New ZT0550 Thread !!!

[jmckenna]

The silence from Kershaw and its dealers is deafening.

Time for you to speak up.

It would be nice to hear something from someone official.

 

[B Hess]

I just sent KAI an e-mail. I'll let everyone know how they respond.

 

[Ken44]

What type of steel was used for those liners?

 

[Thrill]

It would be nice to hear something from someone official.

And the wait continues......it is so hard to believe that a company like KAI would let these issues go out the door. It is crazy, crazy, crazy I tell you. The pictures of rust are incredible......I'm on the back up list and I certainly will not get one if there are going to be these issues.

 

[flash900]

And the wait continues......it is so hard to believe that a company like KAI would let these issues go out the door. It is crazy, crazy, crazy I tell you. The pictures of rust are incredible......I'm on the back up list and I certainly will not get one if there are going to be these issues.

Want mine?

 

[bearcut]

Can’t wait to see these come up on the exchange: “blade is centered, no rust on the liners…..”

The BM 755 didn't fulfill me like it was supposed to, and now this 0550 letdown?

Oh well, the H.E.S.T. folder will be coming out soon, THEN my life will be complete. I hope.

 

[banana-clip]

What type of steel was used for those liners?

It was supposed to be a stainless steel liner.

 

[vicbastige]

The QC issues I have read about here are simply inexcuseable. I almost got in line for one and at this point sadly I'm glad I did not. I will contiue to save and buy my next real Hinderer. His units are flawless and simply the best folding cutting tool I have ever come accross...worth saving for!

 

[allballs]

The silence from Kershaw and its dealers is deafening.

Time for you to speak up.

Agreed :thumbup: at least let us know your looking into the issues people have been talking about

 

[Ken44]

It was supposed to be a stainless steel liner.

From the looks of some pics I'm not so sure about them being a stainless. I've never seen any stainless steel rust that fast. I wonder if someone sold them some steel that was not a stainless

 

[Bapple]

Had pre-ordered 2 of these, cancelled both due to these problems. I will wait until they get sorted out, then perhaps take another look.

 

[bearcut]

The silence from Kershaw and its dealers is deafening.

Time for you to speak up.

Until then, please re-read the first 500 posts, when the dream was still alive, that should make everyone feel better, at least temporarily.

 

[atony]

So far I am very pleased with my production knife.

 

[FlaMtnBkr]

The silence from Kershaw and its dealers is deafening.

Time for you to speak up.

Time to be an ass. What do you want them to say? Everyone gets a free hug and a Kleenex? Everyone gets a complimentary 0551? Will admitting something got overlooked and an apology make anyone happy? Or that everyone should send there knife back and they will re-finish the liners assuming that people don't make a thread on some forum hounding them to get finished? Because that obviously didn't work the first time. I opened the 2 threads on the 0551 about 12 times to see how things were going over the last couple months. I always ended up shaking my head because it sounded like a bunch of unruly kids who don't hear their father's belt come hissing out of the belt loops near enough, on Christmas eve yelling and crying and bouncing off the walls. What did everyone think was going to happen when a knife was squeezed into production during the holidays, and then a couple hundred people groaning and moaning for it to be in their sweaty little hands? It is great to have Thomas on the forums but this is probably part of the reason the Kershaw forum was shut down.

It looks like a finishing step was missed on the liners. They are still made out of stainless steel but that does not mean stain proof, but stain "less". Since the liners appear to be quite rough it is very easy for rust to start as there are lots of nucleation sites. Every red blooded American male should have some sandpaper and it should take about 5 minutes to clean up. It should never just completely rust away like a carbon steel could, but it can have surface rust which is an eye sore.

Having dealt with Kershaw's warranty department a couple times I am sure they will take care of any problems people feel they have. I just hope that everyone is patient to get their knife back since there will probably be quite a few returned from the sounds of it. This happens all too often with sprint runs and I feel it is always because the company gets pressured to get them out and things are rushed and corners cut. Which is sad because the sprint runs are supposed to be perfection and many times end up in disappointment for at least some. No it shouldn't happen and is not an excuse, but I can think of numerous times it has happened with the big popular companies (Spyderco, Benchmade, and now ZT).

