Has anyone here ever actually worn out a knife?

Never worn out a knife... Wear out a knife in 4 years?
Was it your only knife? What did you use it for? What did you use to sharpen it?
I used _heavily_ many knives, and honed them with fine gritted stones, and they are as good as new and hope they'll last many decades to come.
I think that if a knife wears out too quickly it has a crappy blade or you are sharpening it with too coarse a stone...
It all sounds very strange to me.:confused:
 
I had a serrated Spyderco worker for about 12 - 15 years that was used daily. It finally got to the point that I was no longer able to resharpen it effectivly.

This might not be considered "worn out" , but it was past usefullness in the state it was in.

I sent it back to Spyderco for resharpening & they sent it back like new. The completely reground the blade & pollished the handles & clip.

I was always a Spyderco fan, now I am a fanatic, I never expected them to treat a 15 year old knife as such a priority.

What great customer service, to far excede the customer's expectations!!!

Thanks again Spyderco !!!
 
sounds like a sharpening issue than a knife issue.


great question don't think this ones ever been asked.

I have yet to come close.
 
I have worn out several Case/Schrade/KaBar's in my life time. The last Buck I had looked like a very small bladed fillet knife. My father, who has been deceased for 20 yrs. had 3 Case knives that had very thin blades from being sharpened. I have a few people who bring knives to me to be sharpened and I have noticed that some of them have been carrying the knives for years because the blades and the pivots are getting pretty well worn.
 
I have my grandfathers Kabar stockman and all blades are at least 1/2 sharpened away. I also have my Great grandfathers trapper and the blades are like toothpicks. I hope someday I find a knife I like as much! I can't imagine carrying the same knife long enough to wear it out.
 
I sortta did :) In less than a year.
While I was learning how to use Edge Pro right and trying to find the best angle for my 940 Osborne I've reduced the blade probably to 75-80% of its original width. Other than that all blades are doing ok, excluding some coating losses :)
 
I wore out one Gerber Mini LST. I used it a lot on my job at the time, sharpened it with file every day. The blade was fillet shaped by the time I dumbed it and splurged on another $5 LST. Other than that though, I still have the official Boy Scout knife that I got when I was seven years old. It is a tad tarnished, but far from worn out.

A buddy of mine had a Benchmade 975 that I thought was worn out. The lock bar was against the opposite handle liner, the serretions were all but gone after years of being sharpened by a mall knife store idiot. I sent it to Benchmade for the Lifesharp tune up, and it came back almost new looking! Blew my mind!

A good knife lasts a long time.
 
I have worn out three knives. All of them from sharpening. Two were pocket knives that had fairly soft blades and only lasted 5 to 7 years and one was a machete that saw a lot of use clearing brush.
 
By the way, I have a Buck Folding Hunter that I have had for over 30 years and have not worn that one out yet and it has seen a heck of a lot more use than those two pocket knives ever did.
 
I have a small collection of knives that consists of old Case, Kabar, Schrade, and a Queen that I call the "Hall of Shame" knives. They have been carried by different people around our community, and I know they have worked the hell out of them. One Sod Buster belongs to me, and it is wore smooth out. I would like to fix a shadow box for these for show.

Mike, I have acquired your old Greco on trade, and I hope to see how long it takes to wear this knife out. I probably won't live that long.
 
Before the tactical/ liner craze of many years past, I had a Buck 110 that had a blade that I worn out badly, to a point that I could no longer sharpen it thin enough to suit my needs. It last had a fillet knife shape appearance before I gave it away to a friend who never had a quality knife. Strangely enough he was estatic about it! The locking mechanism was still okay though. Good knife.

Nakano
 
There's a nice picture of a worn out Loveless knife in the beginning of this book.

Somehow I don't think too many end up in that condition.
 
For those that have retired folders because the point is above the bolsters. If you dress down the kick at the pivot end of the blade when you re-profile blades, the point will nest lower in the frame.
The kick is what keeps the edge from riding on the springs and spacers.

The only knives I have worn out were more from abuse than any thing else. Scraping steel with them, prying, hammering; etc

My edc includes a scalpel type and a crowbar/screwdriver type that I have been abusing for 15 years.

I have no idea who made the crowbar but the blade is marked "Ultrablade" with a little infinity symbol on the face side and Japan on the obverse. Birdshead grip, rubber scales, still the tighest using folder I own
despite the abuse.

Hotspur, one can never have a favorite but this one is close
 
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