Got home from work and found my BK 62 in the mailbox.
Pretty excited.
My first Becker, actually (I know, what a loser. Well, some just take a while to come around).
Went out to enjoy it, knowing I should get some pictures first off, as I will mod it at least some, and was planning to cut up food with it during dinner prep, so patina will happen.
IMG_2462 by ursidae8, on Flickr
As I was looking it over, admiring it and becoming increasingly very impressed with an amazing quality product for the price.
Feels great in the hand; almost perfect size.
No sharp corners, nice.
And a tapered tang? On a factory knife? Crazy.
Anyway, the short is I am pretty impressed, and excited to start putting it through some paces this weekend.
And I noticed this...
IMG_2473 by ursidae8, on Flickr
IMG_2472 by ursidae8, on Flickr
IMG_2470 by ursidae8, on Flickr
(hope the pics work, still learning how to post them here...)
I got out a high power loupe and looked closer, and they appear to be hairline cracks in the steel, running parallel to the tang.
They seem to be around the rearmost fastener hole so not sure if that is related.
I don't see any obvious damage to the handle, like it was hit or anything...
So any thoughts?
Suggestions on what I should do?
Just return it to the seller?
I am actually a maker (well, when I have time). So I am certainly not passing any judgements or anything silly like that. I know only too well that stuff happens, especially when you make a lot of knives. I just got lucky.
And I just thought it might be helpful for the folks at Kabar to know.
I would want to know if it was one of my blades.
Here is the SKU from the box.
IMG_2476 by ursidae8, on Flickr
Pretty excited.
My first Becker, actually (I know, what a loser. Well, some just take a while to come around).
Went out to enjoy it, knowing I should get some pictures first off, as I will mod it at least some, and was planning to cut up food with it during dinner prep, so patina will happen.
IMG_2462 by ursidae8, on Flickr
As I was looking it over, admiring it and becoming increasingly very impressed with an amazing quality product for the price.
Feels great in the hand; almost perfect size.
No sharp corners, nice.
And a tapered tang? On a factory knife? Crazy.
Anyway, the short is I am pretty impressed, and excited to start putting it through some paces this weekend.
And I noticed this...
IMG_2473 by ursidae8, on Flickr
IMG_2472 by ursidae8, on Flickr
IMG_2470 by ursidae8, on Flickr
(hope the pics work, still learning how to post them here...)
I got out a high power loupe and looked closer, and they appear to be hairline cracks in the steel, running parallel to the tang.
They seem to be around the rearmost fastener hole so not sure if that is related.
I don't see any obvious damage to the handle, like it was hit or anything...
So any thoughts?
Suggestions on what I should do?
Just return it to the seller?
I am actually a maker (well, when I have time). So I am certainly not passing any judgements or anything silly like that. I know only too well that stuff happens, especially when you make a lot of knives. I just got lucky.
And I just thought it might be helpful for the folks at Kabar to know.
I would want to know if it was one of my blades.
Here is the SKU from the box.
IMG_2476 by ursidae8, on Flickr