Blade nick?

[geobar]

I just purchased a Szabo. When received, there was a nick in the edge of the blade behind the thumb hole. Is this supposed to be there? See Picture.

 

[farnorthdan]

Usually these indicate that the knife was sold as a seconds i.e. was returned to the SFO with a defect of some kind and sold during the annual seconds sale.

 

[Bruceter]

Yup, that sure looks like a seconds marking.

Bruceter

 

[Surfingringo]

Were you told it was a factory second when you purchased?

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

I have similar nick on my Cara Cara 2, not as obvious though.
Is there such thing as factory second for Byrd line?
If there's, and mine is one, why & how it ended up sold as bew on Amazon?
Other than that, the knife seems to be ok. I can't find anything wrong, except of a bit of hollow curve on the spine that makes it look like a stretch than Endura. Nothing wrong with functionality at all.

I'm having problem getting BB link, will post when it works.

Edit to add:
Not as clear as OP photo, and more obvious from the back rather than side view:

 

[Surfingringo]

Hi Chris, based on the size and location, I tend to think that yours is not a factory seconds mark but rather just a nick or ding.

 

[The Deacon]

Geobar's Szabo is definitely a factory second. As for Chris' Byrd, I'm fairly certain there are factory second Byrds, but while that's probably where a "second's notch" would be located on one, I'd agree with Lance that the "ding" in its thumb ramp does not appear large enough to be one.

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

Lance, Paul,

Thanks. I was wondering because from reading other people's experiences, sometimes they can't find any visible issue with the knife that has such mark. So I take it that for a factory second, the mark would've been larger & should be visible from the side view.