Lets see some Hinderer action

photoman12001 said:
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Nice. I quite like that Gear backspacer on the sebenza. Could you let me know where you found it please?
 
So here is a story that would probably get me stoned over in Rick's Facebook group ... But maybe somebody here will find it useful.

I bought these two used XM-18s over time, one Skinner Krein Regrind (posted pics of the knife before), and one Vintage Bowie. After using the Bowie for a while and comparing it to my backup, I noticed that the blade was a quarter inch too short. Guessing the original owner broke the tip, it was reground and he failed to mention it on ebay. The Krein Skinner (early Gen4) was well used, with a great blade, but shot lock-side: detent ball mostly flat/gone, 70% lockup, and lock-stick that I couldn't get rid off (usually, my XMs with stick wear in nicely).

So I swapped the Krein blade into the Vintage and it came out very nice. This kind of swap probably doesn't always work, but in this case it did. If you try on your own knives, you need to swap the stop pin too, as it affects the detent (they are of different thickness across different XM-18s), and you might need to swap the female side of the pivot, too, depending on how the blade fits.

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Cheers,

Roland.
 
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ferider said:
So here is a story that would probably get me stoned over in Rick's Facebook group ... But maybe somebody here will find it useful.

I bought these two used XM-18s over time, one Skinner Krein Regrind (posted pics of the knife before), and one Vintage Bowie. After using the Bowie for a while and comparing it to my backup, I noticed that the blade was a quarter inch too short. Guessing the original owner broke the tip, it was reground and he failed to mention it on ebay. The Krein Skinner (early Gen4) was well used, with a great blade, but shot lock-side: detent ball mostly flat/gone, 70% lockup, and lock-stick that I couldn't get rid off (usually, my XMs with stick wear in nicely).

So I swapped the Krein blade into the Vintage and it came out very nice. This kind of swap probably doesn't always work, but in this case it did. If you try on your own knives, you need to swap the stop pin too, as it affects the detent (they are of different thickness across different XM-18s), and you might need to swap the female side of the pivot, too, depending on how the blade fits.

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Cheers,

Roland.
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Looks awesome to me mate .
Any pics of the bowie blade? Interested to see it
 
sharp_edge said:
Wow that is significantly shorter. Did you check with the previous owner what happened?
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No ... I bought it, then used it a while, until I bought another one - which is when I noticed. And then (blame my OCD) it caused me to stop using it, but the ebay sale was far behind, feedback left, etc. But I love my "new" Skinner, so all is good :)
 
I learned two things today... #1 This is the same exact hardware set up as a skinny sheepsfoot:

Hinderer Copper 3" XM-18 Pivot Screw
RHK-P-1388 Hinderer Eklipse Copper Handle Screws
RHK-P-1611 Hinderer Copper 3.5" Skinny Sheepsfoot Standoff Set

And #2 that copper strips out very easily. I had to actually put the steel screws back in on the Ti side and then Copper in on the scale side to make this work. I only stripped one copper screw but I'm still bummed. I wanted to swap all the copper screws out and even the lock stabilizer and filler tab, clip etc. but it looks it will remain stonewashed on one side and copper on the other haha, oh well you can't win em all.

But I'm super happy with the my sheepsfoot skinny now, I need the copper to get all funky but all in time.

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