bent tip on para military

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boris01

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I was carving a channel in a block of white pine with my para military (s30v steel) and I bent the tip. I was able to straighten the tip by tapping it between two pieces of soft steel. I was surprised at how easy it bent. I have slip joints (1095 steel) with a similar point that have never bent performing this task.

Has anyone else bent or broken the tip on their Para military or Military?
 
Not me, but then again, the tip on the military isn't one I'd choose for carving. It's nice and small, but really a fine tip I wouldn't want to put pressure on.
 
Actually, I'm suprised it bent and not simply broke off as I'd expect. I would expect an S30V edge to chip or crach, not bend.
 
Wow. Mine chipped the very tip off. Not so bad that I couldn't sharpen the tip back on, but that honestly surprises me that S30V bent before it broke. Sal and the guys might like to see that one. Id send it in.
 
i'd say you are lucky it just bent.

i snapped off about 1/16" on one of my paras. was easy enough to reprofile, but depressing all the same.
 
They usually break in that steel from what I've seen and read. Kind of makes me wonder if the tip didn't get annealed some by a machine driven belt sharpener or grinder at some point in its life. If it got softened some there it could explain the bend rather than breaking I think. Thats about all I can think of to explain it except for the knife gods watching out for you or something. :D

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It's why I sold mine - I don't trust that acute a point for that kind of work.

Broken/bent knife tips are an expected result of woodcarving, as most of us older boys learned in the day - using carbon steel. No warranty for that. These days, the public expects it. It's built into the price now.

I've broken SAK awls in wood, tips of Uncle Henry's prying out car fuzes, shorted cheap tool box knives across Ford solenoids, and other stuff. Knife tips aren't indestructible, and never will be.
 
boris01 said:
I was carving a channel in a block of white pine with my para military (s30v steel) and I bent the tip. I was able to straighten the tip by tapping it between two pieces of soft steel. I was surprised at how easy it bent. I have slip joints (1095 steel) with a similar point that have never bent performing this task.

Has anyone else bent or broken the tip on their Para military or Military?
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I'm trying to understand what exactly happened here. How did you bend the tip by carving.... Where you trying to pry the wood or something. I don't get it... How did the tip bend by cutting wood?
 
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