Strider PT. 30 disappointing minutes.

Eeyore1

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I just purchased Strider PT from the GPKnives.com. It arrived a few minutes ago. This $300 knife came in a zip lock bag without any instructions. Not even a box! Worse, the lock engages just the very edge of the blade, probably just 2 mm. If I pull on the blade, engagement increases to about 5 mm or half the width of the lock. Makes me wonder about their quality control. Otherwise, the knife is solid. Blade is perfectly centered.

I immediately called Strider, but unfortunately only connected to an answering machine. So, I send them an e-mail. Has anyone dealt with the Strider Customer Care before? What can I expect?

Thanks!
 
Instructions?


The lock will break in. Doesn't sound like anything to worry about. But striders cs is very good.
 
That lockup engagement is exactly what you want. It's designed to give you years of solid lockup as the material wears. Over time the frame lock contact point to the tang will work itself to the right (looking down on the upside down knife) as it wears.

I'm not aware of the packaging they ship in . . .
 
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This is what a brand new knife lock up should look like as far as I'm concerned:

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Eeyore1 said:
I just purchased Strider PT from the GPKnives.com. It arrived a few minutes ago. This $300 knife came in a zip lock bag without any instructions. Not even a box! Worse, the lock engages just the very edge of the blade, probably just 2 mm. If I pull on the blade, engagement increases to about 5 mm or half the width of the lock. Makes me wonder about their quality control. Otherwise, the knife is solid. Blade is perfectly centered.

I immediately called Strider, but unfortunately only connected to an answering machine. So, I send them an e-mail. Has anyone dealt with the Strider Customer Care before? What can I expect?

Thanks!
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Instructions, huh? Let's see.....open knife, cut $h!t. Close, put away knife.

Repeat as needed.

No offense, but if you wanted a fancy box to stick in your garage you should have looked elsewhere.

Striders are some of the best knives around. I agree that the locking mechanism will wear in with time and get better (assuming that there really is anything wrong with it in the first place).

If there is anything seriously wrong with the knife, send it back and they will make it good.

Be very careful how you deal with them as they do not suffer fools/whiny princesses well. I'm not saying that you are one at all, I'm just saying to be respectful in your dealings with them, as you should be with everyone. The Strider guys just *really* don't suffer fools well.

They never promise that any of their knives will be perfect like a Microtech is. If you want something that is accurate to 1,000,000th of the width of an amoeba, best get a Microtech and sell that Strider to me. :D

Striders are meant to be used, and used HARD, over and over again, and they will do just that and then outlast you and the next nuclear holocaust.

No offense intended to you, it just sounds like you didn't read up at all on Strider before you purchased. Striders aren't really intended for people who want, need, or expect to receive an instruction manual with man's oldest tool. ;)

Seriously though, I'll take it off your hands if you don't want it. :)
 
I think the Strider lock is just where it should be. My AR locks up the same way. It just gives you a ton of room to wear in. As for fancy packaging sometimes I want it and sometimes I think that the cost of the box adds mega cost to the cost of the knife. I hear there C S is excellant. I also agree that the fit and finish on my 97 SOCOM and LCC are light years ahead of the fit and finish on any Strider I have seen, just high precision cutting insturments. I also know folks here talk about Strider fit and finish like it is not that big a deal, but when you spend 400 plus for a knife it should be as perfect out of the box as one would expect a $400 knife to be. I bought my AR on the secondary market and have to say the fit and finish is superb but have heard of others receiving there Striders with tool marks etc. etc. keepem sharp
 
If you want a hard use knife that has high tolerances and comes in a box with registration and such, get a Sebenza! Many do not give them the credit of being a real hard use knife. Make no mistake, they are every bit one!
 
Eeyore1 said:
My Strider lock engages a bit less, no more than a quarter of the width of the lock.
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Sounds perfect then. And I'm not a huge Strider proponent trying to defend them for the record. I just think your knife is how I'd want mine from the builder . . .
 
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Welcome to StriderWorld :D. Yours is probably exactly the way most of us who have had Striders would like them to come. The plastic baggie is classic Strider, the lock bar will in all probability seat itself better with a bit of use, and you even got a centered blade. Life is good!

