I posted Friday about making an impulse buy from a local shop. I purchased a Cold Steel AK-47. This shop sales mostly Case knives, but does have a smattering of Cold Steel, CRK&T, Boker, Buck, and several Kershaw models. So after getting home I began to wonder why I bought a Cold Steel knife when a few Kershaws were available. Well as Friday night turned to Saturday, and then to Saturday night I decided to take the AK apart and try and smooth some of the roughness out of it. I completely disassembled it and, using a Dremel tool, I polished every area where movement occurs. Put it all back together only to discover only marginal improvement, and marginal is being kind!
I also discovered that one of the Omega style springs was broken, although it didn't really make a lot of difference in the lockbar's movement. I also found that I now had horizontal movement in the blade and to get rid of it I had to make the pivot so tight that it would take two hands to open. Now, I've been around knives enough to know that what I did should have improved the action, and I have tinkered enough to be confident in my skills. By now you may be wondering why I posted this here, in the Kershaw Forum, bear with me as I'm getting there!
Now, there I was, in possession of a knife that was not in any condition to inspire much confidence in it. Well, as Saturday night turned into Sunday morning, and Sunday morning into Sunday afternoon, I did what any level headed knife nut would do...........I put the Cold Steel AK-47 into it's box and threw it into the back of my closet, and my closet is a DEEP one!! I got into my car, went back to the knife place, which is opened on Sunday's btw, I walked in, went straight over to the Kershaw's, and I purchased a Kershaw Groove!!
So my impulse buy of Friday lead to another impulse buy on Sunday, but I can definately say that the impulse buy of a Kershaw will get you your money's worth. The difference between the two knives in this post are night and day. The Groove is so much more refined, smooth, and fitted and finished so much better. Of course I took my new Groove apart because I like a little more stiffness in the locking bar, and I gave the Groove's bar a little more bend to get this. Put it all back together and it worked super, nothing like the CS experience!! I covered the clip with some 3M Stair Step tape and it is now sitting here beside me as I type this up.
Man, how could I have so screwed up and not come out of the store Friday afternoon with a Kershaw, and have saved me all this trouble!!
. But the story does have a Kershaw happy ending, and that is worth all the trouble!:thumbup::thumbup:
I also discovered that one of the Omega style springs was broken, although it didn't really make a lot of difference in the lockbar's movement. I also found that I now had horizontal movement in the blade and to get rid of it I had to make the pivot so tight that it would take two hands to open. Now, I've been around knives enough to know that what I did should have improved the action, and I have tinkered enough to be confident in my skills. By now you may be wondering why I posted this here, in the Kershaw Forum, bear with me as I'm getting there!Now, there I was, in possession of a knife that was not in any condition to inspire much confidence in it. Well, as Saturday night turned into Sunday morning, and Sunday morning into Sunday afternoon, I did what any level headed knife nut would do...........I put the Cold Steel AK-47 into it's box and threw it into the back of my closet, and my closet is a DEEP one!! I got into my car, went back to the knife place, which is opened on Sunday's btw, I walked in, went straight over to the Kershaw's, and I purchased a Kershaw Groove!!
So my impulse buy of Friday lead to another impulse buy on Sunday, but I can definately say that the impulse buy of a Kershaw will get you your money's worth. The difference between the two knives in this post are night and day. The Groove is so much more refined, smooth, and fitted and finished so much better. Of course I took my new Groove apart because I like a little more stiffness in the locking bar, and I gave the Groove's bar a little more bend to get this. Put it all back together and it worked super, nothing like the CS experience!! I covered the clip with some 3M Stair Step tape and it is now sitting here beside me as I type this up.
Man, how could I have so screwed up and not come out of the store Friday afternoon with a Kershaw, and have saved me all this trouble!!
. But the story does have a Kershaw happy ending, and that is worth all the trouble!:thumbup::thumbup:
