Thread: I am such and idiot.

Trying to straighten out a tiny ripple with needle nose plyers.?

Originally Posted by shooter74743

Come on, you have to tell us how you did it...that way we can agree with you!

I've cooled off a bit now, I'm over the feelings of rage and grief and am more into the gritting of teeth stage

I had wanted to replace the imitation bamboo scales with the real thing and remembered an unused cutting board I could cut up.



You can see the lamination is 1/4 inch and it ripped nicely. I even ripped two pieces so I could match the segmentation grain side to side.

I decided to tape the two pieces together to shape them but I didn't quite get them lined up right as you can see here:



So I figure I can just pry them apart and reset them. A screwdriver is only a step away but right at hand is the Frederick Reynolds blade, so I figure I would just slide it between nice and easy, it was bread knifed so no worries. It started off okay but for some )&^$% reason I levered with the blade and PING.
Every time I think of the moment my blood pressure goes up and I breath harder. It's not the loss of money or time put in on cleaning the blade, but that I wrecked something the had survived for over 100 years with one second of stupidity.

Ouch! Many of us have heard that sickening sound. You learned how fragile full hollow blades are. If you do it again...you can then kick yourself.

Thanks in advance for the lesson guys, oh wait there is a razor I'll just! no, no, what did thread say again......

An Oh S&^T moment....I have 5 of them a day!

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have these kind of moments... Thanks for sharing, it certainly helps me feel better about some of my oversights.

Using a razor to pry something open is ALWAYS a temptation.

Lots of blades laying around and then the UPS/FedEx/USPS folks show up with a box or 3 of things I've been waiting for - usually in my shop and I find myself trying to switch gears from whatever blade or scales I'm working on to opening the boxes and get at what's in them.... and there's a blade right in front of me.

Or that pair of scales that I've taped together with carpet tape to shape them but now they need to come apart - and there's a perfect blade sitting there...

There seem to be a thousand reasons to grab a nearby blade and use it as a tool to open/shift/remove something. Thankfully I finally realized my luck would run out eventually so I placed flathead screwdrivers AND utility knives all over my shop for just that reason. ...but only after realizing that I could easily trash a blade that way (as I was using a "ready to be honed" Dubl Duck to open a box).

I feel for you Hart! Try scattering knives and screwdrivers all over the place - not very neat but it helped me to avoid getting into trouble. Though I'm guessing that's a mistake you won't be making again any time soon!

Originally Posted by AirColorado

Using a razor to pry something open is ALWAYS a temptation.

Lots of blades laying around and then the UPS/FedEx/USPS folks show up with a box or 3 of things I've been waiting for - usually in my shop and I find myself trying to switch gears from whatever blade or scales I'm working on to opening the boxes and get at what's in them.... and there's a blade right in front of me.

Or that pair of scales that I've taped together with carpet tape to shape them but now they need to come apart - and there's a perfect blade sitting there...

There seem to be a thousand reasons to grab a nearby blade and use it as a tool to open/shift/remove something. Thankfully I finally realized my luck would run out eventually so I placed flathead screwdrivers AND utility knives all over my shop for just that reason. ...but only after realizing that I could easily trash a blade that way (as I was using a "ready to be honed" Dubl Duck to open a box).

I feel for you Hart! Try scattering knives and screwdrivers all over the place - not very neat but it helped me to avoid getting into trouble. Though I'm guessing that's a mistake you won't be making again any time soon!

All those things where available, I just took the closest one that's why I'm kicking myself. The only excuse I have is that the few other blades I've worked on have been wedges. One of those would have been safe. It was such a sexy smiling half hollow blade and I killed it. Before this I had used a dulled blade to open a package and it cut me slightly on the palm. I should have clued in.

I've been thinking I could cut it off at the chip and make a mini Kamisori of some sort, but that would be in the future. I know it's odd, but I feel I owe it to "her" (the blade) to make something of it.

Originally Posted by Hart

All those things where available, I just took the closest one that's why I'm kicking myself. The only excuse I have is that the few other blades I've worked on have been wedges. One of those would have been safe. It was such a sexy smiling half hollow blade and I killed it. Before this I had used a dulled blade to open a package and it cut me slightly on the palm. I should have clued in.

I've been thinking I could cut it off at the chip and make a mini Kamisori of some sort, but that would be in the future. I know it's odd, but I feel I owe it to "her" (the blade) to make something of it.

call me stupid,I do not understand this post

This thread just makes me want to curl up in the fetal position, rock back and forth in the dark and...