Thread: Damaged Blade

I'm not a fan of the true bread knife I would hone it out with the spine off the hone and then drop down a little at a time. I think it uses up less steel and maintains an apex the whole way through. If you are not certain of what you are doing I would send it out.

I agree with Rezdog. In my experience a bend in the bevel like that looks worse then it actually is. Light reflecting off of the the bevel makes it look more dramatic. It will need some time on a course stone but probably less then you would think. I personally would NOT breadlknife it. I would put on two or three layers of tape and hone it out on a DMT. If you breadnkife it you'll end up removing more steel then needed.

Honestly, although it is an effective technique, the thought of bread knifing makes me cringe for some reason. So I'm definitely at the point of sending it in to someone or buying a lower grit stone. The 12k does the job fine with sprucing up the edge so I never bought anything lower.I did get it to the point to where it won't bite when used.

PLEASE DO NOT BREADKNIFE IT!!!! This just adds to the work, once breadknifed you will have to creat an entirely new bevel from scratch without the aid of the factory ground angles. Tape the spine to protect it, replace tape as necessary, go to your lowest grit and work out the chip compleately, once that is done work your way up the grits until finished. It is a hell of a lot of NEEDLESS WORK to bread knife a blade and all it does is create more work to re establish an edge. Just start where you are and work your way up, there is enough work to do without creating more.

dont forget to put elct,tape on spine and then try it on DMT 320, i say 320 because i have it, its gonna be ok.

Actually, if you have a 1K and a DMT320, use the DMT to raise a thick slurry on the 1K. The honing will go much faster than on the DMT. And yes, the blowtorch is a nono
Had you done that, you'd have an expensive letter opener because the heat treatment would have been undone and it would be impossible to fix that (except very specific and limited scenarios, and this is not one of them)