have you broke a tip off?

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para-frame

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I have, on my kershaw LEEK. did I do a good job fixing it?
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wow you really nuked that tip.
I broke some of my leek's tip off and was able to bring the edge back up. I only took off a quarter inch or so. I just brought the edge up to the spine. It worked out decently. IDK if you could do it in this case, but you might be able to get a point back.
If your not worried about a sharp point, looks like a decent job.
 
I broke the tip off my Endura, I used the groove on the sharpmaker rod to bring the spine down a little and point it. :thumbup:
 
Honestly, I have no idea how you guys break knives. I've broken exactly one knife tip in my entire life, about twenty years ago, I was probably 13 years old, and the knife was a $4 Pakistan lockback that I was throwing into an oak floor.

I still have that knife, by the way.

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-Bob
 
Never, I don't see how you can break them without abusing them (which I don't). The only good knife I've come across with a broken tip was my brothers kitchen knife that a stupid lady used to pry frozen food apart with.
 
I have snapped the tip off of every one of my using knives, usally just the very tip (about 1/32 or so) but have snapped 1/2 inch off my Spyderco Wenger and a couple of Bucks, and yes I was using then hard, maybe even abuseing them, yes I was willing to take that risk and no I didn't expect the warrenty to cover them. ( I now have a Prybaby !!!!)
 
para-frame said:
I have, on my kershaw LEEK. did I do a good job fixing it?
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Looks okay. I think I would have dropped the spine down to give it more of a bayonet look but if it works what the heck!
 
Yeah broke a tip off an old wenger sak but I fixed it up nice... Here's a couple pics of it.

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My Millie dropped out of my shorts pocket on the kitchen floor and opened up a little as it bounced around - a tiny piece of the tip came off. Luckily it was so small that with a little work on the DMT stone I shaped a new tip - it doesn't really look any different from the original tip..
 
I use knives for a lot of activities and chores. I don't know whether it's considered abuse or not, but I often use them to chop, pry, dig, torque fasteners, etc. as well as cut. When a brittle steel knife tip connects with, say, granite or bone, it can and sometimes does chip. I break, on average, a blade (or blade tip) every two to three years. Some knives I fix. Some I replace. In my experience, higher carbon steels seems to resist breaking better than lower carbon steels.
 
Best thing to do to repair a tip is to bring the spine down to the edge not work the edge up to the spine.

I've never broken a tip that I can remember but I've repaired several that others have messed up.
 
nelsonmc said:
Yeah broke a tip off an old wenger sak but I fixed it up nice... Here's a couple pics of it.

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Nice coping-style blade for whittling. I should break some of my SAKs.
 
I broke the tip off of a Mark I Gerber in the late 80s. Reshaping a double-edged tip just seemed too complicated at the time.
 
I'be never broken a tip, but I did bend one almost to the point that it wouldn't close anymore. It was a $15 BA tanto auto that I keep in the toolbox to abuse. I think I was prying a circuit board apart or something. Next time I have to do something similar I'll probably still grab the same knife. The great thing about beaters is that you just don't have to care what happens to them.
 
Yeah, some years ago, I broke off the tip of my Spyderco Police, whilst at work. A key broke off in the lock of a business that I was doing security for, and I WAS able to get the key piece out! I sent back the knife to Spyderco along with $10, and all was well.

Why not send it back to Kershaw and have them fix it?
 
I broke the tip of a Gerber folder,just the very tip.It's 1/4 inch shorter but looks the same.Went up from the edge not down from the spine.
 
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