A good warranty is fine and dandy but I'd rather have a knife that doesn't fail me to start with.
Yeah, exactly.
To the guys saying put away the pitchforks... you might change your tune after spending a lot of money on a big name knife, only to have it crap out on you while carving a freakin' stick. The bottom line is, I'm a poor student, and it took some saving up to get this blade. There was a lot of anticipation and expectation. I had my eye on the Recluse ever since I saw the first prototype's picture posted by Andy. And then I finally get it all those months later, and a little knot in a twig defeats it. That, my friends, is disappointment.
To have to send it in to be reground is silly. Now I have to pay for postage to another country, and wait a week or two just to get my blade back. This shouldn't be happening out of the factory at all, especially at the price tag of a BRKT. Yes, they make a lot of knives. But what about quality control? A company with such a highly praised reputation is expected to be quality across the board. However, as others have pointed out, there have been quite a few cases of failing blades recently. Who knows how many others aren't reported? How many are bought as display knives, and don't even get the chance to fail? This shouldn't be happening, PERIOD. Not with that price. Not with that reputation.
As I said in an earlier post, Mike over at BRKT is great. He's a fantastic businessman and does his customers a great service. There's no doubt in my mind that he works hard. It's awesome that BRKT is willing to fix up their knives, and they have a good warranty. But that doesn't change the fact that they sold me what is, in my eyes, a faulty product.
Criticism is NOT a bad thing, guys. It leads to improvement.
If you guys are still interested a couple weeks from now, I will update again when I have received my knife. It's going in the mail on Monday.
