The kinda unspecified CRK talk thread.

Modernflame said:
Assuming we are looking at the same knife, here is what I see.

The mismatch in "shoulder" height, seen here:

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corresponds to this artifact on the show side:

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Also, you can see that the choil itself was abraded by sharpening media. The factory doesn't blend it like this. Your knives Kettleman Kettleman are perfect in this regard.

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It's hard to determine what else might be going on with the edge, although I do believe the tip was rounded. At the very least, you'd have to say that the knife is not new / unsharpened.
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I really mean no disrespect with this, however Im guessing you've never actually held one of these that you are claiming such expertise on. I can show you everything you pointed out as an issue on both of mine.

These blades were hand ground by a human. These are not the stamped out widgets of today. Ill send a bunch of photos reproducing these on my knives to ben as he had the questions and he can share as he chooses.
 
Kettleman said:
Once this pic thing gets fixed I’ll post them.
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I would hate to find out that we gave Ben some bad advice. Your pics show the rounded off tip, too? True, I don't have one of those, but the one under discussion looks quite different when compared to other recent pictures in this sub forum.
 
Kettleman said:
Once this pic thing gets fixed I’ll post them.
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I dont get why the issue takes so long to sort out.

If u get unpatient try imgur. As a non payer(have been in the past, but it's hard to buy n sell beeing in scandinavia) I've used it for all my pictures. PM me if u want to try it and have problems buddy.
 
Modernflame said:
I would hate to find out that we gave Ben some bad advice. Your pics show the rounded off tip, too? True, I don't have one of those, but the one under discussion looks quite different when compared to other recent pictures in this sub forum.
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I think the pic showing the tip was a blur. Look at the first pic it showed a clean tip. That blur pic also shows a "horrible bevel" except it's normal in that first pic. Both of my hand ground knives have what today would be considered a large bevel. I think Ben is about to post a few shots I sent him to show very similar items on 2 of my blades, A P and an Original. Both with hand ground polished blades.

Of course we don't have the knife for a true comparison but I really think it was legit. I was going to buy it and sell it to a member here to keep it in the community. I instead gave a new guy ( you will meet him soon) a crack at the bigs. He held his own until the last second and got swooped.
 
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353 said:
I dont get why the issue takes so long to sort out.

If u get unpatient try imgur. As a non payer(have been in the past, but it's hard to buy n sell beeing in scandinavia) I've used it for all my pictures. PM me if u want to try it and have problems buddy.
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I thank you for that. I actually tried it for most of last week and weekend. In the end its just too much of a mess to use and just way too "social" for me..
 
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Modernflame said:
I would hate to find out that we gave Ben some bad advice. Your pics show the rounded off tip, too? True, I don't have one of those, but the one under discussion looks quite different when compared to other recent pictures in this sub forum.
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M Modernflame you definitely didn’t give me bad advice. I had hesitation an after seeing the pictures that were added later on. The description of “new” also didn’t set well with me. At the end of the day it’s just a knife. There will be another one. 😊
 
Kettleman said:
I thank you for that. I actually tried it for most of last week and weekend. In the end its just too much of a mess to use and just way too "social" for me..
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It's really not that bad; take picture - connect phone to laptop - choose add new picture in imgur - browse ur laptop and find phone and choose pic n upload to imgur - go to my images and pick ure photo and choose the IMG link and choose size(I always use Huge Thumbnail) - and just paste into post.
 
Kettleman said:
I think the pic showing the tip was a blur. Look at the first pic it showed a clean tip. That blur pic also shows a "horrible bevel" except it's normal in that first pic. Both of my hand ground knives have what today would be considered a large bevel. I think Ben is about to post a few shots I sent him to show very similar items on 2 of my blades, A P and an Original. Both with hand ground polished blades.

Of course we don't have the life for a true comparison but I really thing it was legit. I was going to buy it and sell it to a member here to keep it in the community. I instead gave a new guy ( you will meet him soon) a crack at the bigs. He held his own until the last second and got swooped.
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Would you say that there is a generational difference between those two knives? Or are the differences just down to the natural variation of hand grinding?
 
They are 3 years apart.

The only differences I am aware of are the thumb stud and the lack of the P stamp.

Perhaps just lots more practice and adjustments to process?
 
Kettleman said:
Oh it was horrible. I actually got lucky that the idiot I bought it from was also rather dishonest, he took real bad pics in light that made it look very good. If the pics were clear I wouldnt have bought it and i am so glad to have it.
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That’s super frustrating but all’s well that ends well. We all look forward to seeing pictures of the refreshed 2009.

I am paranoid of any for-sale with bad pics. Good pics are pretty easy these days. If you are putting in the effort to list, sell, pack and ship something, I think posting decent pics is only logical. I’m a poor photographer but have no trouble getting realistic photos. When for sale pics are badly lit or blurry, I tend to run the other way (and probably miss out sometimes as a result.)
 
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