/rant

 

[IGotStabbed]

Time to be an ass. What do you want them to say? Everyone gets a free hug and a Kleenex? Everyone gets a complimentary 0551? Will admitting something got overlooked and an apology make anyone happy? Or that everyone should send there knife back and they will re-finish the liners assuming that people don't make a thread on some forum hounding them to get finished? Because that obviously didn't work the first time. I opened the 2 threads on the 0551 about 12 times to see how things were going over the last couple months. I always ended up shaking my head because it sounded like a bunch of unruly kids who don't hear their father's belt come hissing out of the belt loops near enough, on Christmas eve yelling and crying and bouncing off the walls. What did everyone think was going to happen when a knife was squeezed into production during the holidays, and then a couple hundred people groaning and moaning for it to be in their sweaty little hands? It is great to have Thomas on the forums but this is probably part of the reason the Kershaw forum was shut down.

It looks like a finishing step was missed on the liners. They are still made out of stainless steel but that does not mean stain proof, but stain "less". Since the liners appear to be quite rough it is very easy for rust to start as there are lots of nucleation sites. Every red blooded American male should have some sandpaper and it should take about 5 minutes to clean up. It should never just completely rust away like a carbon steel could, but it can have surface rust which is an eye sore.

Having dealt with Kershaw's warranty department a couple times I am sure they will take care of any problems people feel they have. I just hope that everyone is patient to get their knife back since there will probably be quite a few returned from the sounds of it. This happens all too often with sprint runs and I feel it is always because the company gets pressured to get them out and things are rushed and corners cut. Which is sad because the sprint runs are supposed to be perfection and many times end up in disappointment for at least some. No it shouldn't happen and is not an excuse, but I can think of numerous times it has happened with the big popular companies (Spyderco, Benchmade, and now ZT).

/rant

I agree. Please list more of the positives. I think the extreme rust is an isolated incident.

 

[cziv]

Every red blooded American male should have some sandpaper and it should take about 5 minutes to clean up. It should never just completely rust away like a carbon steel could, but it can have surface rust which is an eye sore.

I agree, unless it's some radical issue. It's odd that some are perfectly fine and others not. I'm blaming it all on the dude wearing the T-shirt he just bought the night before at the SLAYER concert.....lol...just kidding.

Knifenut1013 had some real nasty pics and he's aready got his cleaned up, resharpened to hair splitting sharp and ready to cut stuff up. :thumbup:

 

[Jroden5446]

Time to be an ass. What do you want them to say? Everyone gets a free hug and a Kleenex? Everyone gets a complimentary 0551? Will admitting something got overlooked and an apology make anyone happy? Or that everyone should send there knife back and they will re-finish the liners assuming that people don't make a thread on some forum hounding them to get finished? Because that obviously didn't work the first time. I opened the 2 threads on the 0551 about 12 times to see how things were going over the last couple months. I always ended up shaking my head because it sounded like a bunch of unruly kids who don't hear their father's belt come hissing out of the belt loops near enough, on Christmas eve yelling and crying and bouncing off the walls. What did everyone think was going to happen when a knife was squeezed into production during the holidays, and then a couple hundred people groaning and moaning for it to be in their sweaty little hands? It is great to have Thomas on the forums but this is probably part of the reason the Kershaw forum was shut down.


It looks like a finishing step was missed on the liners. They are still made out of stainless steel but that does not mean stain proof, but stain "less". Since the liners appear to be quite rough it is very easy for rust to start as there are lots of nucleation sites. Every red blooded American male should have some sandpaper and it should take about 5 minutes to clean up. It should never just completely rust away like a carbon steel could, but it can have surface rust which is an eye sore.

Having dealt with Kershaw's warranty department a couple times I am sure they will take care of any problems people feel they have. I just hope that everyone is patient to get their knife back since there will probably be quite a few returned from the sounds of it. This happens all too often with sprint runs and I feel it is always because the company gets pressured to get them out and things are rushed and corners cut. Which is sad because the sprint runs are supposed to be perfection and many times end up in disappointment for at least some. No it shouldn't happen and is not an excuse, but I can think of numerous times it has happened with the big popular companies (Spyderco, Benchmade, and now ZT).

