I recently got a Kershaw OD-1, and I love it. It's sleek, I love the blade shape, and the over drive system is my favorite flipper design now. Something about opening like an AO without using a spring impresses me. However, the flipper shakes a bit. I can move it up and down just a little in the closed position. Nothing major, but I"m wondering if that's how they all are. Are they all like that?
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Kershaw OD-1 flipper
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That's normal from what I've seen. I think they make them a little loose so the tolerances don't have to be perfect. When I make scales for this knife, I spend quite a bit of time fine-tuning to make it open smoothly without the rattle. You could do this yourself by putting a bit of epoxy in the recess and then milling it out to the proper thickness.
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mine makes the same movement, its normal
The flipper looseness is normal. It doesn't affect the operation of the knife. Mine is kinda loose too.
On a side note, my OD-1's blade detent is quite weak so I have to position the clip in tip-down carry. That really doesn't bother me as I don't have a strong preference either way but a knife does need a fairly strong blade detent for me to carry it tip-up. I think the weak detent is designed in because of the 2:1 flipper force require or something to that effect.
Still love it though. My OD-1 gets its share of EDC rotation duties.
On a side note, my OD-1's blade detent is quite weak so I have to position the clip in tip-down carry. That really doesn't bother me as I don't have a strong preference either way but a knife does need a fairly strong blade detent for me to carry it tip-up. I think the weak detent is designed in because of the 2:1 flipper force require or something to that effect.
Still love it though. My OD-1 gets its share of EDC rotation duties.
On the scale side, remove the 2 screws nearest the blade pivot, leaving the last screw at the butt of the knife in, but loosened a bit. Pivot the scale out of the way. You can now access the flipper with the knife still intact. Take the flipper out and put a tiny blob of lithium grease in then reassemble. No more shaking noise.
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The movement is normal, here’s a thread that does a decent job of explaining it.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=639149&highlight=OD-1
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=639149&highlight=OD-1
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I'll just let mine rattle, thank you very much. It doesn't affect the operation. One thing I don't need is a glob of pocket lint attractor in the works.
Yeah, I noticed that. I usually carry it so the spine is against a seam, and of course the one time I don't it opens up a bit while I jog up some stairs and I proceed to jab myself in the palm with the quite fine tip on the OD-1.
Ouch!
Yeah, mine opened a bit and when I went to grab it, it "bit' me on my finger. Went fairly deep too with its slender point and sharpness out of the box.
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Ouch!
The first round of them were like that. The current production (last few months) have been slightly changed
and the detent holds the blade in place much better.
Feels like a different knife. I believe it is even smoother opening now.
mike
That makes sense - mine has MAR 09 om the blade, and I've never had a problem with it opening on its own.
Glad they fixed it. I'll have to pick up the new and improved version
. Frankly, I'd carry my OD-1 more than I do if it had a stronger detent. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Mine's Jan 09 and it's so loose it can be snapped open with wrist action very easily without using the flipper.