Statistically certainly not relevant, but I can compare directly. While my first, like all others I own, is flawless, the second has non-symmetrical plunge lines. Yes, you have to look hard…. The sheath was a bit tight, I adjusted the screws a little, also not perfect because now it rattles a bit, but nothing to worry about when using it.
Every serious industrial production knows its approximate scrap figures, I would not hold selling seconds in advance against them…
And therein lies the flaw with your attempt at defending S?K. The logic just doesn't add up. Or, better yet, here's a question: do you feel that Survive? Knives is a "serious industrial production" or that Guy would even have the business acumen to know what his "approximate scrap figures" are, given the history of poor production, inability to work to a schedule, or inability to execute....well, anything in a fashion approaching the same universe as "timely"?
This is a groundless defense, especially when it was proven countless times that they were selling knives as seconds before the actual knives had been produced. Secondly, if they DID have knives that were actual "Seconds", why wouldn't you approach the original buyer and ask if he'd be good with the knife, along with a small refunded discount for th....ohhhhhhhh....right. They were about getting peoples' money and not producing anything for years and years. They wouldn't do that, because they would have to refund money they'd already spent, can't have that. Right. Sorry, leading question, I retract the question, Your Honor. LOL
Seriously, I bet that a case could be made that those people who are still waiting for old models years later, are probably people who had their knives sold out from under them to someone else as a "Second".
I don't know how people can defend these guys at this point in time. If you've been following them for as long as most of us have, you'd know they're scumbags.