Will GEC be able to fix this?

It shouldn't have anything to do with the nickle/silver liners. I have several Case knives with nickle/liners with no problems.

I'm surprised there are so many with this problem. I can't comment on mine as I gifted it to "Humppa" but he hasn't received it yet. I wonder if it's rotting somewhere in customs?

Pics would be useful - Ed J, FLymon ????
 
I will try to get a picture up tomorrow. We had an unwelcome visitor Sunday night (that's my bedroom under the tree) and had to pack a few things up temporarily.

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OUCH !!!! First things first Stu. The picture can wait. Hope everyone is ok.
 
Thanks Ed, everyone is fine. We were home when the storm hit but no one got hurt.
What's broke will be fixed, it's just going to be hurry up and wait for a while.
 
Pitting and blemishes on a carbon traditional knife I find enhance the beauty...maybe stabilize the corrosion by soaking it in mineral oil and see how it looks after you do a slight clean up yourself? :)
 
Vanguard, in New Zealand here...or should I say in Auckland, we seem to have a fairly high humidity and my 1095, 52100 goes off like a pint of milk in a heat wave...I have to pay particular attention to my knives-even though I bath them in pure Mineral oil, some types of Carbon go off very very quickly!, regular checking and 0000 grade steel wool carefully with Mineral oil seems to be my only routine that keeps things at bay-not without back springs, edges on blades discolouring and speckling
 
I bought a #12 in primitive bone several months ago from a brand X distributor as that was the only one I could find.

It came with what looked like several rust spots on the blade and back spring. I contacted GEC and they fixed it up pronto with the only charge being my shipping it to them.

I would suggest contacting them via email and going from there.

It could not have been handled better.

My 2¢
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Sorry it took so long to get around to this, but here is a picture of the spot on the screwdriver on my 2011 Forum Knife. It formed in no more than 2-3 days, hasn't got any worse though:

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If it were me, I'd use some Simichrome or Flitz on that spot. Whatever kind of oxidation took place (water/moisture, acids, salts, etc.), either of these polishing pastes should take it off pretty easily. Might take a little scrubbing, but I'd think it should clean that up. Depending on how deep it is, there may be some pitting left.
 
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