How I Snapped A Blade

dartanyon

dartanyon

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Time to share one of those moments when ya walk round kicking everything for a week cos you snapped a blade.
One experience that frequently comes to mind goes something like this .......
While travelling round the far north Queensland here in Australia, I thought I'd impress my girlfriend while resting in a nice shady spot so I spyed a coconut up in a palm, climbed it and produced a coconut. I then unsheathed my trusty favorite 10" fixed blade knife at the time (don't remember what it was) and stabbed it into the coconut preparing to prise up a section of husk. As I levered the husk .... "snap" .... 2 inches of the blade remained in the husk. I think the look on my face must have been like I had just seen a ghost.
I still grind my teeth whenever I remember that one.
Any of you got one to share?
 
Well, similar i suppose...
On the first date with the girl I've now been married to for 6 wonderful years (and 6 out of 12 aint bad) we were sailing the Indian River where it meets the ICW in Florida and stopped on a little spit island for a picnic. I was drilling out the "eye" of a coconut with a dive knife when it slipped and sank hard into the joint of my thumb where it meets the palm. Real impressive. She bandaged it up so I wouldn't leak all over the boat (which WAS impressive) It is good to have a wife that can load and cut bandages.

The other one was once when I needed a hole in a piece of soft aluminum tube right now so I started drilling with my Buck 110. That time I sank the tip hard into the concrete...maybe 5/8" off the tip. I still have that knife and it still looks weird from the regrind I did maybe 23 years ago.
 
My favorite story is the one where I kept braggin to all my buddys on an ATV ride about my new big chopper and how well it performed and chopped.Well about 4 hours into the ride we had to chop a tree out of the road,well while chopping a soft tree a chunnk the size of a dollar came out of the blade.You should have seen my face when my buddy finished the job with a cheap wal-mart machete.Every one got a big kick out of that cept me!
 
I was witness to a sad one. Back in the seventies my buddy had a real nice Marble's hunting knife given to him by a mutual friend. It had no sheath, so he decided to make one for it that hung down extra low so he could get at it without lifting his coat. Looked great. Anyway, one day as he's getting into the passenger seat of an El Camino, the knife in it's long sheath comes to rest on the door sill. He closes the door on it and snaps the blade right in half. Boy, wasn't he some disgusted! He cussed every El Camino he saw for years afterward.:D
 
I've broken a few, but the craziest one had to be a patrol machete.
I was chopping on some pine 2X4 REALLY lightly and the blade snapped in two. I couldn't beleive it, and neither could my knife lovin' friend. He was a twenty yards away when he saw me get up and throw the blade down yelling. He thought I had cut myself, and couldn't beleive it snapped so easily. Then I told him thats why I buy Busses.:D
 
ive had a couple

the first one I was only a kid, maybe 14 and I had a £20 semi-POS with a serrated blade, kinda looked like a folding filleting knife. Anyway I carried this around allt he time and then one day my mum asked me to take the washing line down because she had brought a new one. Out came the knife and I merrily hacked into the line expecting the serrated blade to make light work of it. Then I realised it was one of those lines with a steel core. bugger.

The second one wasnt so long ago. I got a brand new mid sized fiskars axe, went on the yard to give it its first working out. I chopped a few sticks fine, went to bury it into a bit of wood while I got a drink and wham! straignt into a steel staple! To its credit it cut about 5mm into this staple but it left a small but unpleasnt dent in the blade. damn. Just to top it off I then carried on chopping just to split a stick alot easier than I anticipated and smack! straight into a brick buried into the ground under the stick!!! it took me hours to hand grind the top of the axe head back smooth again!!!
 
This one still brings a tear to my eye.

There I was in Seattle Cutlery where I was working and I had just bought myself a brand spankin new Large Sebenza. On my lunch break I was so anxious to cut something that I didn't care what.

My mouth half full of pb&j I grab the closest thing to me which happen to be a Snapple bottle. I shaved with ease a strip of label but when I got hung up on a spot of glue. I gave it a little push. It sheared the glue AND FRAGMENTED OFF THE RAISED GLASS WORD "SNAPPLE!!!! :mad:

Upon inspection of the edge I damn near choked on my sandwich. I had fractured off a 2-millimeter chip of steel. :eek:

Luckily I was able to bring it back to true after 4 hours with ceramic steel. But I still kick myself in the ass every time I think about it. :grumpy:



Beware the evil "Snapple"
 
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