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Those gremlins must have some set of biceps to snap a spring like that, stainless or not. What a terrible thing to happen to your knife.
 
I had this happen to a 100 year old knife last week. But never expected GEC Acorn to do this.
 
Obviously a carbon-loving GEC junkie got violent.

Sorry to see that, man. I have the same knife (modified) and it has the best action of all my GECs. I bet you can send it back to the dealer?
 
I had the same thing happen on my #73L. It took over a year to get it back as they don’t stock up spare parts very often, so I had to wait for them to do the next run of #73s to get it back. They fixed it perfectly though and no issues years later.

It happens to the best of them.
 
Why is GEC getting the blame in a fault in the Metal? ( not saying you have op).

Did GEC produce and pour the Liquid Stainless Steel?
Steel is provided to the Cutler- so I don’t understand Smart remarks about the Cutler firm.

I had the very same thing on a Case Bose Collab.
The knife was perfect - in fact all I was doing was using the knife - how would you say... like a Worry Stone- next morning Like you I came out and the Spring was broken in half just like yours - just let go as the Knife was in closed position in the mid of the night.
 
Campbellclanman said:
Why is GEC getting the blame in a fault in the Metal? ( not saying you have op).

Did GEC produce and pour the Liquid Stainless Steel?
Steel is provided to the Cutler- so I don’t understand Smart remarks about the Cutler firm.
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GEC made the knife and is responsible for the quality of their products, so yes the blame is on them for it breaking. They are not and should not be immune to criticism.

However that kind of discussion was not my intent of the post, it was an interesting "woah" moment that I wanted to share with everybody. I'm not worried about it, the knife will likely get fixed and life will go on.
 
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TheChunk91 said:
GEC made the knife and is responsible for the quality of their products, so yes the blame is on them for it breaking. They are not and should not be immune to criticism.

However that kind of discussion was not my intent of the post, it was an interesting "woah" moment that I wanted to share with everybody. I'm not worried about it, the knife will likely get fixed and life will go on.
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Paul, I don't think Duncan was saying you said the blame fell on GEC and that GEC is certainly not beyond criticism, he basically was saying it happens to all knife companies. I think an earlier post hinted that this was common with GEC's stainless.

Bummer about the spring my namesake, it will be handled well by the fine folks of GEC:thumbsup: I have three Navy 15's and enjoy them all.
 
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First off I will say that I think GEC makes a great product. They are definitely the tops in quality production traditional knives. I own several and will continue to purchase their fine products.

But unfortunately as the supplier to the end user they must shoulder the blame when an outsourced part fails in this manner. Whether it was the raw material, the outsourced heat treatment, or an over zealous worker at the grinder during a stage of assembly...that steel was too brittle for usage as a spring (yes Duncan it happens to everyone in manufacturing, though we have seen it less with GEC... stuff happens).

On such a small scale GEC’s great customer service will handle it for the end user. Which is what really matters when stuff happens.

In the industry I work in a poorly heat treated outsourced piece of pipe has cost us in excess of $1 million. We had to make it right with the customer. We then had to in essence sue the mill that sold us the $1500 piece of pipe to recoup our million.

Did we do anything wrong? No. Did we batch test the pipe for Rockwell hardness as opposed to test each piece? Yes, lesson learned.... don’t trust the mills.

Our customer didn’t care who heat treated the pipe, they bought it from Josh. Josh has to make it right....... that’s why my beard is greying and my hair is thinning... not the kids....
 
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