Looking for a Ti framelock with bushings.

[Death's Head]

I love Sebenzas. They are super smooth and the highest of quality. Also, they have no blade play due to a bushing inside that prevents you from sandwiching the washers and blade inside.
Are there other production or semi-custom Ti framelocks or other knives for that matter that also use bushings?

 

[slide13]

Scott Cook uses that system on the Lochsa. Fitting since he is an ex-Chris Reeve employee. Other then that, I don't know of anyone else using it. Too bad too because I think it is far and away the best way to build a knife.

 

[Death's Head]

Man you said it. I don't know if it is a complicated system or not, but I just purchased a Spyderco Ti ATR, and I am quite dissappointed with it. Don't get me wrong, it is a great knife, but it is supposed to be Spyderco's best. I got a good price on it, but at the going rate of this knife, I can almost get a Small Sebbie for a few bucks more. There is just way to much blade play on the ATR for my tastes at the price it is selling for. It's gonna get sold.

 

[steveg30]

benchmade 630 , 635, 425,, 426.

 

[Death's Head]

I never owned a Ti BM, but I thought they have PB washers, but not the bushings. Can anyone else confirm this?

 

[DaveH]

I imagine some custom makers use bushings like Kevin Wilkens for example.

I doubt any benchmades use a bushing ala' CRK.

 

[Death's Head]

I thought the Bradley had them, but I looked up that passaround that you managed a while back DaveH, and I saw that you actually opened it up and found nothing special about it.

 

[catmath 1911]

I believe the microtech LCC had a bushing system. Not a framelock though.

Andy

 

[Artfully Martial]

You might try an IKBS custom folder from Ikoba or Korth...the Korth stinger is pretty neat.

 

[Hair]

Benchmade and Bradley definitly do not use bushings.

 

[Nathan S]

So far as I know, there are no production knives with a bushing system similar to the CRK folders. Dunno if William Henry uses 'em. In any case, you have to remember that it's not simply a case of adding bushings any given folder: the tolerances of the knife have to be perfect to make a bushing system work. I think that manufacturing a knife to those kinds of specifications would take it out of the "production" price range. Which is why CRK folders are more appropriately compared to custom than to production knives.