Fallkniven A1 problem

alexander80 said:
When knife guard was broken it was during work in mountains , processing wood. Knife was not abused with malice - it is just happen. My friend have culture how to use knives.
But when some one sell knife (including highly priced products) like " survival-knive" it is suppose to be hard used and take some abuse, right?
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Alex, it happens. I use knives listed as hard use, pretty hard. But stuff like that happens, its just rubber. What I look for is catastrophic damage, basically, "Can you still use the knife?"

And in this case, yes you can. If it was me, I'd just cut that little tit of rubber off, and keep on keeping on. YMMV.

By the way, your english is very good.

Moose
 
Hardtripper, I like Japanese knives. I just don't like companies that make a big deal about being from a particular country, sweden, but their products are not.

From their most recent US catalog,

Warranty
We offer a two-year guarantee covering material
and manufacturing defects, i.e. defects that arise
during manufacture but are not discovered until
the knife is in use. A defect is generally discovered
within half a year, not after several years. We
repair or replace the knife. The guarantee is not
valid if the knife has been used incorrectly — the
knife is a precision cutting implement and is not
to be used for levering or prising. Discoloring
caused by blood, salt-water or other corrosive
substances is not covered by the guarantee,
neither are broken blade points. The sheath will
be replaced if faults in the original manufacturing
are found.


Their warranty only covers manufacturing defects and only for 2 years, thus since this is a design flaw, it is not covered. However, for this knife it is not really a design flaw since they chose cheap material on purpose. Kraton is not a high-end handle material, it can be found on <$50 knives by Cold Steel.

Some pretty good reasons not to pay the big bucks for any Fallkniven product.
 
HardTripper said:
If thermorun is rubber, isn't grivory just plastic?
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Fiber glass reinforced plastic. Yup, pretty much. Same as zytel and many other names.

Kraton is sythetic rubber, same as Grivory/Zytel is a reinforced plastic. Either way, neither rot and are cheap to use.

Kraton is a brand name just like Kleenex, Kleins, or Coke.

A rose by any other name, tears up just the same.

Moose
 
I was surprised by grivory recently. I was trying to make a silicone rubber mold of Becker scale but the stuff wouldn't set. I would heat it time and again with a heat gun but it was just stubborn and wouldn't get solid; I will use a different brand next time. But despite the constant heat attack, the grivory was unfazed. I had poured the silicone in a plastic bottle cut lengthwise, and the bottle deformed, the silicone on the top layer got scorched but the grivory just yawned. Pretty impressive, considering I have been making my own kydex for awhile and it doesn't take a fraction of the time/heat I applied straight to those scales for the kydex to bend.

end of grivory rant. Get rid of the kraton and get a sweet stacked leather handle with brass hardware, classic and elegant stuff.
 
zuluninja said:
I was surprised by grivory recently. I was trying to make a silicone rubber mold of Becker scale but the stuff wouldn't set. I would heat it time and again with a heat gun but it was just stubborn and wouldn't get solid; I will use a different brand next time. But despite the constant heat attack, the grivory was unfazed. I had poured the silicone in a plastic bottle cut lengthwise, and the bottle deformed, the silicone on the top layer got scorched but the grivory just yawned. Pretty impressive, considering I have been making my own kydex for awhile and it doesn't take a fraction of the time/heat I applied straight to those scales for the kydex to bend.

end of grivory rant. Get rid of the kraton and get a sweet stacked leather handle with brass hardware, classic and elegant stuff.
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Direct heat, aka dropped in a fire, ruins them quick. I assure you. :D

I've hit them with a heat gun, and caused them to warp, but when I got drunk and dropped my BK2 in a fire, before I could get it out, they was ruined. The knife was fine, but the handles has melted and pitted pretty bad.

Sorry, I don't have pics, as I didn't have a camera then, but I'm sure I could always recreate the event, I need to get some booze this weekend anyways.

Moose
 
There is definitely an inconsistency between materials used and prices charged for a knife. Emerson for example, 250$ for 154cm and g10 vs the price of any number of Spyderco knives with better steel at like 99$
 
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