Signal blade died trying to baton wood
Update: okay okay I get it. I learn from my mistakes and won't be doing this again. Hopefully from the number of upvotes other people have found this info useful. Like I said below I'd done this before and thought "survival knife with big hefty blade should be able to do this". I guess I was just lucky before. Anyway thanks for all the feedback, lesson learned. No need to dogpile any more, the message is clear.
Had a bundle of wood for the campfire with not much kindling. Easy I thought, I'll just baton some with my Signal, done it before and it worked fine. This time a couple of whacks in and the entire blade snapped where it is divided for the massive thumb guide.
I'm sure Leatherman will send me a replacement blade but I definitely won't be trying that again on anything but the wimpiest of wood.
It does seem like the blade is unnecessarily weakened by the current design. Are there other blades that would fit this knife that are more robust?