Recommendation? Messed up my knife tip

[Bisting]

I was trying to sharpen, but I messed up the tip pretty bad. Anybody know how I could fix the pattern?

https://pasteboard.co/NcWuZhwjEQIi.jpg

 

[knarfeng]

Let's try this one in the Maintenance section.

 

[fishface5]

Well you can't add steel back. If it's worth spending money on you could find someone to regrind it but it will be a bit shorter if you want it to look perfect.

 

[Arathol]

Regrind? Why? It looks like its just scratched up from using a stone on it. A bit of elbow grease, some judicious use of varying grades of fine emery paper and it will be fine....

 

[eveled]

It’s fine the way it is. Just use it.

A Arathol is correct you can make it look better maybe even get rid of it entirely with progressively finer sand paper.

 

[Fixedwing]

And just like that, I had another user.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

I'm not seeing the problem?

 

[Twindog]

Other than the over-scrapes well past the edge bevel, you did an excellent job on that tip.

Arathol's suggestion would be my second choice -- after just leaving it alone. But unless you have a fair idea of what you're doing, it would be easy to make it worse.

 

[gentleman_edc]

Buy some cheap, beater knives and keep practicing. I like old traditional in carbon steel.

You're not going to worry about an old imperial Barlow or tl-29. Or even a zombie lock back.

Oh, if it's sharp, it's good.

I love pretty knives, but you need to sharpen them. I have moved to a guided system for my fancy knives.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

As others have mentioned, you can refinish the blade, but it's really not necessary. I'd just use it as-is. There's honor in wear on a well-maintained tool.