Robot37, your posts beckoned to my usually tendency to tweak something to suit my needs. I was so very tempted to pull out the dremel- go to town on it, wet sand that bad boy and then just sand blast it, but I just couldn't do it. It can be seen as a value to cough up a buck-twenty (on preorder), to purchase a knife with such a thick blade, and Ti scales on both sides and a frame lock to boot. So, why wouldn't someone just keep it, make it a project knife and edc it?
Principles.
Since the knife was coming from China, my expectations were low and by no means was looking for a collection piece. The issue rest with myself as a consumer, and the desire as such, to have a decent product. Granted, no knife is ever perfect, but to receive such an item with so many manufacturing defects is just unacceptable. It is a blatant disrespect to the consumer to sell such an item as new and as a factory first. As a consumer, a way to show disapproval for such business practices is to return the item- not to keep it and just suck it up. Where is the incentive for Boker to fix issues with their quality control of overseas production if there is no sizable return tally?
It's totally fine that we take different roads in dealing with this issue; we are all motivated to action by different ideologies.
I do hope that Boker will sooner than later, deal with their China QC issues. Perhaps it's time to transplant- permanently, a German manager to oversee their overseas production. That, or tremendously increase their factory visitations over there. Don't know and won't pretend to know how Boker functions, but I have had some close experience on working with Chinese manufacturers- just in a different field. Nothing boosts the need for improvements like a crack of the whip.
-di
