Just wanted to let everyone know that I called Ontario and spoke to them about what happened and they ask that I send it back with a brief note. Well I after about a month, I was going to call and then today I drove up to work and at the same time so did FedX with a nice big knife shaped package. I had no idea until I looked at the label and then smiled, my new RTAKII! So there it is, they replaced it without a hitch. Now after some thinking and study, I decided that this was probably not the knives fault as the log I was splitting was way twisted and was not going to be cleaved, so I am sure most knives would have failed at this duty, but I did not check the stock closely as it was night and I had a whiskey and just wanted to chop some wood. So I have the upmost trust in this knife. Just wanted to let you all know. Thanks for all your help.