Let's hear your stories of accidental edge destruction.

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Howdy folks!

Got my Sebenza all sharpened up, and have been thinking about knives more lately. :D

Let's hear your stories about when you were using your knife normally, and totally annihilated the edge by mistake.

I'll begin.
Last week, I think Sunday.
I was over at a friends house and I had to cut a hose.
The hose was the vent hose for a gas tank on the truck I'm building.
Nothing major, I thought.
I had my Sebenza.
So I cut through the filler hose, no issues.
Now for the afformentioned vent hose.
I began trying to slice it.
Nope.
So I sawed at it.
Nope.
So I poked the tip through, which was REALLY hard. I figured the hose was just dried up.
Now that I had a hole started, I began sawing at it again, pushing with all my might.
Nope.
And then, I saw it. Metal.
There were metal wires in the hose!
Wanna talk about dull? I could saw it back and forth with pressure on my arm and it wouldn't even scratch.
Took me about 45 minutes to fix it.

Now, its your turn. What's your big edge-oops?
 
I was shaping a hatchet handle, using various tools as well as my go to wood knife ( a late 60's western f48a ) and I sorta slipped and it went right across my vise.
Luckily it's 1095cv and was an easy edge to restore.
 
Wasn't by me, but I'll play along.

My grandfather and I were fishing at our secret spot on the riverbank. Lots of big old catfish lie in there all day long just waiting for food to float in front of their face. We had bought some frozen squid before heading over (ground was too hard to dig for worms like we usually do). Pop had forgotten his knife, and I gladly supplied him my BM 551. Nothing special, just what I had on me at the time. Not thinking anything of it I turned around and cast out. A few seconds later, I heard that awful sound. *wschhttttt* I turned around and he was cutting the squid on a big old rock he found. Being 77, I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't just a cheap Walmart knife like he carries around for a couple weeks then buys a new one. I turned back around, bit my tongue, and fished on. Didn't take long to get back since it's 154CM and I have the Edge Pro Apex. The edge may be better, but the nightmares live on... ;)
 
Ouch! ^^

Zip ties with the metal strip inside.. made that mistake a few times. Probably happen again.
 
On accident??? Hell, I ruin my edges on purpose:D Every blade I own has a few chips on the edge, except for my Rocksteads...those get used a little "less hard" due to the grind being a PITA to sharpen/reprofile.
 
Not really an accident but my goal wasn't destruction. I was out planting a few potatoes by a shelter I made and had no shovel. No fear I had my delica. Made a decent spade. Was pretty dull when I got home but I wasn't sad bout it because it's just a dull edge easy fix


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I was helping butcher an elk. We were in this guy's back yard, and we took a group of scouts to go get their hands bloody, and learn.

I had a couple Busse knives. We were butchering on concrete tables with some butcher paper, with some cardboard underneath.
I let another guy try one of the Busse. I started heating regular loud thunks. I turn around and this guy 's chopping meat. Directly on the butcher paper laid on a rough concrete table. Edge looked like he had been chopping concrete... because he had.



The damage was pretty minimal. No edge chiping, just a very blunt edge, with a few micro dents.

It did give me a good reason to reprofile.

Luckily was able to catch the guy before he used the pull through carbide sharpeners.
 
Used the back of my mini Ritter to pry some spent brass out of a picnic table. In my sleep-deprived state I thought it was a good idea. Somehow I managed to chip the blade in multiple locations in the process.
 
I'll play!!
I have a small HVAC company and was running some flex duct in an attic. Flex duct has a small steel spring inside so it holds its shape. I use a long bladed utility knife. Blade snapped, didn't want to go to the truck for another.....used a PM2 I had JUST got a perfect edge on....s110v....butter knife in under a minute!
Joe
 
Caught a few fish and was cleaning up the boat. Girlfriend volunteered to clean fish. Great! I thought. Had a piece of plywood on an old concrete table. Nice fish cleaning station. If you use the plywood. I'm cleaning the boat and not paying attention until she says "Baby? Can you come sharpen the knife? It's not cutting too good."
 
