Anyone seen something like this before?
I got a Contego a few weeks and haven't really used it that much and certainly not with any kind of brute force applied. When I first got it I sanded down the edges of the handle scales to my liking and put on a new edge. I really like the knife and consider getting another one "just in case"
However, a few days ago the knife fell from a coffee table down onto concrete. Not sure, but I think it hit with the rear/glass breaker first. Didn't notice it at first, but suddenly something was wrong with the grip. The backspacer was in two bits, sticking out, pivoting around each their handle bolt. Wooops!
Steel this thickness embedded in steel liners just don't break unless exposed to a lot of force and the color and texture of the fracture is weird. It is interesting to note though, that the fracture is at the thinnest area of the backspacer. To my eye it looks like something is wrong with the steel, like impurities, tension or some other issue. I know things like this happens once in a while and I'm not exactly cursing Benchmade
I used the contact form on the Benchmade website and told them what happened. As I live in Norway shipping costs makes sending it to the US a no go. Secondly, I've voided warranty by dismantling the knife almost the second I got it and so I confessed to that in the contact form. I asked if I could buy this part and get it shipped. Keeping my fingers crossed! However it is not a major issue, the knife works just fine. It's not like the two parts wiggle/slide out with normal use - they sort of interlock and they are squeezed together by the liners. Probably the reason why they where sticking out (when I noticed it) was tension or something like that. With the naked eye the fracture is almost impossible to discern too.
Mac
I got a Contego a few weeks and haven't really used it that much and certainly not with any kind of brute force applied. When I first got it I sanded down the edges of the handle scales to my liking and put on a new edge. I really like the knife and consider getting another one "just in case"
However, a few days ago the knife fell from a coffee table down onto concrete. Not sure, but I think it hit with the rear/glass breaker first. Didn't notice it at first, but suddenly something was wrong with the grip. The backspacer was in two bits, sticking out, pivoting around each their handle bolt. Wooops!
Steel this thickness embedded in steel liners just don't break unless exposed to a lot of force and the color and texture of the fracture is weird. It is interesting to note though, that the fracture is at the thinnest area of the backspacer. To my eye it looks like something is wrong with the steel, like impurities, tension or some other issue. I know things like this happens once in a while and I'm not exactly cursing Benchmade
I used the contact form on the Benchmade website and told them what happened. As I live in Norway shipping costs makes sending it to the US a no go. Secondly, I've voided warranty by dismantling the knife almost the second I got it and so I confessed to that in the contact form. I asked if I could buy this part and get it shipped. Keeping my fingers crossed! However it is not a major issue, the knife works just fine. It's not like the two parts wiggle/slide out with normal use - they sort of interlock and they are squeezed together by the liners. Probably the reason why they where sticking out (when I noticed it) was tension or something like that. With the naked eye the fracture is almost impossible to discern too.
Mac
