New Military tip is very fragile..be careful.

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I was using the tip of my new S30V Military to scratch the top of a piece of wood and a tiny bit of the tip broke off!! I ended up using a diamond hone to reshape the tip a bit, but it still doesn't have that "needle like" tip when it was new. I'm thinking about sending it to Spyderco and letting them resharpen it...hoping this will correct the problem. (Anyone have experience with this?)

So, if you have a new Military, be careful with the tip. The needle tip is useful, but kind of fragile.
 
i have my s30v only a short while, but i'm merely waiting for it to loose its tip.......*sigh*, if only they could make the blade(-tip) stronger, then the military would have been "all that", but the trust is just not there. quite often i think it's because of this CPM-steel, i don't like it. before the new one, i had the cpm440v-version and the tip was gone in no time.

come to think of it.......of all my knives, the only knives that have broken tips are spydies.....: my police also lost its tip within a week,......my brother's delica also snapped after a couple of weeks use, both knives are VG-10. hmm,.....maybe spyderco should change to spear-points instead of the pointy triangle-design?

curious to hear if other people have the same thing with, especially, spyderco's.....
 
Thanks for the heads up guys. I was planning to buy a Military tomorrow. Now I'll just wait it out to see if there are any fixes or if Spyderco has any input on this matter.
 
spydies are not designed for prying, typically-though i wouldn't fear too much with my old dragonfly.

that said, my merlin had an astounding tip that i rounded off a little bit not long after acquisition (i think i was attacking a power supply that blew up (actually made a loud bang from a cap blowing) in my pc). still a very solid implement, though i'd love to be able to get that absurd tip back on it.
 
Yup, same thing happened to me. Can't say that's going to discourage me from getting another Military, though - maybe a black bladed plain-edged one, if it ever comes out.

The tip on the military beats the one on the Ronin. That one is ultra-fine. I bent it just putting it back in the kydex sheath!
 
I have used my s3-v Military everyday for close to a year.Its tip gets hit against hard plastic every night and its still as pointy as ever.
 
Never broke a point either, especially can't see this happening on S30V. What the heck are you guys doing? Makes for an awefully expensive scaper or screwdriver. Buy the right tool for the right job as my ol' grandpappy used to say.
 
I have lots of Spydie's and they get used and none have lost their tips.
 
It's funny but many tools including knives are usually used in place of a common tool that hardly anyone carries. A prybar.
 
None of my Spydies are tip-less. You guys must just be too darn hard on your knives.:).
 
Time to try the Lum Tanto Folder. I'd like to see someone break the tip off that model - even if it was used for prying.

p.s. I don't pry with knife tips so I haven't broken any - but my wife does use table knives as screwdrivers so lots of them have those odd little twisted tips.
 
Wives and knives,all the kitchen knives have bent or broken tips.
 
I'm not even gonna' touch this thread. Lets just say that I use my Military for cutting things.
 
mine broke off as well, but ti still doesnt change the way I use it or abuse it. It still punctures what ever I stab, from boxes to crates. I am going to hone it down a tad, but it is still very pointy!!

Garrett
 
Counting my current S30V Military, I've had/carried four different Millies and have NEVER had any problems with the tip breaking on ANY of them.

I accidentally scraped a piece of galvanized steel with just the tip of my S30V Millie, when I was cutting some rope at work, and the tip came out unscathed. No damage whatsoever to the tip, however, there was a small groove, that was deep enough for my nail to get caught in, that was left on the gsteel. :eek: :cool:
 
Carried my Millie for a couple years (440V PE) and no problems either. Take Care!!!
 
Hello,
First post since having to re-register after the server crash. :hello:

I just wanted to put my 2 cents about my experience in here. I chipped the last 0.030" or so of the tip off of my new black bladed S30V Military this past weekend. :(

I wasn't abusing it either. (you'll have to believe me on that I guess ;)) I was in the process of cutting out a coupon for my wife at a specialty foods store. The flyer they send out every month with the coupons is a card stock about the same weight as most 3x5 notecards, so it's not just thin flimsy paper.

The flyer I was cutting the coupon from was flat on the check writing platform, and I had two sides cut already and was just starting the cut on the third side. I was holding the knife like you do when you're doing delicate work with them (choked up holding the blade itself), and the the tip just collapsed and went flying. It made an audible ping when it snapped, enough that my wife asked me what that "noise" was.

I wasn't putting much, if any downward pressure on the tip, because I was pulling the knife toward me through the paper once it had penetrated at the beginning of the cut. The only thing I can figure is that I must have been pushing the blade slightly sideways, but I am still surprised it broke like this being that it is made from S30V. The shear line does match the scratch pattern (which seems pretty rough to me) from the factory edge on BOTH sides, so maybe the deep scratches from their sharpeners created a stress point? I don't know.

I'd probably just reprofile the tip myself if it wasn't for the fact that this is a black DLC coated blade, and I don't want to screw the coating up.

It's off to it's birthplace to be fixed I guess...
 
:eek:

Rediculous.

:mad:

I ues my knives. I mean really USE them. Hope nothing like that happens to my military.

Good luck getting it fixed.
 
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