broke the tip off my benchmade CSKII

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sharpmind

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yeah yeah i'm dumb, i know, anywho, i'm wondering how much of a pain in the ass would it be to reshape the blade into a Tanto? 1095 steel if you didnt know.
 
Depends on the damage. I'd need to see pics to make a judgment.
 
If I am not mistaken, that is the knife nutnfancy broke batoning in one of his you tube reviews. It may not be your fault.
 
it is indeed that same knife. and it's actually the replacement to the one i already broke, so i pretty much have written it off as a POS and figure if i can salvage it in some way i may as well. for the record i already replaced it with an ESEE 4.
 
If you want me to mod it, I won't charge you anything as long as you cover return shipping. I love grinding tantos.
 
I have reground plenty of tips on friends work knives. It's pretty easy if you have a course enough stone.
 
Well, lets hear it then...what happened to your 2 CSK's?

I find it baffling that theyre so badly made...there are way too many stories of broken CSK's, to write them all off as lemons.
 
retzius said:
I can't understand why Benchmade has so many issues this knife...
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Simple. The run their 1095 too hard for the design. If they brought the RC down a notch or two I'm sure they'd be fine. Doesn't fix that god-awful sheath, though--and this from a Benchmade fan! :p
 
i kind of figured it wouldnt be hard to actually re-shape the blade, i was more worried of heating it up too much, so i'm guessing just go slow and keep it cool? i broke the first one stabbing it into a birch log to keep it up out of the way while i was making fire (yes a birch log) then the second one i was out in the cold trying to make a fire and it didnt survive battoning keep in mind only the very tip has broken off both times and i'm pretty sure it's just due to the design, although i do see some micro chips along the edge but those shouldn't be a problem with a stone.
 
It ain't no thang :)

Funny story about keeping the blade cool while grinding... I was grinding a wave and partial double edge into a Chinook 3 for a guy who goes by Culprtish (or something like that). Once I was all set up, I realized my quench water was all gone (prolly the garage cat) but I did see some 32oz beer bottles with a couple fingers of year old swill left so I poured it out onto a wad of shop towels and continued mission. Looking back on it, that was quite Norse of me :D
 
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