Removing Sebenza Thumbstud

I shortened mine ,all it took was a file .You could file it flush ,or if you want the hole just drill it out.
 
Thanks for the info Johnny.

Just out of curiosity, would a person use an arbor press to remove it -or will it have to be drilled out?
 
I pressed out the the thumb stud on my Umfaan and replaced it with a polished dowel. The stud it came with was very sharp. It pressed out nice, ( if your careful)! It didn't ruin the stud either.

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My mistake if I was wrong about the stud being destroyed but I remember CRK telling me that in order to remove the stud it would need to be destroyed and replaced with a new one. Just went with what they told me. I guess it is possible to do without destroying as kodiak has done!
 
Hey Johnny. I may have gotten lucky! I can see how it could be easily destroyed! It's probably a crap shoot. :D
 
For great design like a sebenza I see no reason why they made that to be pressed in or out, not screwed for ease of replacement. I think Chris does not want his knives tampered with, just used.:thumbdn:
 
I pressed it out this eveing, used two sockets, a hex head and a 6" vice. All it took was a 1/4 turn. No drama, came out easy.

(I did cover the socket on the left with blue painter's tape to protect the finish on the blade).

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As for the "wave," it works very well. I kinda like having a Sebenza that opens as soon as it is drawn. I have the small regular sebenza and one thing I noticed was that it wasn't the easiest opening folder out there -and certainly not the fastest. Now I get the best of both worlds.

The zip tie as a thumbstud looks like crap, but I'd hate to say it, works better than the original -I guess it gives more contact area to your thumb so you can really flick it open hard now.

P.S. I honestly think I can press the original thumbstud back in. It'll probably take a piece of micarta with a hole drilled in it to hold the stud, but it doesn't look that difficult.
 
I have a minor concern with this. Would waving a knife cause accelerated wear on the stop pin like flicking it open would?

That being said, I believe that everey knife is a man's own and what he wishes to do with it is his business. Good job flatgrinder for visualizing an idea, and following through on it. Please shoot some pics and show us the finished product.

Andy
 
My idea, which I have yet to see realized, is a small section of steel with a thumb hole like spyderco that presses righ in after the thumbstud was removed.
 
Here are the pics:

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It doesn't look like much, but it's useful. I never have to manually open it now. It's open once it's drawn and hasn't failed once. In terms of increasing wear on the stop pin, I don't think that will happen. These knives are made of premium material and if there is the almost impossible chance that the stop pin does wear down, simply machining a wider stop pin sleeve will solve it. However the forces that will need to occur to cause this will have to be significantly higher than simply flicking it open.
 
I decided to put a thumbstud back on (for a change) and used the one off my Mcusta:

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Fits, works well, actually opens easier than the factory version -and it doesn't dig into your thumb anymore :)
 
That thumbstud look better than the original! When you said wave, I thought you meant having it done like the Emerson waved.
 
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