Have you ever broken a knife?

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I thought this would be an interesting thread to start. Who has actually broken a knife? either a fixed blade or a folder. Please list the Model of the knife, its age and condition when broken. As well as any reasons you can think of as to how it may have broke. Just want to know which knives cant take it :)
 
Sure, before I started buying good knives I broke a few knives. All of them were cheap imported garbage, and when pushed the slightest bit the blades broke to pieces. I also broke a swiss army knife while using it in place of a crow bar.


Erik
 
I broke a fillet knife cutting up a grey whale once. The bones were being salvaged to put in a museum. The reason it broke? Well,...fillet knives aren't made to cut up whales, I guess.
 
I broke a CRKT Stiff KISS once while I was building a patio.

It was an almost new knife in what appeared to be new condition when I started the project.

The nature of the failure was a a large, distinct crack in the blade; along with major edge damage throught the knife. I believe particles of the material I was cutting were actually embedded in the edge several milimeters.

In all fairness this was not unexpected, as I was using the knife in conjunction with a baseball bat for the purpose of splitting industrial cinder blocks. I would have been astonished if the KISS, or any knife for that matter, would hold up to this for very long.
 
I broke a Case folder a few years back (I don't remember which model it was). I was prying with it, and the blade I was using snapped close to the pivot. This was not a quality knife, but what I was doing with it clearly constitutes abuse.
 
Hello folks,

I tend to break a knife of every new steel or HT-ing method.. just to see what it can take. I've been most impressed by 5160 differentially HT'ed.. a 10 inch knife but thin (under 1/8) can go like 180 degrees and end up with a minor bend in the blade like 5 degree.

Greetz and take care, Bart.
 
Schrade LB7 bear paw.Snapped in half when I couldnt push through the cedder shake any more after a few times,when making kindling.So I picked up a fist sized rock an tapped the back of the blade.With a sickining (tink)it was in two pieces,about 2 inches on the ground the rest in my hand.This was in the mid 70's and at $27.00 and almost new it really suprised me,and stopped me from buying any more pricey knifes for a while.Oh well live and learn.Now I make my own knifes and use S30V and if I was stuppid enough to hit it with a rock it probably wouldnt break but I dont want to find out that bad.
 
Years ago, I snapped the blade of a small Buck slipjoint, passed down from my father, attempting a seemingly safe task. Sad. Many, many years ago, I melted part of the blade of a Case folder after running over an electric lawnmower cord and slicing into it with the Case before unplugging the cord. Not proper splicing technique, even for a pre-teen. It knocked me down. Probably more absent-minded than dumb, but the evidence doesn't lie.
 
Other than the few tips I've snapped off using my knife as a screwdriver:eek: , or pry bar:eek: , the only knife of merit that broke was my Spydeco Centofante it was about 2years old it was my EDC while I was traveling,(no one looked twice at it on the planes back then):mad:. I was cutting some very hard cheddar cheese:eek: back then
and it snapped right at the spyder hole. I chalked it up to not enough steel on either side of the hole, and maybe the blade was a little to brittle for it's design. I mean it should at least be able to cut the cheese.:rolleyes: :D
 
Originally posted by Mongo
Wow! That must have been some really HARD Cheese!:eek:
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I think it was sharp cheddar:D

It was real old cheese, after I threw it out for the birds it stayed in the yard for a couple of days the animals wouldn't even touch it.
 
I once broke a high-carbon knife with a stick tang and a plastic grip :D. It broke at the choil, so I kept using the actual blade..until it broke again, and again...I think it was made in Taiwan.."NATO" quality
 
Cold Steel's Hocho cutting sweet potatoes.. Can you believe this? :eek:

Sam
 
Broke a flea market bowie knife when I tried to stab it through a steel door. The last inch or so of the tip was bent into a U shape, and snapped when I tried to straighten it out. It made it through a car fender fine though. Snapped off the tip of my mini AFCK prying something, and messed it up more when I dropped it on pavement. Snapped off the very tip of my BM 855 prying a rubber plug off my bike. Ruined a ton of edges from cutting metal objects.
 
I bent the tip of my SAK type Boy Scout knife when I was a kid, bent it back with a rock...still good as almost new ;) .

While I am on the subject of Boy Scout SAK's I knew a kid named Logan, not the sharpest tool in the shed, that decided his knife was good for throwing. :rolleyes:
He tryed it by standing 5-6 feet from a tree and thowing by holding the blade. The first two attempts the knife bounced off the tree and landed near by, the third attempt he threw the knife really hard...just to make sure he was doing it right. The knife bounced off the tree and hit him in the belly, after a trip to the hospital and 11 stitches in the gut he learned not to throw knives that arnt meant to be thrown. :rolleyes:
 
Fishbulb,

Maybe we should give you the title "Honorary Cliff Stamp".

Hammering a knife into a CINDER BLOCK???

The poor thing.

My experiences with breaking knives:

Uh, I used a SAK main blade as a flat screwdriver and managed to tear out a chunk from the front of the belly... that's about it. Most of the time, envelopes don't fight as hard as cheddar cheese.

-Jon
 
SamuraiDave: that was too good to be true... please tell me it's not true.....
 
Broke the tip off of a Buck 110 opening clams. Not an intended use. Buck replaced it at no cost.
 
Snapped the point off a Buck 110 folder on a fresh apple once. Cut...cut...and the last move was little twist to pop the two halves apart...Ground the back down to meet the new point, Some of the hardest steel I ever saw..this was back in the mid 70's. Still lives to this day in my box of "Knives I had to have but found something better" Realistically, Its heavy as a brick but still a fine knife...
 
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