Need some help.

[KnottyEagle]

I need some help figuring out what some things are. I have been researching about Kershaw knives for awhile and I need some help figuring out some things. Here they are: What's a detent bar? FFG (Full Flat Grind)? Hollow Grind? I know that there is more, but I can't think of them right now. I guess I'm having a brain fart.

 

[sticktodrum]

Well, in Kershaws, the lock bar (be it a frame lock bar, or a liner lock bar) can serve as the detent. You'll notice a ball bearing at the top of the lock bar that travels along the tang of the blade. In manual action knives, this ball detent will rest in a hole in the blade tang and secure it in the closed position. For a Speedsafe assisted blade, the spring will hold it shut, in most cases.

Full flat grind is when the grind of a blade is flt, not hollow (curving inward, or concave), and the flat angle to the edge reaches over the entire face of the blade. I don't know of any Kershaws that are FFG aside from the upcoming BFC Skyline...

 

[aquaman67]

 

[BrentD86]

Other terms you will hear a lot with many kershaws are the flipper (part of the blade sticks out of the top of the handle when closed and you push on that (flip it) to flick the blade open, and the torsion bar which is the type of spring they use in their speedsafe knives. There is a video on youtube called kershaw leek takedown or disassembly (I can't remember which) but it shows someone taking apart a speedsafe knife and is pretty clear about what it is and how it works.

 

[KnottyEagle]

Other terms you will hear a lot with many kershaws are the flipper (part of the blade sticks out of the top of the handle when closed and you push on that (flip it) to flick the blade open, and the torsion bar which is the type of spring they use in their speedsafe knives. There is a video on youtube called kershaw leek takedown or disassembly (I can't remember which) but it shows someone taking apart a speedsafe knife and is pretty clear about what it is and how it works.

Yeah, I'm pretty familar with the flipper and the torsion bar. I'll have to check into that video.

 

[KnottyEagle]

Thanks for posting this, it really explains a lot.

 

[KnottyEagle]

Also, I know what bead-blasted is and I've seen it, but how do they apply it on the blade? And what's sand-blasted? Is that what I'm thinking about where they blast sand all over the blade like they do on the show American Restoration?

 

[solidorange]

Also, I know what bead-blasted is and I've seen it, but how do they apply it on the blade? And what's sand-blasted? Is that what I'm thinking about where they blast sand all over the blade like they do on the show American Restoration?

Bead blasting is essentially the same process as sandblasting but uses small glass beads instead of sand to clean and polish the metal.

 

[KnottyEagle]

Bead blasting is essentially the same process as sandblasting but uses small glass beads instead of sand to clean and polish the metal.

Thank-You!