Too destruction!

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Hi guys, how many of you have had a swiss (or any other product) fail on you in some catastrophic way?

I,m not talking about destruction testing, just normal use and occational abuse?

I,ve been a serious knife user since i was thirteen and although i,ve managed to hurt myself a few times i,ve never broken a knife,sak/multitool, am i doing something wrong ;D

All stories and gory pictures welcome

[felinevet]

Just about destroyed myself with them a few times through stupidity but the tools have never failed.

[J-sews]

I once busted a corkscrew off on a friend's SAKKO.   











(Swiss Army Knife Knock-Off, made in Taiwan.) 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I once busted a corkscrew off on a friend's SAKKO.   











(Swiss Army Knife Knock-Off, made in Taiwan.) 

you should get a medal for services to the genuine article ;D

god i hate knock offs, they give saks a bad name :angry:

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Just about destroyed myself with them a few times through stupidity but the tools have never failed.

been there, done that ;D

wear the scares with pride

[BIG-TARGET]

I once busted a corkscrew off on a friend's SAKKO.   











(Swiss Army Knife Knock-Off, made in Taiwan.) 

With respect, that ain't to hard to do!!

[J-sews]

Hi guys, how many of you have had a swiss (or any other product) fail on you in some catastrophic way?
All stories and gory pictures welcome

Hehe...I can't help but notice that we're not getting much feedback on this question. Not surprising really; the strength and quality in these products is incredible. Honestly, I've never experienced a failure in any knife or tool produced by a reputable manufacturer. This is 50% due to the quality of the product, and 50% due to the fact that I don't push the item beyond it's limits. I don't pry with knife blades or file blades, I don't hammer on wrenches when trying to get a tight bolt unstuck, and I don't use flathead screwdriver blades as cold chisels.

Using a tool for only what it was designed for is half the battle in making it last a long time.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Hi guys, how many of you have had a swiss (or any other product) fail on you in some catastrophic way?
All stories and gory pictures welcome

Hehe...I can't help but notice that we're not getting much feedback on this question.

your not wrong ;D

but like you i think most of us exercise a fair bit of brain and judgement choicing a multitool/sak in the first place, then use equal brain/judgement in using them

to my mind the number one cause these days when a QUALITY tool get broken is human error, so in turn we must be an exceptionally bright bunch here ;D

[Grant Lamontagne]

I have a SAK knockoff with a broken pin.  I was trying to use the screwdriver but apparently the screw was stronger than the pin in the knife and it broke, then fanned out like a bunch of cheap steel cards.

I still have it somewhere.  I keep it as a reminder not to try and use cheap tools.  I'll post a picture of it sometime...

Def

[Viper]

I had a SAKKO once, and the blade bent backwards. I don't even remember ever using it. 

[AJ]

Not me, but it was my Gerber.
Being a Gerber it must have been about 12 years ago or so now.

I was out working with the bosses son one long cold dark day.
We were installing some appliances and I was inside the house working on the dishwasher.

The kid comes in and ask me for a knife to cut open the other appliances we had to unpack.
I give him my gerber. A while later he comes back in and I ask him if he got everything unpacked.

He tells me he did and gives me back my Gerber. I put in back in the sheath on my belt.

About 5 minutes later I go to use the knife on it and the blade had been snapped off and only about 1/2" of it was left.

The dumb son of a, he gave it back to me after busting the blade off and did not say a word about it!

Come to find out he was using the blade to try and cut the steal bands that were around one of the boxs.

 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Not me, but it was my Gerber.
Being a Gerber it must have been about 12 years ago or so now.

I was out working with the bosses son one long cold dark day.
We were installing some appliances and I was inside the house working on the dishwasher.

The kid comes in and ask me for a knife to cut open the other appliances we had to unpack.
I give him my gerber. A while later he comes back in and I ask him if he got everything unpacked.

He tells me he did and gives me back my Gerber. I put in back in the sheath on my belt.

About 5 minutes later I go to use the knife on it and the blade had been snapped off and only about 1/2" of it was left.

The dumb son of a, he gave it back to me after busting the blade off and did not say a word about it!

Come to find out he was using the blade to try and cut the steal bands that were around one of the boxs.

 

thats the sort of story that makes my blood boil :angry: not only are people completly tool use ignorant these days but, they don,t even feel sorry when they break them

then when ya tell them how much it cost, they don,t belive you, and even if they do they think your some kind of idiot for spending that amount of money on something they saw at a market for £5! :angry:

[CQC-7]

I broke my benchmade folder.  Before my wife bought me an Emerson CQC-7 I had bought a Benchmade Stryker.  For those of you who dont know what that is, it is basically a "better constructed knockoff" of an Emerson CQC-7B.  I was cutting plastic bands off of a bundle of survey stakes.  The knife was very sharp but the plastic was heavy and I managed to render the knife inoperable by stressing the lock to the point where it failed and would no longer close.  I solved the problem by taking the knife apart that night and setting things back where they should be.  The knife has not been the same since it is loose.  My advice, get an Emerson instead of a fake one.  They do not break.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I broke my benchmade folder.  Before my wife bought me an Emerson CQC-7 I had bought a Benchmade Stryker.  For those of you who dont know what that is, it is basically a "better constructed knockoff" of an Emerson CQC-7B.  I was cutting plastic bands off of a bundle of survey stakes.  The knife was very sharp but the plastic was heavy and I managed to render the knife inoperable by stressing the lock to the point where it failed and would no longer close.  I solved the problem by taking the knife apart that night and setting things back where they should be.  The knife has not been the same since it is loose.  My advice, get an Emerson instead of a fake one.  They do not break.

:osounds exspensive, i,m suprised a lock failed on a benchmade

[Grant Lamontagne]

Me too- I always thought Benchmades were pretty solid.  Of course I haven't bought one since before they started color coding them.

I think I only have one left.

Def

[tomcrx]

In my years of backpacking:

1. Torqued a Spartan blade while batoning with a miss hit. It was -15 and my aim was way bad

2. Bent the tip on a Climber blade using it as a phillips on a sled repair.

3. Bent Liners on another SAK using screwdriver as a pry bar

4. Totally destroyed a SAK saw blade cutting into wood that I did not know had barbed wire embedded in it

5. Busted 2 pair of scissors. One dropping and busting the spring, the other by using as a pair of pliers
during a camping stove repair.

6. Torqued a small blade using it to open shellfish and cut the crap out of my hand at the same time.


The good thing was at the time the SAK was all I had as tool on these trips and they accomplished what I needed done.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

In my years of backpacking:

1. Torqued a Spartan blade while batoning with a miss hit. It was -15 and my aim was way bad

2. Bent the tip on a Climber blade using it as a phillips on a sled repair.

3. Bent Liners on another SAK using screwdriver as a pry bar

4. Totally destroyed a SAK saw blade cutting into wood that I did not know had barbed wire embedded in it

5. Busted 2 pair of scissors. One dropping and busting the spring, the other by using as a pair of pliers
during a camping stove repair.

6. Torqued a small blade using it to open shellfish and cut the crap out of my hand at the same time.


The good thing was at the time the SAK was all I had as tool on these trips and they accomplished what I needed done.

now thats what i,d call abuse ;D