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Comment by Richard Schuchman on March 28, 2016 at 9:49

Unfortunately, I bought this early on when I first started collecting and had NO idea. Case was a respected company and there was no reason to suspect they'd sell a defective product.

Garett Finney was recommended to fix this and he gave me a great quote to replace the handles with abalone and file work the blade. I'll probably do that, even though it'll ruin the collectibility as is.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on March 28, 2016 at 9:45

I would checkout the repair group that is here on IKC. Maybe they can help you out or maybe someone there can replace the scales.

Comment by Clint Thompson on March 28, 2016 at 9:44

Richard...

It is too bad you can't get this great knife fixed. At lease Case was honest and admitted they sold a product which would be defective, limited warranty, and can not fix. One must keep these type of experiences in mind when buying collector folders.

Comment by Richard Schuchman on March 28, 2016 at 9:34

As expected, this was the reply from Case regarding my toothpick:

"Good morning,

Unfortunately the first is true.  Many of the case classics with celluloid were produced with a very limited warranty.  We are unable to repair the items as we do not have any of the tooling or material that could be comparable to the original.  I am sorry that we could not help more.  

Sincerely
Matthew Burt

Comment by Richard Schuchman on March 26, 2016 at 20:55

Yeah, the celluloid near the bolsters is the first to go; that's what's warping out on mine now.

Comment by Bob Robinson on March 26, 2016 at 20:04

I have a knife somewhere that shows extreme case of gassing. I ran across it a few weeks ago but cannot find it right now. I will look again tomorrow and post a pic if so. The shrinkage looks to start at the bolster ends which tend to look turned up but progresses to the top and bottom of scales. Knife also has shrunk in the center of scale around the shield. The image in hand looks as if the scales shrunk in the middle area of scales and raised on the edge areas. Can't remember what brand of knife right off, maybe quality of scale materials reacts different?

Comment by Richard Schuchman on March 26, 2016 at 16:21

Just fyi, I contacted the Case warranty and repair dept. yesterday. We'll see what they say.

Featured Comment by Craig Henry on March 26, 2016 at 16:18

That's a shame. There is a person on the CCC forum that does re-handling on Case knives.

Comment by Richard Schuchman on March 26, 2016 at 0:48

There's another thorough discussion on this going on here:http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/case-celluliod

Someone mentioned Case actually WON'T replace these because this was a 1992 limited edition of 500 not actually made by Case, but by Blue Grass Cutlery out of old time celluloid (genius, right?). Maybe they wanted the knives to be bio-degradable, who knows? I wish they WOULD replace them! A phone call may be in order.

Featured Comment by Craig Henry on March 25, 2016 at 23:55

Case WILL replace Celluloid handles, for a cost. I can't remember how much they charge, it would also depend on the size of the knife. BUT, they will only use a current production Delrin for replacement. Several members over at the Case Collectors Club Forum have done that with Celluloid handles that started heading south.

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