Am I too OCD?

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Hello everyone. I just got my first ever Sebenza in the mail. A large Insingo with micarta inlays. Lovin it to bits - it actually makes me want to sell off 80% of my knife collection just to get some more of these bad boys.

Anyway, the knife is perfect except for one thing: the chamfers seem to be of uneven width (comparing the two scales).

I'll try and post a pic here so you can hopefully see what you mean. What are your thoughts? Worthy of sending it in, or just live with it?

And would CRK even take this seriously, or simply say it's within tolerances, and I just need therapy ;)

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First, welcome to Bladeforums. I personally think you're splitting hairs on this one. Note that, since you're dealing with a frame lock knife, the two scales are not meant to be perfectly identical; that is, they are not mirror images of each other. Maybe thinking of it this way will help you sleep at night. :p If you love the knife, I say use it and enjoy it. And get therapy.
 
There are also manufacturing tolerance standards that allow for some variation. It is not a perfect world It definitely will not affect function and I imagine if we all looked at our knives that close there would be more just like it. Just enjoy.
 
If you hold your knife up against the light, so you can see how the blade sits between the scales, and the light looks even, I wouldn't care at all.
 
Nothing wrong with it. Use it and enjoy it. And YES, sell off at least 80% of your other knives to buy more.
 
Looks defective. Send it to me and I will dispose of it.

J/K: CRK is amazing, use and enjoy - no worries!
 
Too picky. Imagine if you had a full custom handmade knife what it would be like. You know that wouldn't be perfectly symmetrical.
 
Dhbranum said:
There are also manufacturing tolerance standards that allow for some variation. It is not a perfect world It definitely will not affect function and I imagine if we all looked at our knives that close there would be more just like it. Just enjoy.
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This sums it up well. I've seen similar differences on my 'beater' 25 but it's extremely hard to notice unless specifically looking for it, which I did only after reading this thread. It's never affected performance or lock up so I'm good.
I say congrats on acquiring such a fine tool and enjoy putting it to work.
 
Yes, you suffer from such severe OCD I don't know how you are going to open your new knife after they put the straight-jacket on you and throw you in a padded room.

Seriously though, you're not the victim of OCD, but of mass produced CAD/CAM. If things aren't 100% perfect and symmetrical these days they are automatically "defective". I'm not saying that production lines are faultless, but they tend to be more egregious, and serious than individually produced items. Put another way, they will repeat the same mistake so often that it becomes, "They are all like that".

With use that knife is going to be more distinctively yours anyway.

Imagine siting in a car that was the exact same model as your's (both are cleaner and detailed), the same year, same color, and had all the same options. Imagine that the keys were the same! You'd still know that it wasn't your car when you sat it in it. Your own car would be identical and cleaner than you left it, but it would "FEEL" right, and the other wouldn't.

If you need to test your OCD, take some vernier calipers out to your car and measure all the panel gaps for consistency. The tiny variance you never noticed before will have you thinking "How in the Hell did this pass quality control?!!!!".

With the hand ground knives I own, I know that one side is never perfectly matched to the other. The angle may be the same put one side was always ground just a bit longer. IT's not a defect its character.
 
Thanks y'all! I'll sleep like a baby tonight :p

@nine4t4: "If you need to test your OCD, take some vernier calipers out to your car and measure all the panel gaps for consistency. The tiny variance you never noticed before will have you thinking "How in the Hell did this pass quality control?!!!!". LOL... so true.

I will definitely keep it, use it and enjoy the hell out of it.

– oh, and get a few new ones... soonish ;)

Cheers, Chris
 
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This difference is intentional and the result of decades of research by Chris Reeve, in collaboration with NASA. The clip-side chamfer is perfectly matched to the break-over angle of the rolled seam of a standard Levi's 501 pocket, while the presentation side chamfer is dialled-in for sliding into your primary pocket without catching on the lip of the watch-pocket. All of my CRK have this feature/detail. :D ;)
 
Perhaps a Portland thing? Things like that don't bother me - until I notice them. May disturb me for a bit. Then I accept it...;-)
 
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