Worn out Spyderco?

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Has anyone here ever worn out a Spyderco knife? I'm talking about wearing it out through repeated use and sharpening, but what would be expected, not extremely abnormal wear and tear. So if you want to take your blade down to toothpick size so that you can remove food from your teeth, that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about broken lock mechanisms, a blade with no life left in it due to normal use, a failing pivot or detente ball, etc. I tried a cursory search to see if such a knife existed with negative results. I am not sure that there is such a Spyderco, but thought I'd ask the good folks here before solidifying my conclusion.
 
In my collection I have an original P.I.G Police model, it has considerable wear in both the blade pivot and the lock. Apart from its rarity, the wear would prevent me from using this knife. I estimate this knife was made around the introduction of the C07 model in 1984.
 
I had a Spyderco Southard wear its detent ball nearly flat to the titanium lock bar. I just carefully punched it out from the back side, turned the "flat" in, and pressed it back in it's hole. Worked like a charm. In general though I prefer a ceramic detent ball for that exact reason, especially if a blind hole is utilized. With as wear resistant as steel as the Southard uses, ceramic would be ideal IMHO.
 
My C11P delica is getting Some worn on the blade, its getting alot of time on the sharpmaker, i use it for my work offshore on a tug, almost every day sharpening.


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i own one of the walmart native's in GIN 1,that's coming to the end of its life! its lockbar is really weak at this point,but because its pined not much i can do about it!unless spyderco could replace the FRN and put new pins and lock bar ! this little folder has seen better days.:chargrined:
 
My delica gets tons of use and sharpening, I run it at 12 dps and you can tell how much the edge been pushed up. 5 years now so it really isn't bad. I normally strop until there's too many micro chips. The lock bar is also weaken but very very smooth, still snaps close.



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Officer's Match said:
I had a Spyderco Southard wear its detent ball nearly flat to the titanium lock bar. I just carefully punched it out from the back side, turned the "flat" in, and pressed it back in it's hole. Worked like a charm. In general though I prefer a ceramic detent ball for that exact reason, especially if a blind hole is utilized. With as wear resistant as steel as the Southard uses, ceramic would be ideal IMHO.
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That is awesome! I might try that on several. I too have wanted ceramic ball bearings from Spyderco for a while now. I don't understand why they don't.
 
My girl has a real old Spyderco Endura. The FRN intergral clip is long gone. The serrations are very worn down as well. It's missing about 1/4" of the tip which was reprofiled. Still works and locks up fine. It's not screwed together but pinned. Opens real easy :) I'd say it's seen at least 20 if not more years of hard use.
 
I have 13 years and counting Delica that's been horribly, horribly abused by me from day 1 and is still going strong.

Put an edge back on it more times than I care to mention- nearly no belly to the blade at all now, and the flats look like a ploughed field, but still cuts like a charm.

No lock rock, still smooth.
 
nccole said:
That is awesome! I might try that on several. I too have wanted ceramic ball bearings from Spyderco for a while now. I don't understand why they don't.
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The tip I'll offer is to find/craft a punch small enough to fit the thru-hole (I had to grind down the smallest one I had to a size that fit) and push the ball bearing into a soft piece of wood, such as balsa (IIRC, I used a paint stir stick for that Southard). Then carefully dig it out in a place where it can't get lost (a hard surface floor with nothing near by for it to hide under is a good plan).
 
I had a early Endura with full serrations.

Teeth worn away from sharpening.

Aggressive over sharpening have killed some others.
 
I've got an old Terzuola and a Salsa that are both pretty much unusable now because of so much excessive lock play.
 
SpeedHoles said:
I've got an old Terzuola and a Salsa that are both pretty much unusable now because of so much excessive lock play.
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If it's the first Starmate you can fix the play or have Spyderco do it. IIRC the Starmate had an adjustable pivot. If not, there are other ways to readily fix blade play in most liner locks.
 
brownshoe said:
If it's the first Starmate you can fix the play or have Spyderco do it. IIRC the Starmate had an adjustable pivot. If not, there are other ways to readily fix blade play in most liner locks.
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It's not a Starmate.
The liner lock goes all the way to the other side and still has a lot of play. It'll need a larger OD stop pin to fix the issue.
 
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