My beloved BK16 is bent!!!

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I've seen walnut chip and shatter a few blades so it's kinda refreshing to just see the handle bend. All knives have a limit. Looks like you found your 16s.
 
mountainmist said:
What do you guys think? Should I bother calling KA-BAR?
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555 said:
Don't punish an American knife company for something that is clearly from your actions, by batoning a good knife.
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Right.
That isn't due to a manufacturing defect, you bent it by putting the blade against a piece of hardwood and repeatedly pounding it with another piece of wood. Suck it up and buy a new one, if you're done with that one. Ka-Bar doesn't owe you a dime (or a knife)
 
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I personally don't see how you guys think that this isn't some kind of a failure on the part of Ka-Bar. Myself for one don't understand how a well HT'd piece of 1095 @ 57 hrc wont hold up to batoning hardwood, I have smashed my Izula 2 threw a pieces of nasty oak with no issues and just today beat my BK16 threw some old nasty walnut again with no issues. All of the above is based totally on the fact batoning was being done PROPERLY!!

Any well made knife over 1/8th inch thick stock should be able to handle batoning tasks.
 
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A knife that cannot baton is not worth having.
I can baton with a Mora and never had one fail.
They should send you a new one
 
Hey guys! Sorry I haven't replied, I've been working. (Funny, right? :rolleyes:) I found out what the issue was. When I go the blade stuck, it wouldn't go ANY further and I had to beat on the handle to work it out, the beating on the handle didn't bug it, but when it got to the point where the little "guard" or whatever that little "Lip" is right between the handle and blade......

I'm impressed with the knife! I'll try and mod it if KA-Bar doesn't replace it.

Thanks guys! :thumbup:
 
mm,

You just open a new market: design and develop metal inserts to prevent bends.
 
It's interesting to me how many people comment to "Suck it up" and "Buy a new knife." Although I don't think it's a failure on the Becker design, I DO think it's an opportunity to improve an existing design. EVERY failure is an opportunity to improve. Shouldn't Ka-Bar be interested in this failure? Who knows that they are and who knows how many other failures they've had similar to this one that were NOT posted on Bladeforums.com?

If Ka-Bar is interested in pleasing their customer base, one that seems to appreciate the durability of the Becker line, they need to consider every failure. Even those that come from "abuse" of the tool in question.

Survivormind
 
mountainmist said:
Hey guys! Sorry I haven't replied, I've been working. (Funny, right? :rolleyes:) I found out what the issue was. When I go the blade stuck, it wouldn't go ANY further and I had to beat on the handle to work it out, the beating on the handle didn't bug it, but when it got to the point where the little "guard" or whatever that little "Lip" is right between the handle and blade......

I'm impressed with the knife! I'll try and mod it if KA-Bar doesn't replace it.
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ah, that's clearly abuse. that's akin to clamping the knife in a vise, and trying to bend it with a pipe.

you should withdraw your warranty appeal, and do something cool with your knife, or bend it back.
 
The only way this could occur is if you batonned the handle. Since the blade is within the wood, theoretically that would act sort of as a 'fulcrum' in a sense. Therefore, batonning the tip of the blade (the way we usually do it) would either break the tip off or "bend" the blade somewhere between the portion of the blade that's in the wood and the tip. Given your knife bent where the handle meets the blade, thats on the other side of the fulcrum -- meaning the only way this happened is by hitting the handle itself. I'm sure you learned your lesson. For me, it serves as reinforcement not to hit the handle...lol... Thanks for sharing.
 
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