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Autoknife.com is available, Ken. You should get it.

You're still shown as a moderator, Terry.

I'm assembling some Hubertus knives for a fellow. Got one together, but it refused to open all the way. I have been working the blade manually to break it in. I put grease on it in the shop. Picked up a tube of Tank's Quick release and put a drop in the pivot. The knife slams open now. It's really g...

The backspring on Japanese picklocks are notoriously thin, plus they are nickel plated, which makes them brittle.

This is a "pre-Rizutto" knife. They are lockback automatics.
If your knife has a brass button, or anything different, it's not one of these.

The Schrade with the red spacers is a very fine knife.

Sometimes it's a pivot pin problem.
If the knife has been reassembled with a smaller backspring pin, it can cause the blade to over open.
If it's neither of these, then the backspring will have to be lengthened.

You are looking for information, but you have already decided the knife is rare?

Sorry, I don't know anything about it.

I have been adding some content to billdeshivs.com should you care to view it.

Possibly, if the metal is displaced.

I see.
On your lockblade, you can take the blade and backspring out, and peen the displaced metal back where it needs to go.

I'm as qualified as anyone to work on Latama's products. Usually, straightening a blade doers not require disassembling the entire knife. When you remove metal at one point, it can create undesired movement at another point. Sometimes it works and the job is easy. Other times, you have to move metal...

I have more guns than most gun stores.

I'm a participant in many gun forums.

Having one here would be nice. I have quite a bit of experience with guns.