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Cold Steel Luzon 6" plain GFN handle

$34.99
$44.48 21% off Reference Price
Condition: New
Size: 6 inch
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Top positive review
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Perfect ( Almost ) + Hints & Tips on Opening, Sticking Locks, and "Knife Opening in My Pocket" Fix
By Notwally on Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021
I bought both the Large and Medium sizes. The medium is going to be Every Day Carry. The Large? It is awesome. But it is also almost 8 inches CLOSED. Wonderfully light for it's size but seriously not in the "Pocket" knife" category. You can stick a baseball bat in your pocket, but it's gonna stick out. If I decided to carry it, I would find or make a belt case for it. 8 inches closed, I'm seeing it's 13 1/2 inches open. A Ka-Bar Marine Fighting Knife is under 12 inches. The Large is a BIG knife. Glad I bought both, but they definitely have different purposes. The Too EZ Opening Blade Fix is at the end of my review. You should follow all this numerically in order. Hints & Tips! - #1. - Oil. Get some. I suggest 3-in-1 oil. If you are a modern human, living indoors and have stuff, you need to have some 3-in-1 oil. Works on squeaking door & cabinet hinges, Bicycle chains and other machinery, and knives. A small can will last you for years. 3 ounce - $3 - https://www.amazon.com/3-ONE-100355-Multi-Purpose-Pack/dp/B0002JN5PG/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=3-in-1+oil&qid=1615923533&sr=8-4 . Order it at the same time as the knife and they may come together. #1A - If you open your knife and the liner lock is stuck - FIRST make sure you didn't engage the Slide Lock om the handle. That may be the whole issue, Can't close the knife because the Liner Lock is Locked in place. Doing the following with the Slide Lock engaged WILL trash the lock if not the entire knife. Got it? Unlock is to the rear. Right-handed instructions - You need a tool, preferably a wide flat-head screwdriver. Bigger=Better. Holding the Knife handle firmly in your LEFT hand and the screwdriver in your Right hand, just slip the tip into the wide open area at the back of the blade and gently ( to mild swearing ) twist like you are UN-screwing a screw. Counter clockwise Lefty-loosey. And the liner lock should release the blade and go back where it's supposed to be - until you open the knife again. #2. - When you get your knife it's not oiled. Needs oil. 3 to 4 drops properly should do it. Knife closed, setting on the rear/butt end, one drop on each side of the blade ( we're aiming for that bearing at the pivot point). Then 1 drop artfully applied to the flat area of the blade which should be pointed up if you are resting it on end and making sure a decent amount of that hits the little "step" in the flat AND the rounded dip next to it. If it doesn't, that'll be drop #4. Tip of a toothpick is handy for spreading the oil. #3 - After oiling the knife at the four points above - Now open your knife the old-school way. Knife handle in one hand, back of the blade in the other. Slowly open it all the way then close it again ( note: lock probably may not fully engage, that's fine). Do that 3-5 times, just spreading some oil. #4 - May want to do this outside in case you got oil crazy - Now start flicking the knife open and then closing it. After 10 good flicks - Open the knife and carefully remove any oil you can easily wipe off with a rag. Don't go poking around inside the knife, that oil we want to keep, we're just blotting up the excess that would get on your clothes & hands if we didn't "wipe the counter". #5 - Flick & Close. Repeat 100 times. 100 isn't a magic number. It's just a good start. Every piece of machinery requires a break-in period. Cars, firearms, folding knives. You DO NOT have to sit there and flick 100 times. Break the work into chunks. Because after about 20 open & closing cycles your fingers are probably gonna be fed up with the process. Mellow out. Spread it over a day or two. Flick a few times, walk away. Get used to grabbing the knife and opening & closing it. Become one with the knife. Ooooom. All this so far is just the cost of buying a new thing. Just to bring more bummer into the ownership of a knife, if you use it, you're gonna need to sharpen it, too. Until you lose or break it or toss it in a drawer forever. Thus closing the circle of owning possessions. -- That should fix most of the New Knife Problems. Now for the "Knife Opening in My Pocket" Fix: My *closed* Large knife with the blade facing down would open halfway open in my hand with the mildest of jolts. Not something I'd want to occur in the groin or gluts area of my pants. The fix is gonna send most of you shopping. The Fix is a #9 Torx bit. *MY* knife just needed the very slightest nudge of tightening at the pivot with a #9 Torx bit ( Clockwise - Righty Tighty ) . The Torx aperture is that round looking hole in the pivot. One side has the Torx hole, one side doesn't. I did have to do some careful slow "Oomph" on it, but just the very slightest of movement put mine very close to right. A tick, not a turn. If you crank it more than minuscule , that will be the New reason your knife will not open. I can still flick the knife open setting on its butt with one finger but it definitely tightened up the "Holdy-Shutty" tension. This WILL NOT prevent you from bumping the flipper ears in your pocket. But the knife won't just fall open because you move or walk down steps when you get the tension set tight enough for your preferences. And holding the knife upside-down, I can still do a clean jerk and inertia will swing the blade open.
Top critical review
Incontinent Quality Control
By AVRELIANVS on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2025
I wish I could rate higher but quality control issues remain. I originally purchased this knife in the 2010s due to living in a jurisdiction with no legal means of concealed carry, and bc due to ignorant law makers, this monster was legal to carry while many popular folders (button locks, crossbar locks, compression locks) were not. That first knife suffered a bit of lock stick and blade centering issues, and was able to be flicked out with a wrist motion; This can meet the definition of a switchblade or gravity knife in some jurisdictions, so I simply tightened the pivot to avoid a switchblade charge, and attended to the lock stick with hundreds of deployments and closes to break it in, as the lockface geometry was poor from the factory. I was never able to fix the blade centering on that first knife. I eventually broke the blade on that knife using it on a flooring job (no knife is a pry bar, but this is a thin blade in a budget steel, so it especially isn't.) As I'm going to be traveling back into that old jurisdiction and leaving my carry piece at home, I decided to purchase another Luzon. This one arrived with perfect centering, no lock stick, and did not open with a wrist flick. All I did was add some grip tape to the clip (which is the best clip for this I've ever seen btw) and called it good. My wife was so impressed by the sheer intimidation value and confidence it inspired that she asked for it, and I obliged meaning I needed to order a 3rd Luzon. Now I open up Luzon #3, and it gets the worst lock stick I've ever seen on the first deployment, so bad that I had to hammer the liner off the blade tang with a flat head to close the knife. Once I get the knife closed I find that it has awful blade centering. This can sometimes be fixed with tuning, but in my experience it only tunes out 1/3 of the time, and I've had too many spydercos and benchmades come from the factory off center and never be tunable to center, so my new policy is that if it arrives off center, I send it back and don't bother tuning. So far the QC from Cold Steel on this knife has 2 fails and 1 success. I love cold steel as a company and I love the value of this blade, but I wish they'd bring it to market as a "2.0" with some meaningless change just so they could charge $10 more and have it made with better quality control. I'm exchanging #3 for a 4th Luzon, and if #4 arrives ready for service like #2, I'll make the review 3 stars, if I'm 3 out of 4 on bad QC, this review will be 1 star. If you're willing to make returns and exchanges until you get one that's good from the factory, this is an awesome deal. If not, go with something else. In Cold Steel's defense, this is less annoying than my Spyderco Smok which has unfixable blade centering and vertical blade play at $280 or my Benchmade Griptilian with terrible blade centering at $160.

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