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I went ahead and ran through Drubieg's liner bending process again and the used a bit of blue loctite to finish it up. I spent a few hours trying different things but this was what ended up working out for me.
Thanks all for the assistance. This is a really good forum!
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This helped me.
I took apart the knife and bent the liner as shown on the diagram. While there is still a favoring to the show side it's better than it was and all the screws are tightened down. The action is good.
I may be able to improve it further if I gave it another try. But I'm ok with it like ...

Haha, I think that might have been me! I changed my mind right after I posted it. The rest of the knife is perfect. So I decided to keep it for now. I'll keep working on it. I'm going to try the blue Loctite. I think I have about 20 Spyderco knives so if one is off center it won't kill me. I wouldn ...

The knife will quasi-center but the pivots can't be tightened. It seems ridiculous but maybe Locktighting the loose pivots.
I've tried changing the clip positions, taking off the clip, centering over to the opposite side. But the knife simply favors the one side in the tightened position.





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It's being stubborn but seems like loosening the clip screws made a big difference. At least it's centered before tightening everything. And I could feel the blade moving during tightening of the pivots.
Also there was a slight bend in one of the liners. I tried to correct it.
So I'll try again a ...

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I have had it apart twice so another won't hurt. I'll check for irregularities. In this case I have noticed that adjusting the main pivot screws, or any of the other screws for that matter, doesn't make any difference to how the blade centers. You just get what you get.
I'm learning a lot from ...

I think the lanyard was a bit off. However still not centered but I think it helped a tiny bit. Thanks for the suggestion.
http://www.lightgraph.com/images/millie_off_center2.jpeg

It might just be the pic but it kinda looks like the lanyard tube isn't seated all the way into the liner on the ...

It might just be the pic but it kinda looks like the lanyard tube isn't seated all the way into the liner on the bottom of your pic, if that's true then it's definitely all out of parallel and that'll throw the blade centering off.


I'm going to check that out! Thanks. I'll let you know how it ...

I bet most are just fine. Probably a very small percentage that had blade a centering issue. And it's not scraping on the side.
http://www.lightgraph.com/images/millie_off_center.jpeg
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For what it's worth my Crucarta PM2 is one of the best knives I own in terms of centering ...

I just received my Crucarta Military2 and it has the exact same centering issue you described. I've seen this is not unique to this model. This is the first Spyderco I've had that I couldn't adjust it to a satisfactory tolerance.
The decision has to be made whether to live with it or go ahead and ...

Out for delivery: Crucarta Military 2.

PeaceInOurTime wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:01 pm

Me likey.

Sign me up for a wharnie PM2!

I've not been real crazy about coated blades either.

I just got mine. I suspect it was originally bought from Dack because of the price I paid, $165. It came LNIB.

A few early observations: I like the size and feel in hand. The action and lockup are stiff. I expect that with coated blades and to ...