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Kizer Uprising Titanium Frame Lock Knife

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Soundtoxin

143

Sep 21, 2017

Got my knife. The handle is surprisingly smooth and comfortable. The blade seems very nice and sharp. My only real complaints are with how it opens. It opens more reliably than a lot of other flippers do in my experience. I often have this issue where I get a knife half-open and then have to flick it. This knife has a very strong detent and flips open all the way 99% of the time. The bad part of this is that it takes a lot of force. I've bruised my index finger a bit from opening it a lot. I was also scraping the top of my finger on the aggressive jimping of the handle at the end of the open at the start. I mostly solved this by using the side of my finger instead of the tip to open it, but it still takes quite a bit of force. I'm not sure if this will get easier over time, or if I should be doing something to loosen it. For now I'll use it as it is. It feels very high quality and overall I'm happy with it.

Sep 21, 2017

Soundtoxin

143

Sep 22, 2017

SoundtoxinMy mirror finish Kwaiken got here and it has made me realize even more how hard it is to open my Kizer Uprising. I watched a takedown of the knife and learned two unfortunate things. 1) disassembly seems to void warranty, 2) it's made to run with the pivot fully tight, so I probably can't loosen it for a better experience without something feeling off about it. Is anyone else's difficult to open? Like, really difficult. If you've got a Kwaiken on hand, I'd say we're talking about 4x the force to open the Kizer Uprising. Definitely left my finger feeling bruised.

Sep 22, 2017

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JakeRoberts

240

Sep 25, 2017

SoundtoxinYeah, I can tell you about the action when mine arrives... on the first week of october... viva FedEx SurePost!! Dammit!!

Sep 25, 2017

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awk

1600

Sep 30, 2017

SoundtoxinMy Uprising is very easy to open, slightly easier than the Kwaiken. I put threadlocker on all the screws and tightened them down and that's all.
Adjusting tension on a bearing pivot doesn't make sense, in my opinion.

Sep 30, 2017

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Soundtoxin

143

Sep 30, 2017

awkMy Kwaiken is the easiest-opening knife I've ever had. I had so much fun flipping it that I had to tighten it after just a few days as it was starting to almost feel loose. The Uprising is extremely difficult to open and close, hurting my index finger and thumb, respectively. Did I just get a bad one? A friend of mine got the Kizer Vagnino and had some major issues with it opening as well.

Sep 30, 2017

awk

1600

Sep 30, 2017

SoundtoxinI don't know, seems I've seen more comments on MD lately about hard-to-open knives. It's hard to tell what the problem would be. An overly-strong lock bar would be my first guess. I've had knives with really stiff detents and whenever I closed the knife I'd wiggle the lock bar back and forth 10-12 times, every time, to weaken it a bit, and it loosened up after a couple weeks. Some people push the lock bar past its design limit to adjust the tension but that seems dangerous to me, I just try to work it within its expected range of motion. But it may also be the detent ball is sitting too high, or somebody needs to adjust their grip, or something else, so it's hard to give generic advice. My Kwaiken unfortunately had minor issues. It seems the surfaces inside were not perfectly parallel, so the blade will either a) have some play when the pivot is loose, or b) won't rotate smoothly from start to finish when the pivot is tight. I went for option (b) so it will need to wear in the surfaces a little over time. Not my smoothest knife right now but damn nice overall. (So I suppose my statement above about bearing pivots isn't 100% true 😏)

Sep 30, 2017

Ares78

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Oct 5, 2017

SoundtoxinFinally got mine after 5 weeks of waiting and mine is not hard to open but it is quite difficult to close just because of how I have to position my hand to disengage the lockbar. Everything else is great and I love the skeletonized flipper.

Oct 5, 2017