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I use a one inch or so diameter crock stick to steel/mash/bend such edge foldovers back into place.
I have done it to my knives, and to some customer knives back when I was a dealer, works kind of like magic, do not try to do it all in one sitting.
Remember you are stropping from the back of the knife toward the edge.
Work on it a couple to five minutes at a time, then set it down and do other things for a while.
You do not need to press real hard,,,but a little pressure should make it go faster.
I tend to set the knife down on a flat surface with the damaged part of the knife off of the edge of the table and use both hands to guide the one inch crock stick, then just slide the crock stick at the angle you want the edge to go back to again and again, working it across the dent and from the handle toward the point a little.
Don't get in a hurry, I have fixed bigger deeper dents than that this way.
Sort of like working stiff, but not dry clay,,,I got no idea why it works, but it does work for me, sort of like magic.
I have done it to my knives, and to some customer knives back when I was a dealer, works kind of like magic, do not try to do it all in one sitting.
Remember you are stropping from the back of the knife toward the edge.
Work on it a couple to five minutes at a time, then set it down and do other things for a while.
You do not need to press real hard,,,but a little pressure should make it go faster.
I tend to set the knife down on a flat surface with the damaged part of the knife off of the edge of the table and use both hands to guide the one inch crock stick, then just slide the crock stick at the angle you want the edge to go back to again and again, working it across the dent and from the handle toward the point a little.
Don't get in a hurry, I have fixed bigger deeper dents than that this way.
Sort of like working stiff, but not dry clay,,,I got no idea why it works, but it does work for me, sort of like magic.
. After closer examination afterwards I noticed some dents in the section that hit the rock 
. I decided to try the sandpaper and mousepad technique and now all is well. Have to resharpen more to get back to a razor's edge but maybe later in the week.