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Since photos of the knives and their dimensions, etc. have already been posted, I'm not going to do that. Just some photos of quality control positives and negatives.
Everything came very well packaged. I don't have photos of it, but each knife came in a nice box with a silica pack. Every blade was tightly wrapped in a slightly waxy, white tissue type paper and then the knife was put in a plastic sheath type bag. A lot of car was taken in packing them. However, as you will see later, one thing that is missing that should probably be there, is a coating of oil.
(Left to right: Rodan, Nessmuk, 4 inch Bushcraft, Bushlore, Golok)
My haul. I ordered from a online merchant I've never used before (Campsmarter.com). They were actually very good at keeping me up to date on my order and with emails. However, I noticed recently that all my knives were in stock except the Golok, which said it would not be in stock until October. I emailed and asked if they would send the ones that were in stock and send the Golok when it came in. They said they would and would not charge a separate shipping charge when it did. I was surprised to find the entire order arrived a couple days later. The total cost of all with shipping was $140.63. I feel this is pretty darned good for so many knives.
The sheaths are pretty high quality for the cost and, although each knife feels very utilitarian, they feel good in the hand and all fittings were good and tight. None of the blades were shaving sharp, however 20 strops or so on leather with some green compound was all it took for the Bushlore to shave and slice a piece of paper as though it were going through air. The Golok was a little sharper than the rest and I was able to do some chopping and cutting with it briefly, but it still needs a little touch up.
However, even though inside each box is a tag that shows which inspector was responsible for the QC of each knife, these issues slipped through.
Bushcraft knife
Rodan knife
Now, these are very, very inexpensive knives. Even with these issues, I think they are still a great bargain. The black coating is very thin, and truth be told, I'm going to remove it anyway and it would come off with heavy use. Other than the blade rust, the grind on the Bushcraft is uneven and, as you can see, it got a little too hot on the grind. Condor is obviously going to a lot of trouble to show that they are trying to control quality, so I feel at least a couple of these things should have been caught prior to packaging if they are going to project that image. Each knife is also packed with a silica pack. Maybe this is cheaper than a coating of oil to prevent rusting. I'm sure it is faster and easier to just drop a silica pack in the box, but...
I think my favorite is going to be the Bushlore.
Everything came very well packaged. I don't have photos of it, but each knife came in a nice box with a silica pack. Every blade was tightly wrapped in a slightly waxy, white tissue type paper and then the knife was put in a plastic sheath type bag. A lot of car was taken in packing them. However, as you will see later, one thing that is missing that should probably be there, is a coating of oil.
(Left to right: Rodan, Nessmuk, 4 inch Bushcraft, Bushlore, Golok)
My haul. I ordered from a online merchant I've never used before (Campsmarter.com). They were actually very good at keeping me up to date on my order and with emails. However, I noticed recently that all my knives were in stock except the Golok, which said it would not be in stock until October. I emailed and asked if they would send the ones that were in stock and send the Golok when it came in. They said they would and would not charge a separate shipping charge when it did. I was surprised to find the entire order arrived a couple days later. The total cost of all with shipping was $140.63. I feel this is pretty darned good for so many knives.
The sheaths are pretty high quality for the cost and, although each knife feels very utilitarian, they feel good in the hand and all fittings were good and tight. None of the blades were shaving sharp, however 20 strops or so on leather with some green compound was all it took for the Bushlore to shave and slice a piece of paper as though it were going through air. The Golok was a little sharper than the rest and I was able to do some chopping and cutting with it briefly, but it still needs a little touch up.
However, even though inside each box is a tag that shows which inspector was responsible for the QC of each knife, these issues slipped through.
Bushcraft knife
Rodan knife
Now, these are very, very inexpensive knives. Even with these issues, I think they are still a great bargain. The black coating is very thin, and truth be told, I'm going to remove it anyway and it would come off with heavy use. Other than the blade rust, the grind on the Bushcraft is uneven and, as you can see, it got a little too hot on the grind. Condor is obviously going to a lot of trouble to show that they are trying to control quality, so I feel at least a couple of these things should have been caught prior to packaging if they are going to project that image. Each knife is also packed with a silica pack. Maybe this is cheaper than a coating of oil to prevent rusting. I'm sure it is faster and easier to just drop a silica pack in the box, but...
I think my favorite is going to be the Bushlore.
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It's just that Condor goes through all these efforts to show quality control, but this makes it appear as though it is not working. I mean, I've never bought any production knife, at any cost, that had all these obvious signs of attempting to confirm QC. Maybe I'm being overly critical, I don't know, but if I were paying someone to sit on a line carefully wrapping, packaging and writing my QC info and initials on a tag for the box, they should be doing it.
