How to repair some damage to my blade

Mannlicher

Mannlicher

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This morning, I loaned my Randall #11 Alaskan Skinner, to my son. His Mora knife was getting dull while skinning a deer he had just shot.
To my horror, he chopped a leg bone, instead of just disjointing it. Now I have a 'ding' on the blade. The edge is laid over in a small area.
How can I fix this? Do I need to return it to Randall?
The damaged area is where the inner circle in the picture intersects the blade.
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The most of the folded edge should move back. You might try using a piece of brass and pressing the folded against it to press it back, Have the brass (aluminum) wider than the fold and you should pull the edge up backwards (opposite of cutting motion) as up press. Might have to tap it out a bit with a brass set up to. The rest should sharpen out. Thankfully it is a rather small spot. I know on a personal quality knife any damage is painful, but this should be repairable with out lasting effects. One of the benefits of a quality knife. Is that a convex or flat grind on the bevel. If it is a flat grind all the way to the edge it would take a bit of skill to match every thing up. If convex ground or having a slight angle change it would be easier to feather it in. Of course you could always send it in. Pros and cons on it folding over. Better than a big chip. wonder what steel and hardness.

Plenty of people here with more knowledge than me and I have never had a Randal.
 
If I chopped a bone with my dad's knife, especially a thinner one, he would kick me in the balls. I have several knives that would handle that with no problem, but they are very thick knives, not thin grind, thin edge ones.
 
Deer leg bones are 7 times denser than a cow bone !! Use a saw. I would hammer out the bent section .If it breaks out just grind it out.
 
This kind of depends on the tools you have. If you're comfortable putting a new edge on it, go for it. You can always send it to Randall if that doesn't work out, and they'll spiff it up like new for you, just because they got to see it again. You cannot beat that shop.

I felt your horror, just reading that short sentence! :eek:
 
By brass set up I meant to use something like a piece brass on an heavy surface and another piece on the bent spot to keep from making ding marks no the rest of the blade. A very small headed ball shaped hammer or a punch like tool with a small face and slightly rounded shoulders would do it to. Tap it back as close to in line as possible and resharpen, till the nick is gone. The most important part is FORGIVE YOU SON. LOL
 
Following the great suggestions here, I managed to fix the ding.

I laid the blade on an anvil, and held a fairly thick round brass rod against the rolled over portion. By tapping with a light hammer, the damaged portion was straightned out.

I then worked the blade on my old Norton oil stone set, and now you can't tell it was damaged.

thanks
 
To prevent such numbskullery in the future, you should refer to Bigfatty's post. On the bright side, I did something along those lines to one of my dad's prized tools as a kid and I turned out somewhat OK:rolleyes::D
 
Used the skinner to chop a leg? :rolleyes:

That's what these are for:

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Or a saw... that would work too...

That one's done 2 deer since Saturday, so 8 legs. Glad you got the ding worked out.
 
I never really understood the need to chop or saw leg bones. They are so easy to disjoint. The only chopping or sawing I've found necessary involved splitting the pelvis and backbone if halving and quartering (usually for beef). Have done it with butcher's hack saws and sawzalls. Have a friend who said when he lived in Alaska they used chainsaws with vegetable oil for bar oil. Yikes!
 
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