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Hello,
I haven't posted for a while and I'm usually not a complainer or nitpicker, but this experience I find to be bothersome.
On Friday I recieved my new custom shop mini crooked river in M4 from a dealer in Canada who stocks them, and the experience soured from excitement to disappointment.
First off, the action is tight, I can loosen the pivot screw completely loose, and the action wont change. I like to be able to close and open the blade with inertia, and regardless of the pivot screw i can't get that action on this knife. So thats not ideal, but i can live with it. Maybe over time it will break in although my non-custom mini crooked river could be tuned this way without break in, along with all my other axis lock benchmades.
My bigger issue, is that the blade has enough play when open that I can hear it make a single 'rattle sound' when i put pressure on it. This is verticle play, not side to side (this knife is so tight that its not capable of side to side blade play even with the pivot screw loosened out completely). I have inspected the ramp on the blade the axis pin goes over, cleaned it with a quetip, rotated the acis pin just in case it was out of round, tried pushing it further forward which does nothing because its already at the end of its traverse in the liner slot, so I'm thinking the issue HAS to be the pivot screw barrel being sloppy.
My regular mini crooked river may experience a tiny bit of this up and down blade play, but things have to line up just right before it does it. My mini grip, foray, previous mini CR that I lost as well as my current one have NO blade play, and can be tuned perfectly for me. Here, my most expensive one is by far the worst. I emailed benchmade friday night but i think I'll call tomorrow, this is really bothering me.
Also on a minor note the wood scales look a lttle weird. I know to expect variance but these ones have blonde streaks that I've never seen on any other benchmade product. I've seen darker and lighter but never blonde. This also had an effect on my initial thought while unboxing.
The other thing is being that I'm in Canads, it will probably cost me 50 dollars or more to send it in and get it back. For a knife that has never cut anything, been carried and I've had for an hour before deciding it was unacceptable. Do you think Benchmade would issue an RMA and cover the shipping? Or do they usually?
This knife was already super expensive but I thought I'd treat myself anyways and now I'm wondering if i just threw my money away, and i certainly dont want to throw good money after bad.
Needless to say I was expecting this to be my most favourite knife, and the whole experience is just one big disappointment.
I haven't posted for a while and I'm usually not a complainer or nitpicker, but this experience I find to be bothersome.
On Friday I recieved my new custom shop mini crooked river in M4 from a dealer in Canada who stocks them, and the experience soured from excitement to disappointment.
First off, the action is tight, I can loosen the pivot screw completely loose, and the action wont change. I like to be able to close and open the blade with inertia, and regardless of the pivot screw i can't get that action on this knife. So thats not ideal, but i can live with it. Maybe over time it will break in although my non-custom mini crooked river could be tuned this way without break in, along with all my other axis lock benchmades.
My bigger issue, is that the blade has enough play when open that I can hear it make a single 'rattle sound' when i put pressure on it. This is verticle play, not side to side (this knife is so tight that its not capable of side to side blade play even with the pivot screw loosened out completely). I have inspected the ramp on the blade the axis pin goes over, cleaned it with a quetip, rotated the acis pin just in case it was out of round, tried pushing it further forward which does nothing because its already at the end of its traverse in the liner slot, so I'm thinking the issue HAS to be the pivot screw barrel being sloppy.
My regular mini crooked river may experience a tiny bit of this up and down blade play, but things have to line up just right before it does it. My mini grip, foray, previous mini CR that I lost as well as my current one have NO blade play, and can be tuned perfectly for me. Here, my most expensive one is by far the worst. I emailed benchmade friday night but i think I'll call tomorrow, this is really bothering me.
Also on a minor note the wood scales look a lttle weird. I know to expect variance but these ones have blonde streaks that I've never seen on any other benchmade product. I've seen darker and lighter but never blonde. This also had an effect on my initial thought while unboxing.
The other thing is being that I'm in Canads, it will probably cost me 50 dollars or more to send it in and get it back. For a knife that has never cut anything, been carried and I've had for an hour before deciding it was unacceptable. Do you think Benchmade would issue an RMA and cover the shipping? Or do they usually?
This knife was already super expensive but I thought I'd treat myself anyways and now I'm wondering if i just threw my money away, and i certainly dont want to throw good money after bad.
Needless to say I was expecting this to be my most favourite knife, and the whole experience is just one big disappointment.
