Just received my Tenacious.. Few questions.
Just received my Tenacious.. Few questions.
Whats up,
I have always been a USA made knife guy, Zero Tolerance , Emerson etc. I have seen tons of review on Spyderco's, so I went with a cheaper entry level tenacious to get the feel for them.
Not bad, not bad. But it opens very slowly, I have to give my wrist a good flick to get her to lock nice. Now I dont mind that, but in the videos I seen people opening it with ease and looks to be no wrist flicking involved.
Do these knives wear in after time? Loose the pivot? Oil it?
I have always been a USA made knife guy, Zero Tolerance , Emerson etc. I have seen tons of review on Spyderco's, so I went with a cheaper entry level tenacious to get the feel for them.
Not bad, not bad. But it opens very slowly, I have to give my wrist a good flick to get her to lock nice. Now I dont mind that, but in the videos I seen people opening it with ease and looks to be no wrist flicking involved.
Do these knives wear in after time? Loose the pivot? Oil it?
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Welcome to the addiction man...a year from now you'll wonder how you got this far down the Spyderco rabbit hole.
NattyBoh wrote:Whats up,
I have always been a USA made knife guy, Zero Tolerance , Emerson etc. I have seen tons of review on Spyderco's, so I went with a cheaper entry level tenacious to get the feel for them.
Not bad, not bad. But it opens very slowly, I have to give my wrist a good flick to get her to lock nice. Now I dont mind that, but in the videos I seen people opening it with ease and looks to be no wrist flicking involved.
Do these knives wear in after time? Loose the pivot? Oil it?
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I had the same problem. There were three issues:
1) I needed to clean all the lint out of the knife with a q-tip and oil the pivot / liner lock.
2) I had to loosen the pivot to the point where the blade would drop on it's own when I pushed the liner aside. Be careful when you do this as there is no finger choil to protect your thumb. Don't loosen it any more though or you will have lateral blade play. The moment it drops on it's own is when the pivot is adjusted perfectly. There should be a miniscule amount of lateral play and you will feel the blade rocking back and forth, but only when you forcefully rock the blade laterally holding it at the tip. You shouldn't detect any play if you grab the blade closer to the handle and try to rock it back and forth.
3) Technique. I found that if I choked up on the handle to the point where I could pinch the pivot screw with my index finger and thumb, I was in the optimal position to flick the blade out with authority without any wrist flicking.
1) I needed to clean all the lint out of the knife with a q-tip and oil the pivot / liner lock.
2) I had to loosen the pivot to the point where the blade would drop on it's own when I pushed the liner aside. Be careful when you do this as there is no finger choil to protect your thumb. Don't loosen it any more though or you will have lateral blade play. The moment it drops on it's own is when the pivot is adjusted perfectly. There should be a miniscule amount of lateral play and you will feel the blade rocking back and forth, but only when you forcefully rock the blade laterally holding it at the tip. You shouldn't detect any play if you grab the blade closer to the handle and try to rock it back and forth.
3) Technique. I found that if I choked up on the handle to the point where I could pinch the pivot screw with my index finger and thumb, I was in the optimal position to flick the blade out with authority without any wrist flicking.