Sarsaparilla Knife and Tool Slipjoint

I once bought a Bear & Sons sodbuster, same problem, and it did NOT go away after a few sharpenings. I removed more than a millimeter and it kept happening. Now it stays open all the time.
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chiral.grolim said:
I once bought a Bear & Sons sodbuster, same problem, and it did NOT go away after a few sharpenings. I removed more than a millimeter and it kept happening. Now it stays open all the time.
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Thanks for sharing. I tried sharpening it out and it did come back. I messaged the maker and they are going to fix it up for me.
 
NVWolfpack said:
Thanks for sharing. I tried sharpening it out and it did come back. I messaged the maker and they are going to fix it up for me.
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Good to read, but that's the least they should do, and i hope 'fix it up' means a replacement because that was shoddy QC letting it out the door at all. If you send it in, they better not send you back the same blade just ground away until the kick makes contact first. You can't ungrind an over ground kick.

What kind of company charges that much for that kind of QC? :confused:
 
chiral.grolim said:
Good to read, but that's the least they should do, and i hope 'fix it up' means a replacement because that was shoddy QC letting it out the door at all. If you send it in, they better not send you back the same blade just ground away until the kick makes contact first. You can't ungrind an over ground kick.

What kind of company charges that much for that kind of QC? :confused:
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I was thinking maybe they'd replace the blade, but they're both members of the knife makers guild so I trust that they'll fix it right. It's their first round of slipjoints so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
 
chiral.grolim said:
Good to read, but that's the least they should do, and i hope 'fix it up' means a replacement because that was shoddy QC letting it out the door at all. If you send it in, they better not send you back the same blade just ground away until the kick makes contact first. You can't ungrind an over ground kick.

What kind of company charges that much for that kind of QC? :confused:
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Agreed, that's a new knife to fix it. For that kind of money, grinding away enough blade to stop the contact would be unacceptable to me.

Shame, too. When I saw the knife in this thread I had to talk myself out of buying a slipjoint that expensive, I really liked the looks of it. For that money, though, a slipjoint should be perfect.
 
evilgreg said:
Agreed, that's a new knife to fix it. For that kind of money, grinding away enough blade to stop the contact would be unacceptable to me.

Shame, too. When I saw the knife in this thread I had to talk myself out of buying a slipjoint that expensive, I really liked the looks of it. For that money, though, a slipjoint should be perfect.
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I think you can extract the pins and install a new blade with a longer kick, but I am by no means an expert in working on slipjoints. Allen Surls and Dirk Loots have great reviews for their knives as far as I can tell and seem to have integrity. As soon as I reached out they asked me to send it back, and I have no reason to believe they won't do right by me. I'll keep you updated.

I'm not defending them, but it took opening and closing it quite a few times to discover the issue, I know this was a small batch of knives and I dont know how much qc it would take to discover that.
 
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