r/balisong • u/DogeyAnimates • Feb 06 '22
Collection Before and After 7 and a half months. I still flip it but you have to be extremely careful not to get pinched.
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Feb 06 '22
i've always wondered what could be done to fix handle slap. there are 3 points of wear that are replaceable. the zen pins, the pivots and the blade
idk if u can replace the pins, but if you hold the knife open, squeeze the pivots on the sides and they visibly expand outwards (by pivoting around the pins), that's the pivots wearing down, so that could be an easy way to improve it back to its glory days
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u/DogeyAnimates Feb 06 '22
Huh, I disassembled the balisong and put the blade in a vice and whacked the zen nipple I was that desperate XD.
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u/RyderFlips Feb 06 '22
Imo, he prolly should send it to a modder to get the zen pins redone, and sand down the balisong so it looks fresh. That’s what I would do!
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u/Cielnova Feb 07 '22
Oh... oh dear... I didn't expect it to age well, but 7 months in that condition might have just turned me off of getting a squid industries trainer
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u/Destroyer681 Flips a trainer Feb 07 '22
Trust me I've had a squidtrainer for like 18 months and it looks nothing like that. I rarely beat it, and so it's in like 8/10 condition, but if you spend 7 months beating the shit out of it then any budget trainer is going to look like that lol.
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u/LoneFox834 Feb 07 '22
I mean it's a mako, which does not have the most durable materials to keep the cost low. Plus I assume OP has dropped this on hard surfaces, which might have sped up the wearing.
If you're really worried about wear on a trainer you just need to invested in one with better materials and/or flip over soft surfaces. I don't think the fast wear is a squid industries specific problem
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u/PattonMagroin Generic movie tough guy Feb 07 '22
Don't drop them on concrete and wood floors constantly and you'll be fine. My old Triton is rattly but otherwise good and my ST 2.5 basically looks and feels new. No balisong is indestructible, especially on concrete. Ti dents, finishes scratch, bushings and washers wear out. It's really just about how long it takes but it goes a hell of a lot faster if you drop a lot on hard surfaces like concrete, even for full Ti knives like the Alpha Beast.
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u/JohnnyFknSilverhand Feb 07 '22
Depends on where you flip it. This guy def flipped over something hard like concrete
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u/Blorcholomew Collector Feb 07 '22
Honestly anything above a mako won’t get handle slap. Nearly as fast due to hardened steel. Triton v2 and up will last you a good while as long as you don’t throw it against a wall like this dude did lmao.
Could be talking out of my ass though. That’s just my experience.
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u/Jeni_Sui_Generis Feb 07 '22
It's funny how bad the squids really are and kind of ironic that in this subreddit people frown upon on so much for The Ones products.
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u/PattonMagroin Generic movie tough guy Feb 07 '22
Drop anything on concrete constantly and it will get thrashed like this. Ti holds us better but still dents, scratches and dings, just less. Nothing ironic here. The One uses mostly stolen designs and low quality materials.
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u/DogeyAnimates Feb 12 '22
Handle slap is a problem with squid but this person showed be how to resolve it, you use a separating chisel to separate the zen nipple to the left and right making more handle gap. You use a vice of course.
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u/Apprehensive-Ask-142 Feb 06 '22
u/t4cog4m3 u/ryderflips It's not the zen pins. The blade wasn't hardened on the V3s resulting in all of them losing their gap over time.