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Are you referring to the very back of the tang? It is not clear to me what is happening there. That actually looks like epoxy adhesive or a coating failure, not a failure of the steel itself.
Can you post more photos of the crack to make it clear?
Part of the tang which goes inside pommel broken. There is not cracks - it completely broke off.
Thanks, Vassili.
OK. Must be the coloration on my monitor. It doesn't look like bare metal on my screen.
But I would consider that a design flaw rather than poor steel.
I think KaBar design proves itself from WWII.
Thanks, Vassili.
I agree that the blade is a proven design Vassili, but IIRC that the butt of the NG design differs from that of the regular knife. IIRC, the butt of the traditional cannot be hammered. (I'm going from memory here. I don't have either model to actually look at. Just trying to remember what I have read. And I remember reading that you can't hammer on the butt of the Ka-Bar Marine. My memory may be faulty in this. I read a lot of threads.) Do you happen to have both designs? If so, can you look at the butt caps and tell if that part of the design is the same?
440A works for the rest of the knife. It just didn't work with that little nib that took the force of the hammer blow. That becomes a design issue.