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Post by kjakker on May 18, 2021 12:09:15 GMT
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Post by Timo Nieminen on May 18, 2021 20:15:56 GMT
There are two choices: grind, or bend back (maybe followed by some grinding). Since the bent part is so small, I'd just grind. If you remove the minimum amount of metal, this will leave you with a slightly less pointy tip, which will be less likely to fold like this in the future.
A fine diamond plate will do it quickly. Otherwise, silicon carbide wet-and-dry sandpaper backed by something hard.
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Post by pgandy on May 18, 2021 20:52:32 GMT
Oh my! I haven’t done that yet. I thought I had a couple of times (you’d think that I would have learned after the first) early on with my bo and the overhead living room lights. I’ve removed pieces of me that fortunately grew back. I did have an overhead globe nearly get me. I had nothing to do with that though as it happened during one of our earthquakes. Or maybe I did; I’ve done things that I figured God would get me for and just maybe...
As for repairing listen to Timo. Although I’d try to straighten first by tapping a steel plate placed over the tip using a hammer. Don’t get carried away. Afterwards there’s a good chance that you’ll have to finish the job with wet sandpaper or the likes. Just be sure to use a hard backing as Timo states.
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Post by randomnobody on May 18, 2021 20:57:30 GMT
Like Timo said, something this small is easily removed with just a bit of gentle grinding. I've had knives with tips that took worse damage than this and a fine (800 grit?) diamond stone had it re=profiled in about half an hour. I have pictures somewhere of before-and-after for at least two knives.
Honestly, though, in your shoes, I'd just take a honing steel to it. Run it along the spine, on the side the edge is rolled to. My Cold Steel Luzon folding knife took a tiny roll to its tip. I have no idea how, but I noticed it when I couldn't puncture the air-bag package filler in a box at work as easily as I normally can. I did a good amount of "fixing" by just dragging the rolled bit along a cardboard box a few dozen times. Bit into the box at first, then eventually bit less. Called it god enough.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2021 5:01:39 GMT
Like Timo said, something this small is easily removed with just a bit of gentle grinding. I've had knives with tips that took worse damage than this and a fine (800 grit?) diamond stone had it re=profiled in about half an hour. I have pictures somewhere of before-and-after for at least two knives. Honestly, though, in your shoes, I'd just take a honing steel to it. Run it along the spine, on the side the edge is rolled to. My Cold Steel Luzon folding knife took a tiny roll to its tip. I have no idea how, but I noticed it when I couldn't puncture the air-bag package filler in a box at work as easily as I normally can. I did a good amount of "fixing" by just dragging the rolled bit along a cardboard box a few dozen times. Bit into the box at first, then eventually bit less. Called it god enough. I did the same thing with my cold steel ti lite lol. Rolled the tip, and used cardboard to get it back kinda straight by dragging the tip on it |
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Post by notthesharpest on Jun 4, 2021 22:26:45 GMT
I had been waiting for someone to ask the following, but nobody has. So...
The ceiling in question appears to be drywall. Should the tip have deformed from the contact?
Being notthesharpest, I have done this very thing myself. More than once. Never did I have any damage, other than to my ceiling, as a result.
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My LK Chen Palatial Tang Dao now has a vary small bit of deformation to the tip of the point toward the left side. 
My LK Chen Palatial Tang Dao now has a vary small bit of deformation to the tip of the point toward the left side. 
