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Be well!/Jonas aka 2Sharp
"May all your detonations be expected"
The coolest bar in the world: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Camp/8373/index.html
My knives!
Guess what, my wish will come true when MT makes the Amphibian. All I really liked about the Commander was the blade shape. Oooops there I go again.
Oh, by the way, another Emerson defective blade post. Doesn't it seem strange for this to keep occuring?
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/001145.html
Will it never end! I really don't know why some of you take personal offense to me saying Emerson knives display shoddy workmanship. If you have a good one.....cool. It still doesn't account for the amount of posts relating to sub standard quality in general. Do you really think everyone is making these stories up?
I'm kind of enjoying the responses. Keep 'em coming........sure way for the quality of these knives to improve.
jc
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Oh, by the way, another Emerson defective blade post. Doesn't it seem strange for this to keep occuring?
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/001145.html
Will it never end! I really don't know why some of you take personal offense to me saying Emerson knives display shoddy workmanship. If you have a good one.....cool. It still doesn't account for the amount of posts relating to sub standard quality in general. Do you really think everyone is making these stories up?
I'm kind of enjoying the responses. Keep 'em coming........sure way for the quality of these knives to improve.
jc
[This message has been edited by jc (edited 02-13-2001).]
[This message has been edited by jc (edited 02-13-2001).]
Don't believe I'm getting into this one...
FWIW, I sent out my Commander today to EKI for them to inspect and repair it. The lockup is very loose and light pressure on the spine will make it start unlocking. More pressure or light spine whacking makes it collapse 95% of the time now.
This is the second time in six months that this knife has gone back for the same problem.
In the past few months I have not used knife much at all and I definitely have not abused it. I don't do a lot of Wave Openings and I have not taken it apart. I have also not modified it in any way shape or form.
This has furthered my mistrust of linerlocks in general - not necessarily of EKI's products specifically, mind you.
On the flipside is the fact that EKI has been very responsive and helpful with my problems. The last time I sent the knife in it only took a little over a week to get the knife back. I spoke today with a courteous lady who directed me to send it to them for repair.
In addition to this, my SOFCK is also working out nicely - the lockup on it is solid with none of the wobbling and premature unlocking that I've been experiencing with my Commander. A CQC-7 that I sold a friend seems to be holding up well as well.
But jc's comments do seem to ring true to me about how EKI's knives overall seem (by
objective standards) inferior to Microtechs in terms of fit & finish. Does this make them lousy knives? Of course not.
Heck, I will even go for the argument that EKI's knives are made to be users and not meant to be collectors like (for example) a $1000+ Microtech auto.
We'll see how long the Commander's lock holds up the next time it come back.
FWIW, I sent out my Commander today to EKI for them to inspect and repair it. The lockup is very loose and light pressure on the spine will make it start unlocking. More pressure or light spine whacking makes it collapse 95% of the time now.
This is the second time in six months that this knife has gone back for the same problem.
In the past few months I have not used knife much at all and I definitely have not abused it. I don't do a lot of Wave Openings and I have not taken it apart. I have also not modified it in any way shape or form.
This has furthered my mistrust of linerlocks in general - not necessarily of EKI's products specifically, mind you.
On the flipside is the fact that EKI has been very responsive and helpful with my problems. The last time I sent the knife in it only took a little over a week to get the knife back. I spoke today with a courteous lady who directed me to send it to them for repair.
In addition to this, my SOFCK is also working out nicely - the lockup on it is solid with none of the wobbling and premature unlocking that I've been experiencing with my Commander. A CQC-7 that I sold a friend seems to be holding up well as well.
But jc's comments do seem to ring true to me about how EKI's knives overall seem (by
objective standards) inferior to Microtechs in terms of fit & finish. Does this make them lousy knives? Of course not.
Heck, I will even go for the argument that EKI's knives are made to be users and not meant to be collectors like (for example) a $1000+ Microtech auto.
We'll see how long the Commander's lock holds up the next time it come back.
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OK normally I'm just a lurker here, BUT I must put in my share of this.
Yes I think Emersons are the best knives out there. Being a paratrooper I chose my knives carefully. They may someday save my life. I don't make that much money. Matter of fact I don't get paid, my bill collectors get paid. So imagine me putting down $150 on a knife only to have the lock fail, screws looking shiny, and what not after only 1 week of use.
I'd be highly upset. Yes I can send it back to EKI and get it fixed but I shouldn't have too. Especially when some of these problems have already been addressed a number of times in the past already.
I don't want my Commander to close up on my fingers when I'm using it during a life and death situation. If you buy a Corvette you don't want the thing to die on you on the second stop light after you rolled it off the lot, no?
IMO I think Emerson just has too much of a workload which is why I think we have the QC problem. How should he fix it? Should he contract them out to another knife company while he handles the customs? Decrease production to insure QC? Hire more staff?
Whatever the solution I hope it works.
Like I said his knife designs are the ultimate in my book, but I ain't gonna buy a knife that I may have to send back to get it to work the way I paid for it to do in the first place. Thats why I don't own 1911 pistols.
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Yes I think Emersons are the best knives out there. Being a paratrooper I chose my knives carefully. They may someday save my life. I don't make that much money. Matter of fact I don't get paid, my bill collectors get paid. So imagine me putting down $150 on a knife only to have the lock fail, screws looking shiny, and what not after only 1 week of use.
I'd be highly upset. Yes I can send it back to EKI and get it fixed but I shouldn't have too. Especially when some of these problems have already been addressed a number of times in the past already.
I don't want my Commander to close up on my fingers when I'm using it during a life and death situation. If you buy a Corvette you don't want the thing to die on you on the second stop light after you rolled it off the lot, no?
IMO I think Emerson just has too much of a workload which is why I think we have the QC problem. How should he fix it? Should he contract them out to another knife company while he handles the customs? Decrease production to insure QC? Hire more staff?
Whatever the solution I hope it works.
Like I said his knife designs are the ultimate in my book, but I ain't gonna buy a knife that I may have to send back to get it to work the way I paid for it to do in the first place. Thats why I don't own 1911 pistols.
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Well said, Doublestack. It's not Ernie's designs that I dislike, it's the execution thereof.
Doublestack, I too avoid 1911 pistols. Beretta 92's all the way
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Beretta 92 FS nut and Wave-aholic
"And for this cause God shall send them stong delusion,that they should believe a lie;" 2 Thessalonians 2:11
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove[expose] them." Ephesians 5:11
Doublestack, I too avoid 1911 pistols. Beretta 92's all the way
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Brigadier
Beretta 92 FS nut and Wave-aholic
"And for this cause God shall send them stong delusion,that they should believe a lie;" 2 Thessalonians 2:11
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove[expose] them." Ephesians 5:11