I sent it in on Feb 24 following his instructions. He told me on March 3 that he was making a replacement for it. On April 3 I asked about it again, and he said he was working on it. In the meantime he has made hundreds of new knives. I have a bunch of Bark Rivers, and I like most of them a lot, but I now know the BRKT warranty is just talk. While I love Swamp Rats, Busses, and Scrappers, and their warranty is tops, I also like traditional knives in traditional materials. Pit's ML Kephart is nice. There is no way it is as tough as a Scrapper, but it does have its appeal.
Comparing toughness is a tricky subject Vic, when you say the ML is not as tough as a Scrapper they cannot be compared because as yet no Scrapper has been made with the stock thickness and grind of the ML Kephart.Whether or not it's because the ML is forged that makes a difference but for a knife with that fine an edge it awfully tough,when I truncated with a batton through the hard arrow wood there was zero edge damage, this was battoning the knife cross grain not with it. I have heard from a top knifemaker first hand ( he asked me not to name him ) that he has received many Bark river knives requiring their edges needing to be fixed when subjected to similar tasks !There was also a case where a Swamprat M6's edge had been thinned out by a top knifemaker and when tested it deformed badley due to thinned edge, this begs the question are Swamprat/Scrapyard blades only as tough as they are because they are built with such thick heavy grinds ? I am not disputing that they have a great heat treatment process.
