Homemade Omega spring

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Psychopomp

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Several months back I mentioned that I'd decided to try my hand at making my own Omega spring after numerous emails and a few phone calls to Benchmade got me nowhere.

I said at one point that I'd post a picture, but as time seems to get away from me without warning, I never got around to it. Tonight I decided it was time for my 710 to take a bath and figured it was as good a time as any to take a picture of my guitar string Omega spring.

It's not pretty, it's really not. But it's every bit as strong and secure as the original spring that was in the knife. The guitar string has probably been in the knife close to six months now and shows no signs of needing to be replaced. The other original spring is still fine, but if it ever breaks, the knife's going back to Benchmade for some real springs.

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The knife is squeaky clean now and still locks up like a vault.

EDIT: The string looks rusty, it isn't. The knife was really dirty.
 
orthogonal1 said:
What size and type of wire did you use?
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It's the unwound, steel core of a guitar string. I think it was from a low E. I'm not sure about a translation to wire guage though.

It's slightly thinner than the stock Omega spring and considerably shorter. I played around with several different lengths and settled on right around an inch long.

Lock up is as solid as it was when new and it opens just as smoothly.
 
i've made some springs for pistols outta spring wire & they worked fine too, the pistols were stars and i couldnt find any to fit it, it was the slide release lever FWIW, that was 15 or so yrs ago and AFAIK they are still working fine, point being it doesnt suprise me ya could make some omega springs which would work just fine.
 
I may never break another omega spring, but if I do, I'm going to make my own (and save postage and about 3-4 weeks of waitiing). Thanks for posting this! :thumbup:
 
Just tried my hand at making my own omega spring as well. Worked wonderfully!

I'm so proud of my self :cool::thumbup:
 
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