Yeah, I mean, it is a bummer, I don't mean to be a douche, I'm just a little ticked. I have an F1 and an H1 and love them both. Very sharp VG10 laminate. So you can see my surprise. I've been using ebay because I feel it's better to deal one on one with a seller who you can communicate with and in most cases since it's their reputation, they'll open the box and pick you a great knife so you're happy and give good feedback. I've also played the buy it and return and repeat game on Amazon because it's easy to do and free to return no questions asked and likely the second knife will be better. This is my first experience with a big box eBay store and I won't make that mistake again. It's a real Fallkniven. Has the hologram on the box, unless they can fake that, but it has the genuine feel to it. Lamination line and nice Fallkniven 90° spine, and crisp etch branding. It's just the edge is crap. The steel looks fine, like Fallkniven steel, you can tell if it's not. The handle is as expected, except for the pins that are a little crooked in their countersunk holes but it's what I was thinking it would be, more or less. You are really paying for the steel, grind and edge. Not the plastic. Thought it would feel absurdly small but it doesn't and it's not uncomfortable in the hand. I bought it because I was happy to pay for Fallkniven's quality, not just the brand name, having had three of their fixed blades prior. It's a simple knife, no frills, which is what I wanted. But I just was under the impression that it would cut like the other Fallknivens, or close, since it's not really a zero convex bevel like the fixed blades. I knew beforehand that there would be a secondary bevel because that's how the folders are supposed to come, but it just doesn't cut, it tears. I don't know what I'm going to do really, I could just keep it and sharpen it up because I do like the overall knife, I just wanted to see what the edge was like as it was supposed to come according to all the reviews. If this was Amazon I'd just swap it for another, but I was banking on the seller to do me a solid I guess as per past experiences. God I wish there was a knife store I could go to, and actually talk with real knife guys who knew what I was talking about... This forum is the closest I can get to one because all the knife guys on here speak the same language and can relate. Sometimes when you're talking with eBay sellers using actual knife terminology it's almost like you are explaining biophysics to a pug. Benchmade has their issues now, seems like every other shipped knife was ground on one side by one person and the other side by someone different, never used to be that way. You get the same thing with Case, I just returned one that looked like it was made on Hangover day at the factory. With Boker you never ever know exactly what you're getting anymore, even if it is made in Germany, it's made with Chinese parts that they don't tell you... It all just seems to be a crap shoot no pun intended. I
WILL say I've never had a bad Spyderco so Sal must be doing something right lol. There whine/rant over. Anyone else get a lemon U2 or are they all forged by viking angels with edges that can split half a c*nt hair into three equal parts...?
