Spyderco domino

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So, i have recently purchased the domino. a knife ive been wanting for a long time now, but now that i received it i am honestly disapointed. this is the spyderco with the worst action smoothness that i own and i expected a lot more from this especially considering its so much more expensive than my pm2 s110v and my zt0450.

Now to my question. for you Domino owners, is yours smooth? if not what did you do to make it better?
 
Did you buy it brand new??
Got mine new and it's been extremely smooth and an excellent flipper from day one.
Joe
 
Mine is smooth but not a great flipper. I never really warmed up to my Domino. Spyderco struggles with flippers and bearing knives. The current problems with the Advocate really brought that to light.
 
palonej said:
Did you buy it brand new??
Got mine new and it's been extremely smooth and an excellent flipper from day one.
Joe
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i did get it second hand but in like new condition. only thing i did is adjust and loctite the pivot when i received it

Hackenslash said:
Mine is smooth but not a great flipper. I never really warmed up to my Domino. Spyderco struggles with flippers and bearing knives. The current problems with the Advocate really brought that to light.
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thats kinda weird. mine flips just fine but its really not smooth
 
Mine flipped incredibly well. It had a perfect detent, and the action was smooth as silk. One of the best-flipping flippers I've ever owned.

I hated the knife, though, and sold it quickly. What an awful design . . .
 
Mine is buttery smooth. It flips well but not in the same league as say my ZT 0450CF. But, it still flip good and is very smooth.
 
I have a few Dominos. The one I purchased new came with perfect smooth flipping action. The ones that I purchased used did not flip very well. They had signs of being taken apart (damage to the torx heads) and most likely the previous owner did not know what he was doing when taking apart and putting back together. They most likely over tightened the crappy washers and misaligned the pivot when putting back together. Of course the sellers never stated that the knife had been taken apart and they were idiots who didn't know how to put it back together. I had to send to Spyderco and pay $20 for them to replace all the internal parts (screws, pivot, washer, bearings). After they serviced the knife, it was back to brand new smooth and strong flipping.

In my experience, the 0450 has the strongest flipping action out of all the production flippers.
 
Mine is used, but in great condition. I took it apart to apply a custom wood scale. Washers were a little dished, but I decided not to try and flatten them. Flips smooth as can be.

Maybe yours just needs a good cleaning.
 
Mine is smooth. It's a great flipper, as long as I keep my mitts off the lockbar.
But I still don't lobe it like the M390 Para2.
 
I agree with above poster that when you see one second-hand and the action is less than superb it may be because it was taken apart. If you see wear on the pivot screw that is a clue. If the centering isn't perfect that is another clue.
 
evilgreg said:
Mine flipped incredibly well. It had a perfect detent, and the action was smooth as silk. One of the best-flipping flippers I've ever owned.

I hated the knife, though, and sold it quickly. What an awful design . . .
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Stick with the Southard. Possibly one of the best knives Spyderco has ever made ( and I m a big PM2 fan ). :)
 
I've got 2 both purchased new and they are two of my best and smoothest flippers. The BBS exclusive one is just a bit better though. As others have said, people who feel the need to take them apart and not really know what they are doing can muck them up a bit.
 
whp said:
Stick with the Southard. Possibly one of the best knives Spyderco has ever made ( and I m a big PM2 fan ). :)
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I've had a couple of Southards, and a commercial NIB black one in the safe. None of them flipped well...certainly not without a lot of wrist action.
 
whp said:
Stick with the Southard. Possibly one of the best knives Spyderco has ever made ( and I m a big PM2 fan ). :)
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I'm in full agreement, but then again I have, uh, a lot of Southards so I may be biased.

Sonnydaze said:
I've had a couple of Southards, and a commercial NIB black one in the safe. None of them flipped well...certainly not without a lot of wrist action.
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All of mine flip very well without any wrist at all, and I have, uh, a lot of them. Here are the four that were sitting on my desk when I was writing this post:

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Every used one I've purchased that showed up in poor flipping shape could be fixed by disassembling and reassembling it (usually reversing the pivot screw assembly was the problem). Out of the dozen or so that I've owned, only two have needed more than that (both were fixed by bending a touch more tension into the lock bar to firm up their detent hold).
 
I just got a domino in recently for Cerakote work... I noticed the action was absolutely terrible, whereas on other Dominos it has been smooth. I traced it back to the bearings. They were oversize for the pockets in the Ti slabs. This isn't the first time I have ran into this issue. I fixed it by lightly sanding around the outer rim of each caged bearing... If I were you I would either send it in for warranty or simply disassemble and take a look to see if the bearings are free spinning in their respective recesses. My guess is that they are not :)

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The two that passed through my collection were very smooth and flipped great.

I prefer many other Spydercos though so I kept selling em off.
 
Sonnydaze said:
I've had a couple of Southards, and a commercial NIB black one in the safe. None of them flipped well...certainly not without a lot of wrist action.
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I ve got one Southard and it does flip well. Not as well as my 560, but better than my Hinderer and my Buck Vantage Pro snf I like them fine. And you can open it smoothly manually.
Well, that s all of the flippers I own. Not a real flipper fan and won t buy one that can t also be opened with a stud or hole by thumb. For my purposes, the Southard is one of my best knives. But I m an amateur flipper.
 
i sent spyderco an email about this. but i dont know if its worth going trough the hassle. being in canada the minimum wait time is over a month.
 
My Domino is a good flipper. The thin washers have dished a bit, but it hasn't affected it's performance. I can't keep the derned thing centered, though..
 
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