Damaged your MiNT knife or your favourite blade?

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Redstripe_808

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Anyone have any horror stories of having their minty knife so suddenly become not so minty?

I recently dropped my cuda maxx bowie from chest height, (by mistake of course) and it fell TIP first into the carpet, penetrated through to the CERAMIC tile and bent the tip a good 4 millimeters to the left. Dayum! I carefully bent it back with a pair of needle nose pliers and a piece of paper wrapped around the tip.


It'll never be perfectly pointy again though. It has a little mashed tip :mad:

All is well, i'm just going to go vanquish a pineapple with it :)
 
When I was a teenager I was showing off a new Buck fixed blade. I can't remember the number, but it was about 6 or 7 inches OAL with Black handles, silver bolsters and fold over leather snap sheath. Anyway, it was a hot day in the South, you southerners know what I mean by hot. Mt friend and I were in a new school parking lot that had been covered with asphalt a few days before. It the hot sunshine the black top was a little mushy. I showed him my new fixed blade and he promply dropped it. The tip penatrated the blacktop (just a little) and in his haste to grab it, my buddy broke an inch of the tip. I'm still not sure how. That was before all this crazy crap in our schools. I carried a folder on my belt in high school, and during deer season, it wasn't uncommon to go hunting before school and show up for class in your camos and have your rifle in the gun rack of your truck. Good times. To pay me back for the knife, he bought the beer that weekend. Don't tell me you guys didn't drink in High School, I know better;)
 
I have to post on this one. I got a custom Bob Lum Tanto folder. I was sweeet! Handled well, clean lines, a pretty elegant tactical knife. Then one day I decided to just touch up the edge ( as if it needed it) and not understanding the "hammaguri" grind I started to do the front edge. One stroke and I realized I had scratched the surface of the blade. Oh, the horror! well it's been a couple of years...I have kept the knife, toyed with the idea of trying to fix the scratch myself, or sending it to Mr. Lum (for a 1/4 " scratch?) but have just kept it. Decided it's a carry SD knife, so I dont use it for anything but do carry it once in a while. But I feel Like I defiled an artists work, and like he'd be upset and insulted that I scratched his knife. But, Now it's even more mine in a way. There, I got that off my chest. I feel so much better now.
 
It's not my favorite knife, but I accidently bent the tip on it about an hour after I received it: the Gerber Guardian Back-Up.

I did some light testing on cardboard and an old telephone book, but that friggin' 420HC is butter soft! :(
Well, it's still better than its "J2 brother", but far from being a good steel.
 
Not an elegant new knife (actually not a knife at all), but a real ouch. I used to go down to the archery range in the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena and do long range knife throwing at the hay bale targets. This was considered odd by most of the archers. Some were really offended when I hunted gophers (I didn't let them see me hunt the rabbits). One time I brought a newly acquired surplus British combat axe. This was very heavy, with a head design a little like a tomahawk, but with heavy metal bars that reinforce the top half of the handle. It didn't like to stay in the hay very well. I wandered over to some heavy posts that were made from old telephone pole segments. I stuck the axe in from about 12 feet and was pretty pleased with myself. Then I whipped out a simple Malayan throwing dagger and pitched it at the same post. I stuck the point right into the handle of my new axe. It split a piece off of it.
 
Quiet priest, I have the spyderco lum tanto folder. I feel maybe 1/4 of your pain. I read on the forums that someone else sharpens the apple seed grind with their sharpmaker. I tried it, but maybe should have waited till i got sandpaper and a mouse pad. It'll look near perfect again after i polish it all out.


:D

c'mon guys, don't be afraid to tell us your mishaps and stupid mistakes! hehehe
 
I rounded off the tip of my super-rare super-cool 730CFHS before I learned how to use the Sharpmaker and then scratched its poor BT2 coating on a coarse hone trying to sharpen freehand. :grumpy:
 
I had just bought one of the new S&W FL1s, had it at work and someone wanted to see it. Did not even know how to open it and dropped it. Got the tip. Broke a little of the tip, messed up a bunch more.
 
Both my Microtech Kestrel and my Kershaw Rainbow Leek have taken trips to the pavement. Both were closed at the time so just dinged on the handles.

Back in my younger days I also burnt the tip of my Gerber bolt action exchange blade by useing it to get my car started when the battery connection was bad. It may only be 12 volts but its the amperage that will melt the blade.
 
I had recently picked up a near mint schrade walden uncle henry 3-blade. Hard to find the uncle henry's in a walden, but anyway, the tip on the spey blade was just a little dinged, so I decided to "straighten it out" in my vise. :D

So, one broken spey blade tip later, I won't do that again. :rolleyes:
 
Okay the first day I got my brand new Emerson CQC7 I dropped it (blade was open) on my concrete walkway and damaged the tip.

This was a big deal at the time because it was my first 'tactical' knife and I had paid full retail price for it at the knife store.

$150 for a CQC7! Ouch!
 
The 2nd day that I had my Benchmade 690-01 I dropped it from chest height onto my coffee table. Small dent on the left bonded ivory scale, I almost cried, my fiance laughed. Now it has a few dings and dents but it's still my favorite.
 
I dropped my wife's Boa on a ceramic tile floor about a week after I bought it for her. The last 1/4" of the blade was all rumpled up, but it came out fine with the sharpmaker and about 30 minutes of free time...

I've dropped my Sere 2K LOTS and lots of times just being clumsy, but it never took any damage - unbelievable!

A while back I dropped my Greco companion onto the floor and dinged up the edge pretty good. A few months later, I was cutting up a plastic sandbox so it would fit into the garbage can and it was laying on the back porch (concrete) and the knife went through it. Ugh - your knife's fine edge scraping concrete at a rapid pace does not make a good sound... Once again saved by the sharpmaker but the blade still has 2 big chips in it.

I used a Buck 110 once as a screwdriver (before i knew better - hey I was 14!) and you can guess the result. When I showed my Dad the remains of my knife, he clued me in that I shouldn't use a knife as a screwdriver. (or any tool to do another tool's job)

Here's one for ya: I was at the gun range a while back and a guy shooting next to me had a casing freeze up in the chamber. He whipped out a brand new benchmade balisong, flipped it to expose the blade, and went to work. He promptly broke about 3 millimeters off the tip! DOH!!
 
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