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Flint Hills said:
That is a pretty knife.

For those saying that the knife is okay in that condition, if you bought a $75 shirt and all of the buttons were falling off, would you happily sew them back on yourself or would you take it back?

I also wonder what people would be saying if this exact same scenario happened with a Case knife.
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Who said a knife is OKAY in that condition?
 
I've had a rough couple of days, sorry for bringing it here.

Congrats on the new knife, it really does look great!
 
It's been discussed in this forum before that GEC has had a problem with proud blade tips in some of their patterns. It seems that they cut their frames to a very close tolerance and then in their final grinding and polishing the frames are left just a bit shy of that tolerance.

Y'all can do a search if you want. This thread probably ought to moved to the Maintenance Forum by one of the Mods.
 
t.sous11 said:
I don't expect perfection when I'm buying knives from manufacturers, they aren't custom knives and aren't going to be custom quality. In my opinion it's the small flaws and imperfections that are easily fixed by the owner that makes the knife more "yours" so to speak. I will say that GEC's quality is head and shoulders over the competition and you can't beat their quality-price ratio. On the other hand, if I would have sent it to them I have no doubt it would have been taken care of.

They are a relatively small company though, and don't have a specific repair department. They fit in repairs between producing new knives, so the wait can be longer. Not that I would have minded, but if it's something small that I can fix quickly and enjoy now, then why not? I never intended to send the knife back, but I haven't done very many operations myself, thus this thread being created to ask what the best approach is. If there's problems down the road, I know they'll be covered under the warranty. No need to stir the pot, everything is good now and I'm very happy with the knife...

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Well said, and congrats on the beautiful knife.
 
Congrats on the pumpkin patch jack :thumbup:
It's one of my favorites and I should carry it more, but I spend more time staring at it than carrying it :D
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Flint Hills said:
That is a pretty knife.

For those saying that the knife is okay in that condition, if you bought a $75 shirt and all of the buttons were falling off, would you happily sew them back on yourself or would you take it back?

I also wonder what people would be saying if this exact same scenario happened with a Case knife.
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I actually had to do that with a $400 trench coat! Funny thing is I was in Bulgaria so return was no longer an option. I did it my self, even though it would have cost next to nothing to have a tailor do it there.


I have also sanded the kick on a couple new GEC' s. I have a belt sander, so it takes a second.
 
I had to do the same thing on my stag 66 jack on the main clip. It took 2 minutes of looking honing and checking to fix it. I wasn't concerned about it at all as I knew how to fix it.

Those pumpkin patch jacks are really pretty.

Ed J
 
Really good looking one there,,so I guess when you work on the kick, the word is do it in stages checking it often until its where you want it.
 
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