Gigi Sechi , Italy

[RayseM]

What I like about the vice technique is you can have just the pivot in the vice with the knife body in your hand. As you squeeze you can test the tension. Keep going or stop as you prefer. I tape brass plates (an old brass cabinet hinge parts) to my vice jaws. Make certain the pivot point is square to the jaws - visually in all axes - and lightly squeeze. Test and squeeze some more, or not.

 

[kamagong]

Christian, kamagong , have you tried tightening the pivot? I have done that to nearly all my Sardinian knives with great success. In time the material seems to stabilize, or at the least, acclimate to my conditions and settle into a nice 5 to 6 pull and hold.

Gigi encouraged me to peen the pins. Davide Steri preferred the squeeze the pins in a vice technique. Both will work; the vice with less shock to the system.

Not yet. I wanted to give the resolza a couple of winters to acclimate. The first year it really tightened up during the winter, so much so that it became extremely difficult to open. This past summer the knife became sloppy loose, swinging free through gravity alone. It's barely snugging up now.

I think this knife has settled in. Once the weather warms I'm gonna take your advice and use the vice technique to squeeze the pivot pin. Make it a useful tool again instead of merely an objet d'art.