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festerfromnzed

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Fellow forumites....i sharpened this knife last night (very sharp) and when i went to close it the blade locked at 90 degrees!! and wouldnt close...on closer inspection,the tip of the closed blade ,hits the base of the base of the closing blade..and im talking about a fraction of a millimeter here,its just enough to stop it...i have a dremel and was considering smoothing out the contacting edge ever so slightly so the blade will pass...your thoughts would be welcomed......with thanks ...............FES

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I think I would just thumb the closed blade out of the way when closing the other one and call it good.
 
black mamba said:
How would you bend a heat-treated blade? Seriously, I'd like to know.
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Geez it ain't rocket science, and its just a tiny bit of metal, easy enough to bend a bit. They are heat treated but that does not mean they don't bend. Just the opposite, a properly tempered blade will bend and flex quite a bit. How do you think the guys at the factory would fix it? I've done it many times. Its not like you need to bend it in half or anything. It just needs to be adjusted a tiny bit so it misses the opposite tang.

Probably 420 stainless
 
Arathol said:
Geez it ain't rocket science, and its just a tiny bit of metal, easy enough to bend a bit. They are heat treated but that does not mean they don't bend. Just the opposite, a properly tempered blade will bend and flex quite a bit. How do you think the guys at the factory would fix it? I've done it many times. Its not like you need to bend it in half or anything. It just needs to be adjusted a tiny bit so it misses the opposite tang.

Probably 420 stainless
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..Thanks for the explaination ARATHOL...i dunno if id want to try and bend it?...its a really thin blade as it is ...............FES
 
It's almost like a liner lock by accident. I don't know if I'd want to slip a finger in there every time to nudge the closed blade out of the way, sounds like a good way to bleed but that's jmo :)

Nathan
 
ndeezl said:
It's almost like a liner lock by accident. I don't know if I'd want to slip a finger in there every time to nudge the closed blade out of the way, sounds like a good way to bleed but that's jmo :)

Nathan
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I agree :)

Also, I think the factory would also bend it, but I wouldn't try it myself. I don't have that kind of experience or luck.

Kevin
 
Send it back to Queen - they'll bend it for you if you don't want to attempt it for yourself. Me - I'd just bend it. You'd be surprised just how flexiable the blades are.
 
You said you sharpened it and that after doing so the blade wouldn't close. I assume that before sharpening it you had opened it and closed it with no problem. Just the pressure on the blade or blades while sharpening it seems to have bent one or the other. Place the offending blade on a flat piece of wood or some other base (padded of course) and apply the same pressure you did while sharpening and see if the blade won't bend just the slightest amount to solve the problem.
 
Go over to Maint & tinkering and look up krink, or krinking...a light rap should move that closed blades point more towards the liner and out of the way...or sent it in for repair...
 
Thanks for the info guys...i marked the contact point ...then used a super fine conical diamond point in my dremel..the scalloped out edge is probably 1mm,barely discernible.....problem solved........................FES
 
Now you got me feeling bad my friend, I have never experienced this with this knife before...I am wondering if just enough was taken from the tip to allow the blade to move over that fraction more?


Second thought...I just read through a bit more and Modoc Ed has probably the nail hit on the head, give Eds advice a go mate.
 
All good Duncan....the recess is tiny.Unseeable when knife is open...Now that its been (modified?) its gonna get used!!!.........................FES

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