Still stradling the fence on the F1, over thinking it all

[ChristianJ]

There is nothing to stop European companies from offering a lifetime warranty. Regulations affect the minimum warranty they have to provide for consumers, but it sets no limits towards the maximum. If Fällkniven wanted, they could offer lifetime warranty.

For example Normark (importer&distributor) offers an 'idiot guarantee' (marketing name is bit more catchy) for Shimano fishing rods. With idiot guarantee they will replace or repair the rod once no questions asked. You can literally take an axe and cut your fishing rod into small pieces, ship the pieces to Normark and they will send you a brand new one. That is in addition to normal factory guarantee.

Anyways if the guarantee only covers factory defects, there is little practical difference between lets say two year or lifetime guarantee. Any real production defects are likely to appear quite fast in real use.

Now if you have lifetime no questions asked type of warranty ... that is something different.

 

[Mikael W]

Christian, I agree on this advice, it works very well!
I soak both sides of the cloth with compound and fold the cloth.
This keeps one side fresh and when the unfolded side gets glossy, I open the fold and use the inside.
In this way I have had the same piece of cloth for years!

I think this topic needs some pics of the F1!
Here's a few of my F1, made from the now discontinued bladeblanks.
I have dropped this knife tip first on the concrete workshop floor, so it has been resharpened.
There was some denting, but no chipping!
I fixed it myself as I have a 1" x 30" beltsander and repolished the finish.

The pics:

In the mountains

At the coast

Fishing luck!

About warranty's:
They are what they are in differrent countries.
Fällkniven receive about 1 out of a 1000 sold knives, for warranty issues a year and these are mostly on the folders.
This means they have around 25 to 35 issues per year to deal with.
Not fun for those who has to claim the warranty, but very low numbers of defect products.


Regards
Mikael

 

[22-rimfire]

The F1 is such a respected knife, I ended up going with the Esee4 also but I still might add one. Too many people rave about them, there has to be something to it.

The forum raving is why I purchased a Kabar Becker BK-2. Never really liked this knife (after I bought it) and it does not get used. I have both the ESEE 4 and F1. I actually prefer to use a BK-16 over the ESEE 4, but that is me. Have had no problems with the F1, but I don't use it hard. It is such a purty knife with the Fallkniven white micarta handles (expensive too, for me).

Resisted the urge to get one of those Bark River custom F1's. Really nice.