Tangrams with poor action. Can I improve them? (Knife Content)
Published: 3 years ago
I picked these two Tangram knives up off of Amazon recently. Both of them had pretty poor action, especially for touting they ride on bearings. The kind of poor action that "breaking them in" wasn't going to fix.
So I tore them apart, cleaned them up, looked for any problematic areas, slapped them back together and... the action improved slightly on them. It didn't make them good knives though. The jimping on the back make both of them uncomfortable to deploy with the flipper tabs, the action still is far from good, and the detent on the tan one is abysmal.
I think Kizer made the right choice to stop producing Tangram knives, and take the middle ground with the Vanguard series.
The Acuto440 steel is slightly interesting in them, but puts them around AUS10 in performance rather than AUS8. Ever so slightly better than 9Cr18MoV, but nowhere near the performance that D2 or 14C28N gives you for around the same price point these days.
So I tore them apart, cleaned them up, looked for any problematic areas, slapped them back together and... the action improved slightly on them. It didn't make them good knives though. The jimping on the back make both of them uncomfortable to deploy with the flipper tabs, the action still is far from good, and the detent on the tan one is abysmal.
I think Kizer made the right choice to stop producing Tangram knives, and take the middle ground with the Vanguard series.
The Acuto440 steel is slightly interesting in them, but puts them around AUS10 in performance rather than AUS8. Ever so slightly better than 9Cr18MoV, but nowhere near the performance that D2 or 14C28N gives you for around the same price point these days.