Just got a Strider SnG green lego - need some help

Smokinape said:
My lock is baby ass smooth... This is left handed...

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All the ones that want Striders to be as bad as they say they are will completely ignore this. ;)

When a knife brand is disliked because of the people behind it, then anything negative about that brand will be greatly exaggerated and carried on with great enthusiasm, by the ones here that want to make the knife as bad as they say the people behind it are. Anything good actual owners say, will be downplayed, while they rant and rave about absolutely anything they've heard less than favorable. Many high end ti frame locks will have a sticky lock, when new. That's just a fact of close tolerances and two metals with very different hardness. I've had to break in a lot of mine and some took much longer than others. The SMF I own took very little time to break in, I used pencil lead on it about 6 times, before it freed right up. Now the lock just barely sticks to the blade surface before unlocking. It's tight won't move inwards with finger pressure at all, easy to unlock one handed, graps just enough to feel very secure, I like it because I don't really feel those ti locks that just push over with zero resistance are as tightly fitted and therefore aren't as stationary. Just look at some of the complaints by owners of steel insert fitted, ti frame locks, they don't like it because the locks often will move inwards with finger pressure. Maybe that doesn't hurt anything, but I prefer a lock that stays put.
 
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Lots of strong feelings when it comes to Strider. Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion for or against. Just because someone doesn't agree with you, doesn't make them a bad person.
 
I tried one example out with an open mind and I tell it like I find it irregardless of the reputation of anyone that designed them. It's just one of many of my knives and if it wasn't up to my standards I would have sold it long ago. As it is I find nothing to dislike about the actual knife and a lot to like.
 
And I like mine as well, hoewever some people have had negative experinces with them. Especially with the old style lock. Strider didn't redesign the lock for no reason.
 
I carry both an SnG and an SMF predominantly strong sided with predominantly defensive purposes in mind. All are with the latest lock geometry, and neither have given me trouble (I have a ZT Ti frame lock that is very sticky, and I am going to try some of the suggestions here). I cary multiple knives at all times. and my weak side Benchmade Griptillian is my every day cutter for box opening. Hence I keep my expensive folders razor sharp, and rarely have to sharpen them as I hopefully have very little use for a defensive knife. Today I had my SMF strong side, and I was at my daughter's house for Christmas morning. I wanted to start a fire in her wood stove, and she had no fat wood. I went to her wood pile on her porch and selected a couple of stove lengths suitable for kindling. The only thing that I had on me to split the stove lengths was my SMF. It functioned superbly. I even drove it through a couple of knots. I must add that this was pin oak and red oak firewood. I am completely satisfied. I have a plethora of fixed blade knives that I woodcraft with or camp with or just have to survive if needed. The reason that I got the SnG and the SMF was so that it could double in this capacity if need be. My SMF came through with flying colors.

I do not know Mick Strider nor his negative reputation. I do know his knives, and I like the SnG and the SMF. Very light, very strong and great steels.
 
reapinItUP said:
If you don't have the patience to break it in you can get the lock bar carbidized
and that should fix it. Some like having to break in a knife, makes it feel like it's
their own knife where they had to put the time in. Others want a knife that's ready
to go out of the box.
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Strider carbidizes the lock bar from the factory already. Just gotta get some wear in time :thumbup:
 
I can attest, I thought the first smf I bought must be defective, super stiff and super sticky lock, but I used some pencil on the tang and kept working it and one day, voila, super smooth and no stick. But I was nervous at first, dont give up on it though.
 
I got a lot of useful info from this thread and my headache went away after spending nearly $600 on a knife with a sticky lockbar.
 
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