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I Decided to chop up a a pretty decent sized piece of fat wood today with the WWII and after I had done a fair amount of chopping I noticed the edge was rolled pretty badly in one spot.

This is the first time its happened to me. I know what I was chopping was hard but this was unexpected. I wasnt paying attention really so i realize it probably got worse as I continued hacking away but

How do you usually go about repairing this?

Is the spot now more likely to roll again?

Was the large fat wood log just too hard or Is this just something that can happen no matter what your chopping?
 
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Can you post a photo?

If you have a vice/anvil lay your kukri blade edge on it and gently tap the roll straight with a round ball peen hammer. Then you can use sandpaper to even the finish back out.
 
Yeah a pic would be the first thing I'd like to see before advising a repair. Sometimes a roll needs to be tapped out. Sometimes it just needs a sharpening to remove the softer steel left over from the finishing process. Sometimes it needs to go back tp Yangdu.
 
Thanks for the advice. I took my hammer and tapped the edge back into place and sharpened it up,. There is some slight metal loss, so the blade is a little uneven but its center again. Its barely noticeable though. I was not able to take pictures unfortunately, no camera on hand right this minute. And i bought this one second hand, so sending it back isn't an option. It was definitely a pretty significant rolling of the edge though so sharpening alone would not have fixed it.

My main concerns is it happening again in the same spot or on one of my other choppers that i planned on using at some point. I assumed they would be able to handle anything as long as it wasn't metal or stone. So i just wanted to see how everyone else treats these kinds of things. Is this something i need to always be watching out for or should i not be concerned / worried about it?
 
I have a thin, light WWII and it rolled when it was new. After I tapped it back and sharpened it up its been great.
 
What part of the edge rolled (tip, sweet spot, bell, etc?)
How wide and how deep was the roll?

It sounds like you took care of it very well:) However with a little more info, we might be able to address what happened, why it happened, and if it might happen again.
 
Well I'm not sure exactly if I'm describing it correctly but it was what i would call the belly of the blade, more towards the tip. The part where it 'bells' out and is the widest fattest part of the blade but more towards the tip. It was about a 1/4" (or slightly larger) section of blade rolled over approximately 1/4". I'm going to try to get a picture to show exactly where.

Where is the sweet spot usually? (i realize it probably varies slightly from blade to blade) Maybe I'm not hitting with the right spot, but it was definitely on the beefier part of the blade.

I also believe it wouldn't have rolled so much if i had noticed it right away, but like i said i had no idea it could happen doing what i was doing. I have been using it all morning today. I even took it to the same piece of wood and it rolled barely in one spot, close to where it happened before. but i fixed it immediately and went back to it.

The only thing i can think is the hardened resin in the log is just that hard, and i need to be more careful. Or i am chopping incorrectly. I also understand that the WWII isn't the BEEFIEST chopper of the bunch.
 
It could be a number of things. Usually the sweer spot is 2 or 3"of back from the tip. It may be that the edge needs to be convexed into a beefier edge. The WWII sometimes comes with a thinner edge and that fatwood can get REALLY hard.
 
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