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29th May 2011, 04:37 PM #1Hewer of wood
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Global knife - pinholes through the bevel!
Flabbergasted
One small complete hole, another larger one that reaches the bevel, and two half-moons.
This is not normal knicks.
It's my son's knife. A year old.
Steel is GSF-22.
Anyone got any ideas?Cheers, Ern
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29th May 2011, 09:11 PM #2New Member
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Return the knife to the place of purchase, being a Global i am pretty sure they will replace it on the spot.
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30th May 2011, 07:23 AM #3Senior Member
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Don't stir acid with a knife???
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30th May 2011, 04:02 PM #4.
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Might be a common problem. I had a look at a French stainless Sabatier chef's knife we've had for thirty years. It was purchased new and has only been hand washed. It has some tiny pits in the blade but nothing like the Globals.
Bob.
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30th May 2011, 04:27 PM #5
Mine are starting to pit. They're maybe 15 years old......nothing spectacular but my big Global knife has the same marks between the handle and the blade as Anorak Bob's and I only noticed it recently.
We don't know how lucky we are......
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30th May 2011, 04:28 PM #6
I year old!
I'd be sending it back, Ern.
I treat my Global with endless disrespect (like in the dishwasher every night) and no sign of anything like that yet after years of such treatment. Mine are Cromova 18 SS, GSF - 16 (I think.... can't read the digits very well anymore having sharpened them almost away.)
Good luck with the return
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Neil
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30th May 2011, 05:38 PM #7Hewer of wood
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That's exactly it Bob, as per your pics.
Yes, Chromova steel Neil (chromium, molybdenum and vanadium).
It was mail order and unusually there's no record on the 'puter so I've reground the bevel to remove them all.Cheers, Ern
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30th May 2011, 10:20 PM #8
ok now were did u get the knife?
just asking as when I was in the kitchen full time i used global
now they dont tell you this when you buy them but there was some bad batchers of them made most were sent back from the shops to global BUT there was some places that keeped them and sold them off cheap
And the second one is bewere if it was from Ebay as most of the ebay ones are fake from Inda Thailand China England there was some here in Aus
it cost global alot as it gave them a bad name if you stick the fake and real knive side by side the only way you know is the little black dots in the handel are a little bigger on the fakes
there was a place that got done here in Aus for passing off fakes as the real thingDANGER!!!!I'm Dyslexic Spelling may offend!!!!!
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31st May 2011, 07:01 AM #9Hewer of wood
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Thanks for the tips.
After a further search of the computer I found the receipt. Came from an Australian online crowd, KitchenWare Direct.
Have sent them an email.Cheers, Ern
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31st May 2011, 03:39 PM #10Hewer of wood
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Well the retailer advised contacting the wholesaler about the warranty. Pah.
Cheers, Ern
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31st May 2011, 04:41 PM #11.
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I had a look at a couple of Wusthof knives we've had for about 30 years. A daily used and hand washed cheese knife has quite a number of pits, though much smaller than those on the Global paring knife and the seldom used carving knife also has pits, albeit miniscule in size and few in number.
Could it be a result of the forging process?
An aside. We had a forged Wusthof spatula, beautifully made as per the knives. One day the handle snapped off. This was through the forging where the blade meets the handle. It was replaced but with a chintzy, non forged version with the handles riveted to a sheet stainless blade.
Bob.
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31st May 2011, 05:20 PM #12Hewer of wood
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A tang snap on Mundial knives has been reported regularly here though I've not had that prob. with our two sets (but contrary to those posts I've not dropped one either).
As for the holes on the Global, yes clearly it's a product of the way some of them have been forged or tempered. Pretty shabby given the prices.
Well I've just finished going up through the grits on the Global to polish the bevels. Not easy on whetstones as it's so small and I was using a jig. (Wasn't happy with the honing result off the Tormek.)
Finished at #3000 on a Sigma Power Select II. For the quality of finish, that stone is punching above its weight. But it was a deal of work to flatten with an admittedly old Coarse Diasharp.Cheers, Ern
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