Steel Handles Compared to Titanium?

Dexmit

Dexmit

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I have a couple of jaguar balisong and a couple of benchmade 42's. I noticed that on the jaguars that after couple of days/weeks of use the handles will basically touch each other, when you take a look at the back of the handles you can actually see where the tang pin dug kind of like a groove into it. On the 42's nothing though.
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Which is awesome. Will this happen with steel handles?

[This message has been edited by Dexmit (edited 05-24-2001).]
 
it shouldn't... at least nowhere near as bad.

Half of the reason, though, isn't the holes dug by the tang pin, but rather the pivot pins bending. I have hellacious holes from the tang pin, but re-pinning solved handle-clap
 
If you mean steel like in the old BM line (BM 44, 45, 48, 3in and custom line) then they will also last long. I am very curious which one would last longer because both are great. People say that the 42s are the best, but this is hard for me to believe because the Rc. hardness if Ti. is less (its softer) than steel. Who knows, there both nice though.

mmtmatrix

[This message has been edited by mmtmatrix (edited 05-25-2001).]
 
re-pinning means taking out the cheap junky pins that jaguar uses, that break, and putting in new ones made out of various materials... some people use finishing nails, I used stainless steel rod... either way, take out the old pins, and put in some new ones that fit right, and don't bend or break
 
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