Anyone ever worn down a blade from too many sharpenings?

If you buy a high quality blade with high quality steel, you will never wear it out, so long as you know how to sharpen it right and become a member of Bladeforums. Once a member, you'll have too many knives to wear any given one out. You'll have enough for many lifetimes.
 
Myself no.

But I have a couple of Grandpa's knives. One Camillus small or medium Whittler with at least half the width of the main blade gone, and a Schrade Stockman with the spey blade worn to a wedge shape.

Thank GOODNESS he never attacked the 1919-1940 Case Scout with whatever he used on those blades!
 
I have a Case Barlow that belonged to my dad. It has the razor style blade instead of the spearpoint, and it is CV steel, aka carbon. Dad used this knife for everything. He was very big into gardening and a fair sized one every year. That knife cut everything in that garden and it got sharpened a LOT! It now has a very thin, recurved razor blade. I still carry it sometimes and it sharpens up like a razor!
 
My Dad has worn down a number of Case slip joints to the point they are not safe to carry any more; at least half the blade gone.

Me, I wore down a Case Trapper that I used to skin furbearers with. When skinning, I often sharpened it three or four times in a day.
 
I don't believe there is such a thing as too many sharpenings. If you have obsessive compulsive disorder and sharpen your pocket knife 5 times a day, it's your pocket knife and that was the proper amount of sharpening for the day. I have sharpened many knives to the point that they were distinctly narrower than when they came from the factory. Some of that just comes with hours of service put on the knife and a high standard for sharpness. As a rule my sharpening is done in ways that maintain the overall blade shape--I don't end up with a recurved blade. Sometimes that means I take a belt sander to a blade to knock down a heel or bolster to fit with the blade.

I've gone through a Boy Scout knife or SAK about every two or three years for about the last 50 years. By the time I retire or lose them the blades are usually 20% narrower than when I bought them. They end up looking closer to a sheepsfoot than a spear point by then.
 
i've never wore down blades real bad. had to reprofile a few
old knives from depression times were really worn down so bad that they looked like leather punches
remember my mom saying t-bone steak was 10 cents a lb. but nobody had the 10 cents.
 
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