is it really worth GSM not to respond and ship a part and instead take the bad word of mouth? Short sighted. ... Rant over :)

Tried out both sizes of bar stock. They both work, but the thinner is closer in feel to the original and decided to go with that. The other has a nice stout feel and nice clunk sound on the open though, but playing with the bend I couldn't quite get it weak enough to be close enough to the factory feel as I would like. It takes just a minute with a dremel to cut and smooth the corners, then two linesman pliers put the bend in much easier than I expected.

Not the best pics but it was a 13+ hour workday ~

Both are the same thickness

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The thicker is basically the same width as the original, while the other is not as wide (but as I said the feel of that one is closer due to both being thicker)

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Width comparison with just the thinner one I went with

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Both stock sizes, I am using the bottom .088" width one

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The ever growing pile of junk parts surgically removed from GSM/Italy production Cold Steel... First opening I found the teflon washers were ripped with the inside edge was completely torn off one and the outside edge had some "hairs" on one, while the pb washers were pinched on the inside edge and scratched to crap

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And the only pic most will care for, the dog tax

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