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Edge at Renegade has bursted
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yablanowitz
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I've never seen one crack like that. 
I'd suggest an honorable retirement party for it, as it appears to have given its all for you. I don't think even Sal can do anything for it. 
I'd suggest an honorable retirement party for it, as it appears to have given its all for you. I don't think even Sal can do anything for it. 
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Raufbold
If you're in Russia this may be difficult (and not practical) but I would send it back to Spyderco. They can determine, through a microscopic inspection of the break, if it was caused by a manufacturing defect such as in inclusion in the steel or a problem with the heat treatment.
By the way, welcome to the Spyderco forum.
David
If you're in Russia this may be difficult (and not practical) but I would send it back to Spyderco. They can determine, through a microscopic inspection of the break, if it was caused by a manufacturing defect such as in inclusion in the steel or a problem with the heat treatment.
By the way, welcome to the Spyderco forum.
David
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What did you sharpen the knife with, and how long has it been in use? Joe
I am truly surprised that a GIN-1 blade would crack like that. I had never even thought of GIN-1 as having brittle properties such as that. I have heard on several occasions about accusations of S30V having chipping and cracking problems.
If anything I had always noticed that GIN-1 was a very risilent steel. I carried a plain edged Spyderco Renegade for an entire year before I started carrying the immortal big Dyad. And I was not kind to that knife either. I put that Renegade through some pretty harsh treatment through every kind of hard cutting chore imaginable. I ended up trading that knife to a guy here on Bladeforums. The last I heard was that he was still using it.
It truly makes me wonder that the fracture might have even been there to begin with. Maybe small and un-noticable but I bet it was there all along. JD
If anything I had always noticed that GIN-1 was a very risilent steel. I carried a plain edged Spyderco Renegade for an entire year before I started carrying the immortal big Dyad. And I was not kind to that knife either. I put that Renegade through some pretty harsh treatment through every kind of hard cutting chore imaginable. I ended up trading that knife to a guy here on Bladeforums. The last I heard was that he was still using it.
It truly makes me wonder that the fracture might have even been there to begin with. Maybe small and un-noticable but I bet it was there all along. JD
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It looks like a buffing wheel got hold of it and pulled down, got it stuck, and tore the metal. Joe