If you could change ONE thing ...

Wolverine666

Wolverine666

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We all have favorite knives (EDC or otherwise). But rarely do we come across a knife that is "perfect". IMO there is no such knife (for me). My tastes change over time so I buy more knives. It's an endless cycle and one that I enjoy.

Anyway , if you could change just ONE thing about some of your favorite knives what would it be ?

For me : BM 710 = I'd like an upgrade in blade steel from D2 on the standard model.
Manix2 = I wish the blade was more hidden when closed. It's a wide carry as is.
Buck 124 = Great knife. But the 420 HC dulls rather quickly. Steel upgrade please.
Nirvana = I love this knife. Just wish the blade didn't have a bead blasted finish. It looks awesome but I hear the small pits in such a finish can trap moisture and cause corrosion.

All of the pros far outweigh the cons concerning my favorite knives. Or else they wouldn't be my favorites. Just nitpicking.
 
Upgraded steel on my Brous Bionic.

There are so many knives I'd like better with one small change. Sebenza with a different thumbstud for example. I'd like to see S30V phased out. Emerson with better steel.

I'm happy with each knife I own, all 7 folders.

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stainless steel on GEC , Northwoods, ect slipjoints instead of carbon steel
 
I like full Ti scales but I'm not a fan of frame locks. Unfortunately the two almost always go together, so I guess I'd change that.
 
Sebenza with solid spacer instead of standoffs, when I put my Small 21 in my pocket stuff invariably hits the blade edge and causes little flat spots, nothin' a few seconds on the ceramic hone or strop can't fix. If I had a penny for every penny that's gotten wedged between the scale and handles I'd be able to buy.... well I'd be able to buy a coffee at Starbucks ;) .

My ZT 0808 has a Ti spacer that protects the bulk of the blade edge, I'd like to see that as an option on the Sebenza. For now I made a slip pocket sheath for it and that solved the problem.

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Back Lock instead of liner lock in my Utilitac II and Resilience

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Thumb disk/wave opener on my Pacific Salt

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Swappable pocket clip in my CS Gunsite/Old Voyagers

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No more rubber handles (Trailmaster/SOG Tsunami/any other fixed blade with rubberish handle)

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And please take out the liners of my CS Voyager, they're unnecessary weight

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T. Erdelyi said:
Sebenza with solid spacer instead of standoffs, when I put my Small 21 in my pocket stuff invariably hits the blade edge and causes little flat spots, nothin' a few seconds on the ceramic hone or strop can't fix. If I had a penny for every penny that's gotten wedged between the scale and handles I'd be able to buy.... well I'd be able to buy a coffee at Starbucks ;) .

My ZT 0808 has a Ti spacer that protects the bulk of the blade edge, I'd like to see that as an option on the Sebenza. For now I made a slip pocket sheath for it and that solved the problem.
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What's that pattern called? I think a large in that would be pretty cool.
 
Nut and bolt fasteners for Emerson folder construction. 4 would become 2.
rolf
 
I'd change the stupid little thumb stud/post thing on the BM 530.

Only thing wrong with the knife itself... and it's drastically wrong.
 
Change the liners and bolsters on my Rough Rider (large) sunfish to color case hardened steel.
 
I'd rather my case sodbuster Jr had a cv blade.
On my buck 482 I would give it a left side only pocket clip and left side only thumb stud ( wouldn't mine if buck started offering 1095 on all their knives )

I would also like every knife to be left hand only, I absolutely can't stand the fact that knives are either right handed or ambidextrous and that righties don't know how it feels for a knife that really want to be a no go for them.
 
Ditch the chisel grind and chisel edge on Emersons - or at least make V-grind/V-edge available for those few of us that are right-handed and actually use our EDC Emersons.

I really like my Emersons and have too darned many of them, but slicing pepperoni, sausage, cheese or just about anything else where the "waste" is to be saved/used, chisel grinds/edges are are a hassle.

I slice a lot more food than I do sharpening a knife on the skeletal remains of some tango I demobilized while stranded for 14 weeks 10 clicks from a hot, classified and now non-existent Exfil site.

Now, maybe in my younger days ... :rolleyes:
 
Well, until recently my top request would be to add scissors to the alox Pioneer... but they finally did that--and yes, I had mine preordered and delivered a couple days before the official EU release. (And a month? before the US release.)

So, off the top of my head, that leaves:

- A medium Sebenza 21
- A Sage 2 with the blade profile of a PM2 (no, not a Sage 5 or a Minuteman, though I'll be all over those to be sure)
- A serrated ARK, because H1
- A bladeless (TSA-compliant) Leatherman Juice
- A Skeletool CX with a regular hex driver and/or an awl
- Countless knives in better steels (though I care less about that than others do)

I guess the medium 21 is technically more than "one thing"; please cut me some slack.
 
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