I have a useful two-bladed double-locking folding knife with a slightly more than annoying problem. I am left-handed. The knife's most used blade (both blades pivot on one pivot pin) blade has a right-hander's thumb stud for opening it. This stud interferes with about 3/8 inch of blade when slicing or penetrating deeply. I have tried to open the blade when my hands are wet or greasy without switching hands. Opening is very difficult for my arthritic fingers, but opening a dry blade with dry fingers is easy.

The secondary blade has a nail nick and operates easily regardless of conditions. Unfastening thumb stud and creating a nail nick or other method of opening the blade should remedy this irritating issue. And were the nail nick to be poorly done, or the nick to not do what I want it to do, no big deal. I just reattach the stud, and I am no worse off than I am now.

I have no Dremel tool or other power grinder/cutter. No file I own can do the job. Neither twist drill nor drill bits can notch blade. I live in Missoula County, Montana. Anyone in the area available for the job? While it appears to me to be a five-minute job, I am more than willing to pay for the work.

Wish you were close, diamond wheel in a high sped rotary tool and a nail nick would be there in no time.

You have quite a few great makers in your area. Go go the book store that has knives 2020 issue. Look up the ones closet to you. Given a call.

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Originally posted by Jerry Fisk:
You have quite a few great makers in your area. Go go the book store that has knives 2020 issue. Look up the ones closet to you. Given a call.

Knife makers seem to have a few standard answers to my local query. Among them are:

1. I work only on my own knives.

2. I'm back ordered XXX weeks or months.

3. Why do you want. ... I've got available ...

4. I make knives part time. Give me a call in XXX months.

And on, and on.
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More and more I'm thinking I should buy a [hand] power rotary grinder and try to do it.

It would be nice if I could find that person I requested in original post. I received a reply on my other forum's query. I responded, but nothing since.

Oh well.

Have you contacted Lee Baumgart here on AR? You might try him and see if he could do it for you, or if he could recommend someone to help you. He lives in Washington State. I mean, you're willing to pay to have it done, so it's not a freebie.

I’ve e done such things
We’ll talk

Buy a dremel. You will find other uses for it. Walmart!

I tie it down on the mill and use a carbide endmill
With a radius it looks nice.
Make about a 3/4” cut.
Opened up a lot of buck knives where the nail nick is.
You can open it up one handed with the side of your thumb
In a big shop……once you do one the word gets around
I’d do it for friends for a Dr Pepper
So if I saw a guy with an unopened Dr Pepper you sort of figured what he wanted

Sort of looked like an elongated letter D
With a maybe .003 radius so it would catch and not cut on your thumb