The fact that we have people who will push a knife to it's limits and beyond keeps the industry honest. This and every other steel failure can tell the maker how to improve the next batch. Why aren't the rest of y'all out there breaking knives? Start with a couple Frost knives then move up to a Buck or a Case then go out and break those Randalls and Fowlers and Busses and Kresslers. My guess is that you will break a larger percentage of the lower grade knives than of the upper grade knives thus proving the quality in the higher grade knives. A knife with a 'perfect' record? Maybe some day but until then keep breaking those blades!!