Stockman Cracked Ice

Could not believe the quality! Very impressive for any knife, let alone at this price point. Highly recommended.

As it came the knife was decently packed, plastic, branded paper and a so so box, so I have held my breath and took the knife out of the papar wrap... and oooooh was I upset, what I had in my hands was a knife stained with white residue and finger prints all over it. Ok, I thought maybe it happened at the factory, then I have opened the blades, again all in scratches and with remnants of white residue.. ok, well, I thought this may have been the polishing compound, someone was trying to polish out the signs of use from the blades, so I took soft flannel and carefully wiped the residue of the blades and bolsters... unsatisfying - that revealed a lot of minor and intermediate scratched all over all three blades of the knife... how come? this is german quality - is it not? I have ordered two german pocket knives on the same day from the same company with very positive reviews, I was trying to avoid just that - inaccuracy and resale of preowned, and both knives came with more or less very similar problems. What a pity.