Ehhh, the picture sure does show a bend there. A picture is worth a thousand words. I'd get a hold of W&R for that one. They'll make good. You can count on them.
Silverhead, Ehhh is making a comment about a problem in a positive way and has what is/ seems like a W&R case. You are just being provocative for no real reason. Thomas has done a lot for a lot of us on this forum. Taking random potshots at him for no reason I can see isn't a real good way to gain popularity and make friends.Also note he is a mod.
Beefing about sigs and avatars is kind of childish in fact. Lets talk about knives. Joe
Mastiff, I don't think it's random to say that sometimes people take your personality to be similar to you avatar when you attack customers for giving reviews. Personally I would remove the avatar, so people wouldn't associate me with a man who strikes student players when pissed and throws chairs across the building when he doesn't get his way. There isn't much difference doing this and saying "Sorry it does't do it it for you", which in my small and unimportant area of the southern US seems nothing but California Smart Ass, leaving unsaid, "if you don't like it go buy something else from us or someone else and while your at it go jump in the lake, because we are right and you are wrong and I'm boss, the best coach or most profitable knifemaker and because I say so and so on." It's the Bobby Knight way. I'm just offereing up advice from a small businessman's perspective to a employee of a large business entity, and don't care if it is right or wrong, because it's just my opinion.
We get an amateur knife lover review, some of us think is honest, and first thing out a Kershaw employee attacks the reviewer with sarcasm, and written assaults on any criticism mild though they are and dismisses it by saying he doesn't like his choice of words. For pete's sake, the reviewer says he likes the knife even.
For the record, I don't know or care who Thomas is, but if I find out he is a principal of Kershaw, well, there are more kind knifemaker owners to purchase from, not that some would care. My most meaningful knife I have, and I have a lot, is the one my then 7 year old took his personal birthday money and bought me, after he saw me looking at a Leek a few months earlier. I will always be a Kershaw owner and am especially careful where I carry this treasured gift. The boy is older now and a Kershaw owner as well.
Again, I don't see someone at Buck or Sal facing up people who offer up their opinions of their knives. I have a pair of glasses that fell apart after one year. they were under warranty. They gave me another pair. After 13 months, the second pair fell apart. The doctors office said, "Well, they are now out of warranty". That's fair enough, but if I were the doctor, I would be concerned that their supplier(Columbia eyewear sucks) had cost me a customer, because of their shabby product. You pay $300 for a pair of glasses, they should last more than a years time. They just walked me to the door thinking I am just a complainer. I'm no complainer. I thought maybe I had done somethingwhen they were under warranty, I could have taken them in earlier. But when they completely started falling apart, I knew it was not me, but the supplier of the dealer I purchased the pair from.
Heck, if I'm going to get made in china crap glasses, I'll be buying my next pair on the cheap at Wal Mart, where they'll back their products up and listen when something is wrong. Same goes for any business. If I find something minor or negligible about a knife I own, I think the knifemaker would be appreciative to know what I found so that it could be reviewed internally and possibly corrected if they think it is a problem.
I'll take AG Russell's comments that Kershaw may be one of the finest knifemakers on the planet. It is a given. I'll also watch a friends national run hunting show's commercials where they are advertised and think they are nice looking knifes. Whether I'll buy another, well, again, I'll just need to decide if Kershaw does care about their customer, me. Right now I think they do, from what I've read.
I'll prolly get a big "you are right and I am double wrong" comment or something. I know I don't know much about knives but I can recognize what some people might consider cheesy graphics(personal opinion is that it is cool looking) and a crooked blade and even soft steel. Again, watch how Sal Glesser treats a man that many people do not like, Cliff Stamp. His genius is not to argue and tell him he is a bafoon, like a ton of people do, and maybe they are right, but Sal treats him with respect, picks his brain and takes and applies what, if anything, is worth taking from a self taught and proclaimed expert. That is true genius. The more I read of Spyderco and their owner's attention to the least of people, guys like me, the more I realize the may be one of the finest small knifemaking companies on the planet, and I don't particularly like their product's looks, though I love my Native. Maybe it's just the difference in being a small company vs a large one.
