Sal's turn at bat?

redhawk44p

redhawk44p

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Folks here are always telling you their problems with Spydies. Since you are among friends here lets hear your side. I know you see things in the customer service dept that are ridiculous. What kind of knife abuse is your worst offender?
 
Sal does not strike me as the type of gentleman to potentially... well make someone feel bad by telling a story that no doubt is incredible "I bought this super expensive $40 knife and used it as a foot step after hammering it into a brick wall and it broke!"

Though I would like to hear a few stories if the facts were just "vauge" enough to protect the guilty! :D
 
The General said:
Though I would like to hear a few stories if the facts were just "vauge" enough to protect the guilty! :D
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What, like people that use quality knives to open hotdog tins :D ;)
 
What your hotdogs are in cans?
Ours are just in little plastic bags.
I would guess that the bigest thing thay deal with is tips being broken from useing them as screwdrivers.
 
I got the impression from Mike in warranty and repair that he dealt with a fair number of cases in which owners had tried to work on their knives but only succeeded in screwing it up.

Hey -- post #100 for me -- yippie! :D
 
I am not asking Sal to point fingers but I know when he walks into his customer service department he must say or at least think damn I wish they would quit doing that. I would still buy Spydies even if he called me a dumb knife abuser. It has to be a big drain on his company fixing all of those misused knives. I know it would rile me paying to fix a knife some one had used as a crowbar. He is among friends here he should be able to vent a little.
 
My Endura has been:

A paint can opener
A prybar
A projectile
A screwdriver
A cheater bar
A step (stuck it in a tree and used it like a ladder rung)

It has:

Been dropped on concrete many times
Hand the edge scraped across asphalt
Had parts of the blade ground off (don't ask)
Had the edge ground off almost completely
Been used to cut bricks in half
And I even waved it because it was already beat all to heck

And much more.

AND

It has never ever failed not once not ever not no how.

BUT

I would never send it in for warranty work.

I love my ugly all steel Endura.
 
Three cheers Deadman. Spoken like a man. I treat some of mine to hard use but I never send them back to be fixed at Spyderco's expense. Like they say "you break it you bought it".
 
redhawk44p said:
I would still buy Spydies even if he called me a dumb knife abuser.
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Unfortunately, not all online users are as reasonable as you are. Trust me, there are people out there that will scream because their $40 knife broke when they tried to pry their truck engine apart without taking the bolts out. Then proceed to call the manufacturer a no good company because they had the gall to suggest it might have been abused.

In all my years online, I've seen some pretty unreasonable people. Still never ceases to amaze me.
 
The bad part is that fixing all these knives raises Spyderco's operating cost. These cost are passed on to the knife buyers.
 
DeadManWalking said:
My Endura has been:

A step (stuck it in a tree and used it like a ladder rung)
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I'd love to see a picture of that. Also using it to cut bricks in half. ;)
 
DeadManWalking said:
My Endura has been:

A paint can opener
A prybar
A projectile
A screwdriver
A cheater bar
A step (stuck it in a tree and used it like a ladder rung)

It has:

Been dropped on concrete many times
Hand the edge scraped across asphalt
Had parts of the blade ground off (don't ask)
Had the edge ground off almost completely
Been used to cut bricks in half
And I even waved it because it was already beat all to heck

And much more.

AND

It has never ever failed not once not ever not no how.

BUT

I would never send it in for warranty work.

I love my ugly all steel Endura.
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I may say I've done most of those things with my VG-10 SE FRN Delica. Except for the tree climbing thing, but that's an idea ;) I even regrinded its blade to give a full flat ground. Works super! :)
Never had any reason to complain and even if the poor Delica will crash some day, I think it already met and exceeded my expectations. :)
 
Hey Yog Did you see me open that tin can with Tronds custom Damasteel knive made by Steen? I was not up for doing it and Steen grabbed my hand and spiked the can lid in a flash! :eek:

In his great English " tis no problem to can open with Damasteel knife, its one of mine a can is a joke ha ha to this knife!" :eek: :eek:

Opened them a treat Yog and no damage at all to the knife... Not even a faint line where a dull patch of steel shows, nothing, nada, zip... Great stuff!

Going to have to buy such a knife from Steen... How can I phrase my requirements? I want a 4" fixed blade in Damasteel that can open tin cans all day without any damage...! You know he could do it! :D Also called a can opener! :p
 
Keith Mayton said:
I'd love to see a picture of that. Also using it to cut bricks in half. ;)
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Actually it's not as impressive as it sounds... imagine sticking the knife into a tree sideways as deep as you can get it to go and then standing on the protruding handle.

As for the brick thing, think more like an ice pick. I only did that once but you know what it worked.

Of course that was back in my wilder days of thinking a knife was anything I needed it to be and I'd never do something so awful to a Spyderco now... except this particular Endura maybe since it's been beaten so badly.

The sad part is yes I have slaughtered a knife that should last a lifetime, but on the brightside I know just exactly what a Spyderco is capable of, and a cheap Spyderco at that.
 
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