Broken blades

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russ25

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I saw on one of the facebook groups that a guy had dropped his Sebenza and the tip if the blade broke off. Of course I'm taking what he said about just dropping it with a grain of salt. But anyways I read the comments and everyone seemed just so so about it.
So my question is if the knife was just dropped how common is it for the blade to break? Looked about a quarter of an inch of the tip was gone.

I know there are many of these knives out there and this was the first one I have seen broken. I am pretty new to CRK knives but this is killing me thinking about it.

Thanks for your replies.
 
Common with any knife or blade steel if it’s dropped or missed. The tip is the most fragile point and shouldn’t be used for prying.
 
If you drop a knife on a hard surface there is always the chance of loosing a tip. Certain grinds will be less prone to this than others(such as a spanto) but it is a vulnerable area. If it were to happen it can be ground out or replaced at a cost.
Try to not drop your knives:) CRK does not warranty clumsiness.
 
I've dropped a slip joint that went tip-first into the ground. Considerably thinner 1095 blade, probably around .03"-.04" thick at the tip, if that. And only a mm or two of the tip broke off, little enough that when I reprofiled the tip, you could harldy tell anything had happened to it. Sure S35 is different from 1095, and I could be wrong, but... I think for an entire 1/4" of the blade tip to break off a Sebenza blade, either the blade had to have a bad tempering, or it wasn't just dropped from normal standing height.

CRK will put a new blade in your knife for free if it was warranty breakage (bad HT/temper), or for $100 if it was the result of misuse. So if it happens, you're not out the cost of another Sebenza.
 
I have many CRK users. I’ve dropped them all more times than a care to admit, in many cases with the blade open. I have never broken a blade, but I have blunted the very tip a couple times. It takes a while to get it pointy again. Usually I just wait for that to happen during regular sharpening.
 
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