Slight chipping on my Griptilian?

Ludwig

Ludwig

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So I was cutting some boxes in my garage today, and I let my Grippie (154CM) slip and ding the edge on the floor :(

Anyway, there's some very light chipping on the top half-inch of the edge. Can I take this out with the Sharpmaker? Or do I need another plan?

Thanks
 
clear your calendar if you want to try with the sharpmaker. otherwise, get a coarse stone, you can pick up a Norton double sided silicon carbide stone for a few bucks at Home Depot and the like.
 
I've removed small chips with a Sharpmaker from several knives using the medium rods and it never took me that long. I've done it, for example, on a 440C mini-Griptilian (chipped on cardboard), VG-10 Delica (same), and VG-10 Poliwog (chipped on zip ties). I'm talking chipping you can feel with your fingernail or see with a 10X lupe. It took minutes, not hours.
 
clear your calendar if you want to try with the sharpmaker
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When I have a knife chip, I live with it and keep using and sharpening it as normal as long as it's not too noticeable cutting-wise. No sense in wasting perfectly good edge material by sharpening the chip out- it'll come out with time and the knife will last longer! You can abuse the edge more now since you have nothing to lose :)
 
Thanks for the tips. I'm going to try fixing the edge on the SM, but I have a feeling it will take a while, so I'm stopping at Home Depot on Monday to see what I can find.
 
Just saw your post NeedleRemorse, and I never thought of it that way.

Hmmmm. . .we'll see
 
Ludwig said:
Thanks for the tips. I'm going to try fixing the edge on the SM, but I have a feeling it will take a while, so I'm stopping at Home Depot on Monday to see what I can find.
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You should have a decent low grit benchstone anyway -- it's a perfect addition to your Sharpmaker, which is not suitable for reprofiling. But do yourself a favor -- before you rip into it with a course benchstone, give it 5 minutes on the Sharpmaker with the medium rods. If they're really small chips, the Sharpmaker will remove them. What's there to lose?
 
I dropped a Bark River mini-Skinner on the shop floor last week. Concrete. My heart stopped for a second....I'm sure of it. About 1/16" from the tip, I had a gouge in the edge....not chipped....gouged. Like somebody took a tiny grinder to it.

I sharpened the edge back to sharp, but I could tell right away it would take awhile to get the edge redone so that the chunk of missing steel wasn;t "missing" anymore. I did what NeedleRemorse said.....just sharpen it when it needs it and before long it'll be gone. I figure maybe by next month.
 
I don't know what it was (maybe just a fatigued edge that needs to have a little metal taken off) but I had the same problem with mine except it's 440C. I reprofiled the edge and convexed it as well about 6 months ago and it's performing better than ever, sharpens easier (and less frequently) and best of all: No chipping!
 
NeedleRemorse said:
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When I have a knife chip, I live with it and keep using and sharpening it as normal as long as it's not too noticeable cutting-wise. No sense in wasting perfectly good edge material by sharpening the chip out- it'll come out with time and the knife will last longer! You can abuse the edge more now since you have nothing to lose :)
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I agree, good point! Time will wear it in.
 
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