I have no issues with my frame lock 566, it may have to do with the fact that it is a clone and not all clones have good QC? I could be wrong and the strider may hang up in pockets. You might also shop around for a longer clip.
The MG DAMM is a nice looking knife. In size and configuration it seems to be on par with the ZT 0560, although I don’t know if N690 is comparable with Elmax. I’ve read it’s close to VG-10, and that’s a good steel so assuming they have a good heat treatment that would be excellent value for money at the $60-$90 you’d pay for it.
There’s a few different sizes and shapes on AliExpress
I seem to remember someone on here (or the other place) had some for sale at reasonable prices.
Strangely enough some counties will not allow the import of tritium, they treat it like it’s wildly radioactive, it is a bit but not wildly.
I decided to do a little tune up of my work Delica today. I'd never diassembled a lockback before, and figured that I'd give it a go. I remember "Nutinfancy" mentioning that he took his Endura apart, and spent a whole afternoon trying to put it back together.
It came apart easily, the mechanism is simple as hell. I cleaned all the parts, and highly polished the washers, blade tang, liners, and lock bar parts with a dremel and jewelers rouge. Everything was nicely lubed with fluorinated grease. Now to reassemble the knife.
Nightmare!
No matter what I did, the heavy wire that acts as a spring for the lockback kept popping out before I could clamp the liner over it. I tried for hours. Finally I assembled the body, without the blade in it so there was no tension on the spring. Holding the lock down, I inserted the blade into the handle, but what about the washers? I had to pry the handle a bit, and try to slide them in between the blade and the liners by poking with a tweezers. Everything kept shifting around, and if my hand slipped off the lock, everything fell apart.
I finally got things aligned, I think, and inserted the pivot. OK! I was setting the screw in place with a tweezers when it went flying into the air. Damn! I crawled around under the table with a flashlight to find the screw when I came accross a highly polished bronze washer which I was sure I had put into the knife. I did find the screw also.
Now I have to pull the pivot again and try to slide the washer into place. This time I used a zip tie to hold the lockbar down. That made it easier. More time spent trying to align the washers and blade...I got the pivot in and screwed down.
OK. Let's see if all that pollishing of parts and fluorinated grease will make any difference on a lockback knife.
I depressed the lock and the newly sharpened blade dropped free fall, like an axis lock, and sliced right accross my finger producing a torrent of blood.
I think I have smoothest lockback knife around, but my suggestion is, "don't ever take apart your Delica or Endura". Now I know why they used rivets on my Caly3.