Who takes their knives apart? And who leaves them alone and assembled???

I've taken apart all of my knives that can be taken apart except for a few. I give them a thorough perhaps more than necessary, but the pivot is easily the most important part to clean but also the hardest to get at–without out taking it apart that is. I can think of two cases where I was fortunate to have taken the knives apart as water had gotten into the pivot without me noticing and was slowing the action down in one case and in the other it had causes the Sleipner steel to rust (on the first day I had it). In addition, although the people who initially assemble the knives are professionals who do their job well it gives me more confidence to know everything is firmly in place. The most difficult knife to put back together was the only Benchmade I've had, the Valet: the Axis lock was more complicated than other locking mechanisms.
 
take apart. unless its a non caged ikbs. or even worse a non caged ikbs integral.

my knives have to be maintained, if the knife maker makes it hard to do this, bad on them.

its super easy to take apart the majority of knives but I've taken apart some where I can completely understand why others don't want to ever do this themselves.

I know some folks just don't have those types of skills, i don't understand it but it happens. I love to hear stories of the warranty department getting knives in disassembled cause the owner didn't know what they were doing. maybe it takes some practice, I never usually have issues but I've been taking apart and putting together stuff my whole life.

red locktite or stubborn screws... those are the worst. I have one I dissembled last year and some of the screws are so stuck it will never come undone, i just left it like that. its a $5 knife tho, so I'll probably toss it.
 
CPP said:
Have you come across a non caged ikbs integral?
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lionsteel tm1 iirc

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I've never disassembled a knife unless you count removing the belt clip to Loctite the screws.


Sent via telegraph with the same fingers I use to sip whiskey.
 
I only take apart a knife if it's needed to resolve a problem, which it almost never is. Guess I'm in the "if it ain't broke" camp.
 
Mo2 said:
take apart. unless its a non caged ikbs. or even worse a non caged ikbs integral.

my knives have to be maintained, if the knife maker makes it hard to do this, bad on them.

its super easy to take apart the majority of knives but I've taken apart some where I can completely understand why others don't want to ever do this themselves.

I know some folks just don't have those types of skills, i don't understand it but it happens. I love to hear stories of the warranty department getting knives in disassembled cause the owner didn't know what they were doing. maybe it takes some practice, I never usually have issues but I've been taking apart and putting together stuff my whole life.

red locktite or stubborn screws... those are the worst. I have one I dissembled last year and some of the screws are so stuck it will never come undone, i just left it like that. its a $5 knife tho, so I'll probably toss it.
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there really is no skills to take apart and put back together a knife. unless one was raised without any tools and never had to use any tools in their life i guess. i see the rest of your points though.
 
btw if you guys want to see some disassembly videos check out Nick Shabazz

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM_f7DAr6zzIHHYggsq8CrA/videos


example of a bad knife, but he does it anyways... the rest of the knives are painless and easy.
[video]https://youtu.be/xSdKRm5JTJQ[/video]

2 words of warning...
1. dont use nano oil as its snake oil marketing and other solutions are better and cheaper.
2. dont use as much oil as he does... wipe off the oil with a qtip. it will still be on the metal, more than enough. the object is to just protect the metal, not get oil all over the place and accumulate more dust etc.
 
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jbmonkey said:
there really is no skills to take apart and put back together a knife. unless one was raised without any tools and never had to use any tools in their life i guess. i see the rest of your points though.
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yea i agree
 
I detail stripped my Sebenza the day after I got it. All my BMs, Spydercos, ZTs are pretty much the way they came, with the exception of tweaking the tightness of the pivots to suit me.
 
If i buy something preowned (i.e. from the exchange) it usually gets broken down asap and taken from there dependent on whats inside when I open her up.

If its new i will wait until it has sufficient ware to warrant the above.

In all cases i make pivot and centering adjs as needed regardless of when even if that means a complete tare down.
 
I use an air compressor air gun if it needs to be cleaned. I will take it apart if it need to be repaired.
 
The engineers' eternal motto:

When something works, DON'T TOUCH IT.

I've used folders of all sorts for decades and only ever oiled a few of them ONCE. Never took any of them apart and the ones I haven't given away to friends still work 100% to this day, and theirs do too. The older versions that had studs/rivets instead of screws holding them together where good for those that like fiddling too much.

I much prefer spending my time fondling and playing around with my woman.:D
 
GotSteel said:
I feel like I ought to take one of my knives apart now lol
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That's why I said it... I'm working undercover for the Folder's Association and wanted to notch up more business for them.:rolleyes:

This actually happened to me: I had an old fridge that was in good working order and left it out in the front of the house on the footpath with a sign on it saying "FREE, please take me".

A week later it was still there, so I changed the sign to read "DO NOT TOUCH", and it was gone the next morning.

That is no joke.
 
Only take one apart to modify, like de assisting. Or cleaning to correct loose lockup ( this only works sometimes). Oterwise I leave them intact when cleaning.
 
I usually disassemble my Chris Reeve knives when I first get them. They are so easy to work with and there is just something satisfying about messing with them. Others are only done as needed to install custom parts or clean up and lube an action.

[video=youtube;5isFFCo_xKg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5isFFCo_xKg[/video]
 
If they can be taken apart I usually do to polish washers if needed then clean and re oil after break in.
 
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