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So my good friend Chris (Orca8589) have this wonderful little thing going on where we keep trading knives to each other. This is our second trade for 3 or four knives. Its been fun. So I got my knife from him yesterday, a NIB 89OT. I got all excited and whatnot. Decided to sharpen it up today. Tell me what you think. I have no idea why it did what it did, but that poor poor tip. I feel horrible for what I have done to this wonderful knife. I hope it can forgive me. I am not sure how I should proceed.

 
Not much you can do but regrind.

(Or stick it in that ugly foot under the table. ;))

P.S. You don't really have to put that much pressure on the blade when you sharpen. :p
 
ouch!

maybe you could grind down the spine of the clip to get it back to a point.
 
If your trade was a temporary thing, and you had agreed to return the knives to each other, I would just call your friend, tell him what happened, and work it out with him. If that happened to me, I would offer to let my friend keep the knife I traded that one for.

Then I would file the point into a modified spey or sheepfoot profile, and carry on. :thumbup: It's not the end of the world.
 
Chris is about as stand-up a guy as there is on these forums but no way would he (or could he) have known what would happen. It's just one of those things and nobody's fault.

It's still a good (project) knife and it will be worth its weight in stories down the road.
 
UGLY FOOT UNDER THE TABLE! OH MY WORLD IS GOING TO END!!! lol Anyway reprofiling is what I am going to have to do. And Chris had no clue this was going to happen. Its not his fault. I am just guessing that there was already a stress fracture in the steel from manufacturing. And I promise Elliott I was pressing hard while sharpening. Same pressure I always use. Was just a sad freak accident.
 
:D

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Hhahahahahahahahah so funny---the polish ---------not the knife.
 
I broke the tip on this 30 year old 120T and just made it a Wharnie! I actually love the little booger :)

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1) Don't leave a knife that close to the edge of a table without some boots on.

2) That blade didn't have much belly to begin with, so you should be able to re-grind from the edge back and not have it look too strange.
 
Ok everyone I admit it. I paint my nails. Only when I'm not wearing flip flops. Makes me understand my feminine side a bit more!
 
My mind didn't immediately grasp the difference in distance/perspective between the knife and foot. I thought, "Man oh man, that is a huge knife!"

I would take a file (or grinder) and re-shape the blade and use the heck out of it.

If you don't have either, maybe you could borrow an emery board from the lady that does your pedicures.:D
 
Steve_Holt said:
If you don't have either, maybe you could borrow an emery board from the lady that does your pedicures.:D
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LOL :eek: :D :D Now I know why they call it a

MAN ee pedi ;)

I have a Henckels 6" chefs knife with broken tip. Ground the top down a little

and have used it for years :thumbup:
 
If the superglue doesn't work ;)
I would leave the spine and grind the edge something like this:

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