Bent tip!

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jasonbroni

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Just noticed an 'ever so slight' bend on the tip of my spyderco dice! Don't know if I did it or not (I did lightly stab a piece of wood). I thought cts-xhp breaks before it bends? Or maybe I didn't do it and it warped in the heat treat?
I've done much worse things to knives with lesser quality steels than stick it in a piece of wood with no problems...
What do you guys think??
 
I guess there were no answers because there really wasn't a question..
So here it is - should I attempt to bend it back or do you think it will snap? (I think it will, but you guys know better than me)
 
jasonbroni said:
Just noticed an 'ever so slight' bend on the tip of my spyderco dice! Don't know if I did it or not (I did lightly stab a piece of wood). I thought cts-xhp breaks before it bends? Or maybe I didn't do it and it warped in the heat treat?
I've done much worse things to knives with lesser quality steels than stick it in a piece of wood with no problems...
What do you guys think??
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You can lightly bend it back but be prepared for it to snap off. Just be really, really light. Put the tip in a vise and ever so gently tweak it the other way. And I mean gently.

I doubt it came bent from Spyderco. Off centered grinds maybe but not warped or bent.
 
Do not try to bend it back because it will almost for sure snap. What I have done quite a few times for slightly bent tips on more than a few friend's knives is to lay the bent part of the blade on a flat piece of steel or the flat part of a vice and hammer just the bent part with slight taps many times until I got them fairly straight. On most of them you could never tell they were bent at all and I have never broken one. I always used a small ball peen hammer using the flat side. Practice on a cheap beater knife first to get the technique down before before doing it on a more expensive knife. Many gentle taps work best.
 
alex said:
Do not try to bend it back because it will almost for sure snap. What I have done quite a few times for slightly bent tips on more than a few friend's knives is to lay the bent part of the blade on a flat piece of steel or the flat part of a vice and hammer just the bent part with slight taps many times until I got them fairly straight. On most of them you could never tell they were bent at all and I have never broken one. I always used a small ball peen hammer using the flat side. Practice on a cheap beater knife first to get the technique down before before doing it on a more expensive knife. Many gentle taps work best.
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That's probably better advice to start with. If it doesn't work then you have three options, really. Leave it, bend it back, or grind it off.
 
zt and keshaw replace blades for a small cost. I think zt is like $30 and Kershaw $10 (don't quote me tho). does spyderco do the same thing?
 
Armadew said:
Don't try bending it back. Do you have picture?
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That is probably the best advice to start with. A picture would help us understand how bent we are talking.

Mo2 said:
zt and keshaw replace blades for a small cost. I think zt is like $30 and Kershaw $10 (don't quote me tho). does spyderco do the same thing?
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Nope. They might sharpen it off for a fee though.
 
Spyderco doesn't offer replacement blades because of their CQI or small modifications to the design to make it better and because knives made in other countries come as assembled knives and they are already fitted and no extra blades.

A picture really is best because we have no idea how bad the bend is and how far back it extends. If it's just a small part of the sharpened tip will be different than if it extends back into the full thickness of the blade.
 
Thanks, guys - I will try the flat surface/ light taps idea or just leave it alone. It really is a SLIGHT bend - almost hard to see. (Not computer savy enough for pics)
 
I bought a Spyderco Chaparral (used) in XHP. It had a slight bend at the tip. I placed it between two pieces of softwood in a wooden bench vise, and very carefully flexed it until it was straight again. Do not place in a metal vise without a buffer each side. That will result in a broken blade as there is no give to the vise.

The bend was very slight, less than a sixteenth of an inch out, about 3/16" back from the tip.
 
Ok - last post on this thread. I banged lightly all day with no results. Finally I did what I was not supposed to do - I found the wood I stabbed - stuck it in the same slot and bent the opposite way - lightly. It's absolutely perfect. BUT - now I am very displeased with the steal which is unfortunate because I love the knife. Again - I thought this steal was super strong (and supposedly brittle?) It should not have bent from such a light stab and it required almost no force to bend it back. I have a cheapo schrade that I have been beating on since I was 12 and have never had an issue like this..
 
That is disappointing, If i'm using a blade for a good amount of time I will stab it into (not slam it) wood rather than place it on the ground. This is an act I never worried about with any of the knives i have owned cheap or expensive.
 
Most steels can take a bend before they break. As far as the tip bending by simply and reasonably stabbing it into a piece of wood, we'll, I'm not going to question you but I've never seen a blade do that unless it was incredibly thin, like a fillet knife.

I'm assuming, and I could be completely wrong, that you may have been sloppy with the stab and bent it. I don't believe any knife spyderco offers is so thin that a reasonable stab into a piece of wood would bend it, especially just the tip.

On the other hand, if it bent that easily then maybe it wasn't heat treated or something. No way for us to tell. The only blade tips I've seen were bent by trying to stab it, intentionally or not, into something hard, like steel or ceramic or something. Not from regular soft wood and definitely not from a production knife made properly.

There's a reason why mass production companies keep knives too thick to be real slicers.
 
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Maybe you're right with the sloppy stab - when I found the stab hole it was at an angle... maybe my hand pulled to the left after the stab...
 
I dropped my Clash once while I was at work and the way it fell on the concrete floor bent the tip rather than chip it. It too was barely noticeable, although, once I know about something like that then it nags in the back of my mind until I fix it. I just rough stoned the bent side of the tip until it was somewhat flat with the rest of the edge then I did a much better job when I got home to my father in laws KME. Now you can barely tell the difference and I still have the piercing point that I like to have on my blades
 
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