Dropped my knife

[smo1898]

At work the other day I dropped my PM2 opened and of course it landed right on the tip. Nothing broke but it blunted the tip severely. Is there anything I can do to try and get it back?

 

[mexican]

My mother likes to use all the kitchen knives as screw drivers, and prybars to fix this problem I file the back of the knife near the edge. If your pm2 is satin you should be able to blend it with about a 600 grit stone or sandpaper.

 

[fujita yuji]

First of all I'm sorry for your trouble. I've had similar case several times and they were quite disappointing.

Provided that other parts esp. the open/close mechanism is good, I'll fix it with shaping the blade first.
This will grind off the edge around the tip and possibly some part of the berry.
After that, make the edge (sharpen). Coarser stone will work better obviously.
I wish this will help you.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

Might post a close-up pic of the damaged tip. Depending on how bad it looks, you might get a wide range of possible suggested fixes for it. Some are much easier than others to fix. Smaller damage might be quickly worked out on a simple stone, whereas heavier damage may need heavy grinding to completely re-shape the tip's profile.

Lighter damage can often be straightened out by drawing the spine of the tip in a trailing direction across a coarse/medium-grit stone (diamond or SiC work best), or wet/dry sandpaper in ~220-400 grit on a hard backing, like stone or glass. The idea is to gradually hone down the spine to sharply meet a clean & undamaged portion of the cutting edge, nearest to the tip. Keep the blade's spine as low as possible, or flush to the stone if the spine is dead-straight/flat (as is my PM's spine), to keep the resulting new tip as sharp and acute as possible. Some additional honing might be needed if any of the remaining cutting edge is rolled/chipped.


David