I have seen posted pictures on this very forum of damaged Dog Fathers. They were posted before the knives were returned and the cause of the problem determined. These users were not accused of blind siding or causing cancelled orders. I honestly thought that people seeing my post would plainly see exactly what I did to break the knife and refrain from doing that to theirs. I admitted from the beginning that I put too much lateral force on the tip. I futher stated that I did not see anything wrong with the knife. If anyone cancelled ordering a HCLE on the basis of my pictures, maybe it is because they wanted something more heavy duty than these very nice EDC knives. As for cancelled Scrap Yard orders, the last SY knives offered that I know of were DMDC SR77 knives. These knives are very different from the HCLE I broke the tip on. I certainly did not post my review to cause cancelled orders. I regret that my review may have caused some cancelled pre-orders of HCLEs from the Swamp. I never claimed to be a steel expert or anything like that. I just did a little review of a new knife and accidentally broke the tip doing a test I have done many times before without mishap.

So it is ok to post a review with pictures as long as everything goes well, but not if it goes poorly? I will abide by whatever the forum rules are today .