Bastid said:
Yes and my logic is quite sound. If the person who answers that question has not used every branded benchstone the answer is prejudiced.
I would argue that it is not what the word means in common use and is even a stretch by some of its mildest definations
[*]. If I ask a maker for his opinion on the best blade steel in a working bowie and he discusses what he has used and gives his answer clearly without intent to promote his own knives, or unfairly critize others by ignoring relevant facts, then no I don't see this as predjudiced.
By your defination it is impossible for anyone to give an unprejudiced statement of quality because no one has used every knife, stone, hammer, boots or whatever. I would see prejudice when someone forms an unjust opinion by ignoring facts presented to them, or by not making a rational decision in the first place, as in "The Sebenza is a horrible knife because all knives that start with the letter S are tools of the devil."
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I think it is reasonable to expect to pay extra for that and reasonable to expect to pay less for a rougher finish.
As noted, I would argue the finish is useless on a working knife because the best finished knife when used significantly looks worse than the knife with the worst finish NIB. Thus you are getting nothing functional for your money and in a working knife as noted, what you are paying for is performance.
Makers could easily switch to using more inefficient methods such as using lower quality belts which would make them spend more time on the knife, by your arguement they should then charge more for the knife and the consumer should be willing to spend it. I would argue that they should simply use better belts.
Or maybe they have really horrible quality control which causes them to throw out one out of every two knives thus they need to double their prices. Would you also argue the consumer should pay more for that compared to another maker who takes more care and rejects far less pieces?
-Cliff
[*]possibly the weakest defination is "forming an unjust opinion without consideration of the facts" you can stretch this to cover any opinion as no one knows all the facts obviously, but as noted, this would make any and all statements/judgements predjuiced which is then a meaningless word, it is usually taken to mean "facts presented" or "facts known", thus ignoring information intentionally is a prejudice being ignorant isn't because otherwise everyone is prejudiced on everything
Come on people, I doubt it's the best folding knife, I'm positive there are much better customs out there. Accept it for what it is: an expensive but well-made folder. Personally, if someone gave me a Sebenza, I'd sell it and buy ~16 Swiss Army knives. 
