You really can't make a silk purse...

[featherstick]

We (my wife) bought a nasty kitchen knife a little while ago. Nice size and handle, but the edge bevel was about 90 degrees, and the secondary bevel had been ground with RIDGES, ***. That sort of thing really annoys me - not only that people sell crap, but that they take good raw materials - stainless steel - and then make rubbish out of it.

Anyway, this thing was getting blunter and blunter. Until I read the info on this forum.

I used a rough stone to grind the secondary bevel down to the edge of the blade, a medium one to smooth it off and a smooth one to edge it up, finishing on the steel. Lovely - bare patches on my forearm and flat bits on my thumbs to show for it.

Then, when I was using it today...


....THE FRICKING HANDLE BROKE!!!!

Anyway, it was good practise, and I might glue it back on...

 

[hiho]

i can just imagine you face when it broke after all that hard work, gave me a laugh any way

 

[philaw]

I would howl like an angry wolf if that happened to me!

People think that you're crazy for taking knives seriously, and they don't get that a knife is such a simple thing that it will last a life time if you buy the right one, and that it's stupid to make a bad one. Check out this tutorial if you want ideas on fixing it.

http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5064