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aephilli

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...it's all your fault.:mad:

Before I came here I was fine, didn't even know enough to care if a blade was centered in the handle when closed. So I get my Spyderco Resilience, and it was centered when new but after about a week and 4-5 hundred thumb/wrist flick openings (gotta break it in, ya know) it is about 3/4 of the way over to one side. Before, that wouldn't even get a second thought, but now it's buggin' me so bad and it's all you guys' fault. Thanks fer nuttin'! :grumpy:
 
Hey, at least you didn't bleed anywhere because of it. After over a decade of knife use and maintenance without a cut, I nearly took the tip of my finger off a few months back while removing the black coating from (of all things) a panga machete, mere moments after polishing it to a face-shaving edge using a belt sander and a cork belt. Now I can't specifically blame the forum for this, but it's a bad influence - there's no denying it! After all, I owned that machete for years and never felt the need to do anything but clear brush with it and give it the occasional sharpening with a file. I had to start messing with it...! (It turned out awesome BTW, thanks for all the tips.)
 
I still couldn't give a damn about how centred the blade is. As long as my folding blades open smoothly and lock solidly I just need to keep them nice & sharp and I am happy.
 
HeavyHanded said:
Hey, at least you didn't bleed anywhere because of it. After over a decade of knife use and maintenance without a cut, I nearly took the tip of my finger off a few months back while removing the black coating from (of all things) a panga machete, mere moments after polishing it to a face-shaving edge using a belt sander and a cork belt. Now I can't specifically blame the forum for this, but it's a bad influence - there's no denying it! After all, I owned that machete for years and never felt the need to do anything but clear brush with it and give it the occasional sharpening with a file. I had to start messing with it...! (It turned out awesome BTW, thanks for all the tips.)
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Cork? I've used a felt belt on my belt sander and was considering cork, do you like how it works?
I know just what you mean, 40 years of brush clearing/yard maintenance and I never needed shaving sharp machetes until I joined this forum!!:jerkit:
 
And I forgot to mention, I look REALLY stupid with all the hair gone off my left arm!!!

mumble, grumble, mumble...
 
Blade centering doesn't normally bug me however if the blade is not perfectly centered on my higher end knives like my sng, sebenza, or xm-18 then it would bug me to no end. Of course, I have not had to deal with any blades not being centered on these knives as of yet.
 
I do have to admit on the other hand, my wife loves how well the newly sharp kitchen knives handle food prep!:thumbup::D;)
 
aephilli said:
Cork? I've used a felt belt on my belt sander and was considering cork, do you like how it works?
I know just what you mean, 40 years of brush clearing/yard maintenance and I never needed shaving sharp machetes until I joined this forum!!:jerkit:
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It works great, just break it in a bit first on a flat piece of stock, then apply your compound of choice and use like any other. I like it more than my leather belt, never used felt except for hand stropping so I can't compare. I've read they can be used bare as well for a final, final finish, but they must be broken in first. Brace yourself, they sound like 20 grit sandpaper when new and can actually raise a burr with no compound. They take to civilization quickly though, you can hear and feel them settle down.

HH
 
aephilli said:
...it's all your fault.:mad:

Before I came here I was fine, didn't even know enough to care if a blade was centered in the handle when closed. So I get my Spyderco Resilience, and it was centered when new but after about a week and 4-5 hundred thumb/wrist flick openings (gotta break it in, ya know) it is about 3/4 of the way over to one side. Before, that wouldn't even get a second thought, but now it's buggin' me so bad and it's all you guys' fault. Thanks fer nuttin'! :grumpy:
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If it was centered when new, it's probably just loose so check the pivot screw. There's nothing that can wear so much that it would shift the blade over that much. Didn't your mother teach you flicking is bad for you? :D:p
 
aephilli said:
...it's all your fault.:mad:

Before I came here I was fine, didn't even know enough to care if a blade was centered in the handle when closed. So I get my Spyderco Resilience, and it was centered when new but after about a week and 4-5 hundred thumb/wrist flick openings (gotta break it in, ya know) it is about 3/4 of the way over to one side. Before, that wouldn't even get a second thought, but now it's buggin' me so bad and it's all you guys' fault. Thanks fer nuttin'! :grumpy:
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This is easily remedied by flicking it with the other hand an equal amount of times. If you're a Spyderco afficianado then you simply use the same hand and flick it with your middle finger from the back side (pushing up and outward).

I posted about my badly off centered Resilience blade in the Spyderco sub-forum. It arrived touching the side of the liner. Needless to say those rabid Spyder-nuts left shiny footprints all over my body from giving me crap.

This knife will NOT adjust by tightening or loosening anything on it.

A buddy PM'ed me and told me to bend the frame slightly. That's what I did. I figured out which way it would have to bend to put the blade on center when closing it back up. Calculations made, I opened it and propped up the handle several inches and stepped into the pivot area easily a couple of times with my shoe heel until it was dead centered.

No wrenches or disassembly required - it worked like a charm! :D
 
cziv said:
This is easily remedied by flicking it with the other hand an equal amount of times. If you're a Spyderco afficianado then you simply use the same hand and flick it with your middle finger from the back side (pushing up and outward).

I posted about my badly off centered Resilience blade in the Spyderco sub-forum. It arrived touching the side of the liner. Needless to say those rabid Spyder-nuts left shiny footprints all over my body from giving me crap.

This knife will NOT adjust by tightening or loosening anything on it.

A buddy PM'ed me and told me to bend the frame slightly. That's what I did. I figured out which way it would have to bend to put the blade on center when closing it back up. Calculations made, I opened it and propped up the handle several inches and stepped into the pivot area easily a couple of times with my shoe heel until it was dead centered.

No wrenches or disassembly required - it worked like a charm! :D
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Cool, I'll try it, thanks.:thumbup:
 
aephilli said:
And I forgot to mention, I look REALLY stupid with all the hair gone off my left arm!!!

mumble, grumble, mumble...
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Do what I do and test edges on both arms, then I just look like I don't have much hair on my arms. I only look weird in the summer, when you can see the bare spots on my legs from when I ran out of arm hair.
 
paranoidsentry said:
Do what I do and test edges on both arms, then I just look like I don't have much hair on my arms. I only look weird in the summer, when you can see the bare spots on my legs from when I ran out of arm hair.
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I test on the top side of my upper thighs, where the shorts cover the bald patches. My arms still appear to be lacking in hair though.
 
I managed to fix an offcenter Military by loosening, jamming the blade toward the far liner and then tightening. Perhaps try that?

That said, I'm past caring for most of my knives.
 
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