Broke 110

kyhunt

kyhunt

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I broke the tip off of my regular old 110 Monday. I've been looking at it for the past few days and debating on what to do. Its only about 1/8 inch of the tip that snapped off. I'm wondering how hard it would be to reshape it by hand on a stone. It was a gift a few years ago and hate to send it in. I'm really surprised it snapped. First Buck blade I've ever damaged.
 
:eek:

I feel like I should say a few words for her, but I am speechless :D
 
I would go ahead and reprofile it. 1/8" isn't all that much. :)

Postage to Buck vs Wal-Mart price...Oh, hell - go out to Wally World and buy another one!!! :D
 
I have a Queen large folder that had just about that much broke off, and after reprofiling, you really don't notice the difference.
 
chickentrax said:
I would go ahead and reprofile it. 1/8" isn't all that much. :)

Postage to Buck vs Wal-Mart price...Oh, hell - go out to Wally World and buy another one!!! :D
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Good advice! :thumbup:

And dont use the new one as a prybar ;) LOL
 
kyhunt...

This isn't directed at you individually...but that depends I guess.
I've been carrying a 110 since the early 1970's.
Have never broken a tip.
I would be very intersted in understanding how ya did that.
Thinking ya guys are using a knife as a pry bar or screwdriver.
Buck will fix it, but it's a good thing I'm not in charge of that...right tool for the right job...no sympahty from me...
 
Buckaholic said:
I would be very intersted in understanding how ya did that.
Thinking ya guys are using a knife as a pry bar or screwdriver.
Buck will fix it, but it's a good thing I'm not in charge of that...right tool for the right job...no sympahty from me...
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Maybe he was trying to get the last piece of "meat" out of a can of Spam... :D
 
Easy fellas,a tip can get busted more ways than prying with it.Have you never dropped a knife in cold temps and have it hit something hard by accident?This past winter out lobster fishing i dropped a kershaw blur and it was friggin' cold out,she hit the hard fiberglass deck and broke a half inch off the tip,no prying or screwdriving,just a accident .The knife was replaced at no charge because i wrote them and told them exactly what happened.

Good luck re-profiling ,that lil' bit of tip won't be noticable much at all,:thumbup:
 
:eek:...Come to think of it...I did drop one into a wood floor and at that perfect angle that wouldn't keep it up straight and when it tilted over...PING! ! !...Oh I feel so dirty...:barf::(
 
DarrylS said:
:eek:...Come to think of it...I did drop one into a wood floor and at that perfect angle that wouldn't keep it up straight and when it tilted over...PING! ! !...Oh I feel so dirty...:barf::(
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:eek:

I will confess I did break a Buck knife also... It was my trusty EDC 444, back in the day... I used it as a screw driver... Broke at least a half inch off the tip, but then it worked really good as a screw driver ;)

I also layed my finger wide open after that with the brother to that knife. It was the 442, I believe they came as a set in a twin sheath? As I twisted the screw into the wood, the plastic handle twisted, and the lock slipped off the back of the blade and snapped closed on my finger! :barf:
A half of a tube o super glue and all was well again ;)

Now I have a whole drawer full of screw drivers ;)
 
in reprofileing ...
i would not take the edge to the clip...
bring the clip down to the edge...
this way you dont have the point out of the edge of the brass
and you can use a dremel with a small stone on it to get the clip down ...
or you can take a small belt sander with 220 and lay it on the side and use it on the roller part...
DO NOT over Heat!! keep your finger close and if it gets warm dip in cool water...
and if you do it right it dont show hardly at all...
 
Yeah Blades...thanks for slapping my ass and calling me "Sally". You're right...sheet happens.

My post reads harsher than what I meant. I have busted the tip of the main blade of a Leatherman putting a vent hole in a plastic water container while camping.

Whirlded Peas...
 
Once upon a time a long time ago.....1984 it was. I was out searching for whirled peas. When all of a sudden I had to shoot and kill a small log in my path. I killed it with my Ruger Redhawk 44....then I got the bright idea that I wanted the 240gr JHP bullet and started digging into that dead log. I heard the most sickening snap of my life...I broke the tip off of my Rigid Apache folder....What a dumb ass. I re profiled it with a hand file and put a new edge on her. Now you can't even tell It was ever broken.

Here is the old beast


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I once broke the tip off a 303 I had gotten through the Bay. The tip of the main blade had a real wobble in it. Somebody had bent it and then tried to straighten it so that the tip was more like a chicane than a flat out straight. I decided I would try and straighten it more myself. I hit it just once on the tip with my ball peen and the tip stayed on the anvil. Crap!
 
WilltheBarb said:
I once broke the tip off a 303 I had gotten through the Bay. The tip of the main blade had a real wobble in it. Somebody had bent it and then tried to straighten it so that the tip was more like a chicane than a flat out straight. I decided I would try and straighten it more myself. I hit it just once on the tip with my ball peen and the tip stayed on the anvil. Crap!
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man can i relate to this!
i have jest in the last year gotten four 110's at yard sales with bent tips!
lota sticking in trees during hunting season i guess ..
only one have i been able to get back right..
the other 3... like yours here...off to post falls..
wander if they can straighten bent tips and i should send them there as is..
 
Hope this isn't too OT here, but since we are talking about prying and so forth, a nice little pry tool on your keychain or where ever can save you from a broken 110 tip. These are Atwood tools (spendy and hard to find), but there are plenty of el cheapo ones out there too. This is one of my many obsessions, along with my growing Buck collection:

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These are Atwood tools (spendy and hard to find), but there are plenty of el cheapo ones out there too.
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Those Atwoods are super cool! :thumbup:

Being a poor man, I carry something a bit cheaper.
It fits just perfectly in one of the credit-card slots in my wallet....


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I do think I will try reprofiling it. I dont want to replace it as I said it was a gift. It is the first tip I've ever broken. And believe it or not I wasn't using it as a screwdriver or a prybar. I was cutting some plastic utility ties. The kind that you use to hold wires together and just about everything else. While cutting the tie the knife went tip first between the two poles the tie was connecting. It must been just the right angle because the tip broke. I'm not faulting the quality at all it just was kind of ironic becuase I was just at a cookout the other day and a friend was showing me his new Buck stockman and asked me what I thought. I told them that Buck has a great warranty but that in all the years that I've owned Bucks that I never broke one. Well now I must eat my words. I dont think it will be that hard to reprofile. Heck if it is I will just leave it as is. Still cuts plastic ties.
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