800sbt AFCK BACK FROM FACTORY

uxo2

uxo2

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Years ago I bought a 800 SBT AFCK.

I did not know much about them or cared about how I used them. Abused more like it.

Then I moved and it was relegated to a junk drawer.

Now here I am. Going through the junk drawer and who pops out. The 800 AFCK
Blade is in nice shape. Just paint scratched. Teeth are factory point.

Now I can enjoy a classic OOP blade but it is off center.

Talked to the factory. Told them what was wrong.No problem send it in
It came back this Friday. Centered and reshapened. Life I good.
Lindsey did a great job doing a R&R on it.

Then my knife world CRASHED .. It fell off the table and the plastic backspacer broke in five pieces and blade went off center again.

Talked to BM Rep. I sensed he felt pity for me. Gave me good news and bad news.
Spacer is No longer on hand but barrel spacers will be installed. I like those.
bad news. I have to send it again.

I know Benchmade will do a great job on it. But the Rep left me with a word of advise.


Retire it from my EDC because if something else breaks. I could be hosed.

No more replacement blades and other parts are drying up.

That is the part that sucks. I really liked this knife.


BM shoud be getting it Thursday the 10th.

delivered today the 24th Dec:)
 
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Sorry about that. Show us a pic when it comes back again with spacers.
 
I will.

Here are some before it went in.



The centering was off bad.. Scraping the liner. I never cared before. But now that
am wiser. It annoys me.
 
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The back spacer on mine cracked too, after some 16 years. I sent it in and they replaced it with the barrel spacers and frankly I love them, they look great! I'm sure you'll love them too.

I retired mine a while ago but still take it out to fondle and reminisce. What a great knife the AFCK is.

All the best!
 
When I sent my 800 in for servicing they told me to retire it, as parts weren't available, and all of that. The AFCK is one of my best slicers, and if even lightly used sees regular use in the kitchen.
 
I really don't see to much more going wrong with it once returns.

As for the fear of breaking a blade. That is very rare for me to do because I wear them out
compared to break them.
Excessive sharpening.

Benchmade should have it today.
I hope it arrives before Christmas.
 
Odd that backspacers are breaking, they are plastic right?
Now watch all mine break... oh well, either machine a new one or use barrels.
 
Old plastic becomes brittle.

Mine fell of the table and shattered into 5 pieces.
 
Wonder if maybe oil or something deteriorated it. Seems they would have at least used G10.
 
uxo2 said:
Old plastic becomes brittle.

Mine fell of the table and shattered into 5 pieces.
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I really like the barrel spacers. In my case I had taken the knife apart to clean it and noticed a crack starting were the screw hole was. Rather then waiting for the crack to worsen I contacted BM about replacing it and they said they could replace the backspacer with barrel spacers.

I agree the plastic had become brittle with age and why it cracked. I don't think all the saltwater / spay it had been subjected to over the years helped either. These knives were manufactured back in 1995 and have held up pretty well if you ask me. My AFCK has seen some serious use over many, many years. No other knife I've owned has held up as well or as long.

I checked some of my older knives that have plastic backspacers (Early Strykers, Sentinel) and their fine. So far so good. I didn't think about it until this thread but I realized subsequent versions of these models all have barrel spacers now. Guess it's more then just an esthetic improvement.
 
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pbcg said:
My AFCK has seen some serious use over many, many years. No other knife I've owned has held up as well or as long.

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It's been a great knife till
I lost it.



Found long lost great knife. Off center..
BM fix for free.
Knife comes in.. beautiful. Perfect.
Knife falls off table and backspacer breaks.. Crap.
BM will fix for free again.. Yea.
Boo.. No knife again

Now ... waiting...

That sucks
 
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It came in today and BM did an amazing job on it.
Now it sports barreled spacers to replace the plastic back spacer.


Blade is centered.

Blade touched up shaving sharp and pointy

ACFK perfection again.


Thank you Benchmade.

Merry Christmas
 
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Nice job on your knife, and with a new lease on life. Use it well! AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 
Here are mine from 20 years ago. The mini is the one that I carried the most. The handle of the mini is very flexible side to side so if you don't like the centering, just push a little harder one way or the other. I don't know if the full size was that bad or not. I suppose in modern times the BM 710 is the closest in production.

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