Abuse or Weakness?

[sopmodm4]

Several years ago I broke a Benchmade/Emerson obviously using it as a prybar and the guy said to send it in and they sent me a brand new one.

Don't tell them you used it as a prybar and send it in to see what they will do.

Their treatment of that situation has caused me to buy several more BMs as gifts since then even though I no longer carry them.

PS A less than intelligent friend of mine decided that since they sent me a new knife that he would try to duplicate the same feat since his was pretty rough looking and proceeded to pound his Benchmade/Emerson into a tree and tried to break it off by stepping on it.It didn't work even though he is over 250lbs and he could not remove the knife either

I helped him out by drilling holes around it until it could be pulled out...

 

[Cliff Stamp]

... I don't find the fact that other knives have handled the same use very meaningful. It can be harder to remove pins or springs from one time to the next.

The probability of no correlation decreases rapidly with repeated previous uses. All tasks can change in stress level from one to the next, cut a chicken bone one time no problem, be a little sloppy the next and flatten the edge on the same knife. However you do one thing several times with several knives no problem, then another knife has a problem. the probability is low it was the maximum highest stress level.

-Cliff