Recommendation? Spyderco Warranty

[jjg6319]

Can we really expect the previous seller to try and fix a knife he sold over a year ago though?

If the original seller cares about his reputation and would want to make this right why not give him a chance. Social media can be a powerful tool if the OP wants to go that route to call out the original seller. I understand the seller might say go pound sand and then the OP can move on from there.

 

[stillshot2]

I personally wouldn't go as far to attack anyone's reputation on social media, enough of that goes on these days. We just don't know exactly what is causing the lock to fail, and apparently Spyderco doesn't either or they might have elaborated on the issue. I doubt this issue would happen after cerakoting a clip, hardware and a backspacer, these are non moving parts. But perhaps the little bit of material that was added to the sides of the backspacer which could be causing out of spec alignment issues messing up the lockup? You could disassemble it and try to sand it down a little to get the cerakote off the sides where you wouldn't see anyways and see if it helps? I also agree with the post above that said to bend the lock bar tad bit more to give it more tension- I would try this first. I personally don't like liner and frame locks for this reason, and especially when the pocket clip has anything to do with applying tension to the lockbar. It seems like when you get a good one they do work well but if the lock interface isn't just right I have seen one or two slip with a slight spine tap. I once had a liner lock develop late lock up and what I did was rotate the stop pin a little which had the blade contact a portion that didn't have any wear to it and brought it back to factory spec, another thing you could try? I would definitely get it back, even if you don't want to mess with it anymore you could even try to resell it disclosing its issue to someone willing to work on it, and then recoup some of your money. But the real solution to your problem is to buy a lockback

 

[DA170]

Just to clarify, the backspacer and the hardware are still Cerakoted? I’d be suspicious of that effect on the knife tolerances.

This ^^^^

I’ve noticed while working on my own knives, the tighter the tolerances, the more “jacked” it’ll be if something’s amiss! A burr on a liner, speck of loctite in the pivot, or barrel spacer not perfectly flush will cause a knife to not function properly! I’d say the combination of the Cerakoted parts and tweaking buy original owner is causing this issue. I’ve got a Drunken with Apurvis and Lynch clip that works perfect! Hope you find some resolution to your problem.

 

[marrenmiller]

I wouldn't be surprised if the cerakote messed up the tolerances enough to mess with lockup. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if it could be proven that the cerakote did nothing at all to affect the lockup. Sometimes knife companies just get lockup wrong; my only Spyderco Military frame lock was returned unused because it had lock rock out of the box.

Unfortunately, nobody will ever know the truth, and Spyderco is within their rights to deny service on the knife. It's likely that most companies would do the same as Spyderco here. In the future, I'd assume that any knife with modifications will have no warranty coverage.