A Small Gripe

[A.L.]

They ship all the dull ones to USA to trigger Americans.

It takes literally one to five minutes to knock that tip to sharp again.

 

[transmaster]

Sure , and maybe not bother to sharpen the blades at all ! Save even more .

You nailed it, have a machine do it, not a skilled human sharpener. That is what makes Wüsthof so good; their blades are hand-finished. After the final automated sharpening, they go to human sharpeners for the final step. With the Japanese knives I purchase it is hand-finished all the way.

 

[transmaster]

They ship all the dull ones to USA to trigger Americans.

It takes literally one to five minutes to knock that tip to sharp again.

I have never expected a folding knife to have an ultra-sharp factory blade. I don't remember any of the Case, KaBar, Camp King, or Camillus folders I have had over the years being very sharp when I purchased them. I really didn't have much to sharpen them with either. The Buck folders did, but we could not afford them, and our parents would not let us have them.

 

[DocJD]

They ship all the dull ones to USA to trigger Americans.

It takes literally one to five minutes to knock that tip to sharp again.

Sure ,if you know how to.

But why should you have to do anything to make a brand new knife functional ?

 

[Recon_Tanto]

They ship all the dull ones to USA to trigger Americans.

It takes literally one to five minutes to knock that tip to sharp again.

Victorinox Is The Only Knife Maker company I have seen the puts DULL tips on blades!!

Today I Received in my mail yet ANOTHER dull tipped Victorinox product!!

Sad to see this COMPANY consistently put out products That require the Customer to correct!!!

 

[SharpBits]

Victorinox Is The Only Knife Maker company I have seen the puts DULL tips on blades!!

Let me introduce you to Case knives.

 

[kamakiri.knives]

The issue stems from the amount of tumble polishing they do now before the edge is ground. Even if it had a pointy tip after punching and milling the blank, tumble polishing pretty much guarantees the rounded tip and spine. Sharpening removes so little material that a true tip will never form on a single pass in the grinding jig. Anything made after 2000 or so, I don’t expect to have a tip in the 84mm to 111mm frames. Smaller tools aren’t tumble polished the same way, so they don’t suffer this issue as much, IMO.