Most if not all of the tight pivot has to do with polishing compound in the pivot. A good hosing out with wd40 and it turn out fine, I have ov3r 100 110s, once in awhile I'll get a tight pivot but never had to take one in for warrsnty.OK . . . I'll belabor it for you
My first large folder, a Buck 110, that I bought back in 1981 . . . you know . . . when they "really could make things " with old world pride and craftsman ship.
Had / has a fair amount of play in the pivot.
NEVER caused the slightest problem and I still have the user knife today.
. . . unlike . . .
that Buck 112, G-10, S30V . . . the pivot was so tight I could hardly get it open enough to lock and when I did I had to expend more effort than normal to get it to swing out of the locked position.
By comparison my old 110 was a dream come true of nice pivot action. Honestly I never noticed that it had play until some one here a year or so ago started harping about play in the pivot of a 110 and I checked mine.
Huh . . . it has significant play.
. . . ok moving on there must be something more terrible I can worry about than that . . .
Zero "problem" here kids.
To free up my 112 with the S30V I put the blade, open, in the aluminum jaws of one of my vises and torqued the pivot in the handle back and forth and side to side with a two fist grip (being conscious that if I got too western with it I might just break it off).
It took a few goes at it to free it up some what. I still would like it to be a bit more free.
It is only the last ten for fifteen degrees as it swings open. When it is more toward shut it is quite free.
PS : never had to do that with a Case.
Not even close to being truthful. I'm amazed you woukd know how many Case knives are sold year after year..The Case/Bose knives are pretty darn good. The average knife, not so much. Sadly Case is building knives for "collectors" and unlike GEC (who does the same) QC takes a back seat to sales. Case is quickly being surpassed by stuff coming in from China.
Not even close to being truthful.
All you see 75 percent of the time reports in the traditional is the issues of the Chinese brand slip joints. But at 12 bucks it's acceptable. Posts like yours based on forum input is not accurate. The forum does not represent the market. I don't see your Chinese fan boy knives in every outdoor outlet or much anywhere but gas stations and similar. The ONLY reason they sell at all is price, then if you resell you take one for the team on it. I don't see any Chinese collector clubs either.Really? What part? The fact that the average Case knife has QC issues? That can be seen right here on this forum, going back years. It's not even hard to find. They're not horrible, but Case needed to bring in guys like Tony Bose to build a top quality knife.
The fact that Case averages one million knives a year? (That's from their company reports.) China is easily surpassing that number in imports annually.
The fact that Chinese quality is getting better and in some aspects actually surpasses that of Case? (Take a look at WE knives, they have really good quality control.) This too is pretty easy to see here on this forum, but it's out there for everyone to see when it impacts sales of USA made products. And it does impact them. Imported knife quality and price are the two biggest reasons Case and other American companies are not increasing sales faster than the number of imports is growing. When Queen went out of business did Case make up the difference in production or sales? They did not; imports did. (Not just Chinese imports either.)
President Trumps Chinese quotas specifically targeted folding knives to the tune of a 25% tariff. That's due to manufacturers like Case running scared. What's really amusing about your post is you're specifically pointing out how many Case knives SMKW sells. I suggest you take one of their catalogs and count how many Chinese knives they sell in that same publication. And yes, SMKW is fighting the tariffs, because it will impact their sales, and profits, because the guys behind SMKW also own a number of those brands competing with Case.
Case would be in a lot worse spot if they hadn't created a huge collectors market. It was a wise marketing strategy. But like Queen, they need to improve their product or they too will pass.
I have had way, way, way more problems with Bokers than Case.in the end Böker and GEC will get my slip joint business going forward.
My GECs and Boker (Solingen made) are definitively better than my Case knives.Two very different designs. Todays case is just as good as it gets .
Jake
Yup that describes my latest Trapper. Both blades.edges are generally a Giant bur