0560 fit issues?

I just checked mine and yes like was said the g10 is the same and it makes sense to me to do it like that. The swedge is even on mine but I had to double check because I probably wouldn't have ever noticed if it wasn't, to me its not really worth worrying about, at the price they are selling these for they are amazing.
 
Here is the official word on this knife.

The area where the scale does not cover the liner is a planned design feature, NOT a defect. The stop pin (thumb stud) is supposed to contact metal, not G-10, so the G-10 is recessed a bit to make sure the stop pin always contacts metal.

The uneven swedge grinds are also within the bounds of what I would consider normal. When you grind a blade, you have some wear to the grinding wheel each time. With high performance steels, the wheel wear is more pronounced. The machine is programmed to compensate for this, but there will still sometimes be some very slight asymmetry to the grinds. If it is above a certain amount, the blade will not pass QC. Your blade looks fine to my eye.

AS for what is hapening on the edge of he jimping, I would need to see a better picture to tell you what is happening there.
 
My 0560 sn 333, G10 is not notched as shown in the op's pic, it is flush with the steel liner. And my swedge may not be even but it is not that far off.
 
hey its not that big of a deal imo, my G10 is like that and so is my swedge, my blade is off cent by about a millimeter and i have the faintest hint of up and down blade play after light use

over all its not bad at all but that last one has me mildly worried.
 
kimberfan said:
hey its not that big of a deal imo, my G10 is like that and so is my swedge, my blade is off cent by about a millimeter and i have the faintest hint of up and down blade play after light use

over all its not bad at all but that last one has me mildly worried.
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That last one I would NOT like.
 
I hate to say it, but if I'm paying nearly three hundred dollars for a knife, I would be highly disappointed to find the irregularities you guys have in your knives.
 
jimmer_5 said:
Here is the official word on this knife.

The area where the scale does not cover the liner is a planned design feature, NOT a defect. The stop pin (thumb stud) is supposed to contact metal, not G-10, so the G-10 is recessed a bit to make sure the stop pin always contacts metal.

The uneven swedge grinds are also within the bounds of what I would consider normal. When you grind a blade, you have some wear to the grinding wheel each time. With high performance steels, the wheel wear is more pronounced. The machine is programmed to compensate for this, but there will still sometimes be some very slight asymmetry to the grinds. If it is above a certain amount, the blade will not pass QC. Your blade looks fine to my eye.

AS for what is hapening on the edge of he jimping, I would need to see a better picture to tell you what is happening there.
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It's hard to capture it properly with the lens that I'm using (the rest of mine are loaned out), but I did my best:

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you can also see it on this earlier image even though the focus point is forward of the jimping:

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It looks to me like something impacted the middle jimp from the G10 side of the knife and deformed it. Its angled inwards and there is some plastic deformation into the concave area between the busted jimp and the jimp before it that is closer to the tip. Again, some of you might consider this to be picking nits, but I've never had a knife of this caliber from any brand display these qualities. Perhaps I've just been lucky.
 
Zach Gulsby said:
It's hard to capture it properly with the lens that I'm using (the rest of mine are loaned out), but I did my best:

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you can also see it on this earlier image even though the focus point is forward of the jimping:

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It looks to me like something impacted the middle jimp from the G10 side of the knife and deformed it. Its angled inwards and there is some plastic deformation into the concave area between the busted jimp and the jimp before it that is closer to the tip. Again, some of you might consider this to be picking nits, but I've never had a knife of this caliber from any brand display these qualities. Perhaps I've just been lucky.
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Maybe the press that pushed the thumb stud in missed the stud. ;) It should take a lot of force to deform heat treated Elmax like that.
 
presz said:
Maybe the press that pushed the thumb stud in missed the stud. ;) It should take a lot of force to deform heat treated Elmax like that.
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I could be wrong, but it looks like it has the same finish as the rest of the blade. The thumb studs must be pressed in after tumbling since they aren't stonewashed, so it would have had to occur before that.
 
kreole said:
I could be wrong, but it looks like it has the same finish as the rest of the blade. The thumb studs must be pressed in after tumbling since they aren't stonewashed, so it would have had to occur before that.
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The finish is the same as the rest of the blade, but the deformation is not uniform within itself. It almost looks slightly bubbly.
 
I have a 0561 SN 0712 and my G10 to liner discrepancy is not quite as pronounced as yours, so slight I had to look really hard to see it sticks out slightly more. I don't blame you for being bothered by these little things, the dent/imperfection on the jimping would've definitely bugged me.
 
Interesting feature w.r.t. the scale recess from the thumb stud liner indent.

The scale is flush right up to the edge of the Ti liner on a Hinderer XM.

Edited to add, the thumb stud design on the XM avoids contact with the scale so my point is.............I have no point :rolleyes:

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I dont blame you.. Im kind of OCD about my blades too... well VERY OCD about them. There is no way I could keep a knife that would drive me crazy, especially one that cost that much. Well goodluck in however you handle it.
 
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