The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
This is sig line worthy. I really need to buy your book, as what you write here consistently makes me grin.
As usual Stabman, your logic is uncannily accurate as well as humerus.![]()
Another update....
The dealer informed me that ZT doesn't allow exchanges and offered to send me his personal knife, but I didn't want to put him out so I bit the bullet and sent the knife in. I mailed the package Feburary 19th and just got it back today. Not the quickest turn around but, not the best either. Definitely acceptable but, what isn't acceptable is this....
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I'm sure a quick tightening of the pivot would take care of it (I'm at work now and don't have my torx), but seriously who lets a knife leave from the factory like this? Did they even look at the knife!? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that it rattled loose during shipping, but given that it came in a padded envelope and in bubble wrap, I think it would be a stretch.![]()
I'm sure a quick tightening of the pivot would take care of it (I'm at work now and don't have my torx), but seriously who lets a knife leave from the factory like this? Did they even look at the knife!? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that it rattled loose during shipping, but given that it came in a padded envelope and in bubble wrap, I think it would be a stretch.![]()
Another update....
The dealer informed me that ZT doesn't allow exchanges and offered to send me his personal knife, but I didn't want to put him out so I bit the bullet and sent the knife in. I mailed the package Feburary 19th and just got it back today. Not the quickest turn around but, not the best either. Definitely acceptable but, what isn't acceptable is this....
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I'm sure a quick tightening of the pivot would take care of it (I'm at work now and don't have my torx), but seriously who lets a knife leave from the factory like this? Did they even look at the knife!? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that it rattled loose during shipping, but given that it came in a padded envelope and in bubble wrap, I think it would be a stretch.![]()
Eh, if it's caused by a loose pivot, it might have gotten slightly turned or rotated during shipment or whatever. I don't understand why people complain about this, or even mention it, if indeed it's caused by a loose pivot, as you pointed out it might be, as it's just a screw that needs to be tightened, or, in other words, working as intended.
It just seem like you wouldn't be pleased no matter how it was sent back. People are way to anal about knives these days. All they do is complain about them and never use them. Why I rarely visit this place anymore.
And yes I'm a ZT fanatic.
OP, I guess you should have purchased from Me and this would have been over within a couple of days of you finding an issue and all this drama could have been avoided. Occasionally QC misses one, and I have not seen many. I would have exchanged the knife right away for you and that is what Kershaw would like their dealers to do, because we the dealers are partners with Kershaw. Their customer service is unequalled, and mine is not bad either.
Dave
OP, I guess you should have purchased from Me and this would have been over within a couple of days of you finding an issue and all this drama could have been avoided. Occasionally QC misses one, and I have not seen many. I would have exchanged the knife right away for you and that is what Kershaw would like their dealers to do, because we the dealers are partners with Kershaw. Their customer service is unequalled, and mine is not bad either.
Dave
Eh, if it's caused by a loose pivot, it might have gotten slightly turned or rotated during shipment or whatever. I don't understand why people complain about this, or even mention it, if indeed it's caused by a loose pivot, as you pointed out it might be, as it's just a screw that needs to be tightened, or, in other words, working as intended.
You may be able to easily fix this yourself. Take the knife apart and bend the lock bar in a bit so it naturally want to set in a stronger lockup. It will give you a little stronger detent and should actually give you a lockup. Just don't go too far like I did... Never had a lock stick that badly.
Remember that the locks are usually set to weaker detents from whiny people complaining that the detent is too strong. Almost every frame or liner lock I have had needed to be dialed in because everybody has different tastes. Some were way too hard to open, some could be shaken open. It happens and all I lose is a few minutes time.