Fine tuning: walk & talk

Open and shut the knife several times, feeling and listening to the action - look out for:
  • Fit crisis: the blade has two places where it will sit open:
  • Tang run-up: the blade starts to open well, but then becomes really difficult to snap around to the half stop as the round end protrudes too far beyond the end of the spring:

  • Oversized tang: very difficult to get blade open at all as the tang is too much longer than it is wide: