Knives truly at the end of their careers?

Hashishiin

Hashishiin

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I am looking for Buck 110s and 119s sharpened to a stick, liner-locks that wiggle due to time and use, whatever a Benchmade looks like after many years of hard and vigorous use. I want to see what these look like, knives sheerly beat out through the years, not due to any poor construction, and not wholly due to a single abusive task, but rather, truly worn out knives.

I feel like this is a hard task to accomplish, but if it is done anywhere, it may be done here. How far can you take a knife before it is gone?
 
Hashishiin said:
I am looking for Buck 110s and 119s sharpened to a stick, liner-locks that wiggle due to time and use, whatever a Benchmade looks like after many years of hard and vigorous use. I want to see what these look like, knives sheerly beat out through the years, not due to any poor construction, and not wholly due to a single abusive task, but rather, truly worn out knives.

I feel like this is a hard task to accomplish, but if it is done anywhere, it may be done here. How far can you take a knife before it is gone?
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All my knifes go to The Danger Zone.
 
This is a benchmade auto that my brother in law sent me. He found it in Afghanistan. It no longer locked, wouldn’t stay closed, wouldn’t lock open. The lock button was all jacked up. I sent it to BM and they got it working right again. I asked them not to touch its aesthetics. This knife served someone who served their time and I keep it and let it rest in honor of whoever it belonged to before. I know it’s not as used and beat up as some, but it was used to a point it didn’t work right any more.

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Wow! That is awesome, my favorite Benchmade "look" is actually these shape of blade, the drop-point, between this and an Adamas, DLC, with the DLC scratched and worn. Fantastic looking knife!

To the thread, knives that have travelled/seen service are also great contenders for this thread, it doesn't have to be completely not working to be a contender.
 
SVTFreak said:
This is a benchmade auto that my brother in law sent me. He found it in Afghanistan. It no longer locked, wouldn’t stay closed, wouldn’t lock open. The lock button was all jacked up. I sent it to BM and they got it working right again. I asked them not to touch its aesthetics. This knife served someone who served their time and I keep it and let it rest in honor of whoever it belonged to before. I know it’s not as used and beat up as some, but it was used to a point it didn’t work right any more.

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Heck, that knife's just gettin' broken in. Plenty of decades of service left in it. :)

Props to Benchmade for bringing it back to life.
 
This old Buck 560 had been used & "sharpened" quite a bit before a new blade brought it back to life:

Photos - Buck 560 reblade

Just used my last Buck 110 blade on an old & worn Buck 560 from a friend of mine. Had to use the old backspring as i'm all out of new ones, but luckily i still had a new blade, a pivot pin, and a bronze bushing. The new pivot pin wasn't riveted with a hammer, but pressed using a vise and a...
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Hashishiin said:
I am looking for Buck 110s and 119s sharpened to a stick, liner-locks that wiggle due to time and use, whatever a Benchmade looks like after many years of hard and vigorous use. I want to see what these look like, knives sheerly beat out through the years, not due to any poor construction, and not wholly due to a single abusive task, but rather, truly worn out knives.

I feel like this is a hard task to accomplish, but if it is done anywhere, it may be done here. How far can you take a knife before it is gone?
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Kidding aside, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. There’s so many variables to consider that there isn’t likely to be a clear cut answer for every case. Blade height, type of grind, frequency of usage, etc. For one well made knife, it may take years of the use-dull-sharpen cycle. Cheaper knives with inferior blade quality may “disappear” faster than that. If you rotate between multiple knives and don’t use them to the redline, I think there will still be plenty of blade left to serve your grandkids. Just from a layman, non-engineer’s perspective. 😅
 
Sound words, I'm not worried about it though, I just want to see knives that have been taken to the brink, or carried for decades. I intend to maintain my stuff on strops and the SM for max edge life, though!
 
No surprises here.
How many of us are still as capable as we once were?
Stuff wears out: good stuff gets refurbished.
 
jfk1110 said:
AntDog AntDog sere 2 K time brother!!!! Since its retired!!!!
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Happy to oblige!





This one’s retired too. Got a pronounced recurve and the bevel’s very thick from sharpenings. This was the only knife I used for many years in my early 20s.



ETA - the wear on the Sere is evident in these pictures. This is mine with about 16 years of carry and use next to my buddy’s that was practically new at the time.



 
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This is the only knife I have ever "worn out". It is a little Valor brand lock back that I bought back in around 1981 when I was 11. I carried it for years, used it a lot, so much that the lock wore out. The little hook part of the lock that hooks onto the blade tang wore down, so now it's a slipjoint.

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This is absolutely awesome! eveled eveled , those Bucks are the most worn down I have ever seen, nice! Are they that size because they snapped off and were re-ground by Buck, or were they worn down to that extent?

Crazy, even a lot of the retired, recurved knives, like AntDog AntDog 's Ontario, look like they could still serve for years if you still chose. Same with that kitchen knife in the post right above mine, looks like that's still a good tool with lots of life left!
 
This Kutmaster has been around the block a few times. The knife side scale was split and about to fall off. Thus the repair that I'm sure all will agree is a thing of rare and distinct beauty, showcasing my skills.

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