The broke knife blues

[Heera]

I really want a cool knife. I do have a grip. I do love it. Just the handles are so plain looking. And apparently modifying it negates the warranty. Even still I have been looking at 3rd party scales, just for how much they cost it might as well be a new knife with scales I did like and not void a warranty.

RIT dye is my only solution I suppose. I have seen some really good results. Does that also void the warranty? I know a $100 knife isn't much to y'all here but it is to me.

Anyways, just got those broke ass knife blues.

 

[BladeScout]

Welcome to the forum.
Contact the manufacturer to make sure.
A $100 is still a considerable amount of money for a knife to many people, so you are far from alone on that account.

 

[GIRLYmann]

As long as its not a lifetime warranty, its probably best to hold of any mods until such time that the warranty period has expired??! Perhaps by then, it would not be the first time nor would it be unlikely for anyone to have had develpoed a change of heart regarding a mod...just my 2 cents.

 

[TRfromMT]

I'm in the opposite camp - warranties are meant to be broken . While $100 is not chump change, there is a certain satisfaction in making one knife really your own. If it moves it from "like it" to "there are a lot of these but this one is mine, and I love it!" then start out from day one with the mindset that you are going to carefully customize it and don't worry about the warranty.

 

[Reitwagen]

I really want a cool knife. I do have a grip.

You have a Benchmade Griptilian, correct? If it were me, I wouldn't care about the warranty, because that knife probably won't need it. Even if you did have a warranty claim, I would bet that Benchmade would still take care of you, at the worst, for a small fee. Have fun with it.

 

[John_0917]

Benchmade is known to be pretty liberal about things...I remember someone on here said that they stripped a scale screw and the Benchmade warranty rep goes “so you like to take apart your knives?” He said yes and the rep just laughed, they didn’t charge anything to fix it.