Tragic Irony

JWheel

JWheel

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So I make a lanyard for my brand new, never used, custom BK16 as extra protection to keep me from accidentally dropping it. As I'm putting the lanyard on, I accidentally drop it. But that's okay, no need to panic, because it only falls 2 or 3 feet and I'm over carpet ... right?

Turns out the 16 falls tip first, goes through the carpet, through the foam, and hits the slab underneath, crushing the tip.

F-ing awesome.

I sharpened it up (removing some of the parkerizing which was inevitable anyhow), but the tip is now close to 90-degrees where the edge meets the spine. Sure, I'll probably never notice it in actually usage. It's not like I really need a super pointy tip for anything, but dang it, I'll always know I screwed it up BEFORE I ever even took it outside.

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And I hadn't even been drinking! That was probably the problem actually.
 
If you grind from the top, above the tip a and "drop" the point it will be pointy again
 
cschol said:
If you grind from the top, above the tip a and "drop" the point it will be pointy again
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I considered that, but then I'd remove a fair amount of parkerizing. I'd rather have the park than the pointier tip. When it's time to repark, I'll grind the spine. But that will be a while.
 
Man, I HATE when shtuff like that happens. Totally still usable, but you'll always remember that you effed it up before it was even out of the gate. FWIW, I'm more than familiar with this sort of thing.
 
Thanks, guys. My tears have almost dried.

Maybe it's for the best. When I first got my pickup, I had barely put 3000 miles on it when an accident put a a long scrape down all three panela on the passenger side. I was a starving student at the time so I didn't fix it. Now, 13 years later, I still drive that truck and I've NEVER fixed it. As a result, I've had a truck that I've never had to worry about. I've been rear-ended twice and just told the other driver to not worry about it. Car wash? On occasion. My car before that was a Mustang and I treated it like it was precious. The truck has been much more fun. It's a POS, but fun. Plus, I like driving a beat-up pick-up in LA.
 
Had the exact thing happen to a new benchmade. Ground the spine to repair it and don't really think about it anymore.
 
You think that is bad? Just be happy that you have carpet and padding to cover the two foot long crack the 16 left in the slab...

In all honesty, it is fine. I have done similar. The one good thing is now you won't find any fault with dinging it up with usage.

Good job on the touch up, I have seen some that left the factory with a look like it had more serious surgery already.
 
I dropped my ESEE Laser Strike while trying to install TKC handles. Hit point first on my tile floor. Made a sickening "TINK" sound that made my stomach clench. I snapped about 1/16"off the tip. Some time on a belt sander and a DMT set of diamond stones fixed it though.
 
Here you are all broken up over your Becker, doing what it was supposed to do...cut stuff like nobodies business. Your 16 now has bragging rights...it's still brand new and it has already killed it's first floor! What about your poor traumatised floor? No tears for your floor?
 
steyrlifer said:
Here you are all broken up over your Becker, doing what it was supposed to do...cut stuff like nobodies business. Your 16 now has bragging rights...it's still brand new and it has already killed it's first floor! What about your poor traumatised floor? No tears for your floor?
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LOL. It's my SOB landlord's floor. I'm gonna drop a jackhammer on it before I move next month.
 
NJBillK said:
You think that is bad? Just be happy that you have carpet and padding to cover the two foot long crack the 16 left in the slab...

In all honesty, it is fine. I have done similar. The one good thing is now you won't find any fault with dinging it up with usage.

Good job on the touch up, I have seen some that left the factory with a look like it had more serious surgery already.
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Thanks. I needed to hear that. :)
 
Reminds me of just the other day...
My daughter wanted some beenie-weenies, but all I had was a jumbo can of beans.
No problem. I'll just use a little bit and scoop the rest out and put in a quart sized zip-lok.
Well, as previously mentioned this was one big 'ol can-O-beans!
After many large spoonfulls my forearm started to ache...
I must power through.
The laborious chore was just about complete.
As sweat dripped from my brow I reached down into the cavernous tub of baked beans for one final scrape. Gotta get those last few!
Just then...the ridiculously large bag of baked beans slipped from the grip of my tired left hand that had been holding so tightly...
SPLAT!!
Baked beans all over the linoleum floor.
Next time I'll use some tupperware and spare myself the agony.

Looking back I'm glad it was beans and not one of my Beckers...
Sorry bout the bad luck JWheel.
It honestly doesn't look too bad.
 
Look on the bright side my brutha.......at least it didn't go through shoe-->sock-->skin-->bone-->skin-->sock-->shoe-->carpet-->pad-->then into concrete. if it had been me, there would've been an ER visit in this story, or at least a fair amount of super glue and some butterfly bandages.
 
keroscene said:
Look on the bright side my brutha.......at least it didn't go through shoe-->sock-->skin-->bone-->skin-->sock-->shoe-->carpet-->pad-->then into concrete. if it had been me, there would've been an ER visit in this story, or at least a fair amount of super glue and some butterfly bandages.
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Hahahahaha! That's a good observation.

Notice I didn't say "good point." Still too soon.

Thanks again, fellas.
 
Good thing your favorite pet wasn't laying by your feet as they like to do. That was my first thought when mine landed tip down after falling from table.
 
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