I honestly was going to buy this knife but not anymore, knowing lionsteel made this knife, I have the Lionsteel Best man slipjoint and you cant take it apart, you can remove the scales and bolsters kind of but its pinned together. It's the reason why I havent bought another lionsteel. good to see them still making the knife world difficult
I dont know what everybodys complaining about, sure you couldnt open up the liners but you have taken off the blade, thats all that matters right? It means its bearings can be cleaned anytime the owner wants
Damn, I'm glad I came across this video. I was looking to pick one up for a modern/traditional pairing with a micarta GEC, and I was thinking a bronze ano on the liners and screws would be a nice touch to match the brass liners/pins on the GEC. Did you try drifting them out with a punch, or did you (understandably) not want to go that far? Still a cool knife though, and it's calling to me, so I'm sure I'll still pick one up at some point. Thanks for taking the time to do this, as far as I can see it's the only disassembly vid on this knife thus far.
I love my spyopera the spyopera and the Para3 maxamet are some of my favorite knives. I'm not a huge fan of back locks. This the Delica 4 in 20cv and my buck 110 pro are the only lock backs I own. But they are all awesome for lock backs
That is frustrating! I was really looking forward to get into my spyopera. I freaking love this knife but I loathe the fact that it’s pinned together the way it is.
That’s frustrating, I have some lock stick on mine (crazy smooth otherwise)and ran into the same problem investigating. I think the lock bar is a bit tight against the tang so I may ease it back a bit, but would have liked to be able to visualize the lock up.
Mine broke and I need help. I was gone on a trip and when I came back the lock would no longer work and had to be engaged by hand via pushing the the spine down. What do I do???
@@bladecentered2264 What is a pity as I just starting to be seriously interested in this knife. Other than the complicated construction it seems like they did pretty much everything right. Plus it reminds me strongly of Gayle Bradley 1.
"Let me try to gently pulled it out" I just thought was funny. There's no excuse (imo) for having a non captive pivot with no driver cutout on the other side.
@@bladecentered2264 I took mine apart for cleaning just now, and it does actually have imbedded steel washers. I guess I should have assumed this would be the case, seeing as how Spyderco got Lionsteel to use an internal stop pin that isn't on the regular operas.
@@MS-rx8it Agree. Running bearings on the Ti seems odd. I doubt you'll see enough wear in a lifetime to matter, but seems like this could have been done better.
I honestly was going to buy this knife but not anymore, knowing lionsteel made this knife, I have the Lionsteel Best man slipjoint and you cant take it apart, you can remove the scales and bolsters kind of but its pinned together. It's the reason why I havent bought another lionsteel. good to see them still making the knife world difficult
They have very bad heat treatment for m390 too
I dont know what everybodys complaining about, sure you couldnt open up the liners but you have taken off the blade, thats all that matters right? It means its bearings can be cleaned anytime the owner wants
I'm pretty sure he wanted to customize the liner and hardware by anodizing them.
@@awdeveau for him yeah, but why does everybody have the same reaction? Everybody(i did say everybody) want to anodize the opera?
You have to take a brass punch and they knock out they are tapered slightly, its easy
Damn, I'm glad I came across this video. I was looking to pick one up for a modern/traditional pairing with a micarta GEC, and I was thinking a bronze ano on the liners and screws would be a nice touch to match the brass liners/pins on the GEC. Did you try drifting them out with a punch, or did you (understandably) not want to go that far? Still a cool knife though, and it's calling to me, so I'm sure I'll still pick one up at some point. Thanks for taking the time to do this, as far as I can see it's the only disassembly vid on this knife thus far.
I love my spyopera the spyopera and the Para3 maxamet are some of my favorite knives. I'm not a huge fan of back locks. This the Delica 4 in 20cv and my buck 110 pro are the only lock backs I own. But they are all awesome for lock backs
That is frustrating! I was really looking forward to get into my spyopera. I freaking love this knife but I loathe the fact that it’s pinned together the way it is.
Yeah it sucked, I really wanted to ano the liners 👊👍
bladecentered well thanks for sharing so that I didn’t have to find out the hard way also! Appreciate that.
That’s frustrating, I have some lock stick on mine (crazy smooth otherwise)and ran into the same problem investigating. I think the lock bar is a bit tight against the tang so I may ease it back a bit, but would have liked to be able to visualize the lock up.
Maybe try polishing the lock bar. Specifically where the end slides against the blade.
How did you get the pivot out? Since it's free spinning how did you tighten it up enough to eliminate blade play when you put it back together?
Mine broke and I need help. I was gone on a trip and when I came back the lock would no longer work and had to be engaged by hand via pushing the the spine down. What do I do???
That's crazy, you might need to send it back to Spyderco
@@bladecentered2264 no point. A terrible knife has no place in my pocket
This knife looks real nice, but also a PITA to maintain, as that pivot will get dirty sooner or later.
True!
@@bladecentered2264 What is a pity as I just starting to be seriously interested in this knife. Other than the complicated construction it seems like they did pretty much everything right. Plus it reminds me strongly of Gayle Bradley 1.
"Let me try to gently pulled it out" I just thought was funny. There's no excuse (imo) for having a non captive pivot with no driver cutout on the other side.
Thanks for the video. Dodged a bullet with this knife.
Well it stinks that it's pinned together and has the free spinning pivot. I wonder why they went that route.
Otherwise it's an awesome knife. The bearings were a big surprise. I'll still be getting one
Yeah I'm not sure, those are the only negatives on the knife that I can find so far
Yeah bearings in a back lock are pretty rare
@@bladecentered2264 Lionsteel also uses bearings in their TM1
Are the bearings just running on the titanium liners? That's kind of... bad
Yeah it appears that way
@@bladecentered2264 I took mine apart for cleaning just now, and it does actually have imbedded steel washers. I guess I should have assumed this would be the case, seeing as how Spyderco got Lionsteel to use an internal stop pin that isn't on the regular operas.
@@MS-rx8it Agree. Running bearings on the Ti seems odd. I doubt you'll see enough wear in a lifetime to matter, but seems like this could have been done better.
Thanks! You just convinced me to not buy this knife.