Dented My FSH

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jim c

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Does anyone know the best way to fix the damage I caused on my FSH. I chopped the front legs off of one of my deers this year and noticed this after I did it. One leg came clean off with one swipe. It has an asymetrical edge, I have tried touching it up with a sharpmaker but that has not helped much. I think I may have to send it in to be fixed.
Thanks for any help,
Jim
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jim c said:
Does anyone know the best way to fix the damage I caused on my FSH. I chopped the front legs off of one of my deers this year and noticed this after I did it. One leg came clean off with one swipe. It has an asymetrical edge, I have tried touching it up with a sharpmaker but that has not helped much. I think I may have to send it in to be fixed.
Thanks for any help,
Jim
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Very cool, the edge did exactly what it was supposed to do, no chipping or breaking away. What exactly do you think it hit to make the small dents?

Yah the shop is an easy fix for that. you cold do it but it would take some time.
 
The deer was hanging in the air by it's neck and the legs were just dangeling in the air. This was just the front leg bone below the knee that caused this.
Jim
 
Re-grind. The edge that is. You'd have to start with a very course stone. Of course you'll be putting a V-edge on her by doing this. Otherwise it will require a band/belt-sander.
 
If I am not mistaken you could reprofile it as the dent looks like less than half a millimeter. But the shop could do it as well.

Cliff has the most experience with this sort of stuff, where is he.
 
Got to love INFI for denting instead of chipping.

I wonder if you could steel some of that denting out.

You don’t need to remove material, just to realign it.
 
To get a convex edge you need to have give in the material that is doing the sharpening. It'll create the "belly" of the convex edge. Can't be done with a stone, no give in a stone. The only thing close is a leather strop but you would have to use some very course paste to clean up a dent such as in your pics. I would try sending it back to the shop, where it could be done on a belt sander. Just my two cents.
 
djolney said:
Got to love INFI for denting instead of chipping.

I wonder if you could steel some of that denting out.

You don’t need to remove material, just to realign it.
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I don't have the knife in front of me of course but that dent looks deep enough where realigning wouldn't be possible or at the very least no advisable.
 
I don't think steeling of the blade would help. The bigger of the dent's is about 1/8" and has been pushed in quite a bit. It is hard to tell from the pictures. I think I will send it in to the shop on Monday.
Jim
 
jim c said:
I don't think steeling of the blade would help. The bigger of the dent's is about 1/8" and has been pushed in quite a bit. It is hard to tell from the pictures. I think I will send it in to the shop on Monday.
Jim
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Oh, that’s deeper than I would have guessed.
 
The edge (shiny part) on your blade must be a lot wider than mine. Mine measures out to just over 1 mm which is 1/25 of an inch. The dent is a fraction of that 1 mm, so it barely looks like a dent. You're edge must be about 4-5mm or so in width Was it sharpened at some point or is that factory, not that it matters any, but even my new Proto FSH has the edge as just over 1 mm. Again that would make the dent less than half of one mm, so your edge must have been different for some strange reason.
 
jim c said:
I don't think steeling of the blade would help. The bigger of the dent's is about 1/8" and has been pushed in quite a bit. It is hard to tell from the pictures. I think I will send it in to the shop on Monday.
Jim
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Yup. I'd call them to let them know you are sending it though Jim. You don't want it to get lost in the wash of INFI that flows around there. So where are the pics of the deer?
 
wait a minute?

Assymetrical edge? on an FSH? Yes, now that I see it that is an assymetrical edge, but that also doesn't look like a FSH. The coating looks smoother and the blade doesn't look as wide. Is that an E-handle?
 
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I ordered it with an asymetrical adge and it came with a penetrator tip.

We sawed off the rest of the front legs after I chopped them off with the knife.

This was a small doe but it was one of two I shot with a Glock this year. 25 yards with a G26 and 33 yards with a G19 124 +p Gold dots. The deer don't move much when you shoot them in the face.:p
 
jim c said:
I ordered it with an asymetrical adge and it came with a penetrator tip.

We sawed off the rest of the front legs after I chopped them off with the knife.
.:p
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Ahh, I thought so, a special order on the edge and penetrator tip as well. Very cool. looks good. That pic is making me hungry.
 
Next time you want to chop the legs off a deer, flip the FSH over and smash the legs with the spine of the blade. This will very easily break the leg, allowing you to then cut around the break and save your edge and also save you time and effort it will take to steal out the dinged edge. ;)
 
Yes, steeling is the way to go. No need to remove good INFI for a little nick like that. Free hanging bones crush easier than they cut.
 
TheButcher said:
Next time you want to chop the legs off a deer, flip the FSH over and smash the legs with the spine of the blade. This will very easily break the leg, allowing you to then cut around the break and save your edge and also save you time and effort it will take to steal out the dinged edge. ;)
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Thanks for that one. :thumbup:
 
TheButcher said:
Next time you want to chop the legs off a deer, flip the FSH over and smash the legs with the spine of the blade. This will very easily break the leg, allowing you to then cut around the break and save your edge and also save you time and effort it will take to steal out the dinged edge. ;)
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Good advice. Thanks.
 
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