It is way better that you found out about the flaw rather than having it happen in an emergency. I think the reason Dark jedi's took so long was because they did not have any DFCG's left. I would like to know what happened with that one actually?

Occasionally there is a flaw with the steel that you can't see until you have used it a bit. The japs used to polish their blades not just for appearance but to try and find those flaws. The DFCG's that were flawed all came from the same batch.
I think it was Ed Fowler who mentioned that when he bought raw steel he would have to take the "bark" off because the outside of the steel was not perfect.

I would hope that you would post your pics of the Crash rat here. It is made of S7
so we all are very anxious to find out what happened and I don't get to the Swamp as much as I should. I would love for Scrapyard to make a traditional hawk head.

I thought this was another toilet incident. Andy bashed up his Crash rat pretty good on an old toilet. I (and Andy obviously) would have thought you could break one easy but when you think about it cermaics are very very hard ,even harder than steel so it really messed up the edge.


Good luck with you warranty and remember Busse has a great rep and won't want to
do anything to ruin it. They even fixed a guys knife when he shot it with a 30/30 if I remember correctly.