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A careful reader would not have made this comment. See blade etching, see multiple sharpenings.So much drama. Sharpen it and it’ll go away. No need for the theatrics.
A careful reader would not have made this comment. See blade etching, see multiple sharpenings.
See none of the other knives did this out of the box.
PS :and the theatrics are free, it's what I do . . . don't want it to be too boring for you.
Kind of sounds like a taylor saying to a customer "The seat of your pants will stop pinching you just as soon as you wear some good size holes in the butt".Sharpen it a lot.
Now I am the first to admit I too can take my musings on cutlery related issues a little too far at times, but no knife ever made is worth annoying and waking your partner while she sleeps. I say you ought to bin it and move on, begging her pardon on the way to the trash can.It talks so loud it will wake up my pardoner while she is asleep in the bed room two rooms away with the door shut
and it doesn't have this weird problem.
A slipjoint seems like such a simple mechanism but there are a crazy amount of variables, how far the kick is from the pivot for example, the nearer the more likely the blade to "bounce" closing the further away less so. Also how tight the spring is riveted between the liners will have an effect on bounce, a loose spring will act faster & damp the snap less than a spring held tighter with friction slowing it's movement.
Shortening the corner of the tang makes the "lever" the spring acts on to close the blade shorter so making the "snap" weaker. It's crazy how the shape of the tang can effect opening & closing in so many ways, rounding it will even increase a the friction ever so slightly between spring & tang if it"s a fairly sharp 90° angle at the moment
Good luck with it![]()
Excellent ! I was concerned the opposite might be the case when someone said knives costing well over a hundred dollars were doing it. I immediately thought of GEC.I've had a good number of GECs and not one has come with anything close to blade rap.
I was wondering if the blade would cut through the leather after not too much time. There is always the chance it or the cork would form such a "V" groove that it could stop the blade without being cut. Depends on how thick the leather is I suppose.On my french ones nothing else helped, neither the leather
There is a bulge in the spring right where it is pinned to keep it nice and strong. I too used a small cutoff wheel to take a gouge out and it worked. It worked until it did not. The spring eventually cracked and rendered the knife useless. Voiding warranties. It's what I do.
Excellent ! I was concerned the opposite might be the case when someone said knives costing well over a hundred dollars were doing it. I immediately thought of GEC.
I once got cut by a knife with the tip just barely below the handle. My handkerchief snagged on the blade point and opened the knife part way in my pocket.
And how strong the spring isI was wondering if the blade would cut through the leather after not too much time. There is always the chance it or the cork would form such a "V" groove that it could stop the blade without being cut. Depends on how thick the leather is I suppose.
Shortening the corner of the tang makes the "lever" the spring acts on to close the blade shorter so making the "snap" weaker. It's crazy how the shape of the tang can effect opening & closing in so many ways, rounding it will even increase a the friction ever so slightly between spring & tang if it"s a fairly sharp 90° angle at the moment