This is far and away the one of the most underrated monologues. I literally laughed out loud multiple times at Nick’s “thinking out loud”. Nick says he’s “not a genius” I say it’s subjective, “eye of the beholder”. Helpful vid for takedown & reassembly, as usual. Thx!

Thanks for the detailed video! I usually place a piece of blue painters tape on the tip of my flathead screwdriver when I don't want to scratch something up with the driver.

This might be a well known hack, but I’m gonna throw it out there. Try some gorilla take(tape in general) on the free spinning side of the pivot. I usually use a 1in or larger square. Seems to help me. Hope it helps others.

Two Years Later and Still Giving Hope to the MRBS Disassemblers, Thanks Nick 😎

I haven't worked with loose bearings since servicing Campagnolo hubs in the 70's! I've chased a few around the room. Thanks for your honest review on servicing a very expensive knife.

I watched your Cold Steel Code 4(!!!) review and I bought a Code 4. I am in love with this knife. I'm also buying a Recon 1 soon. From one CS fan boy to another-Thanks

Inspired by Nick's fun with bearings, I designed a test fixture at work using lose boron carbide spheres, small ones. Yes, I am not a brilliant man. Needs 42 balls, I bought 50, hopefully not too many escape each test.

I ordered a neon r20 and the neon has been a grail for me. It is expensive but meh it is what it is and I don’t see that changing as much as I wish it would. Same could be said about tons of other knives. Thanks for the content nick 👍🤙

I own the Neon R20 and its the best knife I own. Better than Chris Reeve, Hinderer, or Curtis Knives. Expensive? Yes. Good? Oh, hell yes.

Got mine yesterday, fantastic knife! First Shiro and likely not the last

i am amazed those bearings weren't gone forever lol. you are brave :p

I got this knife back in August. I absolutely love it, except the damned pocket clip! It goes in fine, but when trying to get it out, it hangs on for dear life, trying to take picket material with. Now, I have 3 shiros, and I went to razors edge knives. They make and sell bits for shiros. They go for $63 a bit, and they fit standard handles, unfortunately, I don’t remember off hand, size. They also sell a handle that they fit into. It’s definitely a lot cheaper than buying the tool/pen, and the pivots are, generally, the same size. So, the pivot tool fits my neon ultra lite, neon zero, and f95nl. The body screws are different, and they haven’t made one for the zero, yet. The bits are made of the same titanium, 6al4v. The free spinning pivot is such a strange phenomena plaguing knives, and I don’t understand why one end can’t be “D” shaped somewhere the make disassembly easy. But, it is what it is, so, I use a latex finger glove. You can get them at anywhere first aid products are sold. They are for keeping water and moisture off cuts and so forth. I find this works very easy, and it overcomes the loc tite they use. These are expensive knives for what you get. But wow! The action and the fit and finish! I’m a bit of an action snob. A flipper knife has to not only...well...open, but it has to do it with a particular speed, and sound. I absolutely love shiro knives. They make such a satisfying “click”, both opening and closing. The three I have may be the end of my shirogorov adventure, unless something comes along that “I just gotta have”.

Wow really nice looking knife !!! ^w^

For bearing knives check the bladeplay with the lock disengaged. The bearings should be tight in their races. Also always screw the knife together with the blade halfway closed, not with the lock engaged, this is what causes that binding and centering issues sometimes when you open it a first few times. A tiny drop on the detent is enough - adding more will make it drip onto the lock face and that’s a no-no! Of course it would only make a difference in real hard use.

Really stupid screws, but you still put the torx tool in the thumbnail for good matter. Good guy Nick.

So it's safe to say this knife is no longer ridin' dirty.

I notice the lockbar insert doesnt have any screw or fastener, does anyone think that could ever potentially be a problem? how is it attached/retained to the lockbar?

