Codger_64
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I thought I would give you fellows a headsup on some important information that I learned today.
I've had an LB7 for a while now, one of those knives I bought from my local dealer, examined, played with a bit, then cleaned, put it back in the box and stored it for reference. In the past few weeks, I have been doing research on the pattern, and acquired several...early (#0326), mid (#Q81829), and still later, plus a few SFOs like the Harley and commems like the gold filled Gant. I've looked at them, then stored them until the rest of the examples land in my box.
Today's knife was the Q81829, and I was surprised. It is a three pin, no UH stamp, so it is an older one (serials seen so far go thru BB56321). But the knife was in near mint condition.
Of course I had to get it out when I got in my truck still in the post office parking lot and check it before I drove off. Now, one would think that a knife guy, let alone a knife guy with engineering experience, and one who does geometric calculations as a part of his livelihood, would know to figure in the arc of swing, the force of propulsion by spring, inertia etc. and keep his dayum thumb out of the way when closing a lockback, particularly a Schrade LB7 with factory edge and a strong backspring. I don't know what to say except that the object in motion had sufficient inertia and propulsion combined to zip through the tough calluses on my thumb without hesitation. Kinda like a papercut it was. So there I sat admiring how cleanly and effortlesly the blade cut. Lucky for me, there was just the barest tint of red, no major vessels cut. And thankfully no witnesses. I wouldn't tell you except that I hope you will learn from my experience and be vewy, vewy caweful when toying with your new LB7s.
Codger
I've had an LB7 for a while now, one of those knives I bought from my local dealer, examined, played with a bit, then cleaned, put it back in the box and stored it for reference. In the past few weeks, I have been doing research on the pattern, and acquired several...early (#0326), mid (#Q81829), and still later, plus a few SFOs like the Harley and commems like the gold filled Gant. I've looked at them, then stored them until the rest of the examples land in my box.
Today's knife was the Q81829, and I was surprised. It is a three pin, no UH stamp, so it is an older one (serials seen so far go thru BB56321). But the knife was in near mint condition.
Of course I had to get it out when I got in my truck still in the post office parking lot and check it before I drove off. Now, one would think that a knife guy, let alone a knife guy with engineering experience, and one who does geometric calculations as a part of his livelihood, would know to figure in the arc of swing, the force of propulsion by spring, inertia etc. and keep his dayum thumb out of the way when closing a lockback, particularly a Schrade LB7 with factory edge and a strong backspring. I don't know what to say except that the object in motion had sufficient inertia and propulsion combined to zip through the tough calluses on my thumb without hesitation. Kinda like a papercut it was. So there I sat admiring how cleanly and effortlesly the blade cut. Lucky for me, there was just the barest tint of red, no major vessels cut. And thankfully no witnesses. I wouldn't tell you except that I hope you will learn from my experience and be vewy, vewy caweful when toying with your new LB7s.
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