If you visit SMKW website and put CA21930 within their Search block in the upper right hand corner, the new Trapper will show up. Click on the knife to view all the pictures, the above negative reviews will prove true to the negative reviews stated. Smoky, I respect your honesty in obtaining a knife to take pictures of, however, your honesty photos' show many manufacturer discrepancies, even with your low quality pictures.
This is not anything new with new Case Knives, especially liner gaping, it's a rampant common complaint.
One would thing that if you are attempting to produce a "new handled series" of knives, that you would make your "Pilot Test Run" knife to better standards?
I'm sure Case is aware of these discrepancies, however, I have never read anything from Case to address these problems. Perhaps it would cost too much money to fix it? Please start committing yourself to quality Case knives!
In 2020, Victorinox, located in Canton of Schwyz had close to 1,000 employees at the factory in Ibach, some 28,000 SAKs are produced daily, along with 60,000 kitchen knives and 32,000 other pocket tools. 10% of their workforce of whom are employed in checking each knife as it leaves the factory. I have not even read one single complaint of anyone receiving a bad Sak. What's that telling you Case?
Now, it will sound as if I'm contradicting myself, but I have purchased and have in my possession 37 different 2021 Case Vault Copperheads 49 pattern with 5 on backorder and under production, with 3 more months of 2021 copperheads left to be produced before they go out of production for approximately 3 years. Of all these beautiful Case Copperheads, I have only had to return one (1) for excessive liner gaping. I am in the process of building 3 frames housing 18 knives each, I will post pictures here on aapk when the frames are complete. I"m assuming there will be approximately 50 2021 Case Copperheads by the end of 2021? I started the copperhead collection early this year and have been able to obtain all productions. Some are as low as 250 produced.
Let me return to the "Case Pilot Test Run XX Micarta Burlap Trapper."
So.. Even knowing that the negative reviews outweighed the positive, I pushed the "Add To Cart" button on my Smoky account for the Case Micarta Trapper, perhaps the silent majority are happy with their knife? Perhaps Smoky would send me a returned Trapper assuming that It would be a EDC rather than a Collector knife?
I received it last week, I am happy with it. Walk & Talk snappy, sharp well centered strong blades, beautiful new "Carbon XX Shield."
If my knife were a numismatic coin it would fetch a premium price, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars that some coin errors have brought.
As you can see in the below picture, the "Spey Blade" was struck way off center and only half of the knife and blade description is presentable. This does not bother me and is certainly not a reason to return the knife. Who know what I might receive in return?
Unfortunately, the Dichrolam never reached further production, not yet anyway.
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Dan
