Well, I liked the idea of a rockwell test because of the circular (wont show in pictures) indentation that the black mark is part of it's kind of like a ying yang or like it was hit with a pin and then part of the metal chipped off from one edge of the pin. Now I'm just worried that there is an even larger bit of the flake or whatever caused the inclusion in the first place.
I was hoping someone from spyderco would be able to chime in on this and tell me that it is just a marking from something silly or necessary testing in manufaturing, I seem to have one of those inclusion things farther down on the blade itself that is much smaller kind of pockmark that I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't for the closer examination due to the big one.
I always see people complaining about little defects like this in their knives and think it is silly for them to be bothered by it when they're planning to use the knife, but now I seem to understand it a little bit better, it doesn't really make a difference that it doesn't matter, it's just that there's something wrong with your brand new knife, no matter how superfluous and silly it is takes some of the excitement and joy out of it.
I feel stupid for doing it but I think this one is going to be a return to sender, and try my luck again with another person, I wanted this so much because of the smoothness that was raved about and how sturdy it is (love the smoothness and how tough it feels) but mostly because of what I saw on the edge retention cutting tests and how well m4 ranked, I built it up in my head as this awesome steel of greatness... and now there are flakes in my amazing lightsaber knife.
Hopefully I get the giddy-happy-joyful-new-knifeness that I'm looking for on the second try and get rid of this having to search for imperfections in my knife feeling that I've built up.
