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Comment by Terry Waldele on April 30, 2010 at 23:28

Jake, really? You don't think the zip tie is an improvement? ;-) Maybe you have to be someone like me who is royally turned off by the Spidey hole blade opener. Actually, I once converted the main blade of a slip joint folder with a nail nick to a Spidey hole type opener. by grinding the nail nick all the way through the blade into an oval-shaped hole. It didn't work. Maybe the hole wasn't big enough. Anyway, I ended up putting a thumb stud at one end of the oval hole, and that worked fine. NOT PRETTY, BUT VERY FUNCTIONAL. ;-) (I couldn't resist. My bad.)

Comment by Jake on April 30, 2010 at 13:34

Good video, personally I just could put a zip tie o a knife it just throws the good looks for me.

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 30, 2010 at 5:16

My message to members about modifying a Spyderco knife opener failed again. Here's what I was trying to send:

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Comment by Terry Waldele on April 24, 2010 at 1:17

Dale, thanks for providing me some sources of knife handle pins. I'll check them out.

In Memoriam Comment by D ale on April 23, 2010 at 23:39

Terry .. you might try some of the industrial supply houses .. like Grainger\MSC\McMaster Carr ..

.. didn't see any NiAg on McMaster Carr .. found some brass pin stock though .. metric & std .. http://www.mcmaster.com/#brass-round-stock/=6sloj4

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 19, 2010 at 1:35

Thanks, Daniel, for the tip about using a metal lathe to turn the pins to the proper size. I'll look into it ASAP.

P.S. Welcome to our group!

Comment by Daniel Howland on April 18, 2010 at 6:54

Greetings folks, Thank you Terry and Dale for making me aware of this new group. I was reading about your pinning problems Terry, If you own or know someone who owns a metal lathe you could turn the pins to any size you need. I have had the same issues when repinning balasongs, you never know what size pin your going to see.

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 12, 2010 at 20:38

I finished restoring the multi-blade knife made in Europe (don't know which country, but it is stamped "C/H" with the letters superimposed like an old cow brand. I used an acrylic pen blank to make the handle slabs, because pen blank "bricks" cost about one-third as much as celluloid. The restored knife is beautiful, but the blades don't have as much snap as before because the new pins aren't perfectly matched to the holes in the blades and springs. I'll probably never restore another metric-sized pinned knife again. Oh well, live and learn!

Comment by Jakub Capek on April 12, 2010 at 15:04

your right, sometimes its very difficult to get the two systems to work. I always find it difficult when I need to calculate some specifications that I find in US articles or documents and it is frustrating to have to transfer them to the metric system. Terry, you could probably order pins and other necessary parts from Europe when repairing European knives, could probably save you alot of hassle if not time...

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 11, 2010 at 5:28

I learned something about knife repair today: Nickel silver pins sized in fractions of an inch won't fit into the metric-sized holes in a multi-blade folder from Europe without a lot of tedious, careful re-sizing of them.

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