Yeah when you consider the work involved it's easier to understand the price. I thought some might appreciate seeing the internals.
I was a little disappointed by a couple things at first but this knife won't be leaving my collection any time soon
Yeah when you consider the work involved it's easier to understand the price. I thought some might appreciate seeing the internals.
Double internal stop pins? Well, you dont see that every day :D The area that support the washers is stainless steel?
My understanding is that they mask that area to leave it untreated during the acid etch or whatever finishing process is used.
Ok, that's seems reasonable. Somehow I thought that that area has to be stainless, but i messed it up with bearings, bearings on titanium are not great, but PB washers on titanium are ok.
I have several Titanium frame-locks from various manufacturers that run on bearings. I haven't taken them all apart, so I could be wrong, but I think most of them have the bearings running directly on the Ti frame. No issues with any of them.
Steel bearings will ride on steel washers rather than directly on the titanium. It is like that on the numerous frame locks I own with bearings. The exception is a knife that rides on ceramic bearings. Those can ride directly on the titanium.
Yeah I own a few with steel bearing and steel washers too but I'm pretty sure I have several that have steel bearings that are running directly on the Ti frame. Are the ball bearings in Spyderco's latest bearing system steel? If so, I'm pretty sure they aren't running on steel washers. Thinking about it I think all my other knives with bearings from other manufacturers are running ceramic bearings.Nice marmot wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 2:05 pmSteel bearings will ride on steel washers rather than directly on the titanium. It is like that on the numerous frame locks I own with bearings. The exception is a knife that rides on ceramic bearings. Those can ride directly on the titanium.
^ That's a beautiful shot Piter!
I may go with that one. While I'd prefer the wire clip I don't mind the stock hourglass clip as much as some other folks. But I do like how that sculpted clip looks