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Southern14

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Well guys I decided while at the flea market to get a little Chinese knife for $8. It's a long stiletto with a small battle flag on the handle. I've not had any experience with a Chinese knife so I thought I'd give it a try. Well they didn't temper it. They heat treated it but didn't temper it correctly. I wanna get my $8 bucks out of it and use it as a work knife. So any ideas on how to take the heat treatment off a bit without taking it apart? It's a spring assisted blade and last time I took one apart I ended up letting my friend fix it for me and I don't wanna waste his time again. It just won't take an edge. I even tried sand paper. Thanks in advance and lesson learned never but Chinese knives.
 
Well, I think the lesson you learned is never buy "cheap chinese knives" from a flea market. You simply have no idea what your getting. There are plenty of high quality chinese knives available from many manufacturers. And it simply isn't fair to lump them all together because you chose to buy the worst example they may have to offer. Its the equivalent of lumping benchmade and Zero Tolerance in with Bear MGC and other low cost fair quality USA knife makers. As for what to actually do with the knife you bought I would say toss it in a tackle box and pretend you never bought it. There really is no way to do any type of correction to the heat treat and temper since you dont even know what type of steel was used in the knife to begin with. What makes you suspect that the knife was heat treated yet not tempered? Either way, Its not worth investing time or money into it on the tiny chance you will improve its performance. And with that cheap of knife all ready having issues I question the quality of the rest of the build. And the last thing you want is to actually use a knife you cant trust.
 
Toss it in the trash. It was only an 8 dollar lesson. Live and learn and move on.

Do not speak of this debacle again. :cool:
 
They claim it's 440 stainless steel. Yeah I did judge the Chinese knives a bit harshly. Any knife $8 is gonna suck. Whoops. Now I have a fun knife to flick out.
 
completely wrap it in duck tape like a mummified knife and than throw in the garbage.
 
PURPLEDC said:
Well, I think the lesson you learned is never buy "cheap chinese knives" from a flea market. You simply have no idea what your getting. There are plenty of high quality chinese knives available from many manufacturers. And it simply isn't fair to lump them all together because you chose to buy the worst example they may have to offer. Its the equivalent of lumping benchmade and Zero Tolerance in with Bear MGC and other low cost fair quality USA knife makers. As for what to actually do with the knife you bought I would say toss it in a tackle box and pretend you never bought it. There really is no way to do any type of correction to the heat treat and temper since you dont even know what type of steel was used in the knife to begin with. What makes you suspect that the knife was heat treated yet not tempered? Either way, Its not worth investing time or money into it on the tiny chance you will improve its performance. And with that cheap of knife all ready having issues I question the quality of the rest of the build. And the last thing you want is to actually use a knife you cant trust.
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This man says it best.
 
one really shouldn't expect much from low budget buys.
buying on the cheap is fine,
however it's probable that an owner of a said lemon
might be tempted to recoup the loss
by recycling the nightmare buy
back into the secondary market.
so any physical alterations at this point
might spoil it's destined karmic future.
 
The term 440 stainless really means nothing other than they marked it 440 stainless.

They may have just used a non hardening stainless steel to kept the price even lower.

440A? 440B? 440C? or my guess is non of those.

Just practice opening it while you watch TV. thats about all it really good for.
 
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