And yes, they will take care of your knife for you in the event that anything ever goes wrong with it. Enjoy your PT, it sounds like you got a really good one.
 
The Striders never came in a box. Never had instructions either. You open it and close it and cut with it. I'd suggest letting it break in and enjoying it. Many makers and manufacturers build their locks so they wear slower and one way to control that is to allow them to start at a minimum and work their way in from use. The nature of that type lock is such that it continues to self correct from wear so eventually it will move in further from your using it. Take it easy and break it in good being aware that the washers and lock need to work in.

Oh, a good quality box would have nothing to do with the quality of build of the knife and most folks throw them out anyway so I'd have to say to the manufacturers of all knives that if it reduces the cost of the folder to the end liner user I'll be the first to vote for no box across the board. It reduces waste, and maybe saves a tree so hey wrap it in some bubble wrap and ship it to me. :thumbup:

STR
 
i think for a 300 dollar knife you should probably have a pretty clear idea of how a knife works before you purchase them :D
 
STR said:
Oh, a good quality box would have nothing to do with the quality of build of the knife and most folks throw them out anyway so I'd have to say to the manufacturers of all knives that if it reduces the cost of the folder to the end liner user I'll be the first to vote for no box across the board. It reduces waste, and maybe saves a tree so hey wrap it in some bubble wrap and ship it to me. :thumbup:

STR
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Bubble wrap, eh? I see you're a little princess too!!!

I think my Striders came wrapped in newspaper........that Mick's cat had peed on. :D:D :p
 
razorsdescent said:
i think for a 300 dollar knife you should probably have a pretty clear idea of how a knife works before you purchase them :D
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Agreed. :D

Hope I wasn't being too harsh on the OP, but really; Striders are the Glock/AK-47 of the knife world; put a little oil on them every once in a while and use the crap out of it.

If it gets clean, you can pee on it to wash it off in a jiffy. :D

haha.....

Seriously though, there's just not that much to 'em. Sharpen, oil, cut. Repeat as needed.
 
MORIMOTOM said:
Instructions?


The lock will break in. Doesn't sound like anything to worry about. But striders cs is very good.
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Agreed!

It is a great tough little knife use it.

And so what that it came in a plastic bag. Mine came in a plastic bag AND with a Strider patch. :D
 
I bought an AR about 2 years ago in San Francisco. The lockup was 'loose' ie you could wiggle the blade up and down, but the lock NEVER failed. I emailed Strider and a very polite gentleman called me the next day to discuss the 'problem'. He explained that they are deliberately made loose so that they will work under all conditions. He said to mail the knife to them and they would tighten the lock if I preferred it that way. I mailed the knife to them and received it back a week later. Lockup was tight. I did later sell that knife to a friend who desperately wanted it. The angled section on the top back of the handle was uncomfortable for me to use the knife for too long. No problem with the lockup. No problem with the customer service.
 
drjones said:
Instructions, huh? Let's see.....open knife, cut $h!t. Close, put away knife.

Repeat as needed.

No offense, but if you wanted a fancy box to stick in your garage you should have looked elsewhere.

Striders are some of the best knives around. I agree that the locking mechanism will wear in with time and get better (assuming that there really is anything wrong with it in the first place).

If there is anything seriously wrong with the knife, send it back and they will make it good.

Be very careful how you deal with them as they do not suffer fools/whiny princesses well. I'm not saying that you are one at all, I'm just saying to be respectful in your dealings with them, as you should be with everyone. The Strider guys just *really* don't suffer fools well.

They never promise that any of their knives will be perfect like a Microtech is. If you want something that is accurate to 1,000,000th of the width of an amoeba, best get a Microtech and sell that Strider to me. :D

Striders are meant to be used, and used HARD, over and over again, and they will do just that and then outlast you and the next nuclear holocaust.

No offense intended to you, it just sounds like you didn't read up at all on Strider before you purchased. Striders aren't really intended for people who want, need, or expect to receive an instruction manual with man's oldest tool. ;)

Seriously though, I'll take it off your hands if you don't want it. :)
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So, Strider is full of a bunch of arrogant people who don't value their customers. That is good to know.
Got it. Shipped in a ziplock bag? WTF?
 
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