What is eBay on about?
You can own any knives you like (apart from automatic/gravity knives) in the UK, you are just limited to sub-3 inch non-locking folders for normal carrying in public. You can even carry bigger locking folders if you have good reason, like you use them for work.
I guess this is what happens when your government are a pack of old women.
Some back ground for you. During the UK media madness of “all knives are dangerous” eBay was part of a BBC Watchdog show a few years back. The show reporters purchased knives via eBay and imported all sorts of nasty things that any child could buy over the computer and murder their family with. eBay knee jerk reaction was a blanket ban on selling any knives in the UK. Although they have started to let it go a bit, I understand you can now buy Swiss army knives and multitools on UK eBay.
Thanks for the review. I am still on the fence about the 9054. It looks like a strange, ugly fish. >.< How does it feel in the hand?
Adding a choil near the flipper would be easier, but you lose the cutting power nearest the tang/pivot. I found I missed this on my Cryo after I added a choil. ;_;
7053 looks like the most fun for modding; new scales covering the whole liners and a nice spacer to replace that ugly caribiner section, would make it a very different knife. It has quite elegant lines.
You were right, cleaned and lubed (with quality olive oil 
) and now flicks so much nicer… still different from a lock liner that has no pressure on the blade.
already ordered an orange sheet for new liners and spacer 
It’s actually very nice to hold, good grip with all four finger on the handle. Even having the finger coil on the blade the remaining 3 fingers would rest well on the handle. The only thing could be the clip which tends to burry itself in the palm when holding the knife tight, maybe having the clip on the end of the handle could solve this (but I prefer tip down).
I don’t think shortening the blade is an option as it’s really too long and it would also require to shorten the handle. Seeing as the only reason to have a slip joint over a locking knife would be EDC I’m happy to go ahead with the coil mod.
As I don’t want to do this only using my small metal saw and sandpaper… can anyone suggest some good/budget rotary files to use on a drill for making the coil, preferably from UK dealer?
Thanks
For the Cryo choil I used these Dremel sanding drums. Going slowly to avoid ruining temper, they were quite easy to work with:
http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Tools/Pages/ToolDetail.aspx?pid=407
Because every child has a credit card and a Paypal account.
I’d just have sued the BBC.
Just a heads-up, Exduct now stock the 9054MUC-GP and the 7053LP slip joint and 7053MP liner lock same knife style, different locks.
Prices could be better but that’s Exduct, they do carry a lot of knives that are unavailable elsewhere without a lot of searching.
That’s a good looking job.
Chloe, or anyone, have you ever tried the Dremel Speed-Click (or EZLock in the U.S.A)?
Cutting edge is now less than 3 inch, and very nice to hold…
Happy New EDC Teutate, mine will be a couple of weeks yet. And I paid $39.98 for two. Liking that “make it legal choil” I’m going that way as well I think. I should have waited and got three from FastTech. :_( But I did manage to find a SanRenMu M1, 
they had 15 left.
Where you get the Sanrenmu M1?
Amazon.com from a seller called ” Yinzongning”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&me=A102IYQXMG1XMH
There’s a load of kitchen knives but the store sells pocket knives as well. Not cheapwhen you cosider that FastTech was selling them for $11.25 but $19.99 is the cheapest that I’ve found and I think probably one of the few people left with any to sell. Last year they were going for as much as $23 on ebay and Amazon.
There’s this on Ali Express for $23.20 they only sell 7 SanRenMu and they’re all slip joints and all a bit expensive.
I was looking at a European store earlier on and they had the M1 but I can’t remember what it was called or how I ended up there, If I remember I’ll edit this post. I’m thinking that the Amazon one might be the best bet.
I stuck in an order for another one from Fasttech, that is a good price. Hopefully I can figure out a way to mod it to UK legal and keep it looking in proportion.
My mods -
Olive green 9054 has already sold out at FastTech!
i’ve been looking for a while at gregs656 mod and kept thinking “i really don’t like it”…
by the time the second knife arrived from FT I have actually started really liking gregs656 idea of turning it in to a reverse tanto, but I wanted it to remain a little beefy as I already have a smaller knife (SRM H03) on my keychain…
So here’s my 2nd mod (hope you don’t mind a few pics)
Very good Teutate, I’ve still not modified mine yet as I still rellyl ike the carrying the Omuda 3922 and the M1 as a secondary carry.
I’ll get round to it although I should really wait until I finish my “knackered serration” Enlan EL-01, it’s getting there but there’s a lot of hand sanding to do.
Excellent job! 
What kind of tools did you use?
My usual poorman’s tools: table vise, £1 metal saw, letherman’s file, sandpaper, and these grinding heads (but they wear out fairly quickly)…