Christmas Disappointment..Merry Christmas to all

It is not the first time a big knife has come out of the box with a broken tip.
Was there any damage to the inside of the box or the cardboard sleve?

I got a 9" Hudson Bay Camp knife, where the box had been violently shaken. The tip had almost penetrated the outer box, but was still intact.
I have seen another HBC knife where the tip did penetrate the box and the tip was broken off like on Your knife.

Regards
Mikael
Edit: never mind as You already stated the box was undamaged.
 
I have ordered multiple junglas and never had a broken tip. This is the first big Bark River that I have ordered. There was zero damage to packaging o box. It looked perfect. The seller did not cause this, I don't think.
 
And was there any visible damage to the box itself? Often in shipping the package can be subjected to pretty awful abuse in terms of knocks, drops, rattles, and bumps. If the knife isn't firmly secured to prevent shifting in transit, this drastically increases the chances of the knife punching through its packaging, and the circumstances that cause damage in these cases are often ones that no knife would normally face, nor hope to escape from unscathed. That being said, Bark River does have a history of things being a little too thin than they ought to be, so your concern isn't at all unreasonable, either.
 
There is no damate inside or outside of the box, package or anything. The knife itself was well wrapped in shipping paper and there was no damage there. And the tip was not anywhere in the box or package.
 
This is probably a stupid question but could the tip be in the sheath ?
Test with strong dot magnet . . . should cling to tip of sheath.
 
Yeah, tell me about it. I was excited about getting this knife as it is, along with the clifft bowie, what the knife that made Bowie famous looked like and this one is the closest representation to the Forrest knife I have seen. Very disappointing to get it like this.
 
Ohh man. That sucks. I bought a bark river bravoIII last year. It came with the post and I was abit concern, as from the outside, the box it came was mangled. However upon opening it, all is good. leather sheath was in its plastic baggie, and the blade was wrapped in white paper inside also a plastic baggie.

Hope you get this issue sorted asap.
 
Who knows maybe I can get a custom maker to make me the clifft version out of Ztuff
 
My wife bought me a Ka-Bar EK45 for Christmas...UPS "safe dropped" it at our door and it got stolen on December 3rd. :(
So, she got me the Ka-Bar EK44 from Amazon.ca as it would still get here in time (stupid postal strike)...turns out the package had already been opened, and the knife previously returned, probably because of the horrid manufacturing flaw at the butt end of the knife (the point is kind of rounded too; yay!).

So one present got stolen, and the other has to be shipped off for a replacement.
Eventually I'll have two knives, but neither one of them will actually qualify as a "Christmas Knife", you know?
I almost decided to keep the stupid piece of crap that somehow got past Ka-Bar quality control (and then sent to me after being returned by another unsatisfied customer), but I just can't get past it.
 
I'm surprised something THAT obvious would be allowed to leave the factory. I don't think I've ever seen a blade defect that major put in the box and passed off to the retailer before. :confused:
 
Sorry about your knife she was going to be a looker. Funny one time I had a Gingrich RD9 puncture the sheath(plastic lined cordura) ,packing and flat-rate box then be deposited in my mailbox with 1 1/2" of blade sticking out, dulled on the tip by transit. Lucky no one was hurt by that one.
 
1. Deepest condolences- sucks to have to wait some more, after you already waited.
2. Would like to know who the vendor was, regardless of outcome, good or bad.
 
Thanks. I will mention the retailer as I am sure they will honor refund. I really don't even want a replacement. When you lose confidence in a product, it is best to walk away as much as I love the looks of this blade.
 
That one shouldn't have left the shop. Looks like a nice office tool, you know, casually play with it at your next meeting, see if anyone objects...:D
 
Did the box have a wood piece at one end? I recently got a BR 1909 Michigan Bowie and it had a wood insert at one end...guessing it was to keep the blade from penetrating the end of the box just in case (there was a blade sleeve too).
 
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