Does anyone have a problem with the bk9 chipping.

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kendric

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I recently got a bk9 and when i chopped some wood in my backyard with it. When i got inside to look at the edge i had noticed about three tiny chips in it. I want too know if anybody else had this problem.
 
I never have. I've batonned through some serious wood with no issues either.
 
The only trouble I've had with my BK9 chipping is when I swung poorly and struck concrete. Each time I took the blade to an india stone until the chips were obliterated.

It's a working blade. Sadly chips are part of the game.
 
When you were chopping, were you chopping towards the ground? Is there a chance that you might've hit any rocks or some dirt with the blade? Sometimes dirt has some microscopic rocks that might cause some chipping but it should sharpen out. :)
 
jcwagers said:
When you were chopping, were you chopping towards the ground? Is there a chance that you might've hit any rocks or some dirt with the blade? Sometimes dirt has some microscopic rocks that might cause some chipping but it should sharpen out. :)
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This is what i was thinking.
 
Chipping is definitely not normal for the steel/heat treat combo used in Beckers. You may have received a lemon with a poor heat treat (assuming you did not hit the ground as mentioned above)

If this is the case I would send the knife back to Becker for a replacement.
 
The only time mine has chipped was when it hit dirt.
I've batoned through some nasty knotty wood many a time and never had chips in the edge.
 
Give KaBar a call or email and they will get you squared away :)
 
i sharpened my 9 at a 40 degree inclusive angle, sharp enough to do the hht and have chopped and batoned without a problem. a few strokes on a green loaded strop and it is back to doing the hht. my 16 is at 34 degress and it is the same way. beckers are my absolute favorite knives. they are the toughest and the easiest to sharpen and maintain out of any knives i have seen.
 
I used mine for the first time to whack on a driftwood stump. I didn't see any gravel in it, but I can't say I looked so closely as to rule it completely out. I ended up with these. Nothing big. Just haven't gotten around to sharpening them out.

I'm wondering if this is what yours are like kendric.



 
Am I the only one who noticed that Ethan Becker just posted his number and asked the OP to give him a call? Wow! I can't think of ANY other company where that would happen. That's just unbelievable!
Do you think Jerry Bussey or Sal Glesser would do that?
 
OP, can we see some pics? It's just no good armchair quarterbacking without pics....

and yeah, RK....Uncle E posting up his number and asking to be called is...unheard of in this day and age. Period.
 
rkmoore said:
Am I the only one who noticed that Ethan Becker just posted his number and asked the OP to give him a call? Wow! I can't think of ANY other company where that would happen. That's just unbelievable!
Do you think Jerry Bussey or Sal Glesser would do that?
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One more reason Beckers, and their creator, are the best.
 
Depends on what you mean by "chipping". Some sort of measurement would be helpful. Any steel at almost any hardness can exhibit tiny fractures and deformations, including ones as shown in DunkEm's pic above. It's just a matter of what you hit and how hard you hit it...

Now if we're talking about 1/8" or 1/4" chunks taken out of the edge, that's a different story, and I'd be very surprised. Pics or it didn't happen... ;)
 
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