Guys,
I'm not saying that this knife was right. I seem to have managed to rile Kyle up in challenging this in the comments section of his previous video - genuinely not intentional. If posting 'not cool' warrants getting worked up then someone is pretty tightly wound.
For the sake of clarity I'll reitterate what I said;
"Posting that video seems to propogate exactly the sort of stuff that I think can get unreasonable. Especially as there is no mention of the warranty, etc. "
This certainly seems to have become unreasonable. Apparently, I'm an "idiot" for challenging Kyle who posted the video. The whole position of this individual is clearly incredibly biased against BRKT. I buy many different brands of knives, I take a practical view of each knife that I own and use.
My point here is that posting these relatively rare examples given the actual production numbers is not giving any manufacturer involved a fair shout. I've had recent issues with Fallkniven, DPx and whilst I have posted about this I have NEVER sought to extrapolate this into a wider comment about the company's reliability.
Ben
I'm only posting here to have a voice because my unlisted video was posted here without me knowing.. I dont wish to perpetuate anything. I've allready said my piece to Ben about this. he claims he riled me up unintentionally.. I'll just have to accept that and move on.
I have told Ben that I called him an idiot for saying that my video and comment of testing another knife is "potentially slanderous, and petty" I dont feel its idiotic at all to test another knife I own, when 1 fails so badly. I dont feel its slanderous to show that the epoxy(or other) glue bond failed completely, and the ease of dismantling the handle with a few taps was video evidence.
as to the "comedy" and "more brkcrap" title.. I didn't bother to edit the settings because it was an unlisted video. yes.. the video was called moreBRKcrap.. so shoot me.. its the same knife that had a serious edge failure like my friends 12c27's. is it more.. yes.. is it BRK.. yes.. is it crap? certainly is..
Ben mentioned I said 5 of 30 knives failed. I do want to make it quite clear that this is the only time I've had something like this happen with a bark river knife.. if anything like this was happening on a regular basis you'd have seen a video about it. 5 out of 30 knives that had problems.. (not massive failures) most of the failures were simply too thin edges which I correct myself with no issue or complaint in the past. if i wasn't experienced with grinding, or even just plain sharpening, then for many this will lead to a catastrophic edge failure.. only my ability to indentify the problem early on and pre-correct it lead to them being minor issues.
Recently when friends started showing their 12c27 knives chipping and failing terribly i tested a brand new one and got similar bad results..
This entire video was unlisted, and for another forum, and had I wished to vent my spleen with BRK I'd have a good 3 hours of video time to make public..
its not my job to talk about the warranties or anything else.. this video was contextual and someone chose to link it here and make it more public than intended.
I used to have 100 videos on Bark River knives. out of that 100 if I recall there was 1 video that had something mildly negative to say.. you will learn that apparently thats not allowed. Now I dont have any public videos on Bark River. I deleted them all.
Does that make the 100 good videos lies? not at all.. it means I have no interest in promoting their goodside as long as I think their badside is so poor.
Do I have to create an unbiased video when showing a failure and outline their warranty policy to the viewers? I dont think so.. i dont work for them.. and if I "had to" outline their "no questions asked" warranty, then I think I'd need to relate every 1st hand experience related to my by friends and owners who were screwed by that warranty too.. I should also need to mention in the video how any warranty would cost me about $80USD return insured post for them to fix their failures... that would also be nice and unbiased.
Their warranty is worthless in my opinion when you dont live in USA.. the shipping costs which they dont cover doesn't justify the repairs. Is that their fault? not at all.. but better QA to minimize the need of returns is important when selling overseas..
I certainly take huge offense at implications that I'm trying to put Bark River down because I'm a competitor.. I am a software developer.. thats how I pay my rent.. making 50-100 knives a year as a hobby is not competiing with a company that claims 25,000 knives a year or something to that effect. If they, or anyone else even seriously thinks such a thing is the case then BRK must be doing something very wrong indeed.
why did I have a major falling out with them? simple.. when they released a review of their new 3V northstar I asked some basic questions and demonstration in video of the knife, because as an owner of a northstar myself I felt very confused by the label of it being the best bushcraft knife outthere as I found it very uncomfortable to use in certain well used and efficient cutting holds.
I was met with so much avoidance that Southerncross then pulled them up on the ridiculous answers that he felt insulted by as a bushcrafter and customer. This led to the 2 of us being threatened with banishment, and being told that we ruined his sons wedding day with out intentional assaults on their company, and cost them a $50,000 sale or some shit.. All because of their own outlandish replies to a simple request to demonstrate why the knife is claimed to be so good..
There.. now you know the short and curly. They then took my posts and massaged and edited them to suit how they liked and moved on and I never spoke to them again.
