Thumb Stud Removal

Modoc ED said:
I've got this 112 Slim Select that I'd like to remove the thumb studs from. They appear to be press it, not screwed on. Anyone have a solution to remove them?

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Yeah, they're pressed. My 110 Slim Select's thumb studs have been loose forever. I have to keep snugging them up in a vise, but they break loose the first time I use them. You should be able to pull them off, I believe. They just cap on the end of a pin running through a hole in the blade.
 
After you get it off in the future if you ever wanted a stud back on it you could get a Quick Stud. Just in case
 
Well, my 110 SS thumbstud came off today while I was working in the yard. I lost the cap that isn't fixed to the post. Here's what your 112 will look without the thumbstud.

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I'll send it in for repair with some other reblade and SPA knives.
 
February 2020 I had a thumb stud come loose on a 112 Slim Select that stays in my vehicle. Maybe it was hot/cold cycles from living in an un-garaged car? I kissed it with a drill to dimple, then tapped with a punch to flare a tiny bit, and reassembled with LocTite. 3.5 years later living in the car and it hasn’t worked loose again.
 

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Culprit99 said:
February 2020 I had a thumb stud come loose on a 112 Slim Select that stays in my vehicle. Maybe it was hot/cold cycles from living in an un-garaged car? I kissed it with a drill to dimple, then tapped with a punch to flare a tiny bit, and reassembled with LocTite. 3.5 years later living in the car and it hasn’t worked loose again.
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I should have done the LocTite bit. I was pinching it in the vise after everytime I used it but it would pop loose again in no time. On the other hand, my 112 Slim Select has been used and abused to the point where I need a reblade, but, the thumbstuds on that one have never budged.
 
I successfully removed the thumb stud from the orange Buck 112 Slim. I opened the blade. laid the blade flat on the top of the vice and put a thumb stud in the extreme outer edge of the jaws of the vice and tightened the thumb stud in the vice with maximum force (tighter that all get out). I then clamped a thin nosed vice grip also laid flat to the opposite thumb stud, put a piece of thin, stiff, paper between the jaws of the vice grip and the blade of the knife and leveraged the vice grip up. Just a tiny bit of wiggle and the thumb stud separated. It was then only a little tapping to remove the thumb stud shaft from the blade. No marks/blemishes on the blade and the blade is tight - no wobble up/down/sideways what so ever. I like it so much, I'm thinking of doing it to my black one.

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Modoc ED said:
I successfully removed the thumb stud from the orange Buck 112 Slim. I opened the blade. laid the blade flat on the top of the vice and put a thumb stud in the extreme outer edge of the jaws of the vice and tightened the thumb stud in the vice with maximum force (tighter that all get out). I then clamped a thin nosed vice grip also laid flat to the opposite thumb stud, put a piece of thin, stiff, paper between the jaws of the vice grip and the blade of the knife and leveraged the vice grip up. Just a tiny bit of wiggle and the thumb stud separated. It was then only a little tapping to remove the thumb stud shaft from the blade. No marks/blemishes on the blade and the blade is tight - no wobble up/down/sideways what so ever. I like it so much, I'm thinking of doing it to my black one.

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Good deal, you got it. It'll be easier to sharpen without those studs in the way.

Next time you have a steak dinner, you can use it to cut your food and keep a toothpick handy in the little thumbstud hole. Lol.
 
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