Should I return my Buck Strider?

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berserk

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I bought a Buck Strider (first production run) a week ago, and found the knife to be much to my liking. I have just got one problem with it though, and I do not really know how to put it, but I will give it a try: The liners are not perfectly aligned with eachother; It seems like the pivot have been thightend to much and/or the spacer pins are just a tad to long. The result is a knife where one side of the spacer is a millimeter or two more compressed than the other.

I hope my explanation makes any sense...

Is the knife intended/designed to look like this?
If not, should i return it to Buck or am i knitpicking?
Will it affect the performance of the knife? (I find it quite hard to decompress the liner lock)

And another question: why is the blade hollow ground? would not a sabre grind make more sense on an hardcore user?

Johan
 
berserk,

Do you have a double washer on one side, and a single washer on the other?

I have a Mini B/S, and when it came with a double & single setup, it was mostly even.

It went back for servicing, and when it returned, it had a single washer on either side (one signature B/S square/oblong, the other one round), and it's just about 0.8mm wider at the butt end compared to the pivot end.

I don't mind, personally. It performs wonderfully on most things. It's not too good for cardboard boxes, but that's mainly because it's so thick that the cardboard gets hung up on the shoulders (right term?) of the hollow grind.

I don't have any trouble at all disengaging the liner lock. Are you flicking it open or just gently thumbing it open? If it locks so tightly that it's difficult to disengage on a thumb-open, that might be a sign you need to send it back to service (or in your case -- Sweden? you might want to exchange it for another one.)

Hope this helps.

-Jon
 
Thanks for the reply.

The knife has got what seems to be two large but thin washers on one side of the blade, and one smaller but thicker washer on the other. The smaller washer do not seem to be perfectly flat, so I am thinking maybe it is a bit dented.

I never flick my knives open, but if I open the B/S kind of carefully there is not any problems whith closing the liner lock. After a more "normal" opening of the knife, it takes quite som thumb strenght to disengage to lock though.

I think I will send it back for service.

Johan
 
Remove all lube residue from the blades tang where it meets the liner. Sometimes additional lubing only compounds to the lockup sticking problem. Instead try some anti- seize compound that is offered at automotive part shops. It is made by Permatex and is the same stuff used for sparkplugs. This compound essentially helps to prevent or minimze galling of parts, especially Ti. Has worked for me. Good luck.

Nakano
 
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