Have you ever broken a knife?

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ShaiHulud

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Out of mild curiosity, have you ever broken a knife during use, and if so, what were you doing?
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Type of knife/steel
What you were doing
And how did it break?
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Only two kitchen knives. Cheap paring knife when 'ping' the blade as in two. No severe duty that I know of. One Spyderco Z-cut that seemed to have been hardened a bit too much.
 
Al Mar Pathfinder , long time ago . Blade snapped off at the hilt and went flying off into the woods .

Just normal heavy machete use , chopping some small branches and saplings . Brand new blade , lasted about 5min .

Never bought another Al Mar product .

They did send a replacement , but it is also a POS . Pretty though ! :rolleyes:
 
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Had a Spyderco Centofante III the lock failed on years ago. They replaced it with a new knife. Also had an old Benchmade 975S where the handle screws all stripped out of the liners. They remanufactured the knife by counterboring the handle for threaded inserts and stronger screws. Close to the most involved warranty repair I've ever had on something (first was Ruger replacing half of a 25yo Mark II due to a defective weld.)


bikerector said:
Yes, we had a paring knife with a defect that came apart in the handle. K sabatier elegant

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That same failure happened to me with a Wustoff paring knife. Company sent me a new one when I contacted them.
 
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I had a black glock serrated pocket knife as a kid, I want to say it had holes in the steel handle. It broke.

At least I think it was glock.
 
ABTOMAT-47 said:
Had a Spyderco Centofante III the lock failed on years ago. They replaced it with a new knife. Also had an old Benchmade 975S where the handle screws all stripped out of the liners. They remanufactured the knife by counterboring the handle for threaded inserts and stronger screws. Close to the most involved warranty repair I've ever had on something (first was Ruger replacing half of a 25yo Mark II due to a defective weld.)




That same failure happened to me with a Wustoff paring knife. Company sent me a new one when I contacted them.
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Ours was replaced through the retailer.
 
A few.

I bought a custom kukri in 8670 steel. Took it out to chop on a downed alder, just to get a feel for it. At the first chop, a big chunk of the tip flew off. There was rust in the break, so it had a pre-existing crack.

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Had a folder in M4 steel re-heat treated to 64 Rc. It broke with hand pressure.


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I also bent (half-moon in blade edge the size of half a penny) in a Cold Steel Voyager in Aus 8, while chopping small branches.
 
Mora 511 in whatever their carbon steel is. I was using a 3 pound cross pein* to baton across the grain of a piece of wood making an axe handle. Broken plenty of Leatherman tools too, not being that obviously abusive.


*Yes, alcohol was involved.
 
I broke a bunch in my younger years starting at about 7-8 going on into my teens.
Step learning curve there.
Problem is at my age now I can't really remember the details you're asking about.(:
 
Wild Willie said:
Mora 511 in whatever their carbon steel is. I was using a 3 pound cross pein* to baton across the grain of a piece of wood making an axe handle. Broken plenty of Leatherman tools too, not being that obviously abusive.


*Yes, alcohol was involved.
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Their carbon steel is UHB-20C I believe
 
I got a Buck Folding Hunter when I was about 23 (many years ago now). This specific knife was strongly recommended by the guys in my department (LEOs) and was said to be bulletproof. Having never carried anything other than small slipjoint pocket knives and some POS fixed blade camping knife, I remember an early camping trip with this knife and deciding to use it as a hammer on something. I no longer recall the details or how I didn't realize that brass wasn't great for hammering most things but I did a fair bit of damage to the bolster. I still have it buried somewhere around here but replaced it 30 or so years ago so as not to be reminded of my youthful idiocy. Never did break a knife blade, however, so I got that going for me.
 
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Deleted because my example was a quality defect I encountered, not something I broke..
 
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