A couple of observations from a knife novice with a great deal of respect for the CRK product and disgust for fraud & misrepresentation of facts.
If a legitimate consumer testing lab tested an item to failure and published their findings while witholding information pertaining to specific testing protocal which produced this failure I believe there would be grounds for legal action and remedial compensation.
If some attention seeker, for whatever motive, does the same & causes provable financial damage to the manufacture of the product there is a possibility for similar legal recourse.
The firearms industry is constantly on the spot to prove their product is safe in the hands of a responsible party utilizing factory loaded ammunition in a safe & sane manner. Industry standards are developed for nearly all specifications concerning chamber dimensions & pressure values and firearms are tested with proof loads during development and for proper functioning before being sent to the market. Claims of errant detonation are subject to intensive scrutiny and nearly always proven to be fradulent based on incorrect reloading or discharging a weapon with a bullet or wad in the barrel again from improper reloaded ammunition or on rare occasions a faulty factory loaded round.
So far the knife production industry has not had this intense scrutiny and many sales are predicated by favorable reviews by users. (witness So-Lo's excellent review of the Seb 21 in this forum)
Debate flurishes on lock strength, steel quality, & so forth & this is often subjective based on individual observations of a specific item and generalizations grow. I believe it would be impossible or impractical for a manufacture to addess every adverse report individualy but here we face the issue of possible financial damage when this is published on the net.
In the instance of no mandatory, formalized, product testing we'll always have individuals testing products until failure. Their money & choice. If man can make it man can break it & this brings us to the case being discussed.
CRK knives has examined the product & evidently found undisclosed abuse and some very irrelevant "tests" that are far outside the intended use parameters of the product.
I believe that CRK has intelligently addressed the issue in this forum and the general forum consensus is the complaint is bogus & the product was abused by damage inflicted for which it was never designed.
Considering the totality of the evidence & the fact to "tester" chose to broadcast these results I believe that CRK would be within their rights to pursue a legal remedy which would be another can of worms because I believe I read that the activity originated in Poland.
A satisfactory solution is hard to figure but if it were my business & my product being trashed & think I'd seek a favorable finding in a local US Court with jurisdiction & publish the results in the miscreants hometown paper. I'd send his knife back in a plastic bag with a copy of the report of CRK's examination & encourage his to keep buying CRK products & use them for their intended purpose.
Bottom line is that there is no practical way to get the "testers" to cease this fraudlent activity unless & untill it affects them legally and financially. A letter of admonishment will never be seen on utube. CRK has made a good start.
Ruff Cobb
If a legitimate consumer testing lab tested an item to failure and published their findings while witholding information pertaining to specific testing protocal which produced this failure I believe there would be grounds for legal action and remedial compensation.
If some attention seeker, for whatever motive, does the same & causes provable financial damage to the manufacture of the product there is a possibility for similar legal recourse.
The firearms industry is constantly on the spot to prove their product is safe in the hands of a responsible party utilizing factory loaded ammunition in a safe & sane manner. Industry standards are developed for nearly all specifications concerning chamber dimensions & pressure values and firearms are tested with proof loads during development and for proper functioning before being sent to the market. Claims of errant detonation are subject to intensive scrutiny and nearly always proven to be fradulent based on incorrect reloading or discharging a weapon with a bullet or wad in the barrel again from improper reloaded ammunition or on rare occasions a faulty factory loaded round.
So far the knife production industry has not had this intense scrutiny and many sales are predicated by favorable reviews by users. (witness So-Lo's excellent review of the Seb 21 in this forum)
Debate flurishes on lock strength, steel quality, & so forth & this is often subjective based on individual observations of a specific item and generalizations grow. I believe it would be impossible or impractical for a manufacture to addess every adverse report individualy but here we face the issue of possible financial damage when this is published on the net.
In the instance of no mandatory, formalized, product testing we'll always have individuals testing products until failure. Their money & choice. If man can make it man can break it & this brings us to the case being discussed.
CRK knives has examined the product & evidently found undisclosed abuse and some very irrelevant "tests" that are far outside the intended use parameters of the product.
I believe that CRK has intelligently addressed the issue in this forum and the general forum consensus is the complaint is bogus & the product was abused by damage inflicted for which it was never designed.
Considering the totality of the evidence & the fact to "tester" chose to broadcast these results I believe that CRK would be within their rights to pursue a legal remedy which would be another can of worms because I believe I read that the activity originated in Poland.
A satisfactory solution is hard to figure but if it were my business & my product being trashed & think I'd seek a favorable finding in a local US Court with jurisdiction & publish the results in the miscreants hometown paper. I'd send his knife back in a plastic bag with a copy of the report of CRK's examination & encourage his to keep buying CRK products & use them for their intended purpose.
Bottom line is that there is no practical way to get the "testers" to cease this fraudlent activity unless & untill it affects them legally and financially. A letter of admonishment will never be seen on utube. CRK has made a good start.
Ruff Cobb
