doh! tip of my 43 messed up

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I was flipping my bali when it fell on the floor and I discovered the tip had been bent. Not sideways (spine view), but DOWN, kind of being compressed into itself. Anyway, I tried fixing it the best I could on the sharpmaker, but it just isn't as pointy as before, well, it can't be, it's missing material :( Is there anyway BM could fix this, and would they be willing to? I know dropping a knife isn't covered in the warranty, but then again there are a few small defects in the handles that I could complain about...

surely many of you have had this happen at one point or another, where the very fine tip of your BM bali is chipped off or bent off. What did you do?
 
You better believe they could fix it. I just got mine back after having it tweaked a bit and lifesharped and they got my point pointier than when it was new.
 
Yes, it can be fixed by regrinding the end and blending it into the rest of the knife. it would be slightly shorter, but otherwise would look okay. The problem is the knife has to be kept cool while doing all this (if you are using machinery) so you don't lose your heat treat. The tip, because it is so small, makes it particularly succeptible to this problem. If it isn't too badly bent you can actually do this by hand with a block of wood and sandpaper. It will take some effort to sand hardened steel, but it has been done. Don't try this if you're not comfortable with the idea, and handy with such things. I'd try Benchmade first and see what they say.
 
I broke off the tip of my Custom Weehawk once. Sent it back to BM and they reground the blade to the same profile. But as RARAnney said, it came back a bit shorter, by about 1/4". Works like new.
 
whoa, tony, how much of your tip came off? they took off a whole 1/4" to regrind your blade? The amount of missing material on my tip is approx 1 mm, that wouldn't warrant a reduction in length of 1/4" would it?
 
Jadis: I broke about 1/8" off. But because of the shape of the Weehawk blade, it took them another 1/8" to give it a new tip and make it look good. The only way you would ever really notice is if you lay it next to another weehawk. Then the shortness becomes apparent. As for your 43, a 1 mm damage isn't going to require a lot of material removal to fix. More then likely, they'll just reprofile that damaged portion away while doing a simple sharpening of the blade. Tip damages like that are pretty common, and is easy to fix. It's just a matter of making that part of the edge thin again. Honestly, about 15 minutes with a set of stones or a small file, and you'll be good as new. Grinding away metal to come up with a new tip, and make it good good (especially with a diamond cross sectioned tip like the weehawk) takes a bit more skill and a bench grinder.
 
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