Your button return spring is broken.
The vegetable oil you soaked the knife in will thicken and go rancid. Buy a can of WD 40 and use it to blow out as much of the oil as you can.
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- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: Question about a Latama picklock my antique shop found
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2378
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: Latama MOP 28cm
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5329
Re: Latama MOP 28cm
The pearl on the new Latamas is a laminated pearl-which is pretty resistant to cracking.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: Beltrame Family
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4142
Re: Beltrame Family
Custom handles, buttons, safeties, file work, engraving.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: False button?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 15889
Re: False button?
The only people they were meant to fool were stupid kids that thought they could be easily converted into switchblades.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:50 am
- Forum: Buy & Sell
- Topic: Two 11cm Springer DELETE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 306
Re: Two 11cm Springers SALE $150
Massaro made.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:49 am
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: Question about a Latama picklock my antique shop found
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2378
Re: Question about a Latama picklock my antique shop found
You do know how to close a picklock, don't you?
If it won't stay closed, that will be an expensive repair, as the knife has to be disassembled, repaired and reassembled.
If it won't stay closed, that will be an expensive repair, as the knife has to be disassembled, repaired and reassembled.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:46 am
- Forum: Deforum with Bill DeShivs
- Topic: Not accepting work at the present.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4210
Re: Not accepting work at the present.
Maybe a little better, but it still hurts. Will see the heavy duty specialist this week.
Thanks for all the well wishes, good thoughts and concern.
Thanks for all the well wishes, good thoughts and concern.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: escaped Nursing Home
- Replies: 6
- Views: 490
Re: escaped Nursing Home
Glad you're home! Take care.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Deforum with Bill DeShivs
- Topic: Puma Medici Mayhem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 539
Re: Puma Medici Mayhem
Nah- that hole can be filled. It might show a tiny bit, but should look OK.
Or, we can add a bail!
Or, we can add a bail!
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: Campolin prototipo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2287
Re: Campolin prototipo
Those were made by Renzo Pascotto, I believe.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: Deforum with Bill DeShivs
- Topic: Abalone How Do They Do It
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2285
Re: Abalone How Do They Do It
I have never done an opal button, but I have used a lot of different materials.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: brazilian horn
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2214
Re: brazilian horn
Actually, it washes right out of clothes.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Switchblade knives
- Topic: brazilian horn
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2214
Re: brazilian horn
Maybe they just imported a brazillion of them!
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Blade pictures
- Topic: HUBERTUS Custom by Bill DeShivs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1549
Re: HUBERTUS Custom by Bill DeShivs
I just put them together as they should be done. The available parts are very crude.
If you look at older Hubertus knives, the bolsters are evenly contoured and rounded. Later knives are just squared off.
If you look at older Hubertus knives, the bolsters are evenly contoured and rounded. Later knives are just squared off.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Deforum with Bill DeShivs
- Topic: Abalone How Do They Do It
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2285
Re: Abalone How Do They Do It
Both abalone and white mother of pearl have been traditionally used in solid form. Shells 6-8 inches in diameter are not uncommon, though quality of the pearl has gone down-probably due to over-fishing and pollution. I have several 6+ inch shells here that we use for soap dishes. They were tradition...