What would make you return a knife?

[DangerZone98]

I've only returned one knife and one razor. Knife was a Kizer flipper with a detent that was so stiff it was actually painful to flip open. The razor was a Dovo that had a warped blade.

Having a similar issue with the Civivi Mini Bullmastiff. The detent is rather stiff and I’m not sure why. It demands a particular way of opening. Hoping it’ll smoothen over time though.

 

[Joseph Bandeko]

I returned a We Practic because the blade had a very light warp at the tip. (that blade has a pretty thin tip)
I also returned an Ontario rat 1 in d2 because the blade was warped, so I ordered another one and it was the same, does anyone else have this problem with there rat? (I also recognize that it is a cheap knife)

 

[NG VI]

In general, I will return a knife that is messed up in a way that impedes performances, looks bad, or that I can't reliably fix myself.

Some recent examples include a QSP Leopard with the weakest detent I've ever encountered, a severely rusted Stedemon, and a special-edition Artisan Arroyo that was supposed to have pretty scales. The latter was supposed to look like the picture below. The scales are effectively suspensions in acrylic. The one I got for my wife just didn't have anything going on... It was almost entirely white and you could see through to the milling under normal lighting.

I returned a Chaparral for the same reason, it was Raffir Noble and the scales, especially the presentation side, were almost entirely clear acrylic. What metal fabric was visible, was mostly not aligned towards the plane of the scales, leaving it looking wispy and barely present at all.

Completely unacceptable for something like that, in my eyes. They should have known better than to keep making scales out of pieces that had so little character and just chalked them up to QC losses.

 

[catspa]

Considerable rust...

Dude, some of my favorite knives came to me from the bottom of a bilge. I look for the broken, the damaged, the knives with leprosy. I buy them cheap and spend exorbitant amounts of time trying to fix them, not always successfully.

I just figure “All sales are final” with a used knife, bought in person.

I’ve also seen worn down old trash the seller wanted way too much for.

Him: “But it’s a Robeson, they’re out of business, y’know.”
Me: “You mean it WAS, now half of it’s missing. The good half.”

Parker

 

[DangerZone98]

Dude, some of my favorite knives came to me from the bottom of a bilge. I look for the broken, the damaged, the knives with leprosy. I buy them cheap and spend exorbitant amounts of time trying to fix them, not always successfully.

I just figure “All sales are final” with a used knife, bought in person.

I’ve also seen worn down old trash the seller wanted way too much for.

Him: “But it’s a Robeson, they’re out of business, y’know.”
Me: “You mean it WAS, now half of it’s missing. The good half.”

Parker

Did baking soda or white vinegar save the day?

 

[catspa]

Too messy. My usual program includes generous use of a wire wheel, citric or phosphoric acid soak, and an old Quik-Cut wheel for finishing.

Kinda silly to say “too messy” about soda and vinegar...

Parker