Sharpening a Microtech voids it's warranty?

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You gotta be kidding me?? So they expect us to send them our knives???? And be without them for God knows how long?? For sharpening??
I wonder if there is a charge for it??
Wow!
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Wasn't that just on the otf automatics, because they said steel dust was getting inside the housing and messing up the mechanism?
 
That is yet one more reason not to buy one. I buy knives to use them... not to have them sit on someone's bench for 6 months to get sharpened.
 
I had read this somewhere before and wasn't sure if it was true. Can anyone find out if it is only applying to automatics? Either way what a joke. Steel dust affecting the mechanism? How much are people grinding off in a sharpening session. Sounds like just another small print B.S. clause so that they don't have to honour their warrenty.
 
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What hilarious garbage. I haven't ever been a fan of their knives, and I'm definitely not ever buying one now.
 
I love how they themselves can't even face the question. They don't even answer question 13 directly, just a copy/paste from question 12. Lol!
 
I can understand not covering a blade that someone destroyed by trying to sharpen it on a bench grinder or something, but that doesn't appear to be what they're saying... :confused:
 
What if you just strop it and don't sharpen it? What if you're just cleaning it on your blue jeans and are simply cleaning up the edge? What about a "sharpening" steel to straighten the edge? Where do they draw the line? This is the most inane policy.
 
So it is true. What a disgrace. Microtech never ceases to amaze me with its endless train of B.S. I am shocked people put up with this company at all. (I have a few myself) they are lucky they make snazzy knives or else they would have nothing.

So it's not just OTF autos? We can't sharpen any knife?
 
Furthermore, I'd be curious to know how they'd even be able to tell. I have sharpened plenty of my knives and can tell you that after twenty or thirty (correctly performed) swipes on the stones of a Sharpmaker, there's literally no sign of the knife having been sharpened.
 
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Furthermore, I'd be curious to know how they'd even be able to tell. I have sharpened plenty of my knives and can tell you that after twenty or thirty (correctly performed) swipes on the stones of a Sharpmaker, there's literally no sign of the knife having been sharpened.
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Other than its ability to cut better, so maybe Microtech does a cut test when your knife comes in for warranty work and if it will slice paper then they won't service it... ;):D
 
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Other than its ability to cut better, so maybe Microtech does a cut test when your knife comes in for warranty work and if it will slice paper then they won't service it... ;):D
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LOLOLOL Rough, and touche.
 
Maybe they mean professional sharpening services? Cause I keep my Scarab plenty sharp just with the sharpmaker
 
Great, now I have to add a disclaimer. This is why I no longer own any Microtechs.

I understand the steel dust issue, but don't throw a blanket void on sharpened knives. Just don't cover that particular issue. If the handle gets bent, the blade snaps, etc. you can't blame steel dust for it.
 
They'd be able to tell by it having less than a 80 degree inclusive edge bevel... I may be over exaggerating their edge bevels.
 
I guess it would depend how they come from the factory. A couple dozen strokes on a ceramic at a slightly steeper angle starts putting a micro bevel that is easy to spot in the right light. And stropping will start to polish the bevel after a few sessions.

A knife is meant to be sharp and they get dull with use. It is insane for a knife company to expect their customers to not sharpen their knives and will void the warranty doing so. They might as well not have a warranty.

What a joke.
 
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