If Eric said he's never seen anything like that before, I believe him. And I would absolutely, positively try the tip test again when you receive your replacement, Tezza. There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER to believe that what happened to your Chopweiler will ever happen again.
Any knife can fail, including INFI knives and SR77 knives. The odds against it happening to any single knife are remote. But failures DO happen. And this time it happened to you.
I think you owe it to yourself to prove that Swamp Rat knives are as tough as they're cracked up to be.
If you men say it was a fluke, well I have to believe you then. But that still doesn't change things for my son & I when we are out bush with our knives, depending on them. No sir, I play the percentages. Scrap Yard & Busse from now on.
I will just keep using the CW as a firewood batoner, as that's all it's good for now. Because I have been told that SR do not pay shipping back to the factory under warranty.
I'm still wondering why SR want a broken knife. I can understand US owners doing this but not international, surely not. A few photo's, a video would be proof enough.
