Broken Traditional Blades

Trout Hound

Trout Hound

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Hi Everyone,

Another thread got me to thinking about this. Who here has broken, bent, or otherwise wrecked a blade on a traditional knife before, and under what conditions? I figure if we share stories, we might save each other the trouble of using the wrong blade for the wrong task.

Thanks!!!


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I've put chips one the edges of my traditional knives, but fortunately they could be sharpened out. Otherwise, I don't recall having damaged a blade. But that's more a matter of pure dumb luck than being gentle with them.
 
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I have broken blades. Usually, I have done it while attempting to correct a twist or krink in a multblade folder. It is a very iffy thing to try.
 
I've never done it, but know/seen a lot of people break the tips of all kinds of knives( cough cough buck 110) prying with them.
 
Guitarist7.62 said:
I've never done it, but know/seen a lot of people break the tips of all kinds of knives( cough cough buck 110) prying with them.
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I've seen a lot of buck 110's with broken tips, people see a large folder with a locking blade and think it's made to open crates with or something.
 
Snapped the tip off a carbon steel Schrade 194OT once. I was trying to gently flex it to take out a bend that was probably from me trying to use it to pry on something years ago. Moral of the story - if you don't know what you're doing, you can make things worse.
 
I've broken a blade once while using it to remove staples. I was much younger and less wise at the time. I gained wisdom in learning that knife blades are not meant to be prying tools.
 
Knicking the edge on some metal object that is in close proximity to what I'm cutting has been my greatest sin so far (venial sin?) I have survived. OH
 
I've never broken a blade that I recall but I've chipped edges- nothing severe though. My dad taught me to take good care of things, make them last. As a result I can't not be careful with my knives, even the "beaters".
 
Guitarist7.62 said:
I've never done it, but know/seen a lot of people break the tips of all kinds of knives( cough cough buck 110) prying with them.
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"Why do you carry two pocket knives?"

<<Thinking back to repairing broken tips on loaned out knives>> "So I don't have to use one on you."
 
I fried a good chunk out of a Buck 703 spey blade back in the late 80's. I needed to tighten the screw on a motorcycle battery post and my knife was all I had at the time. The tip of the spey blade fit real nice inside that deep Philips head.

The battery arced and fried my blade.
 
Snapped the end off my first traditional using it as a screwdriver while working on a motorcycle about 45 years ago. I continued to carry it for several years afterwards, money was tight and it served as a reminder that a knife is the most expensive and least effective screwdriver in existence. Have never broken another knife. Thanks Duane for gifting me a replacement.

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This is the only knife that I have that is designed to use as a Pry Bar or a Hammer .

Harry
 
No I never have, but a couple of years after I gave a SAK Huntsman to my nephew for his birthday he very sheepishly came up to me and told me that a friend he'd lent it to had accidently broken off the tip, and could I fix it.
After giving him my sternest stern uncle look I reprofiled the tip using a fine file and water. No before shot but this is what it looks like in comparison to my SAK Farmer. For some reason it actually made it a great slicer.

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Chief said:
Snapped the end off my first traditional using it as a screwdriver while working on a motorcycle about 45 years ago. I continued to carry it for several years afterwards, money was tight and it served as a reminder that a knife is the most expensive and least effective screwdriver in existence. Have never broken another knife. Thanks Duane for gifting me a replacement.

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The upside is now it looks more like a flat blade screwdriver :)
 
One of the very first knives I owned - I think it was a Schrade - had a leaflet in the box that told me to oil the joints, how to sharpen it, and that THIS KNIFE IS NOT A SCREWDRIVER or something to that effect. I was in my early to mid teens at that time. Never broke a blade.
 
copperheaded said:
"Why do you carry two pocket knives?"

<<Thinking back to repairing broken tips on loaned out knives>> "So I don't have to use one on you."
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When people ask me if I have a knife, I always reply with "what do you need me to cut?" Nothing brings a bigger cringe than watching some one prying, or cutting something on concrete, tile, or counter top with the knife you just handed them.
 
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