EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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LimpCroissant said:
Thanks for the wisdom you've gained through your experiences. I agree, the Zaan isn't much of a fidget toy unless someone either gets one with lighter lockbar pressure, or they have some sort of much gnarlier calluses on their thumbs. I do drive for a living now days, so they're not as callused as they used to be. I've also thought many times about lightening the lockbar pressure just a fuzz, but yeah that press-fit overtravel stop intimidates me too much too.

I've always been super leery about putting any lubrication on the ceramic detent ball/lockface because of my experience with titanium lockbars getting super sticky when some oil runs down onto them. I try to always keep that lockface clean as possible. However I will give that a try as I trust your experiences. Not to mention, a ceramic ball lockbar interface is much different than a standard Ti on steel interface, or steel on steel. Thanks man, I'll try that this weekend!
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Reading your reply here got me thinking about what I'd written earlier and I realized I'd done something a bit different with my 'Zaan than my usual dab of grease on detent balls, which smooths and eases the action in both directions. Backing up a bit here for clarity, I always make that application of Finish Line to knives with conventional lock bar interfaces, i.e. ti on steel or steel on steel, which, for CRKs, would include only the 3/21's in my accumulation as the 25, 'Zaan, Inkosi's, and 31's all have the ceramic ball interface. As you'd mentioned, I'm always careful to keep any oil off conventional lock bars and ramps is it does create lock stick by letting the the lock bar travel further.

As you had mentioned adding the tiniest bit of leftover oil to the ceramic ball, I did put that little dab of fluoro grease there and it does seem to ease the release a little and there's no stick so far. Guess I'll carry the StarTac for a while and see how that goes....
 
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