Nicks in Knife

[Biddlesby]

Very annoyingly, I 'dented' my knife blade whilst splitting some wood with a nail in it. You live and learn....

Any clever tips or tricks in getting it out or am I just going to have to keep sharpening it till the cows come home?

 

[Kepis]

looks like a serious session on the waterstones for you, have fun, i had to do it with my hatchet after a similar incident with a lump of wood with a nail in it, took me ages

 

[Shing]

Its annoying but just sharpen it as normal and it will be ground out in time. No point in reducing the life of the blade for cosmetic resaons

 

[Longstrider]

I did some serious damage to the edge of a bowie some years ago by discovering a flint inside some wood I was splitting (Don't ask me how on earth it ever got there!) All I did was to "over-do" the sharpening every time the knife needed it. By sharpening the blade twice as much as it really needed each time the nicks soon became virtually un-noticeable and disappeared altogether after about 3 years. Shing has it right in my opinion. If the knife is worth keeping and still does what you need of it despite the nicks, there seems little point in grinding a lot of steel away to get back to a smooth edge other than for purely aesthetic reasons. Damned annoying when you do this to a favourite knife though.