San Mai TS chipped.

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Mokes

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New guy here.

My boss, who is a pretty awesome guy gave me a San Mai TS last night as a gift. I do love the knife, but today while taking the "spoon challenge" in the Wilderness forums, my blade was hit by a piece of firewood that was standing on it's end. The wood struck the blade, and the knife kinda flipped over on my garage floor. (I had it laying there like a dummy)

The result was this chipping. Is this a hard blade to sharpen? I sent an e-mail off to CS regarding this and the shocking brittleness of the blade? Maybe that is normal if the blade hits concrete? I though I could stab this baby into car hoods though? :confused:

Can I sharpen this with 2000 grit and a mousepad? Hate to have to send it back to CS and wait.

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The VG-1 core can easily be smoothed out with the Spyderco Sharpmaker's grey ceramic stones. If you have it, I'd say try that first.
Stone, concrete and rock are way harder than the metal of a car hood. ;) I think the edge of most knives would suffer some type of damage from hitting concrete at some speed.
 
philwar said:
The VG-1 core can easily be smoothed out with the Spyderco Sharpmaker's grey ceramic stones. If you have it, I'd say try that first.
Stone, concrete and rock are way harder than the metal of a car hood. ;) I think the edge of most knives would suffer some type of damage from hitting concrete at some speed.
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Ok.....I was just surprised because the knife basically just flipped over, it didn't fall from any height. I will just be much more careful. I'm sure I can fix this on my own.

Not sure I like this whole convex thing. I guess I need to learn to sharpen a blade like this though.
 
Mokes said:
Ok.....I was just surprised because the knife basically just flipped over, it didn't fall from any height. I will just be much more careful. I'm sure I can fix this on my own.

Not sure I like this whole convex thing. I guess I need to learn to sharpen a blade like this though.
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It doesn't take much to do that kind of damage to almost any blade on concrete, stone, or even ceramic dishes. Just cutting a steak on a ceramic dish could flatten out the edge. Dropping the knife from just an inch or two onto concrete would do the kind of damage shown in the picture.

EDITED TO ADD: Also, you should be able to use sandpaper and a mousepad to fix this. You may need to start with a lower grit than 2000. I start with 400 on a blade in that shap. 250 on a really chewed blade. Then it goes 600, 1500, leather strop with chromium oxide for a razor sharp finish. YMMV
 
Kbrasmodeler said:
It doesn't take much to do that kind of damage to almost any blade on concrete, stone, or even ceramic dishes. Just cutting a steak on a ceramic dish could flatten out the edge. Dropping the knife from just an inch or two onto concrete would do the kind of damage shown in the picture.

EDITED TO ADD: Also, you should be able to use sandpaper and a mousepad to fix this. You may need to start with a lower grit than 2000. I start with 400 on a blade in that shap. 250 on a really chewed blade. Then it goes 600, 1500, leather strop with chromium oxide for a razor sharp finish. YMMV
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Thank you! I will have to figure out where to buy the things I need for this and I did see a good video regarding how to sharpen a Convex blade on You Tube. Guess it could be worse. Live and learn.

Thanks again guys!:thumbup:
 
Yeah, start with 400 grit, save the 1000-2000 for a final polish on the blade.
 
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