Bad luck got the best of my Yojimbo 2

Chounch McGavin

Chounch McGavin

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Being a clumsy fool this early AM, I dropped my Yojimbo 2 Brown DLC from about 3' onto my laminate wood flooring.... even with the knife closed, the blade popped open and now it's chipped :( it's pretty tiny So I think Spyderco could reprofile it (and hopefully preserve my OCD)

Anyone else ever drop a knife to their doom?
 
Not a Spyderco buy I did drop a knife and messed up the tip pretty good. Talk about bad luck. The knife slipped from my hand in my bedroom and hit the thin metal rail of my bed frame that holds my box spring for my mattress. Whats the chances. How wide is that damn frame? Didnt hit the mattress, didnt land on the carpet. It bounces right off the metal.
 
3fifty7 said:
Yep been there, but it worked out.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/and-my-wife-broke-the-tip-repair-pics.1459451/
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Oh man, that was nasty. I can't believe how much of the tip broke off. Awesome job on the repair though, resembles an Emerson CQC9

115Italian said:
Not a Spyderco buy I did drop a knife and messed up the tip pretty good. Talk about bad luck. The knife slipped from my hand in my bedroom and hit the thin metal rail of my bed frame that holds my box spring for my mattress. Whats the chances. How wide is that damn frame? Didnt hit the mattress, didnt land on the carpet. It bounces right off the metal.
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I hear you brother. The distance from where my knife hit the wood flooring to my thick carpet rug was 2-3".... Funny how this universe works sometimes.
 
I didn't drop it, but once I was using a Tasman Salt SE while sitting at my kitchen table, which is made of solid glass. The knife slipped a bit and the thin tip hit the tabletop. Not really hard, but it bent and chipped off a small bit from the very tip. Easily worked out with the Sharpmaker, though.

Another time, I accidentally dropped my Dragonfly Salt SE onto the floor. It landed tip-first, and the very tip was bent. Using my Sharpmaker on the bent side, I was actually able to straighten the tip, and it looked and acted like it had never been bent.

Not a Spyderco, but a couple years ago I dropped my Victorinox Pioneer while standing at my kitchen counter. Luckily I moved my foot aside, and it dropped tip-first into the linoleum floor. The blade actually penetrated the linoleum and the knife stuck up (but not vertically). Other than very slight edge rolling at and near the very tip, the blade was otherwise unaffected. Again, I used my Sharpmaker to get rid of the slight wire edge and it was fine.

Jim
 
Twice...
Once when I was taking some photos of a ZT. It was on a handrail on a footbridge over a dry, rocky creek bed. It fell maybe 15 feet, blade open. Very much to my as to ishmebt I couldn't find a mark anywhere!

Also once putting a custom handle on a fixed blade collaboration in my shop that was too going to be put up for a charity auction. Tip first onto concrete and it was bent beyond my ability to repair. That one really hurt because it wasnt my knife... :(
 
Dozens of drops over the years. The ones I recovered ranged from unphased, to needing minor repair. Some were lost to the abyss.
Drops ranged from inches on carpet, to 60 ft on concrete tip first.
 
I busted a tip off a Techno like that. That one stung just a bit. Then, just yesterday I dropped my wharncliffe Delica on to some concrete. It took a bit of time to work those chips out of the edge.
 
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