MP400 Compact Sport with Wharncliffe blade vs normal blade?

[Marlinaholic]

Hello all, I just bought a MP400 off this forum and it's got a combo edge Wharncliffe shaped blade.  Most of the web pictures I can find show a combo normal style blade, but some recent pics do show the Wharncliffe style combo blade.  When did they change them over?  Are they all  Wharncliffe now?  I don't really mind it, just wondered if anyone knows.  Any info appreciated. 

[J-sews]

We first started seeing the 400's equipped with Wharncliffe blades around 2007 or so. As far as I know, all the newly built ones since then have been made that way.

[Dunc]

I had a new one with the Wharncliffe blade and I traded it . I now have another new one on the way  ( don't ask    ) and will post when it gets here which style blade it has , although I imagine it will be the ew Wharncliffe style .

[Gareth]

I had a new one with the Wharncliffe blade and I traded it . I now have another new one on the way  ( don't ask    ) and will post when it gets here which style blade it has , although I imagine it will be the ew Wharncliffe style .

........... it's no good! I have to ask!  Why have you got another one on the way so soon after you got rid of the last? 

Ah, that feels better.

[Sazabi]

I had a new one with the Wharncliffe blade and I traded it . I now have another new one on the way  ( don't ask    ) and will post when it gets here which style blade it has , although I imagine it will be the ew Wharncliffe style .

...........(Image removed from quote.) it's no good! I have to ask!  Why have you got another one on the way so soon after you got rid of the last? 

Ah, that feels better.(Image removed from quote.)

Sellers regret, probably.  I know I've felt that way /many/ times over. :/

[Gareth]

I had a new one with the Wharncliffe blade and I traded it . I now have another new one on the way  ( don't ask    ) and will post when it gets here which style blade it has , although I imagine it will be the ew Wharncliffe style .

...........(Image removed from quote.) it's no good! I have to ask!  Why have you got another one on the way so soon after you got rid of the last? 

Ah, that feels better.(Image removed from quote.)

Sellers regret, probably.  I know I've felt that way /many/ times over. :/

Ah, yes, probably.  I have a very simple solution to sellers regret though.  I almost never sell anything.

[Dunc]

Well the reason I sold it ( to a friend locally ) is because I was so dissapointed in the scissors . But I did miss the tool and after reading a bit about other peoples experience with the scissorss I thought maybe these were just blunt and under peforming . Well the new tool arrived this morning and the scissore are spot on . I've had a good look all over the tool and theres no defects at all  There was however a black paste like substance all round the joints on the plier head . I think maybe this is a grinding or polishing past , I've seen it before on other new Gerbers and mybe its the same kind of thing as the black stuff that often comes out of new Leatherman plier pivots .
  The blade to had a burr on it that we keep hearing about but after a couple of minutes on the sharpmaker I had a wicked edge . Factory grind was good as well .

Dunc