I just bought a Kershaw Rogue...

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My first nice knife... Only others are cheapy no-names and a lockback Schrade... Was swinging it around all day yesterday, cutting leaves and bushes and the like... Looked down at my knife today and noticed two small knicks in it... one a half cm or so up from the tip, and the other right above the serration by the handle. They look like it was opened up into a dime or the like, very small indents but they are indents into the working edge none-the-less. Is it possible to get those sharpened back up? I'm pretty disappointed in myself here lol :grumpy:
 
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First, welcome! Second, good choice on a Kershaw. Third, yes you can get those sharpened back up. Does your blade have the black coating? If so, that might get scratched up trying to clean the edge up.
 
Thank you for the fast response, a little relieved now haha... And no, mine is the silvery satin finish and not the matte black, I'm too OCD to get a finish like that... One of my old roommates had both a Infidel and an Executive Scarab (the reason I wanted an automatic!) and both had that same matte black coating and left little surface scratches all over, kinda steered me away from the black finish.
 
I like the way you think! Look up some sharpening threads in Maintenance, Tinkering, and Embellishment and you should be able to find more than enough to help you get it sharper than it came in the first place.
 
Kk, thank you for the assistance!... one last question. Am I free to just keep popping it open and closing it? Or will doing that however many times eventually wear down the opening mechanism, and I should only open it when I need to?
 
I believe mechanisms are made to be used. It will wear out faster than if you only open it when necessary, but that doesn't mean it will wear out too fast. I'd say have as much fun with it as you can, when you start getting more knives you'll stop opening that one as often anyways. I've played with the same knives for months, flipping them open dozens of times a day and I haven't had one of those fail on me yet.
 
so... friend opened it, and it flung out of his hand onto concrete... The tip is bent very slightly on one half of the grind, and now there are bites all up and down the blade... The handle also has some unsightly dings, its black anodized aluminum and I don't know what to do to make it look less shiny where it scratched through in contrast to the black... I live next to Kershaw in Oregon, can I just take it down there, and will they be able to make it straight and get the bites out?
 
I guess its not bent, it's rolled according to what I've been reading... I can't get any pictures of it, been trying. Super butthurt right now, wont even pass the paper test and its a day old lol
 
Take it over to Kershaw and let them sharpen it they will put it right, no charge.
 
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