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I just got this box i've been waiting on for 2 weeks. It was an original model colt police positive official police issue pocket knife. I'd had the exact same knife and used it as my EDC since I was 14.
I figure 10 years is good return on a 40 dollar investment. But a few months ago tragedy struck;
I lost it.
At some point during a day where I had traveled almost 200 miles and stopped six times doing pool service, the thing had either fallen out of my pocket or I had misplaced it. I looked everywhere and couldn't find it.
I Wigged the F out. I mean this thing was like a part of me.
So I found another one thanks to google.
The only site selling them only had 2 in stock, and the only other seller had one on ebay and wanted $70.
It gets here. I unbox it my heart all aflutter. And it was so pretty!, I mean my old one was beat to shit and I loved every nick and ding. But damn!
So I flip it open smooth as glass, like putting on an old favorite pair of pants, flip my grip around a few times and go to put it in my pocket and see this:
A quick visual inspection showed the obvious problem. where the first one I had had a very shallow bevel to the locking face of the blade. this one has practically none.
It doesn't jam like this every time, just when i flick it a little harder than necessary, and when it does i usually can get it unstuck with a modicum of effort, but sometimes its really bad, and it bugs the shite out of me.
Now obviously this knife has sentimental value for me, and buying another one and hoping its better isn't really an option. .
So the fixes I see are a new custom made blade and/or locking liner, which would be cool but pricey.
(I like the idea of doing it myself but i have no experience or really the tools, I could muddle my way through shaping a liner but would literally have no idea how to set the spring temper.)
Or I could grind a new bevel on that face and fiddle with some green stuff on the stop-pin to adjust where the blade sets.
But one of the cool features of this knife makes that a lot harder than it would be on another knife; the stop-pin is internal, traveling in a groove in the blade itself.
And I like where the blade sets.
I would greatly appreciate any alternate ideas for fixing this problem.
or if anyone wants to tackle the custom blade or liner, thats cool too.
But I'm really strapped for money right now so IDK how that would work
I know a lot of linerlocks have this problem. especially the cheaper ones. So I figure I'm not the first to ask this but I didn't see anything.
I figure 10 years is good return on a 40 dollar investment. But a few months ago tragedy struck;
I lost it.
At some point during a day where I had traveled almost 200 miles and stopped six times doing pool service, the thing had either fallen out of my pocket or I had misplaced it. I looked everywhere and couldn't find it.
I Wigged the F out. I mean this thing was like a part of me.
So I found another one thanks to google.
The only site selling them only had 2 in stock, and the only other seller had one on ebay and wanted $70.
It gets here. I unbox it my heart all aflutter. And it was so pretty!, I mean my old one was beat to shit and I loved every nick and ding. But damn!
So I flip it open smooth as glass, like putting on an old favorite pair of pants, flip my grip around a few times and go to put it in my pocket and see this:
A quick visual inspection showed the obvious problem. where the first one I had had a very shallow bevel to the locking face of the blade. this one has practically none.
It doesn't jam like this every time, just when i flick it a little harder than necessary, and when it does i usually can get it unstuck with a modicum of effort, but sometimes its really bad, and it bugs the shite out of me.
Now obviously this knife has sentimental value for me, and buying another one and hoping its better isn't really an option. .
So the fixes I see are a new custom made blade and/or locking liner, which would be cool but pricey.
(I like the idea of doing it myself but i have no experience or really the tools, I could muddle my way through shaping a liner but would literally have no idea how to set the spring temper.)
Or I could grind a new bevel on that face and fiddle with some green stuff on the stop-pin to adjust where the blade sets.
But one of the cool features of this knife makes that a lot harder than it would be on another knife; the stop-pin is internal, traveling in a groove in the blade itself.
And I like where the blade sets.
I would greatly appreciate any alternate ideas for fixing this problem.
or if anyone wants to tackle the custom blade or liner, thats cool too.
But I'm really strapped for money right now so IDK how that would work
I know a lot of linerlocks have this problem. especially the cheaper ones. So I figure I'm not the first to ask this but I didn't see anything.