Totally my fault too. Was doing some Spring cleaning outside today, when I dropped the knife, and it landed on concrete. :eek: It landed butt first, mostly on the handle scale, and broke the Diamondwood scale as you can see in the picture. :mad:
I can live with that, despite all the time I spent smoothing out and polishing the Halpern scales. :rolleyes: I already super-glued it back together with some thin BSI cyanoacrylate, and you can hardly see the crack where it broke. However, the worst part was when the knife bounced, it came back around, and landed straight on the tip! :mad: It chipped off a little bit of the tip, then came down on the edge, which chipped a little bit as well. :o
I know this would be the end of the world for a lot of people, but I can sharpen this all out pretty easily using my diamond belts. :D This does show that while Maxamet is a more brittle steel (especially when HT'd to the high 60's), it can still take a fall without taking egregious damage as some would think. I personally LOVE this steel, it just cuts FOREVER! :cool: I use this knife a fair bit to break down all the cardboard boxes we accumulate around here, and despite the edge damage, it still cuts fine overall. I'm going to wait awhile to repair the edge, until the rest feels dull enough to warrant a sharpening. :spyder:
Finally damaged my Maxamet Mule...
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Finally damaged my Maxamet Mule...
"Engineers don't idle well."
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Re: Finally damaged my Maxamet Mule...
Oh nooo
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Oh well, not the end of the world. :D It still cuts...
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Re: Finally damaged my Maxamet Mule...
Looks pretty good all things considered.
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Indeed! Kind of my point here.
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Re: Finally damaged my Maxamet Mule...
I feel your pain mate. I dropped my s90v Native the other day and damaged the tip.
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Re: Finally damaged my Maxamet Mule...
Glad it is not catastrophic! Too bad for sure, but it can all be made right, eh?