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Please dont mis-understand what I said. I missed the post where you stated these were already purchased. ( I also thought it was a dovetailed bolster, I should have looked closer before I posted, sorry) I thought you were making a knife in the $100 price range. If that was thee case, its up to the customer to look at it and decide if its worth your asking price. No knife is perfect and what you see as an obvious flaw, a customer might see as part of a $100 knife. If you sold these knives to the store and represented them as a higher quality product then this knife, then you MUST fix it before you deliver it.Fixtures! We love fixtures!
Mr Kanter, I just cannot send out a knife with such an obvious flaw. The price doesn't have anything to do with that, except it's going to cost me. But it's a price that must be paid. What the real takeaway from this is, don't contract for cheap knives!
I hope I have proven, with the body of work that I have already sold, that I dont cut corners and I dont think its okay to put out crap. I do believe that the goal should be to make every customer feel that thay got one hell of a knife for the price thay paid. It doesnt matter if they paid $100 or $1000. They need to feel that they got more than they paid for. I dont think that a slight gap in a $100 custom made knife is unexceptable.
) method and if I'd been a little more aggressive with the peening it would have worked perfectly. It's far better now and I think I'm going to move on. I'll point it out to my customer and she can decide whether to buy the knife.
