I haven't been around for long, but I don't recall ever seeing someone get in trouble here or on the Busse forums for showing damage to a knife. In fact, I've seen Jerry CELEBRATE when folks damaged their knives by doing dumb stuff like hammering one into a concrete block then kicking until it broke.


Very early in my posting around here, I majorly damaged the edge of a swamp rat knife batoning it through a log, and I posted lots of pictures - folks expressed surprise at the amount of damage, and then relief when I figured out that the damage was caused by trying to baton through a hardened masonry nail that was embedded deeply into the tree. Not once did I feel like someone was mad at me for pointing out that the edge was messed up, or even get a hint that folks thought I jumped the gun by posting the damage before I figured out the source.