Damaged Blade on a 710hssr

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TJK

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Hello everyone, first off thanks everyone who responed to my last post. I just ordered a Spyder co Sharpmaker.
Now for the reason for this post. I was at work when I let a coworker see my less then one week old 710HSSR. He then proceeded to drop the knife from about 5 feet onto the tile floor, even with the landyard I attached to it. The cutting edge wast flattened out for about 1" on the front curve. Is there any way to repair this knife so it will not have a flat spot on the front curve?

Thanks again everyone
TJK
 
I'd make use of the Lifesharp service and let your coworker handle the S&H charges.
 
I disagree :) And for several reasons.

1) Factory edges rarely are "really sharp", and as usual to "improve edge holding" they are thick way beyond reasonable.

2) Even when they are, if you use your knife the factory edge will be gone, and depending on the use that could happen in a matter of couple hours, either way it won't last forever provided that you use the knife.

3) Sending back and forth your knife for sharpening is inconvenient in several ways, and you'll be w/o your knife for some time. may be weeks. Ask yourself, is it really worth it?

4) Using proper sharpening tools used M2 is not that difficult to sharpen and even reprofile.

5) And finally not all knifemakers offer resharpening, besides if you do it yourself the edge will be as YOU like it and as you want it :)
IMHO well worth the time invested in learning sharpening and sharpening itself + sharpening tools.

I currently own 2 710 HSSRs, (one of them is my EDC for over 1.5 years now) and had 4 others (went as the gifts), ALL of them had the rough factory edge over 24 degrees, 24 min, and 27 max (measured using edge pro). I've lowered the edge to 18 degrees and the cutting performance increased several times, no comparison at all. Though 18 degree is rather thin for really rough work, but I got serrations for emergencies, and as usual I have more than 1 blade around :)

Saying all that, I believe spyderco sharpmaker is hardly a choice for serious sharpening or reprofling, unless you are into many hours of work. I personally use it for kitchen knives and even there it had troubles with Global knives. However for small tasks and touchups it's cool, that white ceramic stone is really fine :)
 
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