Need some help with My Spyderco Native knife!!

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Only_Solo

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Hey Everybody,
Got into the back of my knife collection and found my old Spyderco knife that I've had for a long time. It was one my first favorite knives, and has alot of personal value to me. But unfortunately I was a little too rough with it when I was younger. I think I was practicing throwing my knives at the time or something :p :grumpy: So I chipped the very tip of it, And so I put it to the side for years, and never got around to fixing it.

So now I was wondering on what kind of ideas you guys' would come up with to fix it, make a different point on it, re-grind it maybe, or whatever!! I don't want to really replace it, I would consider just replace the blade, not sure how I would find just a blade though. So what do you guys' think??

I was thinking of using a dremel to re-work the tip into a tano point...

-Only_Solo-
 
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Why can't you get pics up? Is the limitation you.....or no camera or what?

We can help you get pictures up if you have them. We can also help you redo your tip.
 
Dull the blade, grind it down so that the tip meets the spine again.... unless you want to drop point it and grind the spine down to the tip.... or grind both down halfway.

It's usually more work, but easier to drop the spine, and less work, but harder to raise the edge, mainly because you run into a problem with blade shape.
 
No I have the pics, but they're on my microsoft word. I don't know how to get them up from there.
 
I thought about that, but I don't want to risk losing too much of the blade that's on it, and I don't really want to use a grinder because I don't want to mess up the temper in the blade.
 
If I were you. I'd use a file to bring the spine down to the edge then sharpen the edge. If you want it to look nice you can use sand paper to polish out the marks from the file. You can buy a good Nicholson file on line for less than $10 shipped
 
Just a thought. Have you thought of sending it to Spyderco for a regrind? It wouldn't be free, but it is worth considering. I'd get in touch with them first to see 1- if they will do it, and 2- what they would charge for it. Not as cheap as doing it yourself, but a very sharp answer. (Pun intended)

Chris
 
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Here's one I did on my girlfriend's Native after she broke off the tip. About five minutes on the Dremel and I ended up with this (see top knife). Works great and can really spread the peanut butter now!
 

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I would use a belt sander to fix this. A 1X30" sander will let you reshape the edge without overheating the steel.
If you want to get a cheap one, there is always Harbor Freight. I use a Delta for this and for sharpening.
 
I would bring the spine down to the tip, with a file. No power tools; too easy to go too far. Also, this will help you avoid having to completely re-grind the edge, which you'd have to do if you brought the edge up to meet the spine.
 
Matador said:
Here's one I did on my girlfriend's Native after she broke off the tip. About five minutes on the Dremel and I ended up with this (see top knife). Works great and can really spread the peanut butter now!
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Thats probably what I am gonna do, is use a dremel. But I'm gonna try to put some sort of tanto point instead.

I wish I could get pics up, myne is chipped about that far down the blade to.
 
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