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If my new small Micarta comes with a bunch of fit and finish problems, it's going to be returned.
While I agree to a certain extent to stop looking at them so closely and enjoy them... If I wanted sloppy machining and crappy components, I would buy a nearly identical knife for a fraction of the price. I paid $500+ for this knife BECAUSE of the fit and finish; I know how hard it is to get it close to perfect, and that is what I am paying for. If the fit and finish is not top notch, I am not paying top notch prices.
About cars, I have a BMW X5 that cost a little over $80,000 new, and yesterday I bought a new work car which is a 2012 $26,000 Chevy Cruze. The difference is apparent, but the Chevy is close in fit and finish in a lot of areas. It's not as nice materials, and not as nice attention to detail, and the fit and finish is not as good in the interior, the molds they used are not as smooth and they have visible seams, but the X5 is not exponentially better. There is a rule of diminishing returns on quality.
You can find a good engineer will make a product that is easy to manufacture to prevent quality problems at certain levels of pricing. A knife that for example uses overlays. This is because the quality is much easier to control. If someone wants to use an inlay, and they charge you exponentially more because of paid for an inlay that fits as good as an overlay, it better be as good, or you just wasted your money.
Finally, the best watches are almost entirely Swiss. The "best" while subjective is no doubt Patek Philippe, a Swiss manufacturer. While there are 2 notable manufacturers in Germany, Glashutte obviously, in no way are they the best, and form a very small majority of the high end market share. They form another good example, you can pay thousands for one piece then for a comparable piece tens of thousands in the luxury watch segment, and have very small differences between them OTHER than fit and finish.
Ultimately if we are paying a premium here for fit and finish due to more time being consumed in manufacturing and increasingly difficult manufacturing techniques which result in increased rates of rejected components in assembly; we have a right to expect it, because we paid for it.
If you paid for the name, who cares about the details, go enjoy your knife!!!
While I agree to a certain extent to stop looking at them so closely and enjoy them... If I wanted sloppy machining and crappy components, I would buy a nearly identical knife for a fraction of the price. I paid $500+ for this knife BECAUSE of the fit and finish; I know how hard it is to get it close to perfect, and that is what I am paying for. If the fit and finish is not top notch, I am not paying top notch prices.
About cars, I have a BMW X5 that cost a little over $80,000 new, and yesterday I bought a new work car which is a 2012 $26,000 Chevy Cruze. The difference is apparent, but the Chevy is close in fit and finish in a lot of areas. It's not as nice materials, and not as nice attention to detail, and the fit and finish is not as good in the interior, the molds they used are not as smooth and they have visible seams, but the X5 is not exponentially better. There is a rule of diminishing returns on quality.
You can find a good engineer will make a product that is easy to manufacture to prevent quality problems at certain levels of pricing. A knife that for example uses overlays. This is because the quality is much easier to control. If someone wants to use an inlay, and they charge you exponentially more because of paid for an inlay that fits as good as an overlay, it better be as good, or you just wasted your money.
Finally, the best watches are almost entirely Swiss. The "best" while subjective is no doubt Patek Philippe, a Swiss manufacturer. While there are 2 notable manufacturers in Germany, Glashutte obviously, in no way are they the best, and form a very small majority of the high end market share. They form another good example, you can pay thousands for one piece then for a comparable piece tens of thousands in the luxury watch segment, and have very small differences between them OTHER than fit and finish.
Ultimately if we are paying a premium here for fit and finish due to more time being consumed in manufacturing and increasingly difficult manufacturing techniques which result in increased rates of rejected components in assembly; we have a right to expect it, because we paid for it.
If you paid for the name, who cares about the details, go enjoy your knife!!!
That was a joke people. Calm down.
