Have you ever broke a blade? If so how?

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exia00

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Title kind of says it all. I read all the time about how tough is this knife or that knife. I would just like to see what someone did in their day to day life to accidentally break one. I feel like certain knives get deemed as slicers(because they are good at it), but they wouldn't be of used for outdoors or anything "hard", just light duty tasks. So we go with thicker blades that are heavier duty, but don't cut quite as well. Is it really necessary, do you break slicers trying to cut stuff?
 
Broke a wave endura 4 by dropping it, sheared the locking tab clean off the back of the blade, it's now a slip joint 😂.
Broke the pivot in a kershaw jyd splitting 2x4s with it. was a wee bit drunk and needed a fire 😂.
 
Just a couple weeks ago I had an old cheapo carving knife mounted to a stick to clear some heavier weeds in the backyard as I don't have a machete yet ( sounds stupid but was working pretty well ) and the blade bent on me from being dropped and then snapped when I went to straighten it back out.
Other than that thou I have never broken a knife blade.
 
I broke a bunch of cheapos at my old job, using them as mini prybars. There were a few things on the cars we worked on where nothing but a knife was thin and pointy enough to get into the gap, but rigid enough to do the prying. The handles almost always failed before the blades did.
 
The tip was recently broken off of my Spyderco Yojimbo 2, I'm not supposed to mention that my wife dropped it with the blade open onto a tile floor.
I have broken a Buck Odyssey cutting a large zip tie, but I was twisting with the blade next to a pipe while cutting. And several cheaper knives by prying things that I shouldn't have.


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broke the tip off one of my first cheap buck knockoffs, was trying to pry the valve cover off my accord.

other than that, just the usual dropping on the tip
 
Broke a Case Barlow cutting through a pine limb when I was a kid. Case replaced it.

Hard to remember what I have broke in general, but it has not been many. Only the Case sticks out in my memory.
 
broke the tip off of a standard steel (with serrations) Kershaw blur. I was probably prying with it, but just barely, i was STUNNED by how little force did that. didn't know they had a warranty at the time (they would replace the blade for a cheap cost) as it was a long long time ago. since then I won't buy cheep steel. anyways i threw it out back then and I now have a s30v blur in its place.
 
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Sounds like mostly broken tips from prying, which isn't that bad since you can grind it to just have a smaller blade if no warranty. Hickory n steel that does sound stupid, but kind of awesome, especially since it worked.
 
I had a cheaper bench made with assisted opening I forget the model but it was my first non Walmart knife. I figured I could take it apart and by bending the bar increase the speed or power that it deployed... Snapped it right off. I stil own it but can't carry it because the bar was the detention that kept it in the handle.
 
I was cleaning a jammed shredder in my home office. I accidentally dropped the knife and it went blade-first into the paper slot. Snapped it right in half.

It was a Leatherman Skeletool. I called Leatherman and explained the situation to them. The replaced the blade for free. I was very impressed with their customer service.
 
I blunted this the tip of a ZT by stabbing it one handed into one of those plastic clamp-packs. I should have been using scissors, as those clamp-packs are one of the worst enemies of blade edges and tips.
 
When I started buying knives my first one was a Police, I broke the tip trying to use it as a screwdriver, back then I didnt anything about knives and I remember being so pissed off that it broke trying to turn a little screw
 
I broke the tip on a Spyderco PM2 just by looking at it - Seriously I hardly used the knife and one day it was gone.
 
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I broke the tip on a Spyderco PM2 just by looking at it - Seriously I hardly used the knife and one day it was gone.
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I smell a rat. :D Somebody else liked your PM2 but didn't like it enough to pay attention on use. Things do happen or just seem to happen from time to time. Had a GLoomis fishing rod, brand new, and had used it once.... placed it in my garage and apparently it fell over there with the tip hitting the concrete floor... broke off. I was pretty peeved over the apparent durability of the rod and it was expensive.
 
exia00 said:
Sounds like mostly broken tips from prying, which isn't that bad since you can grind it to just have a smaller blade if no warranty. Hickory n steel that does sound stupid, but kind of awesome, especially since it worked.
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It didn't work though. A machete at the hardware store is what, ~$15? Everyone should own one.

Never broke a blade and I have had some accidental drops, in general though, I use a knife as intended.
 
My whittling knife when I was a tadpole of about 10 was a 3 blade stockman branded Remington with the scales gone. A handyman was trying to open the trap door to the attic and called for a knife. I proudly presented mine. He snapped off the spey blade halfway. Made it a screwdriver blade. Still have the knife.

Broke a Case XX stainless paring knife in half more recently. Paid .10 for it at a garage sale, so I can't kick.

Got really mad and upset at something and stabbed a Rada paring knife into a window sill hard as I could. Knife didn't break but took a permanent bend in the blade. Still use it with the bend more or less hammered out.
 
I broke the very tip off my new paramilitary 2 s110v cutting open a USPS box. No prying or twisting, just two straight cuts and looked at the knife and tip was gone
 
I broke a buck marksman by dropping it on the floor. Lock would not engage after that.

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