knives in the freezing cold....epoxy fail

thanks for the inputs all. I am with you guys , that this broke from abuse not the cold. But maybe it cracked and lifted up over the coarse of the night. I thought it was common sense not to pry with a tool like that. Poor assumption on my part, need to educate customers, especially those outside the handmade knife sphere. Also it was a very poor choice of handle material on my part, I got too caught up in the cool look of cross grain...I am completely done with cross grain at this point, I have had 4 instances now of a cross grain handle cracking, I have used cross grain exactly four times. I know some people seem to use it with success but it is inherently weak.
my solution to this for my customer is to replace with a synthetic material and tell him the blade/handle wont stand up to prying.
 
When I saw the picture cross grain was the first thing that came to mind. Knife looks roughed up for sure though.
 
Russ Andrews said:
Epoxy didn't fail.....common sense did....
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I have to agree. If epoxy DID fail. Scale would just start to separate. Not explode into piece's!!! Absolutely abused. Though I also agree mechanical pins prevent almost all possibilities of scale failure.
 
Good Point , I have a .140 thick AEBL dashi I am gonna finish up for him...Im just gonna keep this blade, one of the guys at work was asking for a shop knife.
 
I say fix the scale but use some of the rubber horse stall mat material.
Tell the customer that how he beats the crap out of his knife rubber is the only material he probably won't break.
 
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