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Post by mrstabby on Mar 8, 2024 18:31:21 GMT
I chipped my favourite knife, broke the tip of another, entrapped a nerve in my shoulder and my one of my sword racks fell down almost hitting my cat, chipping 2 swords and twisting the blade of a dagger. So how was your week so far?
On that note, how do I fix a blade that has a bend on one side only? A wave on one of the 2 edges.
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Post by miraculix101 on Mar 8, 2024 20:29:07 GMT
DOesnt sound good, but it could have gotten worse...hitting your cat or yourself...
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Post by larason2 on Mar 8, 2024 20:48:31 GMT
Ah, sorry that happened to you. Is the sword with the bend DH or TH?
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Post by mrstabby on Mar 8, 2024 20:52:56 GMT
Through-hardened
Yeah, I am pretty happy he didn't get hit. He slept on the chair, suddenly jumped up and ran like the devil, like half a second later the screw holding the rack gave way (EDIT: the wood had cracked and the screw slipped, it was a storebought one). I think he heard it before it happened. Haven't seen him run this fast ever.
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Post by pellius on Mar 8, 2024 21:26:20 GMT
Major bummer.
Sounds like something a cat would do.
Glad you and your cat are ok, though.
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Post by larason2 on Mar 8, 2024 22:47:07 GMT
That's a pretty tricky bend to fix. Once you get a bend like that in a TH sword, it work hardens the edge of the bend, which makes it brittle and very likely to crack along that line. If you have two bench vises, you can put one on either end of the bend, with lots of cotton layers holding them in to protect it and buffer a shock, and try to slowly bend it back, say with a wrench or a pipe wrench, maybe with a pipe on the end for extra leverage, also protecting the blade with lots of layers of cotton or something similar. I'd say 50/50 though you crack it rather than bend it back, you risk breaking the wrench, and that's going to need a lot of strength! If you normalize the part where the edge bent with a torch, it will be less likely to crack and easier to bend, but you might ruin the heat treat. No easy answers I'm afraid. Still that's a good sword if it got such a nasty bend and didn't break!
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Post by randomnobody on Mar 8, 2024 23:05:52 GMT
Man, I thought I was having a rough week, but I'll let you have this win.
I had a wall-mounted sword rack suddenly lose one side and dump all of its swords onto some shelves above my headboard and dump a few things into my bed. Not a great way to wake up. Still haven't put it back up, come to think of it. Luckily, no irreparable damage to anything.
I took a pretty big chunk out of a tooth, though, sometime last week. That wasn't fun.
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Post by strigoil on Mar 8, 2024 23:51:00 GMT
And here I had been considering going from my hook mounted setup to a rack for my swords...Time to reconsider that reconsideration. That really sucks and I hope you can fix the bent ones and glad the furry friend is safe.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Mar 9, 2024 1:26:14 GMT
Sometimes you lose, sometimes the others win, sometimes it's just bad luck!
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Post by izzy on Mar 11, 2024 16:41:58 GMT
Just saw the thread...sorry things are rough right now... IDK about your condition, but maybe these moves could help: www.yogajournal.com/poses/healing-yoga-sequence-ease-neck-shoulder-pain/If I had a double edge sword bent, I see 2 options, easy option, do nothing, plan to use that side to parry / block...Or the harder but more "fun" option do what Larason2 suggests with a torch then hammer/anvil or if your feeling perky vise grips...I would quench in /with water for a hard part of the edge after, worst comes to worst, you can't mess up something that's already messed up. A small part of your blade might even be harder than original... What was the make and steel of the chipped and tip broken kitchen knives? I only broke the tip of one ( Chinese made but very hard) kitchen knife so far, and I was abusing the snot out of it stabbing it into wood...must have been some pretty hard steel (?)
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Post by mrstabby on Mar 11, 2024 17:37:20 GMT
Don't think the torch is the way for me, it's not bad, I bet I could straighten it with the straightening jig method from the forum, it's like 2mm off true at worst. Gotta make one first though. It was pretty cheap, just might buy a second one.
As for the tip, well, you know, concrete is harder than steel and wins the fight most of the time. I tripped, and ran it into a wall. The 440C knife lost 3mm tip. But letting go of it while tripping I found more disagreeable than catching myself with it on the wall. Belt sander made a new, even sharper tip in a few minutes, it has a bad case of boxers nose now though, looks kinda like Owen Wilson. I am only using knives I can bare to lose for now. Pretty accident prone the last few months. Almost lost the tip of a finger to my Jian a few weeks back, can barely see the scar. Maybe I should stay away from sharp objects? But where's the fun in that.
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Post by eastman on Mar 12, 2024 2:47:26 GMT
when I build sword racks I use wood glue as well as screws in the assembly, then usually mount them to the wall with powerdriver screws into the wall studs
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Post by izzy on Mar 12, 2024 10:35:59 GMT
Don't think the torch is the way for me, it's not bad, I bet I could straighten it with the straightening jig method from the forum, it's like 2mm off true at worst. Gotta make one first though. It was pretty cheap, just might buy a second one. As for the tip, well, you know, concrete is harder than steel and wins the fight most of the time. I tripped, and ran it into a wall. The 440C knife lost 3mm tip. But letting go of it while tripping I found more disagreeable than catching myself with it on the wall. Belt sander made a new, even sharper tip in a few minutes, it has a bad case of boxers nose now though, looks kinda like Owen Wilson. I am only using knives I can bare to lose for now. Pretty accident prone the last few months. Almost lost the tip of a finger to my Jian a few weeks back, can barely see the scar. Maybe I should stay away from sharp objects? But where's the fun in that. I see, amongst other issues I got very clumsy before I was treated for Lyme / Rickettsia...including balance issues.
Had to go to Mexico cause diagnosis in the USA was a bad joke. ( In Mexico they use a Senso Lato Western Blot -3 strain test for the poorest, in the USA one strain!). Lyme and Rickettsia affects the mind ( memory etc.) and CNS. Actually has hundreds of (Possible) Symptoms...
Ticks can be so small most never notice getting bit. One could have had the "flu" years ago, and never notice...rashes don't often happen.
Rickettsial diseases ( similar to Lyme, but sometimes worse) diseases are also spread by Fleas, Ticks, Lice etc. Including some of the worst strains of endemic and Epidemic Typhus.
"Rickettsiales in the WHO European Region: an update from a One Health perspective"
" Species of known human pathogenicity identified in animal samples were Rickettsia typhi [44], R. conorii [45], R. conorii subsp. israelensis [46], R. felis [47], R. monacensis [47], Neoehrlichia mikurensis [48], Anaplasma phagocytophilum [48], Rickettsia raoultii [49], R. slovaka [50] and R. helvetica [48]. Anaplasma phagocytophilum, R. helvetica and R. felis have a wide distribution in Europe among both wild and domesticated animals, as detailed in Additional file..."
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