Catastrophic failure of a Fox 599-XT. Customer service only made excuses. My opinion: stay away.

I love me some Fox knives. There’s a reason why Borka Blades, Bastinelli, Spyderco, and Knight Elements trust them to make blades for them…

This new Spyderco is a fox made knife…
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Urban™ Ivory G-10 Damasteel Sprint Run™ - Spyderco, Inc.

This limited-edition Sprint Run™ expression of the Urban elevates this non-locking SLIPIT™ design to all-new levels of sophistication. Its blade is meticulously crafted from Damasteel® Björkmans Twist™ DS93X™—a specta...
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sixplymaple said:
I love me some Fox knives. There’s a reason why Borka Blades, Bastinelli, Spyderco, and Knight Elements trust them to make blades for them…

This new Spyderco is a fox made knife…
www.spyderco.com

Urban™ Ivory G-10 Damasteel Sprint Run™ - Spyderco, Inc.

This limited-edition Sprint Run™ expression of the Urban elevates this non-locking SLIPIT™ design to all-new levels of sophistication. Its blade is meticulously crafted from Damasteel® Björkmans Twist™ DS93X™—a specta...
www.spyderco.com www.spyderco.com

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Spyderco used to have some self-respect . :rolleyes:
 
N690 isn’t too bad, similar to 154 in my limited experience with it. I think w/ the Fox you’re mostly paying to have something unique and a good SD tool.
 
DMG said:
As others have stated, he was quite likely forcing it open with the lock engaged.
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Complete horseshit. If the lock was engaged, the thing wouldn’t budge open at all. It was just unusually stiff at the part of the action where the backspacer was engaged.
 
Seek_Equilibrium said:
Complete horseshit. If the lock was engaged, the thing wouldn’t budge open at all. It was just unusually stiff at the part of the action where the backspacer was engaged.
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I think your weird belligerence makes us a lot more willing to speculate that you may in fact be a catastrophe-class boner than we would be if you weren't being manipulative and odd.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
I’m just amazed anyone would spend $173 on a karambit made of N690.
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This is kind of why I am a bit on side with the OP.

These knives at least informally are sold on the idea that you pay that premium because when your life is on the line and you have to pull off some john wick moves on some fool that the knife will not fail you.

And then it does fail catastrophically because nobody in the factory bothered to open and close it a couple of times.

People who have bought in to the hype get justifiably upset.

On the other hand OP you bought a karambit.

So.......

There is that.
 
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I mean let's look at the marketing.

"The Fox 479 G10 Black Folding Karambit is the best self-defense tool and utility knife available on the market. This tool has been field tested in the most extreme climates by some truly hardcore people, and has proven itself time and time again to be of the highest quality. Whether you need a utility knife to open boxes and clamshell packaging or a reliable self-defense tool to open a can of whoop ass, Fox karambits are a force to be reckoned with. If you want the most reliability in any situation where a need arises for a good blade that works and works well, this is your knife."

That doesn't exactly say sorry we will replace It. Does it?

When I am going toe to toe with ninjas. I don't want replace it. I want doesn't break in the first place.
 
MrStabby7 said:
That does suck Ill stick to my Emerson karambit.
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As an Emerson fan, I’m just waiting for the people to come and talk about Emerson’s baby shit soft steel just flopping to the side rather than snapping. Haha.

In all seriousness, I have a Fox DART and I have flailed some very hard wood and never had a lock or blade failure.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
I’m just amazed anyone would spend $173 on a karambit made of N690.
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He is a serious whiskey snob on Reddit. The Karambit may be one of his better expenditures 😆

(just kidding, op. I like a good bottle every now and then, although my tastes aren’t as refined as yours)
 
Drop bear said:
And then it does fail catastrophically because nobody in the factory bothered to open and close it a couple of times.
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Why do you believe that's actually what caused this knife to break? I'm asking because OP is behaving like someone who would break it on purpose and then lie about what happened in order to get free stuff and attention from the homies.

Things happen, but jerkoffs should be treated as such.
 
I would be curious as to what the manufacturer's QC plan is. From working in job shop type places, (making parts for other companies), I can tell you that sometimes, very little gets looked at. I don't have much manufacturing experience in OEM type stuff, but I'd imagine that the level of QC may be determined by how many they produce, and by what methods, and by the price point of the product. Seems to me that the blade defect probably wouldn't be caught, but I wonder why the function wasn't. If it was hand assembled, I'd have a tough time thinking that something went wrong between that and the OP getting the knife. If it wasn't hand assembled (is there such a thing?), I can certainly see how neither the blade defect or opening issues weren't caught. At that point, it would be unlikely that they'd check 100% of them for function.
 
NPT said:
I would be curious as to what the manufacturer's QC plan is. From working in job shop type places, (making parts for other companies), I can tell you that sometimes, very little gets looked at. I don't have much manufacturing experience in OEM type stuff, but I'd imagine that the level of QC may be determined by how many they produce, and by what methods, and by the price point of the product. Seems to me that the blade defect probably wouldn't be caught, but I wonder why the function wasn't. If it was hand assembled, I'd have a tough time thinking that something went wrong between that and the OP getting the knife. If it wasn't hand assembled (is there such a thing?), I can certainly see how neither the blade defect or opening issues weren't caught. At that point, it would be unlikely that they'd check 100% of them for function.
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Assuming there was a defect, of course.
 
I would venture to say that there was some sort of defect from the description. Like it or not, there will always be some bad ones that make it out of the manufacturing process.
 
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