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Artisan Waistline Folding Knife
Adamantinepiggy
82
Nov 9, 2018
I've got one of these I bought elsewhere a while back. Decent quality-wise knife and looks really unique with the upswept blade, but unlike a real "samarai sword" as put in the description the tip is so thin, I'm scared to use it for fear of breaking the tip off. I named it Stabby McStabface. Basically just a show off knife because of the thin tip.
48thRonin2
117
Nov 10, 2018
AdamantinepiggyOh, go ahead and stab something! If you're going to give a tool a cute name, it has to earn it! I've stabbed a lot of things tougher than faces with mine! Just understand that (relatively) thin tips bend and break if you put lateral (side-to-side) torque vectors on the tip versus straight line (thrusting) or vertical downward (slicing) torque vectors...
But ya knew that already, didn't cha?
Go ahead... stab something.... you know you want too....
My tools that have earned names: Nothung, Lucille, Tina, Rob'sWetDream, and Billy'sLegacy.
P.S.: What's a "samarai"? Don't worry, the people who write these dope descriptions don't know, either!
Adamantinepiggy
82
Mar 16, 2019
AdamantinepiggyUpdated comment. I gave this to a friend for his birthday recently since I had no use for this "stabby" knife and never carried it. The friend loves it, but found out an issue. The tip of the blade in the closed position is VERY VERY close to the edge of the handle and the hold-in detent is not that strong. That means that he has cut himself several times on the tip because even if the blade shifts even a half a milimeter out, that stabby ass outward curving tip will prick and dig into the offending finger pulling the knife out of the pocket. Beyond that he still loves the knife as it does look cool.
48thRonin2
117
Mar 21, 2019
AdamantinepiggyThe pivot screw on the knife is too loose.
Remove the pivot screw (Torx # 5 or 7, can't remember), clean the threads with alcohol, put a drop of blue Loctite on the threads, carefully screw the pivot screw back in.
Here's the tricky part - with the blade in the open position, depress / disengage the liner lock and reach UNDER the blade (from the spine side), pinch the blade, and wiggle in left and right. If there is any play at all, tighten the pivot screw about 10 degrees; repeat until there is NO side-to-side play with the liner lock disengaged at all.
Let the knife sit overnight for the Loctite to set.
That should take care of the problem. The down side is that when opening the blade, a very definitive flip of the wrist may be necessary.
Hope this helps!
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