/rant

Well said man. Mine is quite perfect, very happy with it, currently replacing my Volt for EDC

 

[vegasracer]

Well put FlaMtnBkr. I'm amazed to see all the lather being whipped up here... based on some initial observations and a LOT of speculation IMHO. Personally, I'll wait until I have both sides of the story before passing judgement. YMMV.

Time to be an ass. What do you want them to say? Everyone gets a free hug and a Kleenex? Everyone gets a complimentary 0551? Will admitting something got overlooked and an apology make anyone happy? Or that everyone should send there knife back and they will re-finish the liners assuming that people don't make a thread on some forum hounding them to get finished? Because that obviously didn't work the first time. I opened the 2 threads on the 0551 about 12 times to see how things were going over the last couple months. I always ended up shaking my head because it sounded like a bunch of unruly kids who don't hear their father's belt come hissing out of the belt loops near enough, on Christmas eve yelling and crying and bouncing off the walls. What did everyone think was going to happen when a knife was squeezed into production during the holidays, and then a couple hundred people groaning and moaning for it to be in their sweaty little hands? It is great to have Thomas on the forums but this is probably part of the reason the Kershaw forum was shut down.

It looks like a finishing step was missed on the liners. They are still made out of stainless steel but that does not mean stain proof, but stain "less". Since the liners appear to be quite rough it is very easy for rust to start as there are lots of nucleation sites. Every red blooded American male should have some sandpaper and it should take about 5 minutes to clean up. It should never just completely rust away like a carbon steel could, but it can have surface rust which is an eye sore.

Having dealt with Kershaw's warranty department a couple times I am sure they will take care of any problems people feel they have. I just hope that everyone is patient to get their knife back since there will probably be quite a few returned from the sounds of it. This happens all too often with sprint runs and I feel it is always because the company gets pressured to get them out and things are rushed and corners cut. Which is sad because the sprint runs are supposed to be perfection and many times end up in disappointment for at least some. No it shouldn't happen and is not an excuse, but I can think of numerous times it has happened with the big popular companies (Spyderco, Benchmade, and now ZT).

/rant

 

[jmckenna]

It's all well and good to say that you can fix it with sand-paper. But you shouldn't have to. Like it or not, some people don't use every knife they buy, and if I buy a NIB knife from the manufacturer or a dealer, it should come in perfect condition, I shouldn't have to modify it.

 

[RevDevil]

Time to be an ass. What do you want them to say? Everyone gets a free hug and a Kleenex? Everyone gets a complimentary 0551? Will admitting something got overlooked and an apology make anyone happy? Or that everyone should send there knife back and they will re-finish the liners assuming that people don't make a thread on some forum hounding them to get finished? Because that obviously didn't work the first time. I opened the 2 threads on the 0551 about 12 times to see how things were going over the last couple months. I always ended up shaking my head because it sounded like a bunch of unruly kids who don't hear their father's belt come hissing out of the belt loops near enough, on Christmas eve yelling and crying and bouncing off the walls. What did everyone think was going to happen when a knife was squeezed into production during the holidays, and then a couple hundred people groaning and moaning for it to be in their sweaty little hands? It is great to have Thomas on the forums but this is probably part of the reason the Kershaw forum was shut down.

It looks like a finishing step was missed on the liners. They are still made out of stainless steel but that does not mean stain proof, but stain "less". Since the liners appear to be quite rough it is very easy for rust to start as there are lots of nucleation sites. Every red blooded American male should have some sandpaper and it should take about 5 minutes to clean up. It should never just completely rust away like a carbon steel could, but it can have surface rust which is an eye sore.

Having dealt with Kershaw's warranty department a couple times I am sure they will take care of any problems people feel they have. I just hope that everyone is patient to get their knife back since there will probably be quite a few returned from the sounds of it. This happens all too often with sprint runs and I feel it is always because the company gets pressured to get them out and things are rushed and corners cut. Which is sad because the sprint runs are supposed to be perfection and many times end up in disappointment for at least some. No it shouldn't happen and is not an excuse, but I can think of numerous times it has happened with the big popular companies (Spyderco, Benchmade, and now ZT).

/rant

Indeed.
Did you actually buy this knife, or did you just feel a burning need to comment on it anyway?