I broke the blade on my Rukus today...

[Siggyhk]

Yeah, they let me keep an old 806 blade when I bought a new one. It wasn't broken or anything though, so that might make a difference if they wanted to keep and analyze a defective blade.

I did have to send the whole knife in, they just replaced the old blade and included it in the return box.

 

[swamp]

If you want to send an email with the pics, I can post them for you.

send me your email address and I will send you the pics. I need your actual email to attach pics.

 

[swamp]

Are you sure they will let you keep the old blade? I didn't think they would.

I sent the broken blade back to benchmade. But took a couple pics before I shipped it.

 

[RevDevil]

Photobucket?
Imageshack?

 

[jimwalter]

^.^ send the pics to seelow!

 

[seelow123]

Pics incoming (hopefully) Waiting for swamp to reply.....

 

[seelow123]

Here's the pics.....

 

[RevDevil]

Yep, that is one busted blade. So Benchmade is going to just send you a blade? I thought they required the knife so they could swap it? Also, isn't a replacement blade $25 or something?

 

[swamp]

Yep, that is one busted blade. So Benchmade is going to just send you a blade? I thought they required the knife so they could swap it? Also, isn't a replacement blade $25 or something?

Yes, I had to send the knife to them. I did that yesterday, but took these pics with my phone before shipping it. If you break the tip off or something like that when prying etc a new blade is 25.00 or so.

But when I told him where it broke, he said just send it in without any money. I'm not sure if it broke from long term heavy use or a steel defect. But when it broke, I was just carving a stake. Never batoned with it or anything. I have fixed blades for that.

As you can see it's been through the ringer, and I would pay 25.00 for a new blade in a second anyway.

 

[swamp]

Photobucket?
Imageshack?

I stink at posting pics. Go figure.

 

[OrdnanceBubbaUSMC]

Not through the butterfly! It's definitely not the first time a partially serrated blade has broke there.

 

[RevDevil]

I really like that model, one of my favorites. I think Benchmade serrations are cut way too deep into the blade. They are far too aggressive in my opinion. No wonder, it makes a natual weak spot in the blade.