Does any other knife company have anything like "blems"?

KnottyEagle

KnottyEagle

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Just a question that popped into my head today. I haven't heard of any other knife manufacturer with "blems", so I thought I'd ask. :)
 
Sure the other companies have blems or seconds.
 
Cold steel does, just not all the time. I got some blem bushman knives for $10 a pop a few years ago. I'm not even sure what the blemish was supposed to be, they appear to be flawless.
 
Buck used to mark certain knives PF (can't remember what it stands for) but have stopped doing it recently on the basis that any flaws are only cosmetic (often indiscernible) and do not affect the functionality of the knife. If the knife is genuinely no good, they don't make it out of the factory.
 
Spyderco has a once-a-year sale at one of their stores in Golden, Colorado. You have to be there, AFAIK. Hopefully, next year I will be.
Sonny
 
All companies have 'blems', if you're just talking about knives that come off the production line but don't meet quality control standards.

Not all companies SELL 'blems', if you're specifically talking about factory seconds (imperfect knives that are being sold off at a discount).

All of the companies listed here do indeed sell factory seconds, so far as I know.
 
Dorito Monk said:
All companies have 'blems', if you're just talking about knives that come off the production line but don't meet quality control standards.

Not all companies SELL 'blems', if you're specifically talking about factory seconds (imperfect knives that are being sold off at a discount).

All of the companies listed here do indeed sell factory seconds, so far as I know.
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Yeah, I knew that every company would have to have factory seconds. I just really didn't know if any other company besides Kershaw sold them, because I haven't seen any (wasn't really looking though). Thanks for clarifying.
 
Sonnydaze said:
Spyderco has a once-a-year sale at one of their stores in Golden, Colorado. You have to be there, AFAIK. Hopefully, next year I will be.
Sonny
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Hmm so there's no one like KershawGuy but with Spyderco's? I would love to get some Paramilitary 2 blems and beat the hell outta them.
 
KnottyEagle said:
Yeah, I knew that every company would have to have factory seconds. I just really didn't know if any other company besides Kershaw sold them, because I haven't seen any (wasn't really looking though). Thanks for clarifying.
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Hmmm I wonder what the other companies do with their blems. Benchmade better not be destroying/tossing their cosmetically blemished knives when there are poor people like me who want them!
 
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