Odd 110 Blade

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travistheone

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I have a two week old 110 and I have been carefully examining it. The last 1/4 inch of the tip seems to be flattened. there is no edge it is just flat. what can i do to fix this as a great part of this knife is the clip point tip.
 
travistheone said:
I have a two week old 110 and I have been carefully examining it. The last 1/4 inch of the tip seems to be flattened. there is no edge it is just flat. what can i do to fix this as a great part of this knife is the clip point tip.
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Hey TTO...
Can you post a pic?
 
yes i can post a picture, i took some shots but cant seem to capture the defect. also how do i go about embedding them in the post?
 
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hopefully these pictures worked. you cannot see the issue very well except for a slight glint.
 
To tell you the truth I didn't carefully examine it until yesterday ( a week or two after i received it NIB) I have carried it but cut only a piece of chicken. I only have a sharpmaker. Would buck fix me up?
 
Buck_110 said:
...and let them send it back...
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That brings up an interesting question...How many of the Big Boys send Buck knives back due to defects??? We only know of the defective ones we get...if the iceberg theory holds true, Buck must have a warehouse full of returned defective 110's... :eek:
 
Buck_110 said:
An easier alternative would be to go to your nearest Wally World and purchase a new 110, swap it with the one you have, and then return it. There would be no postage for you to pay sending it back to Buck this way. Then when you return it, show them the reason why, and let them send it back. Why should you have to pay postage on a brand new knife?
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buck 110
thats p##s poor advice :thumbdn: , its a user why wouldnt you tell him to go to the same wally world and get a sharpener
i could see if it was a $200 custom but a $25 user that he is going to have to sharpen worse damage sooner or later anyways
you can be sure wally doesnt pay ffor their warranty we do and their employees do
think of it this way for every dollar someone gets that they dont earn someone earns a dollar they dont get
 
...That edge could be what it should be in 3 minutes on a bench stone...Good as any out of the box...You're gonna need a stone eventually anyway...:)
 
...Actually...That edge could be completed on a kitchen steel in about a minute...He's gonna want to sharpen it eventually anyway...$2.00 for a stone...ACE hardware...:cool:
 
Buck_110 said:
I'm sorry, but I think it is more unfair that he should have to spend more of his money to return and correct what he should have got in the first place. You want him to spend even more money to buy a sharpener to correct a problem that shouldn't be there at all.

If you purchased a new car that needed a fender re-painted, would you purchase the tools that are needed to repair it yourself, and go on to correct it yourself, or would you bring it back? The value of ones purchase should have no bearing on whether it is okay to accept it or not if the product is defective.
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his post doesnt say where he originally bought it which is where it shoud go back to if he is actually that fussy about it but that seems silly when it is a user anyway
if i bought a new chevy and it wasnt right i wouldnt take it to ford and expect anything
your advice while well intentioned is telling him to be dishonest and thats a bad thing no matter how small of a deal it is
 
well its not worth arguing over so obviously we will have to agree to disagree on this
but my original point still stands , you can be sure neither buck or the retailer is going to pay for this it would just be passed on to the general consumer and for such a minor thing seems silly
myself in such a case i would just sharpen it and if it was a safe queen either send to buck at my expense (happened more than once) or check closer next time purchasing
 
Travis,
If the knife is ok in all other ways, I'd just pickup a medium grit bench stone next time I was at Sears or Home Depot. It would take about 5 minutes to fix if you had the right stone. You could also put your medium grit Sharpmaker stones in the under-side slots on the base and try that. Like DarrylS said, you are going to need to sharpen it sooner or later anyway.

By the way, I think that part of the blade edge will sometimes contact the inside of the rear bolster when the blade is closed (when the blade is slammed shut or if the blade is inadvertantly pushed deeper past the closed position.) So trying to get a shaving edge out at the tip might be counter productive.

Things I couldn't live with would be blade-play in the open position or a badly centered blade. Your tip edge thing seems very minor in comparison.

Just my 2 centavos.
 
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