Nice

Not sure if you’re gonna check this because the video was a year old. I recently purchased a Shirogorov quantum ursus nl Antique tea tenant was murder on my finger. So hard to open. I heard it was just a single row bearings but I did not know they were loose bearings like the upgraded models. I had bearings fall out on my table which one of them seems to have got lost on. I looked for it for hours. Never found it. I’ve got ahead and worked on the detent since I had it apart and I put it back together and relieved it with one bearing missing. I thought that I was gonna be in trouble but I did a great job on the detent and it fires great. I do have a question though is there anyway that I can get replacement bearings just in case I lose another one like a dummy like I did this one ?

I’m starting to think the free spinning pivot is so it’s way harder too over-tighten the pivot screw. Do that and good luck getting Russian warranty Shirogorov to replace it and or help at all. The good ole you broke it so good luck with that routine.

Nick can you get a review on the super freek

In an effort to make the tiny Delica seem bigger, Nick has decided to call most knives "little guy" at the beginning of his videos. 👍

I usually bend a ziptie into a tweezer shape the teeth in the ziptie act like a hook to keep the ball bearings in.

I know it’s on the complete opposite end of the price spectrum of this knife, but could you do a disassembly of the CRKT Hollow Point? I wanna see how to take it apart, so I can take care of mine.

Do they make a similar model with bronze washers rather than ball bearings?

This makes the Sebenza look like an absolute bargain!!!

i see him rollin', i'm hatin'.

Power tools are the Secret to overcoming free spinning pivots.

In this disassembly, Nick is literally dropping balls.🤦‍♂️

OMG those bearings are such a pain ... when nylon-caged (yes, the pop-in variant) multi-row ceramic bearings in that size cost close to nothing and work just fine.

Hey Nick. I just yesterday won that very knife over on the Reddit. Can’t wait to check it out.

How much is your Jon and Eric knife selling for these days. I heard they are getting 8 big ones?

If you scratch the screws you can always order new ones from Josh at Razeredge.

HELP! I can't find "Magnetic tweezers" anywhere! I've searched and searched and even when the search results state "Magnetic tweezers" when I open each page EVERYONE of them is NON-Magnetic! Do magnetic tweezers exist?!?

Really, $750, never, never, never will I drink the Kool Aid that provokes one to loose their mind to the point they make such a crowd pressure, esteem driven decision. WTF this doesn't even have contoured scales. Congratulations Shirogorov if you can demand this kind on money for what appears to be a otherwise uninspiring knife. Unfortunately I will probably never have the opportunity to get one in hand to see what it's all about.

A titanium, frame lock, flipper? No way!

If they use proprietary pivots and screws, at least make them look cool. Not an off centered flat head

Sanrenmu 910 Land steel 12C27,bearing...

"Free spining pivot" 700$+ knife here everybody

Sanrenmu 910 LAND?

Can't unscrew this damn screw...

I think the Arrangement Of the balls have no technical effect in this case. There have to be grooves.

Yeah shiro lost some of its appeal. Just like the grismo which is stagnant. There are plenty of shiro like action knives now. Grismo are even allowing people to choose their parts now. I bet the demand died out. For example , I finally got my turn in their lotto system after years and I didn’t want it anymore. I kept checking the link and it took a few weeks to sell despite the link going public in 24hours (Or 48hrs?)after I received it. Even the Sebenza is getting updated. I will get the new one for sure. But I feel shiro has been boring for a long time. They need more custom division like finishing in their stock production knives. I’d rather get a cultrotech

2:29 makes me cringe $750 then scratches the blade across the scales....

not a brilliant man,great videos though.

Shirogorov: the "s" is for stupid. Stupid money for stupid construction and slotted screws. Quality, but stupid.

I thought I was a bit harsh in my judgement when I commented in the review. Now I'm convinced, this knife is absolute garbage.

If you buy a 750 dollar pocket knife you're a bad person and you should feel bad.

You pay 715 for a knife and don’t have the extra money to buy the correct tool from Shirogorov 🤦🏻‍♂️ stick with spyderco and benchmade sorry