Is this acceptable in a 1K knife?

If your not happy after you receive the knife you should ask to seller to accept a return because it was not described accurately. If the knife have been through many hands, who knows why the gap is there. Either it shifted to the side cause the screws are weird or it shrunk or just was made like that. The maker might be willing to fix it but you may have to pay for a refurb. Also i'm not sure 1k is really a "high end" knife.
 
It looks fine to me. The reveal looks like the maker did it that way on purpose. Maybe the original buyer asked for it to be done that way. What exactly about it bothers you? The fact that it is the way it is? That's different than unacceptable.
 
martinr said:
It looks fine to me. The reveal looks like the maker did it that way on purpose. Maybe the original buyer asked for it to be done that way. What exactly about it bothers you? The fact that it is the way it is? That's different than unacceptable.
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It's only like that in that one spot.....nowhere else on the knife and not on the opposite side.
 
Well then Mr. Sausage, it sure sounds like you need to take that issue up with the maker.

Either that or just live with it.
 
If it's only in one spot maybe one of the previous owners dinged it or damaged it somehow and filed it off so there wouldn't be a rough edge. But either way why not contact the maker and find out? He might volunteer to make you a new scale.
 
That is God-aweful, but your beef ought to be with the person who sold you a knife with an undisclosed/concealed flaw.

IF the knife left the maker's shop that way, it is absolutely inexcusable. Seeing as you're the third owner, I don't see how you can fairly make such an assumption, and I think you ought to remove the pic, lest someone recognize the work and unfairly hurt the maker's reputation.
 
As a maker I guess I read this with a little different bias.

First of all, YES, I would prefer a customer contact me BEFORE starting a thread for the world to see.

But there's also something that really jumps out at me....

There's not an over-abundance of people out there willing/able to buy a $1,000 knife.

So when I'm reading that your last two experiences with custom knives hasn't left you happy... then that worries me that you'll pack up and find a new hobby.

Customers paying $1,000 for a knife should be thrilled with it... no matter who made it.

However, even with all that said, I'm having a hard time seeing just what's going on in that picture. More, clear pictures would sure be better for folks to see what you're concerned with. But contacting the seller would be the best yet. :)
 
He took his ball and went home, no pictures, no contacting the maker, no shipping outside of the U.S., no satisfaction for customer, no satisfaction for members reading this thread and no real reason or purpose for starting this thread.

Hey! We had alot of drama though! :rolleyes:
 
BowieBooster said:
....but your beef ought to be with the person who sold you a knife with an undisclosed/concealed flaw.
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Stop trying to make sense. The time for that has long passed.

Am I the only one entirely unsurprised that we haven't seen a pic of the whole handle? (This is a rhetorical question - no need to answer and prolong this waste of bandwidth.)

Roger
 
Not having shown a pic of the full knife might be a good thing considering it's not clear the defect was present when the knife left the maker or the consequence of someone messig with the knife afterwards.
This being said, for those who are a bit familiar with the maker's work, the pic in the first post is enough to identify the maker and knife.
Contacting the seller and/or the maker before starting this thread woud have been the way to go. It's still the right option IMO.
 
Willie-sausage said:
The noticeable gap between the liner and scale.

Should I be satisfied with this?
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Nope :mad:

Willie-sausage said:
The noticeable gap between the liner and scale.

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Did the maker not notice it before it left his shop?
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It depends :cool:

Willie-sausage said:
The noticeable gap between the liner and scale.

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Your thoughts please.
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Contact the maker. Your next action very much depends on what he say on the problem :)

Hope my answers helps ;)

mohd
 
Not only will your contacting the maker most likely help to resolve your issue with your thousand dollar knife but when collectors question, reject and/or not purchase knives which they feel have defects help knifemakers realize what's acceptable and not acceptable in regard to the quality of the knives they offer.
This in the long run helps knife collectors in general.

You can bet that if a knifemaker gets several knives returned to him or sees collectors not purchasing his knives at shows because he doesn't provide a correct blade edge or doesn't align his scales correctly, he's most likely going to alleviate these issues in knives he offers in the future.

Just "accepting" knives which you feel have un-reasonable defects or imperfections helps no one.
 
RogerP said:
Stop trying to make sense. The time for that has long passed.

Am I the only one entirely unsurprised that we haven't seen a pic of the whole handle? (This is a rhetorical question - no need to answer and prolong this waste of bandwidth.)

