What blades have you broken?

I locked myself out of my truck, one day. So, I was trying to pry open the sliding back glass, w/. my BENCHMADE HK Auto..440C Satin blade....Well, I managed to break off about 1/2 of the tip...I took it to my local Knife dealer who then regrinded it to look just like new...
 
I had to have the tip reground on one of my knives. it has forever taught me that slicers do not work as sharpened prybars.
 
DeadFall27 said:
And may I ask what you did to break such a blade???
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Well this was years ago but I bought a new SRK just as a knock around beater knife and started playing with it. I stripped the powder coat and was going to do a re-handle job on it but after a while I decided I really didn't like the knife at all.
So just for the heck of it I chucked the first 1 1/4" in my little 4" vise and leaned on the blade and "SNAP". It broke like glass.
The inside of the steel looked like styrofoam or something, like it was cheap cast pot metal.
It only took about 20 pounds of force to snap the blade. I was surprised at how easy it was to break.
 
Back in the 80's. Dropped, from about 4' onto concrete, a Camillus KaBar fighter & the end cap broke off. I was young & did'nt know of KaBars legendary customer service, so i just threw it away but began to learn about how knives were made because of it. It was a tapered rat tail tang. Broke a Gerber MK2 survival knife---it was replaced with no issues on the same day i bought it. I have also broken numerous bayonettes during my 8.5 yrs in the Army & then the NYANG, but i don't really count them because they we not really mine, personally.
 
dhaines said:
I wore out the spring on my Kershaw Ken Onion Leek flipper..I was so pissed I threw it out didn't want to deal with shipping it back to them.
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Just as an FYI for the future. Kershaw will send you out replacement parts in a few days for free.
 
I broke the tip off of a spyderco native trying to get a piece of grit out from under structural frame I was fitting to the hull of a boat. I broke the tip off of a CRKT Hammond Cruiser when I tried to pry open a very small mysterious door in the side of my moms house when i was painting it.
I've had a couple of super cheap folders disassemble in my pockets. I've never broken a fixed blade, or broken a name brand folder when I wasn't abusing it.
 
Broke the tip off of my SRM 710 while throwing it. (I wonder how many BF members get pissed off by that statement!)

so I took the rest of it, stabbed it into stuff and torqued, snapping it again, then I did it again.. just to see how much it could take.. pretty impressive, blade only snapped because it was so thin, and because I shouldn't have thrown it.. but whatever.. it was 10 bucks
 
my brother broke the tip off of his benchmade presidio ultra in 440c

and i remember breaking several SAKs when i was little
 
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the axis lock on my BM 530 broke. and a handful or torsion bars from my blur, shallot, and 0350.
 
I broke a early 90,s Al Mar sere 2000..the one with the 8inch blade,laminated micarta handle and latin inscription on the blade (victory over tyranny?)..Me and a mate were goat culling on his farm.Shot 60-70?,had a few wounded ones so i went up with the knife to finish them off(save ammo)..stuck knife between ribs and spine and twisted blade hard.I heard the faintest (ping?) noise...the blade had cracked an inch from the gaurd,3/4 of the way through....to say i was (gutted) is a small understatement!...i believe the blade was faulty...i still have both pieces of knife and on close inspection the metal appears crystalline where it broke....such is life......FES
 
Snapped the tip of my Gerber Gator (90's model)
Smashed my CRKT Drifter on concrete...temper temper.
Luckily no damage to anything irreplaceable. Yet
 
DeadFall27 said:
What blades have you broken?
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None. In roughly 50 years of carrying and using knives, I have never broken one.

If you break your knife, you are doing it wrong.
 
I broke the tip off a Schrade LB7 back in the 80's using it to pry splinters of wood out of a 2x4 (I don't remember why I was doing that). I still have the knife, I should see about getting the blade reground. Since the LB7 isn't made in the US anymore, I don't want to swap the USA blade with a made in China blade, even if it is broken.
 
None that I can think of. I have had a few tips damaged, but not what I would call "snapped off" basically damaged the final tip grind, probably a mm of damage at most that pretty much could be sharpened out. On one I was cutting a zip tie and used too much force, once it cut through I hit a piece of steel with the tip of my native. Also damaged the tip of my Tenacious in a similar way.

oh, and a cheap kitchen knife fell on the tile and the plastic handle broke off.
 
DeadFall27 said:
As I rummaged through my old knife pile, I found a blade I regret buying when I had no knowledge of blades at all. I proceeded to test it out in the back with a little woodwork. I started out with batoning and ended up with a destroyed plastic handle thirty seconds later. The reverberations from hitting the blade completely dismantled the scales. I believe it was called a 'stealth ranger' or something....anyway, what knives have you broken and how?

I would have provided pics of my destruction but I only have one of the scale-less blade from my phone somewhere on this computor, I will post it when (or if) I locate it. Pics would be appreciated :D
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Don't lie...you destroyed the knife on purpose because you regretted buying it :D

I've done the same to my MTech bowie knife. It was a decent blade too, I just felt the need to destroy it so I could buy an Ontario SP-1. Also wrecked a Smith & Wesson $12 piece of crap, but that thing fell apart by itself.
 
Not long after Rambo the movie came out, i got a "replica" survival knife with a compass in the end and fishhooks/waterproof matches and bandaid in the hollow handle. I was ten and I thought i'd run, jump in the air and stab it into a tree at a steep angle and pull myself up. Was going great when the hollow handle snapped at the hilt and sent my "survival gear" flying into the leaves. That was the end of that. I don't jump into trees with my knives today.
 
SplittinHairs said:
Not long after Rambo the movie came out, i got a "replica" survival knife with a compass in the end and fishhooks/waterproof matches and bandaid in the hollow handle. I was ten and I thought i'd run, jump in the air and stab it into a tree at a steep angle and pull myself up. Was going great when the hollow handle snapped at the hilt and sent my "survival gear" flying into the leaves. That was the end of that. I don't jump into trees with my knives today.
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I had that knife too. My uncle gave it to me. I tried to stab into a piece of oak with it and the tip wrinkled up! Just like in cartoons. I tried to hammer it out and sharpen it but ended up throwing the thing away. I was probably 10 years old.
 
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