Whenever a knife model of any brand gets popular you get a lot of forum threads with unlucky people who have problems and they are usually quite vocal. That doesn't necessarily that the product is flawed.
We don't don't how the tip got broken. The OP has not stated even though posters have asked several times. There are a couple of things that make me suspicious:
- Why bring a leather sheath into water?
- It looks like there are marks on the cutting edge from a firesteel(!).
- That's some really ugly rust spots on a stainless knife.
- If you draw comparisons regarding rust resistance with soft kitchen knives, like the OP does in the first post, it shows you know little on steel.
It is possible there is error in the manufacture and in that case it's a win win. All I have seen so far, and I'm just a guy on the internet just like you, is someone who can't take care of a knife. The F1 is a ridiculously strong knife. It's an overbuilt survival knife. That doesn't mean you should abuse it. What is a survival knife?
This is a survival knife.
Think this is a sour post? Well, I understand if one is angry about ones knife breaking for whatever reason. I don't think it is right to then proceed posting publicly how a product is a "bluff", and demand a new knife, when all I have seen in this thread is evidence of user error.
I might be mistaken, perhaps the tip broke from a perfectly legit task, perhaps those edge marks is not from a fire steel, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. I just comment on what I can see and read. OP think I am unfair? Perhaps I am, perhaps you could have explained what caused the damage. Otherwise expect reactions like this one when you go out and call a company a bluff in the face of users who have hard used the F1 for years.
