Small Insingo Carbon Fiber

gull wing

gull wing

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is slowly breaking in. Slowly, because the detent is strong and I'm spoiled by my old reliable Micarta, so I keep going back to the reliable.
cute couple

My hands don't work so well in opening the carbon fiber so I changed the thumbstud. This one is much easier to use and will use it till the knife breaks in, then I'll change it back.

It's a pretty simply turned 3/16 SS rod(not press fit). I like the looks factory stud better.

What beauties
 
Very interesting GullWing; I always wondered about this kind of stud since at the beginning of my addiction I used to struggle to open the blade with the factory one, until I started using my thumb nail to flick it; it looks kind of funky being a Sebenza but I actually like the looks of it, somehow I prefer the original for its classy look. I wonder how an umnumzaan stud would look on it, of course it would have to be a lot smaller though. Good job man, and yeah, how did you take the stud off? How is the new one installed? It looks press fitted in there. Anyway, I kinda like it, but it's a good thing you're putting the original back in though, [emoji106]
 
Still wondering how you got the thumb stud out...only thing I can think of is the "freeze/pop method" where you get it cold enough to shrink the atoms, then push it out. If so, seems like a risky thing to do with a knife with the Seb tolerances!
 
Thumb stud removal pretty simple.
No super science here, just 73 year horse sense.
Don't do it if you don't have experience working with tools.
I turned a 1/4" brass rod to fit the blade's hole, then pressed it out. The brass is soft, so it won't hurt the blade or stud.

Done it many times with a variety of Sebenzas, never damaged a stud, blade, or anything else.

Looking for pictures, haven't found them yet, if you are interested.
 
gull wing said:
Thumb stud removal pretty simple.
No super science here, just 73 year horse sense.
Don't do it if you don't have experience working with tools.
I turned a 1/4" brass rod to fit the blade's hole, then pressed it out. The brass is soft, so it won't hurt the blade
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Cool, my thoughts exactly; thank you sir. Knurling the new one would be cool, but too much work if you're going to reverse the install. Thanks again.
 
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