Feedback needed, Is this normal Spyderco quality????? *PICTURES*

I got a Becker Eskabar with one side worse than that. I straightened it out myself and it's a darn nice little neck knife.
 
Its made in China... and it cost you 40-50 bucks? You get what you pay for. Not a great grind, but not a big deal.
 
I bet its normal. My P'kal showed up with one scale slightly larger, and various other little things.
 
They're generally more around 30-35 bucks. They're also surprisingly good knives for the pricepoint and country of origin.
 
MJF said:
Why do you assume it's simple to put a decent edge on it at the factory? I know you're new here, but you're expecting perfection from a $30 knife, and frankly, you're expecting something which doesn't really exist, especially not at that price range. On top of that, the aesthetics of the grind really don't matter. What's important is that the knife is sharp. Is it sharp?
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Yes the knife is sharp, but if they got it right on one side of the blade whats wrong with doing the same on the other, and when i look very carefully i can see the angle even varies of the grind along the crappy spot, i mean its not that big a deal ive already fixed it now but i think it should have been a little cleaner from the factory, if i can touch it up to make it right surely a professional sharpener can, to me it looks like they did the one side perfectly then started the other side and someone called their name and they slipped or lost focus or something and then instead of fixing it they just tossed in into the pile and moved on....
 
Bad grinds always look worse with the contrast between the color of steel and the coating
 
Yes the knife is sharp, but if they got it right on one side of the blade whats wrong with doing the same on the other, and when i look very carefully i can see the angle even varies of the grind along the crappy spot, i mean its not that big a deal ive already fixed it now but i think it should have been a little cleaner from the factory, if i can touch it up to make it right surely a professional sharpener can, to me it looks like they did the one side perfectly then started the other side and someone called their name and they slipped or lost focus or something and then instead of fixing it they just tossed in into the pile and moved on....
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So Spinerazor, I'm, curious about something.

1)Are you feeling better about the problem now that you have vented on a public forum?

2) Has this post helped resolve your problem to your satisfaction or would exchanging the knife be a better solution?
 
Send it back. Get a new one. It's important to be happy with your knife.
If the knife is sharp all the way through then that means the grind is much more obtuse during the short part and more acute towards the tip where the relief cut is a proper length.
Despite what people say here, this WILL affect cutting performance and will make the blade significantly harder to sharpen on a regular consumer sharpener.
You couldn't fix that on something like a Spyderco Sharpmaker for example.
 
Yes i'm feeling much better, The Mastiff, i wrote i resolved the problem myself so there is no need to exchange the knife, is there a problem with me asking if anyone else has had a shitty ground blade cause it seems to me you have a problem with me using the forum to ask such a question, if there is let me know cause as far as i know they are for asking questions right? right!, ok thank you.
 
frenchmade said:
Send it back. Get a new one. It's important to be happy with your knife.
If the knife is sharp all the way through then that means the grind is much more obtuse during the short part and more acute towards the tip where the relief cut is a proper length.
Despite what people say here, this WILL affect cutting performance and will make the blade significantly harder to sharpen on a regular consumer sharpener.
You couldn't fix that on something like a Spyderco Sharpmaker for example.
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Thank You! finally someone gets what i'm talking about!
 
Don't start about professional sharpening service. Apart of members here and selected few, majority of the so called sharpening service provides very rough edges and usually shorten the life of the blade :eek:

There's a recent thread about it ;)
 
Spinerazor said:
I'm sure it wont matter in function but i have $5 knives that have a better looking grind, and when i spend $40 on a Spyderco shouldnt i expect something better than a $5 knife can give me?
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I can understand your inquiry and can empathize to an extent. However, I have to reiterate that it's a $40 production knife, not a collectors item of any sort. So, why not sharpen it and move on? Every production company has these hiccups, the knives are sharpened by human beings, by hand. Humans can and often do make mistakes.

Reading through the rest of the responses that you received, looks like you have an answer. Use it, sharpen it, use it some more. If you are too disappointed in it, return it for a refund and try another brand or model. While it is important to be happy with your knife, it is truly more important to have realistic expectations.
 
I have to disagree with most that posted in this thread. Not that I think the grind problem here is a huge deal, but from the posts in this thread make me seem that too many people are appeased by mediocrity. Yes the Tenacious line is a budget line, but I think Spyderco is pushing the limits of what I consider quality on this line of knives. More threads than I care to discuss have been brought up about their screws alone on this line. If people want to say you get what you pay for, then say that about the Byrd line, from Spyderco, this is supposed to be a step above those knives. I bought a Persistence and a Tenacious, between the 2, I have enough screws that weren't either stripped from the factory or stripped when using the proper size metric hex bit to put one knife together. That to me is quite unacceptable, even for a $30 knife. A $30-50 knife should have a $30-50 build quality, not uneven grinds, screws that stripped, mismatched g10 slabs. Accepting that to me is accepting mediocrity. I'm not even old, but I remember when you didn't have to settle for mediocrity because you bought a budget friendly anything.

Alright, I'm off the soapbox now. Someone can use it for kindling.
 
Form one OCD knife buyer to another, a few sharpinings will refine the edge to a symetrical grind. not to bad.:)
 
Glad to hear you got it fixed up.

Now let's see some before and after pics!

I'm thinking about picking up the blacked out version from S&R.
 
frenchmade said:
You couldn't fix that on something like a Spyderco Sharpmaker for example.
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My Sharpmaker must be defective then, as I've done exactly that on several occasions. 8CR13MOV is one of the easier steels to reprofile. Regular sharpening will take that bevel up gradually over time on the coarse stones. A scrap of coarse sandpaper wrapped around the stones can potentially knock it out much faster.
 
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