So after seeing the new Bark River Aurora 2 in Cpm3v on knivesandtools.co.uk, I thought I would jump on the chance to buy an long awaited brand new purchase of a Bark River, and before zero customs trading with the EU stops.
Now I have never bought a new Bark River before, but have heard a few stories of Bark River Quality Control nightmares, so although I was hoping for perfection, I knew that there would be a small compromise somewhere?
So after a weeks wait, I had my possible bushcraft beater grail knife. Upon opening the knife, all wrapped up, I noticed that the blade has a different grind on either side of the knife, a high sabre grind with a convex edge (as it should be) and a flat convex on the other. Looking at the tip, you could also see it was off to one side, on the flat ground side, looking like the final shaping was still to happen.
I have emailed knivesandtools.co.uk, and as always there customer service is great, but with brexit, customs issues to come and borders closed/delays, plus no replacements in stock, it makes it difficult to resolve.
This is obviously to a customer a production error, a so called Friday afternoon piece, and makes me wonder on others experiences in realation to Bark River Quality Control?
Are things like this normal?
Now I have never bought a new Bark River before, but have heard a few stories of Bark River Quality Control nightmares, so although I was hoping for perfection, I knew that there would be a small compromise somewhere?
So after a weeks wait, I had my possible bushcraft beater grail knife. Upon opening the knife, all wrapped up, I noticed that the blade has a different grind on either side of the knife, a high sabre grind with a convex edge (as it should be) and a flat convex on the other. Looking at the tip, you could also see it was off to one side, on the flat ground side, looking like the final shaping was still to happen.
I have emailed knivesandtools.co.uk, and as always there customer service is great, but with brexit, customs issues to come and borders closed/delays, plus no replacements in stock, it makes it difficult to resolve.
This is obviously to a customer a production error, a so called Friday afternoon piece, and makes me wonder on others experiences in realation to Bark River Quality Control?
Are things like this normal?