Thread: Recommendations for reshaping / fixing broken knife point

Afternoon all,

I was wondering whether anyone had any experience or recommendations of someone to talk to about reshaping a broken stainless steel knife point. I made the mistake of lending a knife to a (former) mate to use to cut the haggis for a Robbie Burns ceremony, and he got drunk, proceeded to go full retard and stab it full noise into a steel tray, snapping a couple of mil off the point

It's a martiini lynx lumberjack' https://www.marttiini.fi/epages/Mart...roducts/127015 (not an insanely pricey knife) so I wouldn't normally bother getting it done properly and would even looking at replacing it but as it is my one souvenir from Finland I thought I would look at options for salvaging/ reshaping it

The knife is currently in freight so I will put up photos as soon as it turns up

Keen on any bright ideas. Cheers

A bit of time on a stone will fix it up if it is only a couple of mm.

+1 for the stone.

Whatever you do, don't sink a lot of heat into it with a grinder. Take your time and enjoy the challenge.

+2 on the stone. Its a scandi grind so easy as to get a nice even bevel.

Originally Posted by ubique

...he got drunk, proceeded to go full retard and stab it full noise into a steel tray, snapping a couple of mil off the point

He sounds like a good guy

@ubique

Bevel it from the back ridge to make it a slight drop point and be happy with that. It will be an improvement actually!

- Going for the drop point, even if ever so small, will help you avoid having to reshape / interfere with (ruin!) the knife edge.

- A small drop point, when skinning, makes you less likely to accidentally puncture the hide / innards (or yourself!).

And I agree avoid a grinder, just not worth it for such a small job. They can deliver a lot of heat in an unexpectedly short time, but the main danger IMHO is you can overshoot as grinders just work too well!

HAd much the same job to do on one of mine after I broke the tip off. Spent some on it with a file rounding it back to the spine. Now it just has more belly to it. Came out alright.

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

HAd much the same job to do on one of mine after I broke the tip off. Spent some on it with a file rounding it back to the spine. Now it just has more belly to it. Came out alright.

Did the same thing to a Gerber that was previously 'professionally' sharpened. Came back with a nice rainbow hue to the end of the blade, which proceeded to snap when removing the head of a Jap spiker. So as CH suggests, I just took a file to it.....