Trust me, reconseed. If other people had the same problem I had, it would be all over the forum. I doubt you have anything to be concerned about. If you do run into a problem, you've got the iron-clad Scrap Yard warranty to fall back on. Or, if you prefer, you can take your knife to your local knifesmith and have him do to yours what Vic and I did to ours. Then you'd end up with a really rare knife . . . the DMUC (Dumpster Mutt Under-Cut <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> )! Last but not least, you could mark it up and sell it on the secondary market at a profit, problem and all. And you wouldn't even be sticking the problem to the buyer because the warranty follows the knife. So once again, no worries. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />