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Hi guys, first post (and first time back on a forum in nearly a decade) but I have been stumbling on discussions here regularly when googling knives/knife problems.
I am sure I will be chatting more on here in future now I've signed up. I am interested in axes, throwing knives and karambits, mainly. All excellent for opening boxes and letters, officer.
I also have a fetish for sharpening things, but sadly not the knack yet. Surrounded by stones and gizmos, but skilled at making knifes blunter rather than sharper. Working on it. Bizarrely, the only knives I can succeed in sharpening howling sharp so far are karambits, using a Victorinox pocket sharpener... just to different, I guess.
Anyway, this is what led me to signing up and posting here. I was using my Fox 599 to cut XPS Insulation panels (it's actually beautiful for that) and blunted it quickly in the process, so polished the blade up with aforementioned gizmo. Surprisingly well. So well, that I dug out my FOX 599XT to sharpen too... the one with 'karambit' written down the blade to appeal to, what, teenagers? Good move.
I noticed that the blade has up and down play. It locks fine, but can rock a little bit. I bought it second hand and hadn't really spent much time with it (as its too big for ice-pick grip/standard karambit use for me), but now I actually enjoy these karambits in hammer grip I'm keen to use it more often. But damn is that wiggle annoying.
I read a thread or two on here, and had a play with the screw on the pin. If I take the screw fully out, and push it a bit, I get side to side play (because fully loose) but no up down play... until I tighten it back up again, where the side play goes but up down comes back.
I also could not easily push the pin out... I presume you need a special tool, or just more violence, but I didn't want to break it.
When locked open the liner lock sits fully to the other side on the 599XT (that wiggles), but my 599 sits plumb in the center. This could be a feature though, as I also saw the thread on losing fingers from failing locks (my 599 trainer does fail if you strike something hard with the back, but not the live one) and it mentioned the XT has a 'safety feature' in the lock.... Who knows.
Anyway, hi, and any thoughts welcomed!
John
I am sure I will be chatting more on here in future now I've signed up. I am interested in axes, throwing knives and karambits, mainly. All excellent for opening boxes and letters, officer.
I also have a fetish for sharpening things, but sadly not the knack yet. Surrounded by stones and gizmos, but skilled at making knifes blunter rather than sharper. Working on it. Bizarrely, the only knives I can succeed in sharpening howling sharp so far are karambits, using a Victorinox pocket sharpener... just to different, I guess.
Anyway, this is what led me to signing up and posting here. I was using my Fox 599 to cut XPS Insulation panels (it's actually beautiful for that) and blunted it quickly in the process, so polished the blade up with aforementioned gizmo. Surprisingly well. So well, that I dug out my FOX 599XT to sharpen too... the one with 'karambit' written down the blade to appeal to, what, teenagers? Good move.
I noticed that the blade has up and down play. It locks fine, but can rock a little bit. I bought it second hand and hadn't really spent much time with it (as its too big for ice-pick grip/standard karambit use for me), but now I actually enjoy these karambits in hammer grip I'm keen to use it more often. But damn is that wiggle annoying.
I read a thread or two on here, and had a play with the screw on the pin. If I take the screw fully out, and push it a bit, I get side to side play (because fully loose) but no up down play... until I tighten it back up again, where the side play goes but up down comes back.
I also could not easily push the pin out... I presume you need a special tool, or just more violence, but I didn't want to break it.
When locked open the liner lock sits fully to the other side on the 599XT (that wiggles), but my 599 sits plumb in the center. This could be a feature though, as I also saw the thread on losing fingers from failing locks (my 599 trainer does fail if you strike something hard with the back, but not the live one) and it mentioned the XT has a 'safety feature' in the lock.... Who knows.
Anyway, hi, and any thoughts welcomed!
John