Broke Buck / Bonehead Move!

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I will put in my $.02 in agreement with rc, when I first looked at the picture it looked like crystaline formation from poor heat treatment. I would say that it was somewhere in the batch that it got cooled to quickly or even more likely that the temper wasn't drawn out of it properly following hardening and working and that induced the stress crack rc mentioned.
 
I've carried a 102 as a boot knife every day since 1990. I've batoned (gasp!) with it, not caring if it broke, simply to see if it is tough enough. It is. I agree with others here that it wasn't the washing machine that killed your knife.
 
I think every knife I own has taken a bath in the washing machine. I usually find them when the alarm goes off in the dryer, its kind of a repetitive thumping noise. The second alarm is my wife yelling "what in the hell did you leave in the dryer, rocks".

Only damage ever is a Benchmade Perdue auto that shook apart. I spent an hour with a stick on a magnet fishing pieces out of the lint trap, hose, vent etc.
 
That really sucks! That was a nice looking knife!

I'll never wash MY knife in the dishwasher again. I wonder if it voids the warranty as well.

Well when I see that "How do you wash a knife" thread I know what I'm going to say.

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I'll never wash MY knife in the dishwasher again. I wonder if it voids the warranty as well.
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Commercial kitchens use pretty dang hot dishwashers to sanitize the house knives. Dishwashers just don't get hot enough to damage knife blades, nor do washing machines and dryers get that hot nor cause that much of an impact. The knife pictured clearly had a heat treat defect.

Now, I wouldn't run a knife that has leather washers or untreated wood handles through a dishwasher though, but that's a handle material concern. However, modern synthetic and resin stabilized natural wood handles can easily handle going through a dishwasher. The only draw back to automated dishwashers is that if you put knives in the silverware basket they'll bang against the silverware and dull or chip the very edge of the knife.
 
I recommend not running knives through the dishwasher because it dulls them and dings them up as mentioned above. I have also found with the knives I make that it will eventually break down the epoxy bond between the scales and the tang. The handles don't come off as they are also pinned, but it opens the joint up to moisture and grime and can lead to rust.
 
I recommend not running knives through the dishwasher because it dulls them and dings them up as mentioned above. I have also found with the knives I make that it will eventually break down the epoxy bond between the scales and the tang. The handles don't come off as they are also pinned, but it opens the joint up to moisture and grime and can lead to rust.
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Dishwashers are a no bueno with epoxy. I had one stubborn blue G10 handled knife that after drilling and tapping out the corby rivets and lanyard tube refused to pop off the handle scales. I ran it through the dishwasher and voila they came straight off. Knives with rivets won't fall apart but the epoxy still doesn't take it like a champ.
 
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