Today, we'll do some maintenance on the Hogue Doug Ritter RSK MK1-G2, first exploring a bit about how it's constructed, then putting it back together so it's running beautifully.
Nice partial disassembly method. I once had an Omega spring launch itself past my left eye & disappear into the carpet for 20 Insanely frustrating minutes.
I got one of these back in August, when it was still made with m390. It’s a pretty good knife. It’s an axis lock. It is rock solid with absolutely no blade play, yet it drops shut as if the pivot is loosened. It took a bit of breaking in, the axis, or able or whatever, felt a little gritty, and took some time to smooth out, but for the price, not a bad all around edc. What’s disappointing is to see people, on the secondary market, trying to sell these for double what they go for. Knife works is selling them for $159-$162, depending on if you get the all black with the coating on the blade. They also have them with orange scales.
I just bought one and is also gritty. The grittiness is coming from the tooling marks on the back of the blade and it's making me think it's acting like a saw and cutting into the lockbar since mine is 20cv and i'm sure it's a harder material than the lockbar. All my other knives are smooth and polished on this part of the blade but not this one. You can definitely see the tooling marks. Do you still have yours? Did the blade get smooth or do you have a cut in your lockbar where the back of the blade rubs?
Oh shit thats made by Hogue. I always thought Doug Ritter would be some guy who mods knives, I always thought when I saw this onw it was a Benchmade Griptilian.
Took my DR apart over 2 years ago and it just sits in a ziplock bag now. The pivet refuses to back in the hole no matter how much i try to push it in. Everything lines up, the the pivet refuses to go in. I hate it now. I went and got a griptilian and the stupid blade broke within the first week cutting plastic straps from a create. Im going back to spyderco...
Leo Its also 30 dollars more. I do agree that Benchmade’s looks better than this. I just prefer their texturing over Hogue’s. But the orange version of this Hogue looks better than all of them. The color makes the texturing look much better imo. I also have more confidence in the build quality/ lock construction of the Hogue.
Leo They used to make knives for BM, and now still have the license for the axis lock because BM never told them to stop making axis lock knives. This knife is considered just the griptilian but better, Hogue is know for high quality knives.
@@papasauce234 anybody can use the axis lock design now because the patent expired and was not renewed by BM but Ritter made it better for Hogue and made the best knife you can ask for with this one m390 or 20cv steel better blade shape than that of the griptilian and better grip shape and texturing. Add that to a better ABLE LOCK SYSTEM which is hogues version of axis style lock and you got a winner and at a lower price point GENIUS
