I've been stewing about my HTM Madd Maxx for a long time. I got it for Christmas a few years ago and I thought it was the coolest knife I'd seen in a long time. It was stiff at first, but some oil fixed that. It performed well, for the first two months of owning it. Then several serious problems arose. First, it developed really bad up-down blade play. I emailed BladeHQ about getting a replacement, but I had already sharpened it and so that was not possible. I can understand that. Then, however, I sent several feedback forms directly to HTM Knives and never got any response. Their site even says you can email customer care but they don't post an email. This was before I knew about BladeForums. After waiting for six months, I decided to try to fix it myself by stretching the lock bar. Then the second problem showed up. Several of the screws stripped as I was disassembling the knife. They obviously weren't hardened properly, if at all. One of the screw heads stripped so badly that I couldn't take it out at all. After getting the knife apart, I found out just how small the washers are. I mean SMALL! Only .335" diameter with a .186" pivot pin. The pivot pin itself had very coarse threads, making minute pivot adjustments impossible. The final serious problem is the quality of the finish. Several of the holes drilled through the handle material still had burrs, all of the counterbored holes for the screws on the handle are off-center, and the blade still has machining marks. None of this is worth what the knife costs. HTM doesn't seem to care that they sent out a bad product at all. Has anyone else had any of these problems? Is there anything I can do about it?
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