Doh!

[kamagong]

I opened my Cabela's 110 this morning so that I could sharpen it. Something looked funny, so I took a closer look. $%#! Someone must've used it yesterday because about 2 mm of the tip is now missing. Needless to say, I'm a little irritated. I think I know who did it. My brother was working at my desk yesterday shredding documents. He probably used my knife to open letters and packages. I don't mind him using my knives; he is my brother after all. But it sure is frustrating to find one of your well cared for knives with a broken tip. That is one of the more irritating things about non-knife people--they don't know how to use a knife properly.

 

[chickentrax]

...He probably used my knife to open letters and packages...

Or pop off staples before they ruined his nice shredder... :grumpy:

 

[DarrylS]

...Bummer for sure...My Bucks never go to anyone but me. I have some Sears and Frontiers that I carry to borrow out to other folks who may not be too "knife literate"...One thing though...just what in the world were those envelopes and boxes made of???...Seems hard to imagine that they alone could have done the damage... ...THAT'S it Trax..."popping off staples"...yep that would do it...

 

[rev_jch]

Or maybe the shredder got clogged up? And he used the tip to pry out clogged paper residue from the shredder?

Either way, he should have been honest and told you!

Ahhhh yes, brothers! I have one of those, and when we were younger my knives would sometimes disappear. More often than not though, it was usually a "shady" friend (?) who would leave with one.
But one time a friend actually broguht one back and apologized!!!

I dont have that problem anymore (being on the closer end towards 40), although my wife has used one for "unsavory" purposes before, but I think she understood later that it was not accepted behavior

Of course she has her own knives now, and she takes pretty good care of them .

(Oh, by the way, if its the cabelas 110 alaskan in S30V... great knife!)

 

[pjsjr]

...Bummer for sure...My Bucks never go to anyone but me.

I do not and will not carry a loaner...I don't want someone thinking that it's okay to use a POS knife in the wrong application. That's just me and my anal notions about knife use. If I loan, and it's a big if, a knife I want too know what it's going to be used for and I will watch or do it myself, if I don't have faith that the borrower will use it correctly. Preston

 

[kamagong]

Either way, he should have been honest and told you!

I'm pretty sure he would've had I been around. He had just started working and I left while he was still at it. It probably happened after I had left. By the time I got home last night he was already knocked out. That's assuming of course that he noticed the break. As I said he's a non-knife person. There's a good chance that it broke and he didn't even see it.

Oh yeah, it is the Cabela's S30V version. I agree it's a great knife and part of the reason why I'm so frustrated is that I've finally gotten the edge I want on it. No use crying over spilled milk in any case. Since this knife is now "ruined" I can stop babying it and start using it like the hard worker it is. Plus, I now have a reason to pick up the a custom 110 in BG-42.

 

[chickentrax]

...Since this knife is now "ruined" I can stop babying it and start using it like the hard worker it is...

Uh...I'm just a dummy here...but...doesn't the lifetime guarantee apply here??? If not from Cabela's, then from Buck???

 

[Mike Kerins]

Uh...I'm just a dummy here...but...doesn't the lifetime guarantee apply here??? If not from Cabela's, then from Buck???

I bet Buck has the black S30V blades for replacement too.

 

[Buckaholic]

Or pop off staples before they ruined his nice shredder... :grumpy:

Ok Trax, now that is funny

Kamagong, send that into Buck for free sharpening. Guess ya just pay for the postage. But I don't know how long that "free sharpening" on the Alaskan takes (anyone chime in here).
I never loan out knives or guns. But I'm thinking you didn't either. It reminds me of the time I came home and a dude was using my AG Russel ATS-34 to take off metal burrs from his motorcycle frame.

Goose.

PS, Preston said "anal".

 

[DarrylS]

...Hey Preston...You didn't know I work in an "Endoscopy and Surgery Center" did ya??...LOL...We need the surgical business fixin' the cuts from my borrowing out my Frontiers and we can also fix those "notions" you're havin' problems with...LMAO...

 

[chickentrax]

Ok Trax, now that is funny

...???...

I use an old thick-bladed hunting knife to remove those big bulky copper-plated staples that bicycles and kitchen pots & bowls come in...Can't hardly get them off any other way...

But I bet they'd chew up the blades in a shredder pretty quick...

 

[pjsjr]

But I bet they'd chew up the blades in a shredder pretty quick...

About the same as the tip from an Alaskan 110????? Check those blades in your shedder.

DarrylS, can't stand the sight of blood especially my own. But I see logic in your reasoning.

I see that I should have used the term OCD instead with this crowd . Preston

 

[kamagong]

Uh...I'm just a dummy here...but...doesn't the lifetime guarantee apply here??? If not from Cabela's, then from Buck???

Maybe, but I'm loath to use the lifetime guarantee in this instance for a couple or reasons. First, the circumstances in which this knife broke constitute knife abuse. It would be unfair of me to ask Buck to fix a knife which broke through no fault of their own. Second, this particular 110 now sports a beautiful convex edge. I've removed enough of the weakened factory metal so that it now holds an incredible edge. If I was to send this knife in to Buck they may very well replace the blade, but I'd have to convex it again. That is not a fun chore to do with S30V.