When I was working at a doctor's office we used to get various presents from the specialists we referred to. One of them sent us a box of very nice candy, but it was tied up tightly with ribbon. Well, being the resident knife guy it was immediately handed to me. I pulled out my trusty 710 in M390 and went to slice it. Took a LOT more effort than I expected, but I was thinking about candy and thus distracted. Turns out there were two strands of wire running through the ribbon. Edge completely dulled.
 
Lent my 0560 to my dad to open a big package and he said it could barely get through the tape. I don't know what kind of tape it was but it turns out to be reinforced with fiberglass. Edge was chipped over half the way up to the bevel in some spots and I spent four hours getting all but a few chips out.
 
Blues Bender said:
On accident??? Hell, I ruin my edges on purpose:D Every blade I own has a few chips on the edge, except for my Rocksteads...those get used a little "less hard" due to the grind being a PITA to sharpen/reprofile.
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Well I believe we need pictures!
Thanks for the "fun" stories folks! Keep em coming!
 
Had to cut the plastic wheel well off my car, it was hung up at ONE corner and since it had gone from slicing through like butter to deflecting the entire car I took a look and found the last corner was bolted on by a quarter of inch bolt. Lucky I was push cutting and the S30V was tough enough not to chip, but man I would have wasted a lot of metal grinding the dent out.

Did something similar with my Izula trying to shave down a table where staples and splintered up the wood. Turns out one of the spinners was the steel end of a staple thst broke off and was jutting out. Once again, a dent as deep as the marianas.

Only other time was as a kid, had a cheap 420JS dagger and started prying at a 2x4 nailed to another. Was looking away as I pried, and felt this tremendous pull and movement and as I looked up expecting to see the 2x4 pulled free with nails sticking out, instead I looked up to see my knife at a right angle.
 
Had a nice old Dexter Russell butcher knife that was our go-to knife for everything in the kitchen for several years; it was my wife's favorite knife. Sometime around 1997, I decided to chop the branches off our Christmas tree and dispose of it. Chipped several dime-sized chunks out of the blade before I realized what I'd done.

My wife still reminds me of that stunt. I think she's still mad.

~Chris
 
I'll throw another out just for fun!

My buddy and I were dove hunting last fall at my dad's farm. It was around mid afternoon so they hadn't been coming more than a slow trickle yet. We were sitting under the shade propped up chewing the fat. He pop's out his ESEE 4 (I was a knife noob at this point) and we started throwing it at an old wood pallet. It did well, stuck some and bounced off others, but that was from our inexperience rather than the knife. Finally, I threw it and it stuck. I walked over and pulled it out and saw that about an inch back from the top there were 2 huge dents in the edge, both at least a quarter centimeter in depth. We figured that it must've hit a nail. Took about an hour on the EPA and they're still there, but I'm afraid to remove much more metal for fear of reprofiling it too much.
 
I was removing one of my son's Christmas toys from the packaging using a D2 Griptilian. What I thought were just plastic twist ties turned out to have wire inside. Instant chips on the blade edge...


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Circa 1987?? I had a very new, the dogs dangles, Cold Steel Master Tanto in San Mai and tried to cut trip wire; military trip wire. Could it? Could it F. That wire could put a dent in carbide.

Had once the Gerber Guardian boot knife when a young teen. Thought it must be fantastic, all the reviews said so. Tried to throw it into an old door and it snapped. A lot of blades snap if you throw them into wood. Reviews never tell you that.

Another dogs dangles Al Mar Pathfinder big chopper. Cost a bomb. Broke that.

For me its chisels.. hitting nails when there shouldn't be any there.
 
Not edge, but hopefully the tip counts?

Broke the tip off of my El Patron in 3V by dropping it in the bathroom sink while I was washing it.

Ceramic should only be used to sharpen steel!

Took a few minutes on the stones to fix.

I now wash dirty knives in my kitchen sink!!......
 
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