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Should I Send It In?

Rocinante

Rocinante

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I'm curious as to what others would do with this one.

My 120BR has a pommel that is definitely not shaped right. Otherwise, the knife is just fine.

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In the future, either I or my heirs will want to sell this, so I'm wondering if that pommel will impact the desirability of the knife to buyers?

If I sell it, I will call the defect to the attention of the buyer.

If I were buying it I'd prefer one that was perfect.

So, should I send it in to Buck to make perfect or just ignore it?
 
buck would not want your heirs wandering why the knife was shaped wrong
it would be CJ's son or daughter dealing with it then
so i am sure they would rather make it right
right now..
IMHO send it in...
btw nice camara!
 
It does give it some character though. If it isnt making a difference in its use then why not keep it? Its like old misprint coins, maybe it will make it worth even more someday.
 
Or, you could say it was a special order for left handed people:D

If it bothers you (and it appears that it does) then send it back. You should be happy with the things your money is spent on.
 
Rocinante said:
So, should I send it in to Buck to make perfect or just ignore it?
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What is it that you want Buck to "make perfect"??? Grind, sand, and buff it until it is concentric/symmetrical??? Or replace the pommel with a new one ["perfect"]???... :confused:

"Making it right" might mean grinding it smaller than normal to get it concentric/symmetric...and pretty much anyone with a grinder can do that...

I'd want a new full-size concentric pommel...*if* I was sending it in...

I'd make very sure that Buck knew what your complaint was and agreed with your assessment of what should be done to "correct" it...

I'm not casting dispersions on any individuals at Buck...but from reading recent postings, there seems to be *two* Bucks...and neither one knows what the other is doing... :(

...$.02... (Please send it to 334darryls)... :p
 
Just my opinion, but I would keep it. So sometime down the road you could tell the grandkids that what they looked like when they were 'Man made'. Just a thought.
 
I have a few of the cocabolo series fixed blades and the pommels are not symmetric. I think it is fairly common to see that.

Tom
 
ROC,

You have posted with this same issue more than once now......So it must be bothering you!!!! I don't like the looks of that and I would consider it to be a FB knife and should be marked and sold as such. Knives are not coins and a defect like that appeal to very few collectors and that will reduce it's value IMHO. Send that knife back so you will be able to enjoy it when you are holding it.

jb4570
 
I agree, JB.....and I find what T Scholz says is interesting. How many here have or have seen BRs with assymetrical pommels?

I've only examined four BR Generals and this was the first I have noticed, but I may have missed it on others I saw.

Maybe we need Joe Houser to weigh in on this question.

T Schloz, are any of yours as bad as my picture?
 
Sitting here at my command center, within view, I have a 102BR, 105 Rose, and 119 Rose...and a 120 Pro-Line. All are symetrical.

Will check the few other 1xx series I have later, but I am pretty certain I would have noticed if they were asyrian or presbreterian.
 
Rocinante said:
I'm curious as to what others would do with this one.

My 120BR has a pommel that is definitely not shaped right. Otherwise, the knife is just fine.

BungledBucks004.jpg


In the future, either I or my heirs will want to sell this, so I'm wondering if that pommel will impact the desirability of the knife to buyers?

If I sell it, I will call the defect to the attention of the buyer.

If I were buying it I'd prefer one that was perfect.

So, should I send it in to Buck to make perfect or just ignore it?
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Just got a 119 with a tip not quite right. I touched it up on the stone-not quite perfect- but I'm going to use this knife hard and then sharpen it again. It still might not be perfect, but that doesn't bother me as long as it works. That's the thing, I think. If it bothers you I'm sure they'll make it right.:thumbup:
 
Thanks to all for the helpful answers.

I guess if there's a consensus here, it's that I should send it in if it bothers me......and a lot, or maybe most, seem to feel that it would bother them.

Maybe now I understand why I was having trouble deciding what to do, because there's a fairly wide spectrum of opinions here.

The idea that it may be normal for a BR pommel to be asymmetrical is a new thing to me.

I wonder why it would be just the BRs?

Anyhow, I'm thinking that it's a problem in any knife that may be collectible and will probably end up as a wall-hanger and be subject to severe scrutiny when sold.

We'll see what Joe has to say and ask him to keep an eye on it if it goes back.

Hope to get his take on all this next week.
 
Rocinante said:
I agree, JB.....and I find what T Scholz says is interesting. How many here have or have seen BRs with assymetrical pommels?

I've only examined four BR Generals and this was the first I have noticed, but I may have missed it on others I saw.

Maybe we need Joe Houser to weigh in on this question.

T Schloz, are any of yours as bad as my picture?
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I checked the BR series knives that I have. None are symmetrical.

120 with a 2005 date stamp, not as asymmetric as your picture.

119 with a 2003 date stamp, again not as asymmetric as your picture.

102 with a 1994 date stamp, much more asymmetric than your picture when I got it, but I re-ground and polished it myself.

Hope this helps
Tom
 
I would keep it but I am a lefty so I would call it my special order Left-handed General, made just for me.
 
Just my luck, I'm right-handed.

:D

And thanks, T Scholz, for the info on your BRs.

I'm interested to hear from Joe if they'll replace the pommel. It doesn't look to me like it can be fixed (if they took some off the right side so it matched the left--there wouldn't be much left of it).

I'm also curious as to why the BRs would have a higher incidence of asymmetrical pommels......were these done by different people than the regular 120s???

Hope Joe is around today.
 
I suspect that the brass pommels come as a rough casting, are fitted to the knife, and then finished from that point. I would also guess that there is a lot of handwork involved which would be why the variations in shape occur.

Tom
 
'Scuse the gaps in my knowledge here, but I was just assuming the brass and aluminum pommels would be made the same way.....that's why it seemed so odd to me that the BRs would show so many more anomalies.

Then again.....maybe I've had or seen some aluminum ones that were not so perfect either......who knows?
 
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