How much can 154cm take before it chips

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I want to know How much can 154cm take before it chips. I went up to the woods yesterday with my benchmade 710. I was cutting branches and stuff. Things like brush. Not like cutting trees down or anything like that. Just to get a feel for the knife. When i come home the whole endge of the knife was chipped. All I did was cut some wood. the blade did come with an origional dull blade. Why did it chip so easya nd is 154cm prone to this.
 
5022 said:
I was cutting branches and stuff. Things like brush. Not like cutting trees down or anything like that. Just to get a feel for the knife. When i come home the whole endge of the knife was chipped.
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Large enough so that you could see it or just feel it?

All I did was cut some wood. the blade did come with an origional dull blade.
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What does "origional dull blade" mean?

Why did it chip so easy ...
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Possibilities :

- you were cutting iron wood
- the wood had thick bark and it was contaminated with dirt
- the heat treat was faulty
- the sharpening was off, left a huge burr

... is 154cm prone to this.
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Nothing is that fragile on normal clean wood in such a small knife.

-Cliff
 
Ok, that is huge, you can eliminate the iron wood and initial sharpening possibilities.

-Cliff
 
Wow.. that is pretty bad.. how did you sharpen it? looks like the heat treat is not working like it should .. If you use a dremal or grinder on a blade the heat treat tends to fail .. just wondering ..
 
Wow. I'm surprised it chipped so badly. I've cut gravel ridden sod with a Schrade SwitchIt and had less damage.
 
It came pretty dull from benchmade. I took it right out not relaly worrying. Came home and it was like this. Just chipped. All i cit were branches and paper. Nothing else.

I then used a sharpmaker to try to take out the roughness of the chips from the sides of the bevel. It didnt add to the chipping. I paid close attention to them.
 
Contact benchmade, email them the pic. They were fairly responsive when I asked them a few questions last week.

-Cliff
 
Cliff I was biliding one of those houses that you made. lol In a public park
 
Yeah that probably won't go over too well. It is pretty difficult to practive large scale bushcraft in an urban enviroment. You can do most things like small traps and so on, but full scale shelters are problematic because you simply don't have access to enough wood. Of course in an urban enviroment you don't usually build all wood shelters anyway, you should always use materials that you have on hand.

-Cliff
 
Well we didnt get that far. the whole being eaten alive my bugs, expecially mosquitoes. made us leave.
 
The flies are starting to come out around here now as the temp is starting to rise, they usually don't bother me that much though.

-Cliff
 
I got an email from this benchmade guy saying sicne I used the knife and it chipped its not covered by warrenty.

Ive never heard so much bullshit in my entire life.


Honestly I will never buy another benchmade again.
 
5022 said:
I got an email from this benchmade guy saying sicne I used the knife and it chipped its not covered by warrenty.

Ive never heard so much bullshit in my entire life.


Honestly I will never buy another benchmade again.
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You're full of sh*t Vinny. Just stop cutting metal coathangers with your knives, it will solve all your problems. :p
 
Lil Timmy said:
You're full of sh*t Vinny. Just stop cutting metal coathangers with your knives, it will solve all your problems. :p
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wtf are you talking about. yeah did that with the 705, but it chipped the D2. So why the hell would i make the mistake again.




and this time 35 posts. K thx
 
5022 said:
I got an email from this benchmade guy saying sicne I used the knife and it chipped its not covered by warrenty.
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Did they say why it wasn't covered, was it because of the type of use?

As a solution, it may be that only the metal on the very edge is blown. You could try removing it and resetting the edge and seeing if it still chips out.

However without power equipment you are looking at probably a half an hour of heavy grinding with a x-coarse stone, and it is not going to be trivial with the recurve. Of course Benchmade should cover it, but that is an option if they don't.

The also have a forum, or used to anyway, so you could post there, that way it would be a matter of public record, as I would be interested in why they would not stand up against such poor performance.

By the way, coathangers would not do that to the knife. The chips are too angular and too small.

-Cliff
 
Thanks of the recommendation cliff.

I just have to think about it. Im going to send it in to benchmade. They can do with it what they want. if they dont want to help me then, They can justs end them back and Il move from there.



Timmy, this is a coat hanger chip

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If you do return it, include in the note a reference to this thread and update this when you hear from them.

-Cliff
 
5022 said:
wtf are you talking about. yeah did that with the 705, but it chipped the D2. So why the hell would i make the mistake again.




and this time 35 posts. K thx
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So you are saying wood alone did that to your knife? Regardless of how you actually chipped it, if you send it in they will resharpen it.
 
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