Originally posted by Muss
Hello People,
Need some advise, please. I have a couple of slip joints with very strong springs. When I close them there is an area of the blade that comes into contact with the inside of the knife causing small dings on the blade.
I'm not sure which part of the inside of the knife your blade is contacting. I've had knives where the edge hit the liner as you closed it, and others where the spring bounces the blade against the spring or the spacer.
In the first case, you might be able to peen the rivets in such a way as to bring the blade to the center.
In the latter case, I have a Boker that was doing that. I tried wedging a sliver of nylon between the liners for a shock absorber, but that's not a permanent solution. What I wound up doing with the Boker was stacking several of the little cutting discs on the mandrel for my moto-tool, trimmed them a bit so they'd make a smooth cut and put a longer radius on the corner of the blade that the spring is in contact with when it snaps the blade shut. It works great now.
If you've already sharpened the knife, please think this through carefully before you attempt it. For instance, don't stack enough discs on the mandrel that they might wedge between the liners. I'd hate to hear that the discs had wedged and flipped the knife up into your eye, or something.
Even if you haven't sharpened the knife, this could still hurt you. Wear goggles, of course, wrap the blade so it can't hurt you, clamp the knife in a vise or secure it somehow so it doesn't become airborne. Use a light touch and just remove a little metal at a time. It'll be less time than it takes to recover from an accident.
