Mine came apart no issues at all thank god because I've had kershaws that wouldn't come apart so I feel your pain, I got lucky on this one, mine was assembled on a Tuesday yours was a Monday lol
Yeah I was super happy to see this one. Kershaw was my first super knife when i was young. Well what I considered a super knife. For 150 I would be ok with spring but maybe they will upgrade the springs after the critique
Just an FYI, All you have to do is use a sodering gun and let the tip sit on the screw(s) for a min or 2. The heat will permeate into the locktight and break it down.
I love Axis style locks, but those locks make it substantially more likely you’ll need to disassemble your knife to replace broken omegas so excess Locktite is an especially terrible idea on those knives. I’ve had to do it around a dozen times (not joking). In Neeve’s review he seemed to think the “detent” they achieved was good. Seeing full steel liners is disappointing, I think Benchmade’s cartridge liners are the better design to eliminate unnecessary weight. Is this the first Kershaw you’re aware of on bearings? Thanks for the disassembly video, KEV
Gotta say, I don't think messing with your knife voids the warranty. I have a few modded Kershaws and they've always honored the warranty when I've sent them in. One of many reasons why I support KAI USA.
I thought it was g-10 but aluminum is better IMO. I'm glad they went with aluminum. It's a pretty cool axis style knife from Kershaw. I'm glad to see they are making new and better stuff. 👍💪🇺🇲💯💵🤘
you've ruined all my thoughts of scale swapping this knife lol. I'm not sure anyone will even make scales for it if it is that much of a fuss. I'm just going to have to get used to metal scales
Belair holds the bearings inside the blade, not inside the frame and it has washers over the bearings... This brings to blade play very fast and thats a bad design, not for a 140$ knife. Just because of that ill go with bugout. This is a bad designed knife...
@@romandulce999they aren’t washers in the sense that they are phosphorus bronze like you would see in a washer knife. They are thin steel washers. This is just so the bearings can ride on something hard instead of aluminum or plastic or whatever the scales are made of on the knife. It would be terrible if that were the case and the scale would erode away over time making it worse and eventually you would have a full failure. Steel washers with bearings is the norm if the knife does not have titanium handles or steel liners, and even then some folks do it to be safe as titanium isn’t as hard as steel either.
