How picky are you about your knives?

Two things make me send knives back. One, blade wobble, two, blade rubbing the liner. I've been lucky and haven't had one with a chip/crack, though depending on how bad it bothered me I might.

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Honestly, when choosing, I am VERY picky about my knives..but when they are in my pocket and in-hand, they are nothing more than tools and use them as such.
 
Call me picky but I'd return that. $100 is a lot of money to spend on a pocket knife (to me anyway) and I expect it to be free of defects, the same way I don't expect dents in a new car or a scratch in a new coffee table.
 
GEC has seconds marked with a S on the tang
When they have things like chipped bone
And they sell for much cheaper and have very little collectors value
 
Expecting absolute perfection in any product being manufactured in large quantities, comprising of numerous manual steps, using natural materials and being offered at a reasonable price is a little unrealistic. Unless it is something glaring suchas excessive blade movement, rubbing blade or something else so obvious to catch prior to shipment I take what I get. People really need to spend more time appreciating the value these knives offer as opposed to models of perfection or they will more than likely perish as many have in the past. I for one really enjoy a knife built like they used to be, and as we all know, that includes falling short of perfection most of the time.
 
neeman said:
GEC has seconds marked with a S on the tang
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There may be the odd one that escapes. I have a GEC second. It's a very nice second, indeed it's one of my absolute favourite knives. It was a second though, and the tang isn't marked :)
 
If I spent that money, I'd expect it to be "in one piece" from the factory. Now, that could have happened during shipping, but it looks more like it was dropped on the edge of the bone and it chipped. Minor scratches are no biggie, but I'm sure it wasn't sold with the specs "small chip of bone missing from butt of knife".

However, all that being said, if it's going to be an EDC, then as most said, just throw it in your pocket and call it done.
 
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