Broke my blade

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Walhalark

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I broke the blade of my gerber EZ OUT on the st valentin's day trying to open an oister !!!

I don't want to replace this knife because it's a gift and only the "end" (sorry i don't have the word) of the blade broke. But I don't know what to do. A screwdriver ??

I'm waiting for your ideas.

Walhalark
 
If it is just the very tip that has broken then you could have it ground to a point again and still have a useful knife.
 
Yeah, not too difficult to do, the easiest way would be to just slightly round it off at the spine and taper it off towards the tip, sort of like a sheepsfoot. Take care not to overheat the blade as well if you use a grinder. However you choose to do it make sure that when it's finished the point will be inside the handle when closed.
 
I feel your pain, I bent the end of my buck 110 then a few months latter it broke had it ground down so it doesn't come to such a point. Kinda like it even better now.
 
A friend of mine broke a good 1/4 inch off of his Ontario fighter. I took a dremel to it at a low speed and shaped it back into a point then used stones to do the final shape and sharpen. He said it was better than when he bought it. I have done a few knives including folders in the same way. Just don't get it hot.
 
If your knife had any kind of a decent edge on it, I'd say you were lucky that you didn't cut yourself, and you should count your blessings and go get yourself a real, made-for-the-purpose oyster-shucking knife. :eek: If I'm not mistaken, they are not actually ground to a fully sharp edge, and I think they're blunt-tipped, too.

Opening oysters with any kind of EDC "knife" with a point and an edge is just asking for trouble, in my view. We would argue against using a knife to open a can of paint, right?...

Good luck, and be careful.

P.S. I'm pretty sure you could find an oyster knife at any fishing tackle store.

-Jeffrey
 
bishop85gt said:
A friend of mine broke a good 1/4 inch off of his Ontario fighter. I took a dremel to it at a low speed and shaped it back into a point then used stones to do the final shape and sharpen. He said it was better than when he bought it. I have done a few knives including folders in the same way. Just don't get it hot.
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February has been a busy month for me and knife sharpening.
I sharpened my brother's Neck Peck, my dad's Neck Peck, my brother's Delica, my manager's Delica, and my other manager's Military. BOTH of my managers had managed to fracture off the tips of their knives.

I shudder at the thought of using a Dremel drill to reshape the blade freehand, even though I have such a tool. (I'm curious which bit you used.) Instead, I bought a DMT DiaSharp coarse-grit sharpener -- the large 3"x8" model that costs almost $50 -- and that baby takes off metal, let me tell you. It didn't take long at all to grind down, gently but efficiently, past the point of the fractures. Then I used my Spyderco Ceramic Whetstone (the big one in the blue plastic case to do the polishing. Worked great!

-Jeffrey
 
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