fixing injured blade

[edgreywolf]

this is one blade that i was carrying
hollow ground now bent edge
was using to baton some kindling
any ideas??
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[Ozy]

Theres only one thing you can do.


PANIC

 

[edgreywolf]

Heck,
no panic
i can always burn it up with the grinder

teach me to use a hollow grind knife :}

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[Mahoney]

Try gently bending/burnishing it back in line? If it chips there's always the grinder.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Try a steel on it first, a smooth steel if possible.

I'm going ot move this from General Knife Discussion to Maintenance ...

 

[jeep45238]

Use hatchets and axes to baton instead? They tend to work quite a bit better for this sort of thing.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Use knives with convex edges.

 

[65535]

I don't see how a properly het treated knife would bend like that without cracking or chipping.

 

[fujita yuji]

Too bad for you, edgreywolf.
Cannot see the amount of bent, but for me there's nothing can be done
except for what Mahoney said in the previous post.

 

[edgreywolf]

ya will try to press back but not going to carry a hollow grind anymore
first time i have had this happen with all the knives i have had over the years
but thinking back most of them have been flat ground
figure i would change my edc to a puukko style knife
for the types of things i do at times

this blade was a 440c steel blank i had gotten at jantz
modified the handle to fit

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