Roger
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Ain't it the truth! But it made for good yesterday-evening drama.
 
Willie-sausage said:
I am happy with the knife for the most part.....I did not get it directly from the maker.


These types of flaws must be a common occurence and are just overlooked/tolerated because...I know this particular knife passed through a few owners hands before it got to me.
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So I gotta ask. You bought a $1,000 knife, sight unseen? Used? Not from the maker himself? From a string of third parties? Or did you see it and not notice? I hate to pile on but man...
 
If I were Willie, I'd buy a paying membership, just to get this thread closed, LOL.

Bob
 
Hi Willie,

Question for you...

Never mind just read where you bought this in the aftermarket. That explains a lot....especially the $1K price tag.

There is some validity to this thread.

1) Do your homework before you buy the knife...ask for photos.

2) Contact the maker and ask them how much the knife sold for.

3) Ask the maker how old the knife is.

4) Ask the maker if the scale being like that was intentional or an oops. If an oops...would they fix it.

5) If they will fix it...you have the seller send the knife to the maker....get the knife fixed...then have them ship it to you. This would have resolved the issue.

6) If the seller won't do that...don't buy the knife...as it is obviously no where near (NO WHERE NEAR) a $1K knife.

Willie were you asking the question because you wanted to send the knife back for a refund and the seller wouldn't take it back?
 
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This thread really ought to be shut down. It's not that it's already run it's useful course.......I don't think it ever had one to begin with. It should never have been posted.
 
As a maker, I am always happy to fix a knife for a customer no matter how many hands it has gone through and the reason is simple, I don't want bad examples of my work out there. I'm talking about un-intended flaws, and after market stuff like shrinkage or user mis-haps. I have not charged for repairs, that's just good PR. Some could argue that I have made bad looking design choices and I am sure that is true, there's no accounting for taste :D

I have picked up some of my prior work and wondered how I ever let it out of my shop that way. The reason is, I just wasn't that good yet, or didn't know any better.

Two things are certain.

1. I am better now than I ever was, and I strive to make every knife better than the last one.

2. I make mistakes on every knife I make, I am only human, but by the time I let them go, they are as good as I can make them. I hope they speak for themselves.

Just so there is no confusion, I am not the maker of that folder.

Not to just pile on Mr. Sausage but both of his resent posts were a little inflammatory toward knife makers and it's probably OK. If not here, then where to post, maybe it would be better to be a little less on the offense. I learned something from both of them.
 
Mark Knapp said:
As a maker, I am always happy to fix a knife for a customer no matter how many hands it has gone through and the reason is simple, I don't want bad examples of my work out there. I'm talking about un-intended flaws, and after market stuff like shrinkage or user mis-haps. I have not charged for repairs, that's just good PR. Some could argue that I have made bad looking design choices and I am sure that is true, there's no accounting for taste :D

I have picked up some of my prior work and wondered how I ever let it out of my shop that way. The reason is, I just wasn't that good yet, or didn't know any better.

Two things are certain.

1. I am better now than I ever was, and I strive to make every knife better than the last one.

2. I make mistakes on every knife I make, I am only human, but by the time I let them go, they are as good as I can make them. I hope they speak for themselves.

Just so there is no confusion, I am not the maker of that folder.

Not to just pile on Mr. Sausage but both of his resent posts were a little inflammatory toward knife makers and it's probably OK. If not here, then where to post, maybe it would be better to be a little less on the offense. I learned something from both of them.
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Mark, that knife at the bottom of your post is insane! :thumbup:
 
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Les Robertson said:
Hi Willie,

Question for you...

Never mind just read where you bought this in the aftermarket. That explains a lot....especially the $1K price tag.

There is some validity to this thread.

1) Do your homework before you buy the knife...ask for photos.

2) Contact the maker and ask them how much the knife sold for.

3) Ask the maker how old the knife is.

4) Ask the maker if the scale being like that was intentional or an oops. If an oops...would they fix it.

5) If they will fix it...you have the seller send the knife to the maker....get the knife fixed...then have them ship it to you. This would have resolved the issue.

6) If the seller won't do that...don't buy the knife...as it is obviously no where near (NO WHERE NEAR) a $1K knife.

Willie were you asking the question because you wanted to send the knife back for a refund and the seller wouldn't take it back?
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Great advice Les, thank you.
 
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