Dropping knives and damage...

Kaizen1

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Yesterday after taking a shower, I grabbed my pants from the rack and my XM-18 fell out of the pocket, 3-4 feet onto a tile floor and :eek::o, literally not one scratch:thumbup:. This is the 2nd time in probably the 3-4 years that I've been carrying quality knives that I've dropped a knife.

Anyway, the question is: If you've ever dropped a knife onto something hard, did the the knife see any damage? If so how much damage? What knife was it, how far did it fall and what did it fall onto?
 
I managed to have a paper wheel accident a few weeks ago with a BRKT Gunny...had to reprofile the last 3/32nds of the tip...I faired a bit worse :(

...but nothing super glue didnt fix up. More character marks. :)
 
Koster Bushcraft (CPM 3V), fell 4 feet directly on its tip on a concrete floor. Took a chunk out of the concrete, dinged up a tiny bit of the tip. Fixed up good as new. I was REAL happy it hit the floor and not my foot.
 
I was stripping the sheath off some electrical wire and dropped my ZDP Delica 9-10 feet onto a concrete floor a couple of weeks ago. The tip took a pretty noticeable bend--plus there was already a small chip that had happened somehow already there. I used a coarse DMT to reshape it, resulting in the single worst wire edge burr I have ever experienced. It was like a little ledge had appeared on one side of the edge.

I thought ZDP was supposed to be hard--this stuff felt almost 'gummy' when I sharpened it! I fully expected the tip to be snapped off from the tip impact and was surprised that it bent the way it did.
 
J_Curd said:
I managed to have a paper wheel accident a few weeks ago with a BRKT Gunny...had to reprofile the last 3/32nds of the tip...I faired a bit worse :(

...but nothing super glue didnt fix up. More character marks. :)
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At least the blade was sharp :thumbup:
 
I dropped a Spyderco Lava 2-3 ft on a tile floor and it severely damaged the action. When Chad the designer of it heard he sent me a free knife that he also designed.

I dropped my small micarta 21 the other day 2-3 feet landing on it's tip on a linoleum floor but the was no damage.
 
I dropped a BM mini-grip from pocket height to an asphalt surface. Fortunately it was during the draw and the blade was not deployed yet. The FRN suffered many small dimples where it touched down with lots of embedded tar grit. I used some acetone to clean the area up. The FRN is the same color throughout, so the dimples really don't stick out too badly, besides, it's a user. It hurts a lot less now than it did then, and I'm damn proud of those battle scars now:D
 
D2 paramilitary lost 1/16" or so off the tip when my roommate was looking at it and dropped it on concrete
 
A Kershaw Scallion I had laying closed on the kitchen table opened by itself and hopped onto the kitchen linoleum floor and stuck point first. No harm to the knife. Weird happening tho.
 
The first day I had my DLC Kershaw RAM I ended up dropping it, closed with the pivot area first, onto a rough asphalt surface from 3-4 feet. The impact damaged the aluminum frame and pushed in a section of the handle that caused interference with the internal blade stops, causing a hitch in the opening motion that prevented flippering open and made manual opening very difficult. It was a one in a million shot, you could barely see the damage on the outside but it had a huge effect inside.

Kershaw replaced the scales for me and I've had no problems since then.
 
I dropped my D2 Paramilitary tip-first onto the carpet while flipping it around. What's underneath carpet? Concrete. The tip got dinged up and there's a noticeable chip about 1mm back from the tip of the knife. It cleaned up fine but I didn't want to remove so much metal to remove the chip.

Could have been worse. I'll take a chipped edge over a broken tip any day. I'm kinda surprised I didn't do more damage to it. Guess the carpet broke its fall a little. :rolleyes:
 
I manipulate balisongs, so I drop knives all the time. Rarely do they land on the tip or edge, and I try to practice new techniques over carpet or grass (NOT concrete, wood floors, or furniture :p ).
That being said, I've dropped a couple various types of knives over the years, but haven't ever caused damage I couldn't fix.
 
I had a Buck 186 Titanium,(you know which one I mean)

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So anyway I was target shootin' with my new Daisy CO2 powered pistol, (cheap and fun entertainment) which I had just bought at Wally World, came as a kit with everything ya needed to target shoot, ('cept somethin' to hold the target to the backstop) so I whipped out my then brand new Buck 186 Titanium and stuck a target to the wood, walked back 10 paces turned and fired, as luck would have it the one and only BB I fired hit the corner of the back end of the 186.

It was at the instant I saw the perfectly round dimple left by the BB I realized two things,first Titanium is not a hard metal, it's tough, two entirely different things.

Second, I just did a really stupid thing by using my knife to hold up the target and above all I ruined an extremely collectible knife, (oh well I guess I have to use it now)

That was back when Buck first came out with that knife, man I was stupid back then.
 
This past Christmas, I had my beloved Tobb Begg Gents Glimpse fall out of my pocket as I saw stepping out of my truck My beloved knife hit the ground, back of the blade first; which took a chucnk of metal, as well as did same gamage to the back spacer. It $150.00 ti fix my baby. It looked perfcet when she cam home to me!!


(PLeae forgive my typing, I am on heavy duty pain meds,)
 
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I drop my BM 556 Mini Grip on the concrete floor at work from time to time. The only damage it ever sustains is to the blade edge (no chips, just flattening), so I have to resharpen it.
I dropped my Sebenza once as I was getting out of my car (forgot the knife was on my lap) and it landed on the asphalt street. No damage.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
I had a Buck 186 Titanium,(you know which one I mean)

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So anyway I was target shootin' with my new Daisy CO2 powered pistol, (cheap and fun entertainment) which I had just bought at Wally World, came as a kit with everything ya needed to target shoot, ('cept somethin' to hold the target to the backstop) so I whipped out my then brand new Buck 186 Titanium and stuck a target to the wood, walked back 10 paces turned and fired, as luck would have it the one and only BB I fired hit the corner of the back end of the 186.

It was at the instant I saw the perfectly round dimple left by the BB I realized two things,first Titanium is not a hard metal, it's tough, two entirely different things.

Second, I just did a really stupid thing by using my knife to hold up the target and above all I ruined an extremely collectible knife, (oh well I guess I have to use it now)

That was back when Buck first came out with that knife, man I was stupid back then.
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i dont see it!!!
 
Ive dropped my 710 on concrete quite a few times with work. It dinged up the g10 a little bit but I don't notice unless I look close. Amazing the kind of resistance g10 has.

Also dropped my sebenza onto gravel. Couple marks on the titanim scales but looks fine. Its a user so I dont really care :). Main thing for me is I don't want to break a tip off my blades. That would make me upset. Havent done it yet (knock wood)
 
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