Broken tip

[Blues]

Let’s take a moment also to appreciate the grandfather who gives his grandson a traditional folder, which grandson obviously uses.

I first thanked my grandfather around 1959 for my first pocket knives...and have thanked him, (posthumously since 1962), nearly every day since.

Everyone should have such grandfathers.

 

[Doppler Bob]

Let’s take a moment also to appreciate the grandfather who gives his grandson a traditional folder, which grandson obviously uses. How old is the grandson btw?

16

 

[baxtrom]

16

Hope you will sort it out somehow. If you have it machined you could perhaps share before & after pics

 

[eveled]

I’d buy him a bench vise and a file. Seems like he’ll probably need them again.

16 is plenty old enough to learn to fix things.

 

[eveled]

Draw a line with a black sharpie so you have a guide. Pad the jaws of the vise. (I usually use a folded business card around the blade.) put it in the vise tip up, then file away, work from the back of the blade to avoid cutting yourself.

All the usual warnings apply. Wear glasses. Gloves etc. Use common sense. These 2 smaller KA-BARS had broken/worn blades now they are great little whilttlers

 

[eveled]

This is what they looked like when new

 

[Mr.Wizard]

I like them so much that I switched from using large DMT diamond plates for reprofiling edges to using only the files.

How do you hold the knife and file? Do you clamp the knife down?

 

[killgar]

How do you hold the knife and file? Do you clamp the knife down?

I hold the knife by the handle with the back of the blade resting against the edge of my bench, and the edge turned to the side.

 

[Phydeaux]

I've filed down several friend's chef knives that had broken tips. I was able to shape the spines a little so it wasn't noticeable.

For clamping, I have some brass jaws on my vice so they don't damage the blade.

 

[baxtrom]

I wanted to try the edge machining myself and decided to manhandle a Chinese copy of a mora that I happened to buy because they were exceptionally cheap and I didn’t even realise it wasn’t a mora until afterwards

so anyways we have a friend of my son’s over for “bbq” this evening, he’s seven and I thought well why don’t I make a really safe knife for him to make his own corn dog stick. So, here the process is presented in picture form:

Note second bevel, ie no mora grind.

A hammer provided necessary brittle fracture, shortening the blade. Woups, perhaps too much. Never mind

Final result after five minutes on the grinding machine, repeatedly dipping the blade in water during the process. I’m happy with it, blade’s a bit on the short side but it will work as corn dog stick tool and is unlikely to injure the little guy...