I have damaged my knife....HELP

[Halfdevil333]

Hi ive stupidly gone and dropped my knife and i have a couple of small nicks out of the blade. (Ben Orford Woodlander high carbon blade 4mm)
Can anyone tell me the best way to get the knife back to the way it was?
I have a two sided oil stone and a japenese waterstone 1000/6000 grit will be able to repair it using these or will i need something else.
The nicks are about a quarter of a mm in depth.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Scott

 

[woodwalker]

hi,
Technically you should be able to remove the nick with any stone, no matter how fine (it just takes longer), but to speed up the process, you might want to invest in a 800 or 600 grit stone. The trick is to work patienty and not rush, otherwise you end up ruining the entire bevel or scratching the blade. Alternatively you could probably telephone Ben Orford as he seems like a reasonable man, and he should be able to fix it up, if its serious.

hope that helps,

woodwalker

 

[spamel]

They'll sharpen out over time, they probably look a lot worse than they already are. It is a good question though, grind away that material thus effectively shortening the life span of the knife or just sharpen enough to keep the rest of the blade true until it all comes back to being good in a month or two? It is a minimal amount of metal though, I'd say sharpen it out, just use your Jap stones and take your time, go on the coarser 1000 side until it is gone, then quickly polish up on the 6000, strop it, test it by splitting a few atoms, stow it away but not in the sheath ready for next time!!

At least you didn't try to catch it once it was dropping!

 

[rapidboy]

At least you didn't try to catch it once it was dropping!

Been there done that, my dad's birthday present was a leatherman wave and i dropped it and grabbed the serrated blade.
Almost lost the top of my finger that time and never bothered with multi tools since

Just take your time and work your way through the Japanese water stone's to bring it back to perfect.

 

[demographic]

Great, once you have dropped it and scabbled it a bit you can really start to use it and not worry about it as much.

But like getting a new pushbike as a nipper, the first scratch is almost the end of the world but the seconds not so bad at all.

 

[Halfdevil333]

They'll sharpen out over time, they probably look a lot worse than they already are. It is a good question though, grind away that material thus effectively shortening the life span of the knife or just sharpen enough to keep the rest of the blade true until it all comes back to being good in a month or two? It is a minimal amount of metal though, I'd say sharpen it out, just use your Jap stones and take your time, go on the coarser 1000 side until it is gone, then quickly polish up on the 6000, strop it, test it by splitting a few atoms, stow it away but not in the sheath ready for next time!!

At least you didn't try to catch it once it was dropping!

Cheers

Thougth as much i will start tomorrow

Hopefully i will never stupid enough to try and catch a falling knife.....Who knows but....

 

[Draven]

Hopefully i will never stupid enough to try and catch a falling knife.....

I resent that
Nah, tis indeed a daft thing to do, done it plenty of times. Never fails to hurt...
Still, the number of times I've had to snatch my knives out of people's hands because they tried to test the blade by running their finger along the edge And people wonder why I'm so desensitized to seeing blood...

Anyway, on topic, I agree with Demographic. First nick on my knives always hurts, but ultimately a nick that wee won't affect the performance noticeably... I've got a much bigger ding on one of my Clippers and she's still going strong

Did I actually just call my Clipper a she? I need to get out more...

Peace

 

[Rebel]

I stupidly hit into some stones with my knife and damaged the blade.

I took a steeling rod, the standard kind with rough edges and managed to get back quite a bit of the folded over metal from the blade edge. I just ran the rough edge of the steel over the blade and observed the progress with a magnifying glass. I found that doing this made the nicks not quite as deep and after that I resharpened it. I can still see were the nicks are but only just.

You could try this method and if it doesn't work there's no harm done. The steel only realigns the cutting edge it doesn't actually sharpen the blade.