Anyone have experience with them? After I got upset with benchmade, I started looking for alternative, made in the USA brands.
I got a Pro Tech in December of last year. Sharp knife. Seemed like a good one. It's an automatic flip open version. It broke in May. The locking mechanism broke while I was cutting up some round bale netting (hay) that had gotten tangled. The lock no longer worked and the blade could easily be closed by just pushing on it. It would also no longer stay closed. If you closed it by hand, it would just flip back open. So it wouldn't lock open or lock closed.
Sent it back for warranty with the required $15. Haven't carried it much since I got it back, but will use it around the house. Last week I was cutting plastic zip ties off the toys for the grandkids getting ready to wrap them, and the lock broke again. This time it's locked open and won't close.
Either I've got really bad luck, or I wasted a couple of hundred dollars on a Pro Tech. I emailed them over the weekend about another warranty claim. No response yet, but it is the holidays.
I got a Pro Tech in December of last year. Sharp knife. Seemed like a good one. It's an automatic flip open version. It broke in May. The locking mechanism broke while I was cutting up some round bale netting (hay) that had gotten tangled. The lock no longer worked and the blade could easily be closed by just pushing on it. It would also no longer stay closed. If you closed it by hand, it would just flip back open. So it wouldn't lock open or lock closed.
Sent it back for warranty with the required $15. Haven't carried it much since I got it back, but will use it around the house. Last week I was cutting plastic zip ties off the toys for the grandkids getting ready to wrap them, and the lock broke again. This time it's locked open and won't close.
Either I've got really bad luck, or I wasted a couple of hundred dollars on a Pro Tech. I emailed them over the weekend about another warranty claim. No response yet, but it is the holidays.