Have you ever actually broken a knife in use?

Lesknife said:
As a side note, my dad was pretty strict about knives and guns, he wanted to instill safety into our use. He taught us that games and horseplay with knives or guns was unnecessary and wouldn’t be tolerated. So he very sternly advised us to not throw knives so I didn’t.

He told us about his cousin who was seriously injured when his brother threw a knife at a tree truck. The knife glanced or bounced back somehow and stabbed him just below his sternum. He was standing just beside him. He recovered but it took a long time before he was back to normal.
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My dad taught me to shoot and throw knives responsibly.
 
Pried with an OT Senior and broke a little bit off the big blade tip. Dummy. Re-shaped it, and never did that again.
 
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The tips of my working knives were gone, knives repaired and retired.
Spiderco Manix 2 composite/laminate blade, S90V on inside, I believe 154cm on both sides, loved this knife.
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Fixed it and give it away to a friend of mine, trucker.

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‘He loved it so much, he bought a brand new Cold Steel Rajah 2 and gave it to me !

Spiderco GB1 M4,
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I was able to fix it just fine, used Ken Onions, little grinder attachment, knife came up very good
ill update if I find pictures.
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‘Benchmade Griptilian.
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Old beater that I lifted from the exchange. My almost everyday work knife for at least 3-4 years.
‘You cannot kill a Griptilian, period. I finally managed to chip the tip of the 154cm blade and BM replaced it with new S30V, I was very happy with the old steel, as well as the new one. IMO, BM knows well how to HT it’s blades.
I also broke some other knives that came as free gift from some purchases, not bad knives but some no names as the one LA Police gear carry, can’t really remember the brand name, I want to say Blackhawk but I’m probably mistaking. I either work to death such knives, or give those away.
 
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I have never broken a knife myself. I have HAD two knives break, a couple of times, before I knew what quality cutlery was and was just getting excited about pocketknives and styles I liked. I made the ill-informed choice of buying a "Delta Defender" brand BudK two for $15 deal 😂 I was under some silly notions at the time... (I learned, about everything, and fast, I knew I was being suckered when I was buying, even... Within two months from that time, I had my first PM2, and two months after that, have a good little collection going.) Anyway, the knife worked and even had a little wave ripoff in the form of the dual-flippers. Liner-lock. One day, I was flipping it for like, the fifth time, and the liner slipped over the tang and the blade clacked uselessl down on my finger. Good thing that wasn't in use...

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Have done nothing but pick up, play with, and laugh at the other one here and there. I intended it to be my girlfriend's holdout knife! Jeez! Now, I have to convince her that it is okay to buy her more than one Spyderco, she thought the $160 M4 Spydie I got her was obscenly priced! She is more of an Opinel gal, and has taken to my RAT 2 in AUS-8/Coyote-Brown as her beater, which I am happy for, and packs a Higonokami, too.

But when she first came over to my place, she had this messed up rainbow-tanium Timberwolf pocket knife that she bought with some spray after some unpleasant encounters when living elsewhere. She brought it to my house, I flicked it once or twice and it seemed alright... until it about came apart in my hand in three flicks. I attribute the fact it was put together on the fact that she cannot reliably OHO a knife. Trying to teach her Spydiehole, but she doesn't care too much, ha. Saw this on BudK, too, but she got it from "BladesForBabes". I hate these sites that peddle tactifool CS:GO karambits and single "knucks" and 2cr blades that fall apart in hand, just to prey upon the wallets of women who are trying to defend themselves but do not know a whole lot about this and just see a site that appears to cater for their needs in a cute, appealing, affordable way. It's manipulative. But so is BudK, doing the same thing, but aimed at males, a lot of whom are genuinely thanking BudK for their "high quality 2cr high carbon stainless" knives, swords and polearms and bs, in the reviews. Obviously tampered with but some are clearly, sadly, real. Calling fullers "blood grooves" and insulting the intelligence of their customer, alienating those who know what quality is and pulling in those who do not. Taking a bunch of marks, the way I see it, and that flash can sure rob a guy (or a gal!) when they're just starting out in this hobby. I am so glad I wised up within the month and my girlfriend nor I are at risk of this janky crap ever breaking on us or failing on us. Or making us look cringy.

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I just wish it turned into a Bali! Would make a great trainer with the unsharpened blade and all.
 
I've busted a couple of the "throwaways" that I've ended up with...
But it was largely due to my knowledge that they weren't very good knives to begin with. I would either take the tip off the blade (or worse!); or tear up the action with some stoooopid prying action.
But a good knife? NEVER!!
 
I have broken a buck 110, a PM2, a tenacious and a HK made by Benchmade. I am a mechanic and own an auto repair shop which is a knife torture chamber. I was surprised and disappointed by how easily the last 3 broke. The 110, I should have known better. These were all the last 1/2 inch of knife, btw.
 
I broke one of the walnut scales on a Condor Swamp Romper once. I had to ascend some stairs to get into an apartment that were covered in ice and no landlord to do anything about it. I used the pommel to smash enough ice to make some footholds. It sucked.
 
I've broken the tips off of several knives from dropping them ... including one just a few days ago. Luckily I only lost about 1mm on that one (TRM Atom). Already fixed.

Also destroyed the back lock on a Buck 110 when I was around 12 or 13 ... trying to show off for friends, spine whacking it. Turns out that lock bar will bend if you hit it hard enough!
 
At least 6, all of them on Gerber Multitools. The blades on these are just awful. Granted, I abuse them, but they are frighteningly easy to snap.
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In my 52 years, the only thing I ever broke was an Ontario USGI Machete, back in the mid-eighties, when I was a teenager.
Man, I was proud of that machete. Compared to the cheap Wal-Mart machetes of the time, it was like a light saber in comparison.
I took a full swing across the grain of some kind of downed hardwood, in the creek bottom near my house, and it broke clean, about
5" in front of the handle. I was heartbroken for a while after, but, lesson learned.
 
Yes i have. Years ago i bought a fixed blade winchester from wallyworld for a camping trip. And the first time i used it snapped right where the handle met the blade…. Lol that was what i got for buying a $20 knife from wallyworld.
 
Using enough force to break a knife can be pretty dangerous. I know a guy with two fingers that don't work right, caused by one bone-headed stunt. Be safe, use the right tool.
 
Quality and not doing things a knife isn't designed to do. Got my first knife when I was 7, which would be 1986. Never broken a blade.
 
Yes it's undoubtedly dangerous to have a blade break in use, I stopped using the knives on the Gerber finally. I've abused my SAK's to about the same level (just light prying), but they're all just fine. In fact, any other knife seems to put up with it okay.
 
Sometime around 1990 after dressing a deer the tip of my Buck Vanguard went missing. No idea exactly when or how it happened.
Up until then I had a few Buck knives that never gave me an issue. This was my only knife that ever "broke" while in use.
I replaced it with a Cold Steel Carbon V Master Hunter that served me for 10 years after that.
 
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