Friend wrecked HI's edge

Artfully Martial

Artfully Martial

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I still haven't learned my lesson. I was taking apart pallets for a bonfire last night mostly with my hands, but took out the frame with my WW2. A friend wants to try it, and I'm in a good mood, so I say, sure, just be careful about the nails. So he wacks horribly away with it...he's hitting the the last couple inches into the dirt a lot of the time...but he hands it back to me with a centimeter deep chip and a lot of the other edge was ruined too (but that's not big deal, nothing I couldn't fix). I was like..gahh...and he's like...well that sucks and walks off unphased at destroying a 150ish dollar knife. No concern at all. I guess everything just thinks all knives are 5 dollars at the gas station.

Anyway, so I'm not sure what I can do. The chip/roll is on the recurved area, but it's deep...is there any way to restore it? A friend of mine wants to buy it, even wrecked, how much is a fair price?
 
Too bad, AM. With friends like that... (Your second friend sounds like a stand-up guy.) Good luck.

Eric
 
That's a centimeter deep chip? Metal's gone, not just bent?

Crap. I mean, the knife is still perfectly usable as a chopper, but prolly all you can do aesthetically is re-work the design, to look more like a Balance or something. As this is in the recurve, you might be able to do that without affecting much of the heat treated part of the metal - but damn.

I'd be inclined to keep the knife as-is, for a hard-use knife. But send your "friend" a link to the HI store's web page, with my compliments.

t.
 
Most of the metal on the main "roll" is there but completely out of the way. Looking at it from the side, it looks like a complete chip....all it took was 5 minutes to destroy my main camp knife. Augh.
 
"Friend" -- yea right. You're a better man than me AM. I may have rearranged his himroids with that chip had it been me.
 
That's why i don't let none knife people handle sharp objects. It's just too dangerous for them if they give it back ruined. i'll give them a head start just to make it far though:)
 
Post a pic and get some of the experts to give an opinion. I feel for you, man.
Terry
 
Yeah, I think I've finally learned my lesson...I hate being a jerk about this stuff, but Joe Average just can't be trusted to handle a simple knife.

I won't be able to put photos up for a couple weeks, since my camera is at my other place, but what do you think would be a reasonable price for the khukuri? The rest is in pretty good shape, certainly not mint though. At least it lived a good long life.
 
That's a bummer:( I would just keep it how it is. It'll still chop and split wood with no ill effect. Nails will put a hurt on a knife edge. I've hit a fair number of them over the years. I would point your friend to the website like other's have posted. If you really want to sell him something at a deal price, I would just offer to shark for him and get him a nice AK or WWII for 70-90 dollars during a deal of the day. There is nothing wrong with your knife, but at the same time you can't recoup your losses second hand.
You might get your other "friend" a cold steel khuk machete, dull the tip, spray paint it pink, and write down the side in big black sharpie "My First Khuk"...only dot the i in "first" with a heart. a 15 dollar project that will teach him that you did not appreciate his careless handling of your things.

Jake
 
Artfully Martial said:
Yeah, I think I've finally learned my lesson...I hate being a jerk about this stuff, but Joe Average just can't be trusted to handle a simple knife.
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I keep Moras around in abundance because of this. I'd hate to hand someone a dangerous knife. And I won't hand them a nice one. So a Mora is great. If they wreck it, no biggie.
 
Oh, I'm not trying to recoup the losses. I think he just wants to hang it on his wall, he's certainly no knife guy, he just likes exotic blade things. I might just ask 40 for it.

It's just been a long week. My car has been hit and run twice in my parking lot for a few thousand worth of damage, my apple airport router died..and my roof is leaking.
 
I think- and I could be wrong- but you're supposed to hammer the roll back flat, not grind it off. That's what I did when I hit an I-beam with my Ganga Ram (don't ask) :mad: .

Hammer it back flat-ish, then grind/sand til better. Not the same, but better.


Mike
 
Mike's right. If there's a way to move the metal back in place, that would be my first option too. Used to be, european scythes were fixed (and sharpened!) that way a lot.
 
Careful getting close to the hardened zone while hammering though. Do some very light taps first for sure.

I think 50 or 55 would be OK, btw.
 
Dang.....that's some major suckage!


I'm going to be a butthead here for a minute....unload that rascal for $50 and get another one. If you spend time/money to fix it, it's now a $200 dented kukri. Pretty it up the best you can and pass it on. Use the money you got to get another WW2.

My father-in-law once told me (when I got myself in a similar situation) that he "chalks it up as tuition". I, for one, spent oodles on college...so a couple hundred bucks isn't really that bad - though it does still sting and piss me off.


I like the "spare Mora" idea....nice one, Andy! :thumbup:

I'd add to that - keep an Opinel handy for non knife-nuts. Looks cheap and IS cheap. (but cuts great)


Whatever you do...don't send it to me. I'm worthless! I can't get anything done in less than a year...:(
 
my question is... what is the bastid who ruined your knife "doing" to compensate for what happened? :grumpy:

I was like..gahh...and he's like...well that sucks and walks off unphased at destroying a 150ish dollar knife.
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that really pisses me off!!! :mad:

i would make him pay for it... maybe not the total cost of the knife (depending on how good of a "friend" he is) and let him keep it (shoving it so far deep he will be able to taste the steel) :D

if you dont feel like doing that... i would go with what jake suggested and just keep it as a beater knife :) keeping it as a reminder of "in the bush BYOK.. Bring Your Own Knife/Khukuri!!!"
 
If it's a fold pound it back. It there's a chip missing, buffer the edges at each side of the gap to lesson the transition. It puts too much pressure on the surrounding edge if you do not do this. I usually let a chip stay, and don't remove metal along the entire edge. This gets more use out of the khuk.


munk
 
A dinged knife is not ruined- it's just a dinged knife.

No longer a shelf queen or wall hanger, but it wasn't that to begin with or it wouldn't have gotten damaged.

Celebrate use. I think my damaged edge khuk(s) cuts better for the "serrations" on the edge. :p


Mike
 
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