Warranty & Product Promises

[mooniesdl3]

I wonder what people & large companies / manufacturers do to mitigate this? Seems almost like no one is stupid enough to do that and try to blame the knife.

Liability insurance, small price to pay for coverage for a large company.

 

[mooniesdl3]

This has been discussed ad nauseum and the consensus of everyone, including lawyers, is that you are safe from a suit due to a user injuring themselves from a knife you made. There must be twenty older threads covering it, as well as knife laws discussions in magazines sand online.

Preaching to the choir, I'm aware, wife won't be convinced, she see's it from the liability side as that is her job.

 

[A.McPherson]

Preaching to the choir, I'm aware, wife won't be convinced, she see's it from the liability side as that is her job.

You could always just tell her that you are giving them away as gifts, and that they were so impressed with your generosity that they decided to gift you with some money....

 

[AVigil]

Unfortunately my wife is an Insurance Agent and a CRM (Certified Risk Manager). She only sees the liability of selling knives, says it opens us up for litigation if a knife I make breaks and hurts someone, or even if someone hurts themselves with a knife I make and decide to sue...

No talking her out of it, I've tried lol.

She must be terrified for grandmas, who crochet scarfs and the liability of people chocking themselves to death

 

[scott kozub]

I offer an unconditional warranty for satisfaction or damage of any kind. That being said I'm a newbie hobbyist. I figure that reputation is important and its both worth having someone bad mouth your work.

I just replaced my first handle under warranty. My buddy thinks his wife put it in the dishwasher or soaked it. He said everything was fine one day. He then went to use it and the scales had separated and curled up at the ends. This was one of my first knives before I stabilized everything and used corbys. This was corrected on the rehandle.

 

[mooniesdl3]

You could always just tell her that you are giving them away as gifts, and that they were so impressed with your generosity that they decided to gift you with some money....

I have certainly considered this.

 

[mooniesdl3]

She must be terrified for grandmas, who crochet scarfs and the liability of people chocking themselves to death

When your job is assessing risk and ways to mitigate them everything looks dangerous I guess.

 

[AVigil]

M mooniesdl3 very true, so ask her to show you the claims made against knifemakers and knife companies

 

[REK Knives]

This has been discussed ad nauseum and the consensus of everyone, including lawyers, is that you are safe from a suit due to a user injuring themselves from a knife you made. There must be twenty older threads covering it, as well as knife laws discussions in magazines sand online.

I would think that would be true as long as the injury wasn't due to a manufacturing defect (i.e. Lock failure cutting off finger under normal use)