Manual Action Tyrade?

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jimmer_5

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So I have been playing with a new Tyrade Passaround knife form another forum, and I was wondering if this knife could be converted to work as a manual action? It appears that a lot of the detent action comes from the speed-safe mechanism, altough I imagine the detent ball would work fine without it.

I ask this question largely because it appears that the handle hardware is hidden underneath the carbon fiber inserts. Would I have to send the knife back to Kershaw to have the torsion bar removed? If Thomas has any insight on this it would be appreciated.
 
:eek:...I'm sorta new to the Kershaws jimmer...but I'm thinkin' that a couple of minutes and the removal of a few screws and that torsion bar oughta fall outa there pretty easy...:D...:cool:...Nice knives huh?...:thumbup:
 
The problem is that the screws appear to be hidden under the Carbon fiber inserts. Since I assume the inserts must be glued or taped in with some kind of adhesive, I'm not very keen to take them out myself - I'm just concerned that they won't stay in after they've been removed once.
 
I don't think the Tyrade will work without the torsion bar. The speedsafe holds the knife closed, like the leek. There is a detent ball, but the hole does not seem to be drilled on the blade. There would be nothing to hold the knife closed when the torsion bar is taken out.
 
The CF overscale would be tricky to remove I think. I'm sure it does come off somehow but I have not removed mine as of yet. It may snap in place seating in recess holes where the screws go, or it may just be double sticky taped down on there for all I know at this point. I have asked Thomas twice in email to explain this to me but have not had a reply so I don't know what to tell you there.

What I do know is this. The knife could be made manual action but you would have to activate the detent ball to keep the blade from just opening on its own by gravity since nothing would be there to hold the tip down into the body when closed. The detent ball is in the lock but its just there to aid smoothness as the blade rotates. There is no hole drilled in the blade for that ball to fall into like on a conventional frame or liner lock folder.

Precisely marking and then drilling the hole for the ball is only half the problem. The other half is the hardened blade. To drill a starter hole in it for the ball to fall into will require an expensive carbide drill to do it right.

With a #44 carbide and a thumb stud from one of the suppliers it would be possible to put a thumb stud on it also. It looks like it would have to be drilled right above the letter 'a' in Kershaw to work.

STR
 
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