Knife Gets Slower And Less Smooth With Oil?

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So I got a couple of Cold Steel Voyager X2's lately, both new-in-box. They were REALLY smooth out-of-box, and the blades sort of sucked back into the handle incredibly easily when closing them. Took barely ANY wrist movement to flick it open, too. However, just minutes after opening and closing one of them, I realized how it was slowing down and getting more stiff, almost as if it were tightened down too much or something. I tried oiling it with Tuff-Glide, but it actually seemed to make it worse. It's pretty stiff and almost gritty feeling now. I can't take either one of them apart either because they're pinned together rather than screwed. Any ideas?
 
Try to blow it all out real good with compressed air, might help get some crud out of there.
 
Once you get it back like the factory had it, try it for a while dry, without any lube. Break it in a couple months without lubing it. Then see if it needs it.

Lube is the biggest cause of perceived pivot problems.
 
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EChoil said:
Once you get it back like the factory had it, try it for a while dry, without any lube. Break it in a couple months without lubing it. Then see if it needs it.

Lube is the biggest cause of perceived pivot problems.
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Alright, I'll keep that in mind... yeah right after it got better from using the compressed air, just minutes later it got stiff again. I'll just continue to break it in WITHOUT lube...
 
Hot water and soap. Flush out the pivot. Blow out/dry with air. Relube.

I bet that helps :)
 
It's the Tuff Glide. I have some but it makes all my knives stiff so I now just use whatever gun oil is handy, usually Rem-oil. Plain oil works great. I don't get the appeal of Tuff-glide. Maybe I'm missing something.
 
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