Spyderco military lock failure

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sandman503

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I bought a Spyderco military a few months ago at a Cabelas it has been my dream knife for a few years now and decided to buy one when it was on sale. Once I got it home I opened it and checked for lock up and noticed the liner had a bit more slide than I was happy with, wish I had checked it at the store, live and learn I guess. I loved the knife so much I chose to overlook the issue. Ive used it since, but not very much carried it here and there but my job wont allow me to carry anything but a box knife so I really dont have any kind of real EDC set up, more like a weekend carry. I havent beat on this knife at all, havent needed to even sharpen the blade yet. Sitting on my couch yesterday and decide to test the lockup after seeing a video of another knife failing (different make and model). So i gave it a try hit the back of the blade on my hand and pop it failed so I googled it and found some info but not much generally seemed like a bunch of fanboys saying the knife was abused or was bought on ebay or was a fake or they were being flamed by the competedor, etc............... well here is my video. I will first be trying to exchange the knife at Cabelas, if that doesnt work Ill just sent it in to Spyderco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoNYpi4Peys
 
That Military definitely needs to take a trip back to Golden. Sorry you got at bad one.

Mine won't do that , even after doing things that are considered abuse on this forum for a year. [emoji4]
 
I doubt Cabela's will accept a return after "a few months".

Send the knife to Spyderco. There are instructions in the printed material that came with the knife. Or go to Spyderco's website.

I've only had to return one knife to Spyderco in the 25+ years I've owned them. They replaced it quickly. Their customer service is outstanding.
 
I've got three Millies, including one that's 20 years old. Never had an issue with any of them. And the 20 year old one is still an edc knife for me.
 
cbxer55 said:
I've got three Millies, including one that's 20 years old. Never had an issue with any of them. And the 20 year old one is still an edc knife for me.
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That's certainly a testament but defects do occur. The fact that Sal himself chimed in to make it right is just downright awesome. [emoji106]
 
If you haven't sent it in yet, one thing you can check yourself is to make sure the lockface is completely free of oil. I had an older Military model and noticed the locking liner would slide across the lockface. Turns out I had gotten oil on there. Cleaned it off, and didn't have anymore trouble. That might not be what's wrong with yours, but start with the easiest thing first.
 
I have owned a Spyderco since they came out
and I never spine whacked any of them.

Question Sal. If it is a counterfeit. Do you guys keep it and he is
SOL or do you send it back?
 
uxo2 said:
I have owned a Spyderco since they came out
and I never spine whacked any of them.

Question Sal. If it is a counterfeit. Do you guys keep it and he is
SOL or do you send it back?
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Normally we would send it back unless we need it for legal processing. If that's the case, we usually compensate.

sal
 
Kudos for doing the right thing, but I don't understand the rumor that Spyderco confiscates fakes if you send it in for evaluation. Maybe I'm ignorant on the subject, but Spyderco has no legal base to take your knife. I would imagine if you insisted on having it back, Spyderco couldn't do a thing about it. I would imagine most people would be more than happy to help if Spyderco asked to keep the knife to help stop a counterfeiter. Hopefully some common sense and Sal explaining it will smash that rumor.
 
We take it case by case. As I said, if we have to keep for legal chasing, we cover the customer one way or another.

We won't repair counterfeits.

sal
 
nccole said:
Kudos for doing the right thing, but I don't understand the rumor that Spyderco confiscates fakes if you send it in for evaluation. Maybe I'm ignorant on the subject, but Spyderco has no legal base to take your knife. I would imagine if you insisted on having it back, Spyderco couldn't do a thing about it. I would imagine most people would be more than happy to help if Spyderco asked to keep the knife to help stop a counterfeiter. Hopefully some common sense and Sal explaining it will smash that rumor.
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I figured it would be like receiving stolen property. In that case, you're not entitled to it back.
 
jpm2 said:
I figured it would be like receiving stolen property. In that case, you're not entitled to it back.
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Potentially, but Spyderco has no right to it either. Some law enforcement entity may confiscate it, but I'm not so sure a company can. I'm not a lawyer, but that physical knife was not taken from Spyderco and therefore is not stolen goods of theirs. There is stolen logos, ideas, patents etc., but not that actual single knife.
 
Sal Glesser said:
We take it case by case. As I said, if we have to keep for legal chasing, we cover the customer one way or another.

We won't repair counterfeits.

sal
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I get the vibe recently that you are on a mission to hunt down, identify, and study possible counterfeits.
I wish you and Spyderco the best of luck in possibly building a case against them in order to eradicate this spreading epidemic.
 
Its pretty rough out there, and unfortunately a lot of average folks wouldn't know. It seems like, of the fakes I've seen, spyderco has the most models being ripped off right now.
 
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