Since the knife did not arrive at "no later than May 14" as announced, I asked them what´s going on:
Their reply (exact quote):
"Actually C17 [Catcherman] that we have in stock cannot be sold the blade chips on tubing.
We are waiting a last shipment from Spyderco with somes C17 that do not have this trouble."
(Keep in mind: This is a french shop, so their English is not 100% perfect)
I am not really sure what they mean... "blade chips on tubing"? Like it chips when one cuts some hosing?!
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And they strongly imply that only the batch THEY have is "chippy"?
So that for example the heat treat went wrong on some Catcherman examples?
Of course I asked, but they did not come back to me yet.
Any inputs from you guys here?!
I am about to order a Catcherman somewhere else where they actually are in stock, but would like to know if there is anything going on with a "chippy batch".. ?!