Evil D wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:49 am
Wartstein wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:23 am
Evil D wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:59 am
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Ok... this is not "feeding the demon"
, but a reply to you, David, since I feel we misunderstood each other
- Of course I don´t judge anyone on what they tolerate or don´t!! As said in my previous post "I get and respect that"! (I mean I myself am concerned with blades that could be 2mm longer, though many don´t really understand this
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- The intention of this thread was not to to utter unbelief why any individual person could be so "pedantic" to be bothered by a slightly off centered blade! Not at all.
The title is to be read like "Why are
so many people concerned with perfect blade centering". Like in "how could such a rather tiny detail get so widespread importance as a "serious" criteria for quality". And this partly as an example for what generally changes through social media and what people are "told" is important, good, bad without even getting the chance to first see for themselves what they actually think.
Let me put it this way:
I personally used and had folders before I even had internet, or knew what anybody else thought about knives, judged their properties, used them.
Back then it would never have occured to me that a tip, that is not perfectly centered in the handle when I look at the knife from "above" could be a sign for quality. I would not have even noticed that. "Perfect" was for me, as soon as the blade did not rub one side of the handle.
And I am convinced: While most people would naturally notice dings in the G10, a stiffer action,a tiny gap between scales and liners and so on as flaws .
...many would not do so with the slightly off centered blade, if not each "reviewer" would put such high emphasis on that little detail and they would "learn" that this has to be important. Not a critique at all, this is just what it is with many things these days.
But of course: On the other hand many- including you - would have not be happy with a bit off centering "naturally" , without ever "learning" that this should be an issue.
Not the same, but a bit along that lines: I think many people would actually be perfectly happy with S30V (and not be able to tell the difference to another steel anyway), but they think it is "boring" cause they are "told so". (But others, especially on this forum, of course will have the actual experience to really have reasons to be "bored" with S30V).
So, long story short: It is perfectly fine and understandable, when people lay emphasis on a perfectly centered blade.
This thread is about that I still think these days some things / criterias etc. get inflated by "the internet" a bit... and people, who actually would be "naturally" perfectly happy with a knife are NOT, because they "heard" that some thing has to be a "flaw".
I am convinced this is true for me too in several aspects... and i don´t even realize it...