Have you ever actually broken a knife in use?

I've been lucky. The only thing that has broken on me was the torsion bar in a Kershaw Blur after about ten years of ownership. Kershaw sent me another and the Blur rides on.
 
I've broken a couple knives through incorrect usage. Mostly the handles just fell apart, leaving the blade intact.
 
Leo Greer said:
I’ve broken a few.

One was a crappy Gerber liner lock. No surprise there.

The second is a more interesting story. Y’all know those AC power cables that attach to a wall plug and the to everything else? I took one of those apart as a child and while I was cutting the cable accidentally connected the positive and negative wires with my knife.

It actually blew burnt holes in the knife blade.
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Same thing happened to me. I was doing electrical work with a buddy and cut a wire that was supposed to be disconnected… thanks Ron. Blew a chunk of the edge out of my Izula2.

I emailed ESEE and explained the story and you know what? I got an email back from Mike Perrin about 20mins later telling me he’d honor the warranty and I should send it in. I did and got a brand new Izula 2. That was six years ago and I’ve been singing the praise of ESEEs customer service ever since!


I broke one of my fist knives. When I was about 8 years old, my father bought me a very cheap Pakistani knock off of a Buck110. It was horrid but I loved it because it came from dad and also because he put an edge on it with one of those electric pull though sharpeners. That knife spent a long time in a drawer as I got older. Then when I was about 30 or so, I had it in my pocket as I was hiking through Hubbard Park in Meriden CT. I took out to cut on a branch and as soon as I put some force into a push cut, the lock bar snapped and the spine of the blade came back and hit my hand.


I buried that knife right there. I couldn’t safely bring it home, and didn’t want anyone finding it on the side of the trail and getting hurt.


I have three real Buck 110’s and none have ever failed in any way. But a Pakistani knock off from circa 1992 was just not up to the task.
 
Back when I was younger I broke the tip off 2 clip point blades, using them wrong. Then a few years later the tip broke off in the spine of a deer I was butchering. ( another clip point) I also broke 2 " gas station" knives simply using them. This was back in the 70's. Didn't buy another clip point till this year.
 
I've only broken one: my Ka-Bar Utility that snapped off at the hilt after a couple years of hard use and abuse from my teenage self.
 
POCEH KOCEB said:
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
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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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Uuhhh.."sigh"...you've spent a lot of money on knives .... a couple of spyderco knives ...a benchmade ...when what you really wanted and deserved was a flathead screwdriver and a boxcutter
 
Slight necro here, but I’ve always wondered why I have only broken one in my life. I’ve carried some real lowlife pieces too!
I was batoning wood for a campfire in sub zero temp. with a Gerber Command 1.
3/4” of the tip parted company. The break was razor clean. They sent me a replacement in about 1 months time.
Since then (a long time) I’ve used a tomahawk for splitting duty.
 
Snapped my Leatherman screwdriver blade (repaired on warranty). Probably damaged my Scout knife as a Cub playing mumbly peg but never broke it.
 
I've always been careful with good knives so I've not broken one of those. I have a knife handed down from my Father with one blade broken so I knew that they could break if you aren't careful so I would be careful.

Some years ago my wife had bought some temporary paper windowshades to use after we moved, the shades came with a small knife to use to cut them to width. This was like a small cheap steak knife with thin plastic handle and about 2" wharncliff blade. I was using it in my garage as a utility knife to cut a normal cardboard box and the blade broke. I wasn't doing anything that I thought would put unusual stresses on the blade so I figured it must have been very brittle steel and/or had questionable tempering.
 
The only time I've ever broken a blade or tool was breaking the scissors from a SAK classic SD. Instead of using them to cut, I was using the blades as basically pliers to pull random things that were stuck to a carpet off of it. After a few months of misusing it like this, it finally snapped.

Oh yea, and when I was young and dumb I tried to use a Kershaw leak as a screwdriver.

Like many others have already said, your knife will almost never break as long as you use it for its intended use.
 
Some years ago I broke the very tip off the small blade of my trusty SAK, trying to pry a staple out of a fairly thick stack of paper (and they say office life is easy!). I was heartbroken. Luckily it was a small enough chunk that I was able to easily grind out a new tip. And it still lives. I have never tried to pry anything with any knife blade since.
 
Years back, I broke the Maxamet blade off my Manix 2. It was part of the first initial batch when they first got released.
 
As one of my grandson's would say when I claimed to be Spiderman...NO, NO and NO!
 
I've had two sheepsfoot blades on stockman knives break. One I was doing something it wasn't designed to do and the other I may have twisted slightly in the cut in cold weather. Broke the tip off a Leek in the washer. I'd say it wasn't the knives' fault.
 
Umm, hate to admit it. When I was young and dumb, I threw a bone handled Case knife at a tree. It struck butt first, and broke a chunk out of one of the scales. Patched the hole with JB weld, and still use that knife 35 years later.
I was sick at the time, but now I wouldn't trade it for a brand new one. It has become an old friend.
 
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