Wife dropped a kitchen knife on the tip

[jlauffer]

Luckily she didn't try to catch it! Anyway, tip bent pretty good, and of course when I tried to bend it back, it snapped.




Hammered the rest as flat as I could, then broke out my WorkSharp. Used a 220 belt to reshape the tip from both sides, and also decided to fix an issue at the heel while I was at it. Then sharpened using, 400, 600, and 1000. Came out pretty good.

 

[Grasshopperglock]

You're A better man then me. In this household. Her dull knives are kept in a big glass beer stein. Where she drops the knives in.

Bent tip? They all have a bent tip.

That's her stash of knives.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Happens a lot. My wife broke the tip off our French chef's knife trying to pry something. It's now a santoku.

 

[abraves]

My wife has learned to use the right tool most of the time. It helps that the garage door is around the corner from kitchen where I have a crap ton of tools. She actually gets upset if she messes something up.

 

[catspa]

Good work, man.

My usual tool for a retip is a Tormek, I shape the profile first then bevel. Many ways to do it, glad yours came out successful.

Parker

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

That looks good.

Sounds familiar too.

A sister of mine passed a couple kitchen knives to me a while back, each of which in separate incidents over a span of time had fallen off a countertop and landed tip-first on the linoleum floor over a concrete slab. Each one of them punched through the linoleum and both tips ended up looking like the one pictured below (a paring knife). I pondered for awhile as to how to remove the damaged portion, and decided on just scrubbing it off with the bent tip laid down into a 120-grit sanding belt cut at the seam, laid flat & glued over a wood plank. The second picture below shows all of the damaged portion removed after four (4) sweeping passes over the 21" x 3" belt. After that, I ground down the spine on the same belt to meet the tip below the damaged portion (seen as option #1 in my tracing of the blade in 3rd picture below), leaving the original cutting edge intact. It had started as a slightly clipped tip profile and I ground it to a more drop-point tip. Raised a big burr on each side of the tip's spine (4th & 5th picture), which I removed by burnishing with a ceramic hone. Then I reset the entire edge on my Fine India stone. I had assumed this 'cheap' knife wouldn't take a very good edge, but it surprised me. Steel responded nicely to the stone and the edge easily zipped through phonebook pages after that. I'd done essentially the same sequence with a slightly larger utility knife that met the same fate, and it responded just as well. Made me happy to see it go so smoothly and proud when I gave them back to my sister.

 

[jlauffer]

That looks good.

Sounds familiar too.

A sister of mine passed a couple kitchen knives to me a while back, each of which in separate incidents over a span of time had fallen off a countertop and landed tip-first on the linoleum floor over a concrete slab. Each one of them punched through the linoleum and both tips ended up looking like the one pictured below (a paring knife). I pondered for awhile as to how to remove the damaged portion, and decided on just scrubbing it off with the bent tip laid down into a 120-grit sanding belt cut at the seam, laid flat & glued over a wood plank. The second picture below shows all of the damaged portion removed after four (4) sweeping passes over the 21" x 3" belt. After that, I ground down the spine on the same belt to meet the tip below the damaged portion (seen as option #1 in my tracing of the blade in 3rd picture below), leaving the original cutting edge intact. It had started as a slightly clipped tip profile and I ground it to a more drop-point tip. Raised a big burr on each side of the tip's spine (4th & 5th picture), which I removed by burnishing with a ceramic hone. Then I reset the entire edge on my Fine India stone. I had assumed this 'cheap' knife wouldn't take a very good edge, but it surprised me. Steel responded nicely to the stone and the edge easily zipped through phonebook pages after that. I'd done essentially the same sequence with a slightly larger utility knife that met the same fate, and it responded just as well. Made me happy to see it go so smoothly and proud when I gave them back to my sister.

Nicely done! Yeah I did both option 1 and 2...figured if I took it all off one side it might be too obvious.

 

[toker]

Nice job. I've used the Worksharp to fix quite a few broken tips. Successfully on the Zero Tolerance ZT0620, Emerson Combat Karambit. Unsuccessfully on a few other knives.

I'm fairly certain that's how the Bunka came about.

 

[IUKE12]

All the kitchen knives that my wife uses are beat to hell. It's almost a full time job to maintain them. I should replace them with tanto tips