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  1. 07-03-2010, 09:40 AM #1
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    Default Horror, the Horror...

    Hope I loaded these right Tired fingers :/

    Well I just spent 3 hours fixing a fellow cooks knife. Not only was the tip broken off but the blade has a 1/4" crack about halfway down the blade. I used a diamond grinder needle typw thing on my dremmil to get rid of the crack, as I didn't want the flexing of the blade to make it worse.

    I used my DMT plate and the coarse barrel sander on the dremmil to bring the spine down to the edge, creating the new tip. Than I needed to "Hone" away, I say hone as this forum uses the tern more than sharpening , the edge steel till the cut away was gone. This also required me to remove metal from the blade road (side bevels) to kee the knife thin... Ya 3 hours of this is hard on the fingers... and I still want to shave tonight... after they rest

    I just thought some would like to see how you can fix a potentially trashed blade if you wanted to... or what it would take to do it as the case is
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  2. 07-04-2010, 02:16 AM #2
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    Wow, very nice job.

    I'm surprised. A lot of that Japanese steel is very hard and brittle.

    It looks great.
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  4. 07-04-2010, 05:25 AM #3
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    Your friend DEFINATELY owes you one...great job!
    Southeastern Oklahoma/Northeastern Texas helper. Please don't hesitate to contact me.
    Thank you and God Bless, Scott
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  6. 07-04-2010, 06:37 AM #4
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    Nice save Chef. Shame about the crack . Looks like he uses that knife hard.
    Blue steel ?
    The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.
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  8. 07-04-2010, 08:30 AM #5
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    I believe Tojiro uses white steel in this line up. It's their economy line He better take care of it this time or I'm gonna suggest buying a new one lol as I'll charge him big time
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  9. 07-05-2010, 01:25 AM #6
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    Most important . Always bill 'em in proportion to negligence
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  11. 07-05-2010, 02:49 AM #7
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    wow.. very impressive.. that looked to be some serious work..
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  13. 07-15-2010, 10:37 PM #8
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    wow you saved that one from the trash. now my little brother broke the tip off his Shun 8" chef knife that i got him for his birthday (i believe it was one that you recommended a few years ago) good to know that kind of damage can be repaired

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