Adjusting Pacific Salt 2 Centering

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Adjusting Pacific Salt 2 Centering

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Hello all. I have a Pacific Salt 2 and the blade touches the left side scale when closed. I have tried to loosen the pivot and handle screws and retighten while ‘flexing’ the handle. This did not help. The scales appear to be straight when laid on a straight edge. If I loosen the pivot to the degree that there is blade slop the blade is still not centered well.

Any tips on how to center the blade? I am happy with the knife as is, I am just wondering if there is a simple tweak to make it line up straight. Thanks in advance for the help.
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Bumping this back to the top to get more views.
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I had the same problem with my Pacific Salt 2 in plain-edge LC200N (though my fully-serrated LC200N and H1 versions have always been perfectly centered). These two centering methods have worked for me on a variety of different knives:

(1)

(2)

With my Pacific Salt 2, the second method is the one that worked best, though your mileage may vary. Good luck!
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Loosening the screws and flexing the handle is my go-to method, but with linerless FRN it's a lot less reliable. I would see if there's a way you can verify that the scales are indeed flat and not warped, maybe if you feel comfortable taking it apart lay them on a piece of glass and see if they're flat.
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Takuan, thank you for posting this. I searched before my initial post and couldn’t find anything that worked.

The second video worked and the blade is nearly perfect. Thanks again, you helped me fix a minor (but annoying) issue.
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Glad to hear it worked for you, K1500! Now it's time for a fishing trip to test out that newly-centered blade. :smlling-eyes
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Thanks again to all. I am actually going fishing tomorrow, Pacific Salt and all.
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